Survey finds SMBs, weary of security failures, curious about detection and response How a company sees its digital security preparedness is critical. Conservative companies might follow the crowd, implementing a necessary minimum to ensure nominal security, and perhaps that’s the right choice for their business. Margins could be tight, or growth might not call for
Month: November 2022
When in doubt, kick it out, plus other tips for hardening your cyber-defenses against World Cup-themed phishing and other scams The FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar is just about to kick off! From November 20th through December 18th, one of this year’s most important global events will attract hundreds of millions of football (or
A new ESET report details the mindset of SMBs on digital security and shows why many of them are underprepared to defend themselves against attacks Three in four SMBs believe that they are more vulnerable to cyberattacks than enterprises, ESET’s 2022 SMB Digital Security Sentiment Report published this week has found. This doesn’t always seem
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in T2 2022 Today ESET Research publishes the very first ESET APT Activity Report, which summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET researchers from May until the end of
The convenience with which you manage all your financial wants and needs may come at a cost Since becoming more common in the mid-2010s, mobile banking apps have continued to grow in popularity and have ultimately become highly versatile tools for almost all things money-related. We use our phones to shop, pay for services, transfer
Hackers tied to the North Korean government have been observed using an updated version of a backdoor known as Dtrack targeting a wide range of industries in Germany, Brazil, India, Italy, Mexico, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the U.S. “Dtrack allows criminals to upload, download, start or delete files on the victim host,” Kaspersky researchers
Iranian government-sponsored threat actors have been blamed for compromising a U.S. federal agency by taking advantage of the Log4Shell vulnerability in an unpatched VMware Horizon server. The details, which were shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), come in response to incident response efforts undertaken by the authority from mid-June through mid-July
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that, if successfully exploited, to completely compromise affected systems. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said the flaws could be abused to remote access to the devices and defeat security constraints. The issues impact BIG-IP versions 13.x, 14.x, 15.x, 16.x, and 17.x, and BIG-IQ Centralized Management
On average, organizations report using 102 business-critical SaaS applications, enabling operations of most departments across an organization, such as IT and Security, Sales, Marketing, R&D, Product Management, HR, Legal, Finance, and Enablement. An attack can come from any app, no matter how robust the app is. Without visibility and control over a critical mass of
A Ukrainian national who has been wanted by the U.S for over a decade has been arrested by Swiss authorities for his role in a notorious cybercriminal ring that stole millions of dollars from victims’ bank accounts using malware called Zeus. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov, who went by online pseudonyms “tank” and “father,” is alleged to
A China-based financially motivated group is leveraging the trust associated with popular international brands to orchestrate a large-scale phishing campaign dating back as far as 2019. The threat actor, dubbed Fangxiao by Cyjax, is said to have registered over 42,000 imposter domains, with initial activity observed in 2017. “It targets businesses in multiple verticals including
An ongoing supply chain attack has been leveraging malicious Python packages to distribute malware called W4SP Stealer, with over hundreds of victims ensnared to date. “The threat actor is still active and is releasing more malicious packages,” Checkmarx researcher Jossef Harush said in a technical write-up, calling the adversary WASP. “The attack seems related to
Security researchers have spotted an intriguing malware campaign designed to increase the search engine rankings of spam websites under the control of threat actors. Over 15,000 WordPress and other sites have been redirected to the spam Q&A sites, according to Sucuri. The hackers are using modified WordPress PHP files and, in some cases, their own PHP
by Paul Ducklin No sooner had we stopped to catch our breath after reviewing the latest 62 patches (or 64, depending on how you count) dropped by Microsoft on Patch Tuesday… …than Apple’s latest security bulletins landed in our inbox. This time there were just two reported fixes: for mobile devices running the latest iOS
Authored by: Christy Crimmins and Oliver Devane Football (or Soccer as we call it in the U.S.) is the most popular sport in the world, with over 3.5 billion fans across the globe. On November 20th, the men’s World Cup kicks off (pun intended) in Qatar. This event, a tournament played by 32 national teams
