Details emerged this week of a failed multi-million dollar ransomware attack against Tesla which attempted to bribe an employee to hand deliver the malware. According to the legal case files, a Russian named Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov travelled to Nevada in order to contact and then recruit a Tesla employee and offered him $1million in order […]
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Southern Water found itself in hot water last week when a security researcher discovered a server side request forgery exploit in their customer service system. The (quickly rectified) mistake on the Southern Water customer self-service portal allowed the URL to be manipulated in order to display the details of another arbitrary customer account. The target
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Microsoft Application Guard helps protect against malware in Office documents by opening each document in its own segregated virtual machine. Microsoft says in the release notes: Application Guard is a virtualization-based sandbox that’s used to isolate untrusted documents you may encounter. It brings the same technology that powers Azure to your desktop. Untrusted documents are
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The number of ransomware attacks using RDP as the attack vector has increased sharply during the COVID lockdown. As the number of staff working remotely exploded during the COVID lockdown, criminals were quick to respond by targeting Remote Desktop Protocol services with ransomware. For example, Group-IB recently reported that the Dharma ransomware-as-a-service was being used
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HTML smuggling is a technique for bypassing perimeter security devices by generating malicious HTML behind the firewall – within the browser on the target endpoint. HTML Smuggling techniques sidestep traditional network security solutions such as email scanners, proxies and sandboxes by using the features of HTML5 and Javascript. This is done by generating the malicious HTML
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Achilles is the name of a set of 400 security vulnerabilities found in the Qualcomm chips that power a billion Android devices – many of which may never get fixed. Discovered by researchers at CheckPoint, the vulnerabilities all relate the DSP chip which is part of the Snapdragon processor that powers the phones and tablets.
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Microsoft’s August patch-Tuesday bundle fixes 120 vulnerabilities including two under active exploitation- one of them over two years old. Weighing in at 120 fixes, the August 2020 Patch Tuesday is the third largest ever released by Microsoft. Of particular interest are 17 critical updates and two zero-day exploits which are being actively attacked. IE 11
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A new report from McAfee details the growth of the Netwalker ransomware code into a stable ransomware-as-a-service product that has generated more than $25million dollars in the last 5 months. Recent high-profile attacks against organisations such as Travelex, Garmin and Canon serve as a reminder of the very real threat posed by ransomware which can
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TeamViewer Gmbh have released a patch for their Windows Desktop client to fix a credential leaking vulnerability which could allow a malicious webpage to obtain the hashed NTLM credentials of the active Windows user account. A simple flaw (CVE-2020-13699) in the way the TeamViewer desktop client handles custom URI handlers means a malicious webpage can
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Network segmentation is a powerful and essential tool in the security manager’s arsenal that improves the security of computer networks and makes them easier to manage. Network segmentation provides protection against attackers who manage to breach the perimeter defences by limiting their ability to move laterally within the network. It can also protect key systems
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