Threat actors are now installing a new ransomware called ‘DEARCRY’ after hacking into Microsoft Exchange servers using the recently disclosed ProxyLogon vulnerabilities. Since Microsoft revealed earlier this month that threat actors were compromising Microsoft Exchange servers using new zero-day ProxyLogon vulnerabilities, a significant concern has been when threat actors would use it to deploy ransomware….
Breach Notification , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Email Security & Protection Microsoft Investigating; Devcore Pentesters Say They’re in the Clear Jeremy Kirk (jeremy_kirk) • March 14, 2021 It has been an open question as to how a half-dozen hacking groups began exploiting Exchange servers in an automated fashion in the days leading…
Donald Trump’s efforts failed to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons North Korea has not responded to behind-the-scenes diplomatic outreach since mid-February by President Joe Biden’s administration, including to Pyongyang’s mission to the United Nations, a senior Biden administration official told Reuters on March 13. The disclosure of the so-far unsuccessful U.S….
Entrance to the Red Hat headquarters. The company’s distributions of Linux kernels appear to be particularly susceptible to vulnerabilities unearthed recently. (Red Hat) Three recently unearthed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, located in the iSCSI module used for accessing shared data storage facilities, could allow root privileges to anyone with a user account. The trio…
The Biden administration warned Friday that organizations face enormous risks from the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities that have affected thousands of private organizations. As attacks leveraging the vulnerabilities have escalated, the window for updating exposed servers is incredibly short — “measured in hours, not days,” a senior administration official told reporters. President Joe Biden…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A senior US official said Friday the Biden administration is close to a decision on retaliation for state-sponsored hacking as fears grew over the fallout from the latest of two major cyberattacks. The official said the White House was working closely with the private sector to ramp up cyber defenses following…
WASHINGTON: Ransom-seeking hackers have begun taking advantage of a recently disclosed flaw in Microsoft’s widely used mail server software, a researcher said late Wednesday — a serious escalation that could portend widespread digital disruption. The disclosure, made on Twitter by Microsoft Corp security program manager Phillip Misner, is the realisation of worries that have been…
WASHINGTON: Google and Microsoft are at knives drawn. Driven in part by pressure from lawmakers and regulators over the extraordinary power the two technology companies wield over American life, the California-based search engine giant and Washington-based software firm are wrestling to throw each other under the bus. Tensions between Microsoft Corp and Alphabet-owned Google have…
Breach Notification , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Multiple Systems Impacted, Including Production and Shipping Capabilities Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • March 11, 2021 The Molson Coors Beverage Co. reported Thursday it’s in the process of responding to an ongoing cybersecurity incident that has caused system outages throughout the brewer’s manufacturing process. See…
Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Malware as-a-Service Attackers Deploy NanoCore Malware as Part of the Campaign Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • March 13, 2021 Email sample containing a .zipx attachment. Source: Trustwave A new malspam campaign is delivering the NanoCore remote access Trojan as a malicious Adobe icon to infect its victims,…
