Researchers from a Hong Kong based security vendor accidentally published a proof-of-concept for a new and unpatched vulnerability affecting the Print Spooler service on all current versions of Windows, sparking concerns that ransomware criminals could add the bug to their arsenals. The exploit allows for both local privilege escalation and remote code execution and was…
When Microsoft debuted Windows 11 at the end of last week, the company heralded the usual advancements in efficiency and design that come with any new operating system. But Windows 11 also comes with a less welcome tick: stricter-than-usual hardware requirements for which PCs can actually run it. Because of what Microsoft has described as…
Executive Summary Informations Name CVE-2021-22380 First vendor Publication 2021-06-30 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-06-30 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA Exploitabality Sub Score NA Calculate full CVSS 3.0 Vectors scores Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2 Cvss…
Sen. Maggie Hassan Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, have presented a bill that aims to fortify the federal government’s workforce of cyber professionals. The Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Expansion Act would establish two cyber training programs: one with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the other with the Department of Veterans…
American and British intelligence agencies said Thursday that Russian military intelligence conducted at least a year-and-a-half-long “brute force” cyber campaign targeting the cloud and network services of U.S. and global organizations. The cyber campaign went after government and military organizations, political parties and consultants, think tanks, law firms, media companies, educational institutions, defense contractors, logistics…
Security agencies in the United States and United Kingdom issued an advisory on Thursday to warn organizations about an ongoing global campaign involving brute force techniques. The NSA, CISA, FBI and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have attributed the campaign to the Russian government, specifically a cyber espionage group linked to Russia’s General…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Report: Pen Testing Tool a Favorite Among Lower-Level Threat Groups Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • June 30, 2021 The solid blue line tracks the number of organizations Proofpoint saw being targeted by attackers using Cobalt Strike. (Source: Proofpoint) The legitimate security penetration testing tool…
Just days after a yet another data-scraping operation aimed at LinkedIn was discovered, evidence has popped up in a popular hacker forum that the vast amount of lifted data is being collated and refined to identify specific targets. This might signal the start of a series of LinkedIn-fueled attacks.
There is a Memory Buffer Improper Operation Limit Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may cause the device to crash and restart.
Специалисты «Лаборатории Касперского» углубились в анализ киберугроз, связанных с индустрией видеоигр, и выяснили, с какими формами кибератак чаще всего сталкиваются геймеры. Оказалось, что большинство подобных вредоносных ссылок содержат имена таких популярных проектов, как Minecraft и Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO).