Do you make these security mistakes and put yourself at greater risk for successful attacks? How much of your personal time do you spend online? The answer may be a lot more than you think. One recent study estimated that Brits spend five hours on average each day glued to their screens, not including work
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new vulnerability in a system used across oil and gas organizations that could be exploited by an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary code. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-0902 (CVSS score: 8.1), is a path-traversal vulnerability in ABB Totalflow flow computers and remote controllers. “Attackers can exploit this
There’s no doubt that cyber bullying ranks towards the top of most parents ‘worry list’. As a mum of 4, I can tell you it always came in my top five, usually alongside driving, drugs, cigarettes and alcohol! But when McAfee research in May revealed that Aussie kids experience the 2nd highest rate of cyberbullying
The US authorities are claiming a 10-year-old mystery has been solved after a man pleaded guilty to the theft of 50,000 Bitcoin from infamous dark web site Silk Road. Officers seized just over 50,676 of the digital currency, valued at the time at nearly $3.4bn, back in November 2021, when they raided the Gainesville, Georgia
by Paul Ducklin Well-known cybersecurity researcher Fabian Bräunlein has featured not once but twice before on Naked Security for his work in researching the pros and cons of Apple’s AirTag products. In 2021, he dug into the protocol devised by Apple for keeping tags on tags and found that the cryprography was good, making it
Make sure that the device that’s supposed to help you keep tabs on your little one isn’t itself a privacy and security risk We’ve probably all read horror stories online: a parent is woken in the middle of the night by strange noises coming from their child’s bedroom. They open the door, only to find
Australian health insurer Medibank today confirmed that personal data belonging to around 9.7 million of its current and former customers were accessed following a ransomware incident. The attack, according to the company, was detected in its IT network on October 12 in a manner that it said was “consistent with the precursors to a ransomware
Malicious software, or “malware,” refers to any program designed to infect and disrupt computer systems and networks. The risks associated with a malware infection can range from poor device performance to stolen data. However, thanks to their closed ecosystem, built-in security features, and strict policies on third-party apps, Apple devices tend to be less prone
A business email compromise (BEC) group dubbed ‘Crimson Kingsnake’ has recently been spotted impersonating well-known international law firms to trick recipients into approving overdue invoice payments. As outlined in a technical write-up by cloud email security platform Abnormal, 92 malicious domains of 19 law firms and debt collection agencies across the US, UK and Australia have been
Microsoft is warning of an uptick among nation-state and criminal actors increasingly leveraging publicly-disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities for breaching target environments. The tech giant, in its 114-page Digital Defense Report, said it has “observed a reduction in the time between the announcement of a vulnerability and the commoditization of that vulnerability,” making it imperative that organizations
The LockBit hacking group has claimed responsibility for the August cyber-attack against the multinational automotive group Continental. The ransomware gang made the announcement on its leak site on Wednesday and is threatening to publish the company’s data unless the ransom is paid over the next few hours of today (Friday). On the dark web blog
by Paul Ducklin You’ve probably seen story after story in the media in the past week about a critical bug in OpenSSL, though at the time of writing this article[2022-11-01T11:30:00Z], no one covering OpenSSL actually knows what to tell you about the bug, because the news is about an update that is scheduled to come
This week’s news offered fresh reminders of the threat that ransomware poses for businesses and critical infrastructure worldwide A number of reports published this week offered a reminder of the threat that ransomware poses for organizations and critical infrastructure worldwide, and were also an indication of the enormous repercussions that a successful ransomware attack can
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered 29 packages in Python Package Index (PyPI), the official third-party software repository for the Python programming language, that aim to infect developers’ machines with a malware called W4SP Stealer. “The main attack seems to have started around October 12, 2022, slowly picking up steam to a concentrated effort around October 22,”
The individuals behind the Black Basta ransomware have been linked to hacking operations conducted by the FIN7 threat actors. According to a new advisory by SentinelLabs, Black Basta actors have used a custom defense impairment tool (found exclusively in incidents by this specific threat actor) in several instances. “Our investigation led us to a further