Trickbot Malware Returns with a new VNC Module to Spy on its Victims

Cybersecurity Biden signs much-anticipated cybersecurity executive order By Justin Katz May 12, 2021   President Joe Biden on Wednesday signed his long-awaited executive order designed to confront the myriad of cybersecurity challenges facing the country — ranging from the supply chain attack that compromised nine federal agencies to ransomware that ultimately shut down…

Mr. Biden says tone of Putin talks was ‘good, positive’ Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin sought to cool tensions in the combustible U.S.-Russian relationship at their first summit in Geneva on Wednesday. However, there was no hiding their differences on issues such as human rights, where Mr. Biden said the consequences for Russia would be…

WASHINGTON (REUTERS) – Researchers who discovered a massive flaw in the main databases stored in Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform on Saturday (Aug 28) urged all users to change their digital access keys, not just the 3,300 it notified this week. As first reported by Reuters, researchers at a cloud security company called Wiz discovered this…

VMware has rolled out patches to address a critical security vulnerability in vCenter Server that could be leveraged by an adversary to execute arbitrary code on the server. Tracked as CVE-2021-21985 (CVSS score 9.8), the issue stems from a lack of input validation in the Virtual SAN (vSAN) Health Check plug-in, which is enabled by…

The website of the Texas Republican Party appeared to be hacked over the weekend and remained largely offline on Monday. TexasGOP.org showed several crude messages on Saturday — the 20th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks — ridiculing the state’s Republican Party and attacking Texas’ new ‘Heartbeat Act.’ Individuals affiliated with the Anonymous movement appear to be the perpetrators….

The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report features an analysis of the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack and the response. In this report, you’ll hear (click on player beneath image to listen): The ISMG Security Report appears on this and other ISMG websites on Fridays. Don’t miss the April 30 and May 7 editions, which…