Joe Biden last night declared “America is back” as he arrived in Britain for his first trip abroad as US president. The US president also declared that he wanted to see Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, face-to-face to “let him know what I want him to know.
Source: Defense.gov US nuclear weapons contractor Sol Oriens has suffered a cyberattack allegedly at the hands of the REvil ransomware gang, which claims to be auctioning data stolen during the attack. Sol Oriens describes itself as helping the “Department of Defense and Department of Energy Organizations, Aerospace Contractors, and Technology Firms carry out complex programs.”…
COPENHAGEN – Denmark’s central bank was compromised in last year’s global SolarWinds hacking operation, leaving a “backdoor” to its network open for seven months, IT media Version2 reported on Tuesday, citing documents related to the case. The hackers, accused by the United States of working for Russian intelligence, were unusually sophisticated and modified code in…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Affiliate-Driven Ransomware-as-a-Service Operations Keep Generating Big Profits Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • May 11, 2021 Statements posted to DarkSide’s data leak site “It’s not personal, Sonny. It’s strictly business.” See Also: How IT Resilience Gaps Impact Your Business That immortal line…
Key Findings McAfee sees COVID-19-themed cyber-attack detections increase by 114% in Q4 2020 Powershell threats grow 208% driven by Donoff malware New malware samples grow 10%; averaging 648 new threats per minute New ransomware increases 69%; Mobile malware grows 118% McAfee observes 3.1 million external attacks on cloud user accounts The Eternal Blue exploit was…
Ubuntu Security Notice 5001-1 – Norbert Slusarek discovered a race condition in the CAN BCM networking protocol of the Linux kernel leading to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities. A local attacker could use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Mathy Vanhoef discovered that the Linux kernel’s WiFi implementation did not properly clear received fragments from memory in…
Softpedia News / Security 1. June 2021 This article has been indexed from Softpedia News / Security Nobelium, the Russian hacking group responsible for last year’s big SolarWinds hack, has struck again. This time, it used cloud email marketing firm Constant Contact in a phishing attempt that compromised 3,000 email accounts across 150 companies, according…
