New Pingback Malware Using ICMP Tunneling to Evade C&C Detection | IT Security News 4. May 2021 Researchers on Tuesday disclosed a novel malware that uses a variety of tricks to stay under the radar and evade detection, while stealthily capable of executing arbitrary commands on infected systems.Called ‘Pingback,’ the Windows malware leverages Internet Control…
The Alaska Court System (ACS) was forced to temporarily disconnect its online servers this week due to a cyberattack that installed malware on their systems, disrupting virtual court hearings. According to a statement put out by the ACS on Saturday, the court’s website had been taken offline and the ability to search court cases had…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Incident & Breach Response Faster Detection Is Good News, But More Speed Still Needed, Mandiant Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 3, 2021 Source: FireEye Mandiant “Dwell time,” which refers to how long hackers hang out in an organization’s network before being discovered,…
Ivanti, the company behind Pulse Secure VPN appliances, has released a security patch to remediate a critical security vulnerability that was found being actively exploited in the wild by at least two different threat actors. Tracked as CVE-2021-22893 (CVSS score 10), the flaw concerns “multiple use after free” issues in Pulse Connect Secure that could…
from the so-it-went dept Five Years Ago This week in 2016, the DOJ dropped one of its big cases over iPhone encryption after the defendant suddenly remembered his passcode, while documents revealed that the FBI hid surveillance techniques from federal prosecutors in case they one day became defense lawyers. The FBI was also planning to…
In 2018, industry and academic researchers revealed a potentially devastating hardware flaw that made computers and other devices worldwide vulnerable to attack. Researchers named the vulnerability Spectre because the flaw was built into modern computer processors that get their speed from a technique called “speculative execution,” in which the processor predicts instructions it might end up executing…
Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum. A newly revised draft of the national curriculum for children aged five to sixteen, launched yesterday, added a new strand titled “Considering privacy and security” that “involves students developing appropriate techniques for managing data, which…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Permanent Fix Replaces Earlier Workaround Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • May 3, 2021 Ivanti, parent company of Pulse Secure, published a permanent fix Monday for a zero-day vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure VPN products that has been exploited to target U.S. government agencies,…
The Vigil@nce team watches public vulnerabilities impacting your computers, and then offers security solutions, a vigilance database and tools to fix them. Synthesis of the vulnerability An attacker can trigger a buffer overflow via iNotes of HCL Domino, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code.Impacted products: Domino by HCL,…
The Vigil@nce team watches public vulnerabilities impacting your computers, and then offers security solutions, a vigilance database and tools to fix them. Synthesis of the vulnerability An attacker can trigger a fatal error via UUID Explain of MongoDB Server, in order to trigger a denial of service.Vulnerable software: MongoDB Server.Severity of this announce: 2/4.Creation date:…
