Threat actors are using messages sent from Dropbox to steal Microsoft user credentials in a fast-growing business email compromise (BEC) campaign. The effort evades natural language processing (NLP)-based security scans, and demonstrates the rapid evolution of these types of attacks. Researchers at Check Point Harmony observed more than 5,000 of the attacks — in which…
The official website of the UK royal family was subject to a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 1, thanks to pro-Russian hacktivists. The resulting downtime for royal.uk began around 10 a.m. BST, and only lasted for around 90 minutes. As of this writing, though, visitors to the site are still…
In our digital world, the security landscape is in a constant state of flux. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) will trigger a profound shift in this landscape, and we must be prepared to address the security challenges associated with new frontiers of AI innovation in a responsible way. At Google, we’re acutely aware of these…
The US Department of State must fully implement its cybersecurity risk program and take additional steps to better protect its IT network and systems, a 92-page report by the General Accounting Office (GAO) warns. The State Department has completed the authorization process for less than half (44%) its nearly 500 information systems, and has yet…
Threat actors are selling a new crypter and loader called ASMCrypt, which has been described as an “evolved version” of another loader malware known as DoubleFinger. “The idea behind this type of malware is to load the final payload without the loading process or the payload itself being detected by AV/EDR, etc.,” Kaspersky said in…
Johnson Controls Suffers Ransomware Attack Global smart building and security systems maker Johnson Controls faces a major cybersecurity incident, it disclosed in a regulatory filing. “The incident has caused, and is expected to continue to cause, disruption to parts of the Company’s business operations,” it told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Bleeping Computer reports…
An urgent bulletin from the Burlington, Mass. company documented at least eight security defects that could be exploited remotely and urged business customers to immediately upgrade to WS_FTP Server 2020.0.4 (8.7.4) and WS_FTP Server 2022.0.2 (8.8.2). Progress Software said two of the vulnerabilities — CVE-2023-40044 and CVE-2023-40045 — are rated critical because of the risk…
A Chinese hacking group linked to state authorities in Beijing has upgraded its espionage capabilities to target companies with headquarters in the United States and East Asia, warned an alert from Japanese and American cyber agencies. The latest campaign from BlackTech has targeted networks of regional subsidiaries across government, industrial, technology and defense industrial base…
In a major update to its Windows 11 operating system this week, Microsoft has integrated Passkeys alongside Windows Hello, its biometric authentication tool. Passkeys creates a unique credential that allows users to authenticate with their face, fingerprint, or a PIN in a more secure process than the traditional password. Microsoft’s passkeys will be available on…
The leak consisted of publicly accessible environment files hosted on the flyflair.com website. Flyflair.com belongs to the Canadian ultra-low-cost carrier Flair Airlines, founded in 2005. According to SimilarWeb, the website attracts 3.2 million monthly visitors. Environment files are commonly used in software development to manage environment-specific settings or sensitive information such as API keys and…
Fast-Growing Dropbox Campaign Steals Microsoft SharePoint Credentials
