Cybercriminals are scanning servers for the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell RCE vulnerabilities after technical details presented at the Black Hat

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Issues Include Attackers’ Use of Amazon’s Infrastructure Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • February 24, 2021     (Source: Jarek Tuszyński via Wikipedia) The Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing Tuesday about the supply chain attack that affected SolarWinds and dozens of other companies and federal agencies answered…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , ID Fraud Insurers Have a Great Opportunity to Become Guardians of Customer Data Robert Harris • August 24, 2021     The rapid rise of digitalization and new data-gathering technologies has encouraged a lot of well-meaning advice about how insurers can use data more effectively to…

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware FortiGuard Labs Describes Variant, Which Is No Longer Active Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • May 20, 2021     New DarkSide code found (Source: FortiGuard) Security researchers at FortiGuard Labs have uncovered another DarkSide ransomware variant with destructive capabilities that enabled attackers to seek disk partition information and encrypt the…

After security researchers have developed and published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting a critical vCenter remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, attackers are now actively scanning for vulnerable Internet-exposed VMware servers. The scanning activity was spotted by threat intelligence company Bad Packets just one day after VMware patched the critical vulnerability.  Thousands of unpatched vCenter servers are…

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.

The sanctions would represent the first retaliatory action announced against the Kremlin for last year’s hack, familiarly known as the SolarWinds breach. The Joe Biden administration is preparing to announce sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interference, a senior administration official said….