CVE-2021-1078
NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver for Windows, all versions, contains a vulnerability in the kernel driver (nvlddmkm.sys) where a NULL pointer dereference may lead to system crash.
Germany was the top European country, occupying sixth place in the global rankings. Iran, Italy, the United Kingdom and, lastly, Saudi Arabia complete the 10 most-affected nations. “We see the number of users affected by stalkerware has remained high and we detect new samples every day,” said Victor….
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Experts Stress Importance of Upgrading the Tool and Auditing Files Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 5, 2021 A patch has been issued for a serious vulnerability that affects PHP Composer – a tool used to manage and install software dependencies in the…
Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Kaspersky Describes ‘Operation TunnelSnake’ That Appears to Have China Connection Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 12, 2021 Architecture of the Moriya rootkit (Source: Kaspersky) An ongoing advanced persistent threat campaign dubbed “Operation TunnelSnake” has been using a Windows rootkit named Moriya to…
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Critical Infrastructure Security , Cybercrime as-a-service , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Cybereason’s Sam Curry on DarkSide and New Breed of Ransomware Attack Tom Field (SecurityEditor) • May 12, 2021 Sam Curry, CSO, Cybereason In April, Cybereason published a blog describing its research into the DarkSide ransomware strain that infected…
Threat actors are exploiting Google Docs by hosting their attacks within the web-based document service in a new phishing campaign that delivers malicious links aimed at stealing victims’ credentials. Researchers at email and collaboration security firm Avanan discovered the campaign, which is the….