Blacksmith is a new kind of Rowhammer attack that has been proved to successfully bypass existing Rowhammer protections in modern DDR4 memory chips – allowing researchers to extract security secrets and change memory contents on victim computers. What is Rowhammer? Modern computer memory chips are physically very dense – with billions of memory cells (each […]
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Creators and users of Operational Technology and IoT devices should pay attention to a new report from MITRE which reveals the Most Important Hardware Weaknesses causing security issues in 2021. For some years, MITRE has regularly reported on the most dangerous software security weaknesses by analysing the CVE vulnerability reports generated each year. Now they
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Trojan Source is a new kind of source code and supply chain attack that causes the source code reviewed by a human to be different from the actual software generated by the compiler – meaning the behaviour of the software will not match what the source code appears to say. In 2000, a phishing attack
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A new malware campaign dubbed SQUIRRELWAFFLE by Cisco Talos is being spread through malicious spam that makes use of stolen email messages to add authenticity. Malicious spam (malspam) is unsolicited email that seeks to deliver a malicious payload either through a Microsoft Office attachment or by tricking the user into clicking a link in the
LightBasin is a sophisticated threat actor that has established a persistent, long term presence in the heart of the network of at least 13 telecommunication companies around the world since 2019. According to research from Crowdstrike, the threat actor group known as UNC1945 or LightBasin, has been infiltrating the Linux and Solaris systems which run
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Microsoft’s 2021 Digital Defense Report provides a useful summary of the current and emerging threat landscape for Security Managers and CISOs. Read on for our summary of the key lessons from this year’s report. Cyber crime for Dummies We have seen increased industrialisation and commercialisation of cyber-crime over the last year. Criminal gangs are
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According to a new research paper, it is possible to trick a locked iPhone into authorising a contactless payment for a Visa card of any amount, if the Visa card is enabled for Express Transit (which can be on by default in the UK) Express Transit is a feature used by automated ticket gates on
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A flaw in the design of the Autodiscover protocol used to set-up email clients with Exchange Server can cause domain credentials to be sent in the clear to a server controlled by an attacker. The Microsoft Autodiscover protocol makes it easier for end users to configure their email client to connect to an Exchange Server
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VMware has issued a critical security advisory for customers using vCenter Server 6.5,6.7 and 7.0 – warning customers that they need to do something about it ‘right now.’ The problem (CVE-2021-22005) is a Remote Code Execution vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. A malicious user with access to network port 443 is able to
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Russian Internet firm Yandex has been fighting a DDoS attack all summer, which has reached a peak attack rate of 21.8 million requests per second, powered by a quarter of a million rogue routers that form the Meris botnet. According to security firm Qrator Labs which provides DDoS protection for Yandex, up to 56,000 devices
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