Potent Emotet Variant Spreads Via Stolen Email Credentials
The dangerous malware appears to be well and truly back in action, sporting new variants and security-dodging behaviors in a wave of recent phishing campaigns.
Emotet’s resurgence in April seems...
EU & US Unite to Fight Ransomware
The US Department of Justice, along with the European Union criminal justice organization Eurojust, brought together law enforcement and legal experts recently at The Hague in workshops to enhance...
Critical Citrix Bugs Impact All ADM Servers, Agents
Citrix is advising users of its Application Delivery Management (ADM) solutions to update their systems against a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Tracked under CVE-2022-27511, the first vulnerability could allow system...
‘Hertzbleed’ Side-Channel Attack Threatens Cryptographic Keys for Servers
A side-channel timing attack dubbed "Hertzbleed" by researchers could allow remote attackers to sniff out cryptographic keys for servers. It affects most Intel processors, as well as some chipsets...
Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the...
Panchan: A New Golang-based Peer-To-Peer Botnet Targeting Linux Servers
By: Ravie Lakshmanan
A new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been spotted actively targeting Linux servers in the education sector since its emergence in March 2022.
Dubbed Panchan by Akamai Security...
Why We Need Security Knowledge and Not Just Threat Intel
For organizations struggling to defend against today's onslaught of cyberattacks, data can be both a blessing and a curse. Companies rely on data they get from outside sources, such...
Wormable Panchan Peer-to-Peer Botnet Harvests Linux Server Keys
A peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet and worm called Panchan has been actively breaching Linux servers and harvesting Secure Shell (SSH) keys to perform lateral movement — at times brute-forcing credentials.
That's according...
Thousands Arrested in Global Raids on Social-Engineering Scammers
Interpol has announced that a coordinated, global law-enforcement effort has led to the arrest of 2,000 individuals and the seizure of more than $50 million in illicit funds stolen...
For one software maker, an SBOM adds value to the product
Security has long been top of mind for Wes Wells and his team.Wells is chief product officer for Instant Connect Software, which makes communications software that enables push-to-talk voice...
