Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management Trend Micro: Cryptojacking Group TeamTNT Targets Clusters in Wormlike Attack Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 26, 2021 Logo for Kubernetes open-source container orchestration system Researchers at Trend Micro say about 50,000 IPs were compromised across multiple Kubernetes clusters in a wormlike attack by the cloud-focused…
The Belgian interior ministry has found itself the target of “sophisticated” cyber espionage, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, insisted, however, that the ministry’s servers were well protected and that the hackers had not succeeded in getting hold of the most sensitive data. Federal…
Encryption & Key Management , Next-Generation Technologies & Secure Development , Security Operations William Dixon of World Economic Forum on Improving Infrastructure Anna Delaney (annamadeline) • May 26, 2021 William Dixon, head of future networks and technology, World Economic Forum To unlock the value of quantum computing, two…
VMware has disclosed a pair of vulnerabilities impacting vCenter Server, a centralized management software for VMware vSphere systems. The most severe flaw, CVE-2021-21985, is a remote code execution vulnerability in vSphere Client, assigned a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to be able to access vCenter Server over port…
Russian-language dark web marketplace Hydra has emerged as a hotspot for illicit activities, pulling in a whopping $1.37 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2020, up from $9.4 million in 2016. The “blistering growth” in annual transaction volumes marks a staggering 624% year-over-year jump over a three-year period from 2018 to 2020. “Further buoying Hydra’s growth…
The Belgian interior ministry has found itself the target of “sophisticated” cyber espionage, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Federal Public Service Interior’s communications director, Olivier Maerens, insisted, however, that the ministry’s servers were well protected and that the hackers had not succeeded in getting hold of the most sensitive data. Federal…
Tehran, Iran – Iran has banned all cryptocurrency mining for the next four months as widespread power outages stir public dissatisfaction across the country. President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that all crypto mining operations in Iran – including legal ones – must shut down until the end of the sixth Iranian calendar month on…
Executive Summary This vulnerability is currently undergoing analysis and not all information is available. Please check back soon to view the completed vulnerability summary Informations Name CVE-2020-25673 First vendor Publication 2021-05-26 Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2021-05-26 Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3 Cvss vector : N/A Overall CVSS Score NA Base Score NA Environmental Score NA…
Ingrida Simonyte, the prime minister of Lithuania, has criticised Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s statement about diverting a flight to Minsk on Sunday. “It is so complicated for anyone who believes in the rule of law, institutions and the Western democracies to believe in anything Mr Lukashenko is saying,” she told BBC World News. “I think…
Blockchain & Cryptocurrency , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Report: Oil Provides Electricity for Cryptomining Servers Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 25, 2021 Iran is using its abundance of oil to generate electricity that powers a massive bitcoin cryptomining operation that enables the country to turn its greatest natural resource…
