Image: VMware, ZDNet More than 6,700 VMware vCenter servers are currently exposed online and vulnerable to a new attack that can allow hackers to take over unpatched devices and effectively take over companies’ entire networks. Scans for VMware vCenter devices are currently underway, according to threat intelligence firm Bad Packets. […]
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Hardly a week goes by without yet another major Windows security problem popping up, while Linux security problems, when looked at closely, usually turn out to be blunders made by incompetent system administration. But Linux can’t rest on its laurels. There are real Linux security concerns that need addressing. That’s […]
Image: Oleksii Leonov (CC BY 2.0) The Ukrainian government said today that Russian hackers compromised a government file-sharing system as part of an attempt to disseminate malicious documents to other government agencies. The target of the attack was the System of Electronic Interaction of Executive Bodies (SEI EB), a web-based […]
I have not been inside an office building for 12 months. A sentence I did not imagine writing anytime soon. Last February, everything changed. And when we pause to reflect, we have to consider that, of the many dramatic impacts to our lives, to society, and the world, in the […]
Together, in other words, the groups Dragos call Kamacite and Electrum make up what other researchers and government agencies collectively call Sandworm. “One group gets in, the other group knows what to do when they get in,” says Caltagirone. “And when they operate separately, which we also watch them do, […]
A botnet used for illicit cryptocurrency mining activities is abusing Bitcoin (BTC) transactions to stay under the radar. According to new research published by Akamai on Tuesday, the technique is being harnessed by operators of a long-running cryptocurrency mining botnet campaign, in which BTC blockchain transactions are being exploited to […]
The founder of the Start Options and Bitcoiin2Gen (B2G) digital asset investment platforms has been indicted on charges of investor fraud and money laundering. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) said on Tuesday that Kristijan Krstic, a Serbian national, has been charged in an indictment for allegedly participating in international, […]
Image: Google Android 12, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system, scheduled for release next fall, will include the Password Checkup feature that the company first introduced in its Chrome web browser in late 2019, the OS maker announced today. On Android, the Password Checkup feature will be added to the “Autofill […]
Triton is malware developed to affect industrial systems, particularly the Triconex safety system from Schneider. This is deployed at over 15,000 sites across the world, but the malware allegedly only targeted a critical energy industrial site in the Middle East in 2017. The attack, also known by the names of […]
Qualcomm has signed up Sophos to provide cybersecurity solutions for the next wave of 5G-enabled PCs. Announced on Tuesday, the US chipmaker said Sophos, a British endpoint security firm, will supply Intercept X endpoint protection software for 5G PCs. “The combination of Sophos Intercept X with Snapdragon compute platforms will […]