GoDaddy flagged a ClickFix campaign that infected 6,000 sites in a one-day period, with attackers using stolen admin credentials to distribute malware. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
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The persistent infostealer’s latest campaign inserts fake CAPTCHA pages into legitimate applications, fooling users into executing the malicious payload, researchers find. Go to Source Author: Becky Bracken, Senior Editor, Dark Reading
Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in Styra’s Open Policy Agent (OPA) that, if successfully exploited, could have led to leakage of New Technology LAN Manager (NTLM) hashes. “The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to leak the NTLM credentials of the OPA server’s local user account to a remote server, potentially allowing […]
Bad actors have been observed targeting Docker remote API servers to deploy the SRBMiner crypto miner on compromised instances, according to new findings from Trend Micro. “In this attack, the threat actor used the gRPC protocol over h2c to evade security solutions and execute their crypto mining operations on the Docker host,” researchers Abdelrahman Esmail […]
There are more similarities between developing a professional athlete and developing a cybersecurity pro than you might expect. Go to Source Author: Mike Mitchell
Feeling creative? Submit your caption and our panel of experts will reward the winner with a $25 Amazon gift card. Go to Source Author: John Klossner, Cartoonist
The 16 members of the NIST-managed Internet of Things (IoT) Advisory Board have completed their report on barriers to the U.S. receiving the benefits of IoT adoption, along with their recommendations for overcoming those barriers. As Benson Chan (Chair) and Dan Caprio (Vice Chair) of the IoT Advisory Board state in the report: “The United […]
Service accounts are vital in any enterprise, running automated processes like managing applications or scripts. However, without proper monitoring, they can pose a significant security risk due to their elevated privileges. This guide will walk you through how to locate and secure these accounts within Active Directory (AD), and explore how Silverfort’s solutions can help […]
Two malware families that suffered setbacks in the aftermath of a coordinated law enforcement operation called Endgame have resurfaced as part of new phishing campaigns. Bumblebee and Latrodectus, which are both malware loaders, are designed to steal personal data, along with downloading and executing additional payloads onto compromised hosts. Tracked under the names BlackWidow, IceNova, […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a number of suspicious packages published to the npm registry that are designed to harvest Ethereum private keys and gain remote access to the machine via the secure shell (SSH) protocol. The packages attempt to “gain SSH access to the victim’s machine by writing the attacker’s SSH public key in the […]