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McAfee: Wave of Shamoon cyberattacks being coordinated by a single group

Issued by: CIO Security

The waves of cyberattacks that have rocked Saudi Arabia over the past few months are linked to the earlier Shamoon attacks. However, the initial 2012 attack was the work of a single group, whereas the latest attacks have been carried out by different groups of varying skills and expertise, all following instructions provided by one…

Malware & Threats

Tens of thousands Windows systems implanted with NSA’s DoublePulsar

Issued by: Help Net Security

Has your Windows machine been implanted with NSA’s DoublePulsar backdoor? If you haven’t implemented the security updates released by Microsoft in March, chances are good that it has. What is DoublePulsar? DoublePulsar is a backdoor implant that enables the injection and running of DLLs – potentially malicious ones – on Windows computers. It was recently…

Malware & Threats

Brazilian Malware Never Sleeps: Meet EmbusteBot

Issued by: Security Intelligence

IBM Research — Haifa Labs continually invests in the research and development of advanced malware analysis solutions that enhance IBM’s ability to quickly detect and neutralize malware as new and challenging threats arise. Our ongoing observations of the Brazilian cybercriminal landscape have revealed a perpetual rise in new malicious campaigns in this region of the…

Network Security

The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use of really dumb attacks. Here’s a few.

Vulnerabilities

Why hackers are increasingly targeting electronic health records

Issued by: Trend Micro Blog

Over the past three years, the number of attacks on healthcare institutions have skyrocketed. In 2016, on average, at least one health data breach occurred every day, totaling in about 450 successful attacks over the course of the year, according to a report from Protenus. The healthcare industry is feeling the brunt of hacker attention more…

Vulnerabilities

Trump Extends Obama’s EO for Sanctioning Hackers

Issued by: Dark Reading

President Donald J. Trump has quietly extended for one year the “national emergency” executive order issued by his predecessor Barack Obama that ultimately led to the sanctions and retaliatory measures taken by the Obama administration against Russian officials for that nation’s role in hacking activities targeting the US election. In a Federal Register Notice published…

Vulnerabilities

Latest WikiLeaks dump exposes CIA methods to mask malware

Issued by: CIO Security

WikiLeaks may have dealt another blow to the CIA’s hacking operations by releasing files that allegedly show how the agency was masking its malware attacks. On Friday, the site dumped the source code to the Marble Framework, a set of anti-forensic tools that WikiLeaks claims the CIA used last year. The files do appear to…

Application Security

Most Android devices lack latest security patches

Issued by: Linux Blog

Nearly three-quarters of Android devices on the five biggest U.S. carriers are running on security patches that are at least two months old, putting them at greater risk of being hacked. That finding was made in an analysis released Thursday by Skycure, a mobile threat defense vendor. The report also found that the city of Boston…

Malware & Threats

A new approach is needed in the battle against cyber attacks

Issued by: Help Net Security

How do you search for something that’s invisible? An increase in the sophistication of cyber attacks means that it takes an average of 146 days before a corporate hack is discovered. Modern breaches are a mix of chameleonic deception and clever automation, enabling malicious code to be concealed deep inside the corporate network. In the…

Vulnerabilities

Apple: Mac, iPhone Bugs That CIA Allegedly Exploited Were Fixed Years Ago

Issued by: Dark Reading

The Apple desktop and mobile product vulnerabilities that were revealed this week, in a WikiLeaks data dump of documents allegedly describing several secret CIA projects, were all fixed years ago, Apple said Friday. The leaked information on the Apple vulnerabilities is from a larger collection of documents that WikiLeaks has dubbed “Vault 7,” containing hitherto…