The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service featured in Windows 10 version 1809 alerted researchers to an NSA-inspired backdoor vulnerability in Huawei laptops. The Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) service featured in Windows 10 version 1809 alerted researchers to an NSA-inspired backdoor vulnerability in Huawei laptops. The PCManager software included in some Huawei’s Matebook systems allows unprivileged users ...

Hackers breached Toyota’s IT systems and gained unauthorized access to servers that contained sales information of almost 3.1 customers. The accessed data belongs to several sales subsidiaries such as Toyota Tokyo Sales Holdings, Tokyo Tokyo Motor, Tokyo Toyopet, Toyota Tokyo Corolla, Nets Toyota Tokyo, Lexus Koishikawa Sales, Jamil Shoji (Lexus Nerima), and Toyota West Tokyo Corolla. What is the issue ...

The e-commerce platform released patches for both Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source variants. The SQL flaw found in versions 2.3.1 and earlier could allow attackers to steal sensitive information from databases connected to Magento-based sites. Content management software provider Magento has released a string of updates to fix multiple security holes in its platform. These updates come after the ...

Business Email Compromise (BEC) is a type of scam that targets corporate companies that pay bills via wire transfers. BEC scammers targeting employees of corporate companies mostly impersonate the company’s CEO or senior executives. These scammers use social engineering techniques to trick employees into sending funds directly to the scammers. Types of BEC Scams According to the FBI, there are five ...

The first and foremost step in the Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack is to intercept internet traffic before it reaches its destination. Once the interception is achieved, the SSL traffic has to be decrypted without the user’s knowledge and without interrupting the application. Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) is an attack where the attacker eavesdrops on the communication between two parties, commonly between a user ...

Dubbed as ‘UNNAM3D’, the ransomware archives users’ files found under Desktop, Documents, and Pictures in individual RAR archives. After infecting systems, UNNAM3D then asks victims’ to purchase $50 Amazon gift cards and send it to the malware developer on Discord. A strange gift-card seeking ransomware has surfaced in the online space. It is reported that the ransomware which is known ...

cknowledged a breach – this one affecting 3.1 million customers at its subsidiaries while the first was in Australia and believed to be the work of Ocean Lotus, or APT32. The company isn’t yet sure if the hackers nicked any data from its systems but said customers of subsidiaries, including , Lexus Koishikawa Sales, Lexus Nerima, Toyota Tokyo Sales Holdings, ...

The Chinese company Huawei has been strongly criticised in a report by the body overseeing the security of its products in UK telecoms. The report, issued by the National Cyber Security Centre, which is part of GCHQ, says it can provide “only limited assurance that the long-term security risks can be managed in the Huawei equipment currently deployed in the ...

U.S. senators and their staff will receive assistance from the Senate Sergeant at Arms (SAA) to protect their accounts and devices from cyber threats if a bipartisan bill introduced by Senators and Senate Intelligence Committee members Ron Wyden (D-Ore) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark) will be signed into law. The Senate Cybersecurity Protection Act, S. 890, would allow the SAA — ...

The security firm Skylight released the list of 583 MAC addresses out of the total 619 targeted by the attackers. The researchers disassembled Kaspersky’s diagnostic tool to get the full list of addresses. In a recent attack campaign, attackers distributed a backdoored version of ASUS Live Update utility to target ASUS laptop users. It was Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and ...