Bluetooth Vulnerabilities Allow Impersonation Attacks on Devices

Zerodium Will Triple Payouts for RCE Exploits for WordPress CMS – IT Security News 12. April 2021 Zerodium is an American security company, whose main business is to develop and acquire premium zero-day exploits from security researchers and report the research, along with protective measures and security recommendations, to its government…

The Czech government said Saturday it will expel 18 Russian diplomats identified by local intelligence as secret agents of the Russian SVR and GRU services that are suspected of involvement in a 2014 explosion. “Eighteen employees of the Russian embassy must leave our republic within 48 hours,” Foreign Minister Jan Hamacek told reporters. Prime Minister…

Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime , Cybercrime as-a-service Disruption of Meat Processing Giant JBS Exposes Sector’s Security Shortcomings Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • June 4, 2021     Photo: US Department of Agriculture via Flickr/CC The ransomware attack that disrupted operations at meat processing giant JBS for nearly a week has exposed numerous cybersecurity shortcomings within…

Electronic Arts, the publisher of the Battlefield series and many other popular video game franchises, has been hacked. On multiple underground hacking forums, Motherboard found hackers claiming they had taken more than 780GB of data from the company. According to screenshots seen by the outlet, the trove includes the source code for FIFA 2021 and both…

Safe Security, a Silicon Valley cyber risk management startup, has secured a $33 million investment from U.K. telco BT.  Founded in 2012, Safe Security — formerly known as Lucideus — helps organizations measure and mitigate enterprise-wide cyber risk using its security assessment framework for enterprises (SAFE) platform. The service, which is used by a number…

Digital threat researchers at Citizen Lab have uncovered a new zero-click iMessage exploit used to deploy NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on devices belonging to Bahraini activists. In total, nine Bahraini activists (including members of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights, Waad, Al Wefaq) had their iPhones hacked in a campaign partially orchestrated by a Pegasus operator linked with high confidence…