Novel Meteor Wiper Used in Attack that Crippled Iranian Train System
A July 9th attack disrupted service and taunted Iran’s leadership with hacked screens directing customers to call the phone of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei with complaints.
An attack earlier this...
NSA Warns Public Networks are Hacker Hotbeds
Agency warns attackers targeting teleworkers to steal corporate data.
The U.S. National Security Agency is offering advice to security teams looking for wireless best practices to protect corporate networks...
CISA’s Top 30 Bugs: One’s Old Enough to Buy Beer
There are patches or remediations for all of them, but they’re still being picked apart. Why should attackers stop if the flaws remain unpatched, as so many do?
In...
Israeli Government Agencies Visit NSO Group Offices
Authorities opened an investigation into the secretive Israeli security firm.
Authorities from multiple agencies of the Israeli government paid a visit the offices of the NSO Group as part...
Podcast: Why Securing Active Directory Is a Nightmare
Researchers preview work to be presented at Black Hat on how AD “misconfiguration debt” lays out a dizzying array of attack paths, such as in PetitPotam.
This week, Microsoft...
BlackMatter & Haron: Evil Ransomware Newborns or Rebirths
They’re either new or old REvil & DarkSide wine in new bottles. Both have a taste for deep-pocketed targets and DarkSide-esque virtue-signaling.
So much for darkened servers at...
Babuk Ransomware Gang Ransomed, New Forum Stuffed With Porn
A comment spammer flooded Babuk’s new ransomware forum with gay orgy porn GIFs and demanded $5K in bitcoin.
The Babuk ransomware gang’s new rebrand isn’t going so well. It seems...
Podcast: IoT Piranhas Are Swarming Industrial Controls
Enormous botnets of IoT devices are going after decades-old legacy systems that are rife in systems that control crucial infrastructure.
Full transparency: Curtis Simpson, CISO at Armis, the enterprise...
5 Steps to Improving Ransomware Resiliency
Alex Restrepo, cybersecurity researcher at Veritas, lays out the key concepts that organizations should be paying attention to now and implementing today.
The ransomware landscape is evolving, and ransomware is...
Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages
Sprechen Sie Rust? Polyglot malware authors are increasingly using obscure programming languages to evade detection.
Malware authors are increasingly using rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim...
