The cybercriminal group ‘Cobalt’ has been named after its penetration testing tool ‘Cobalt Strike’. The threat group has targeted several banks and financial institutions across countries such as Armenia, Bulgaria, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Britain, Malaysia, and more. Cobalt group was first spotted in 2016. The cybercriminal group has been named after the ...
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Remote Code Execution Vulnerability: What is it and how to stay protected from it?
Remote Code Execution (RCE) Vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain full control of a victim’s infected machine. An attacker gaining access to a victim’s machine exploiting the RCE vulnerability can execute system commands, write, modify, delete or read files, and can connect to databases. Remote code execution vulnerability allows an attacker to gain access to a victim’s machine and ...
Read More »CYBERSECURITY WORKERS SCRAMBLE TO FIX A POST-SHUTDOWN MESS
TWO WEEKS OUT from the longest government shutdown in United States history—and with the possibility of another still looming—government employees are still scrambling to mitigate impacts on federal cybersecurity defenses. And the stakes are high. Furloughed cybersecurity employees returned to expired software licenses and web encryption certificates, colleagues burned out from working on skeleton crews, and weeks-worth of unanalyzed network activity logs. The ...
Read More »Australia parliament hit by cyber-hack attempt
Authorities in Australia say they are investigating an attempt to hack into its parliament’s computer network. Lawmakers said there was “no evidence” that information had been accessed or stolen, but politicians’ passwords have been reset as a precaution. Local cyber-security experts have suggested the hack likely came from a foreign state. Australian PM Scott Morrison said he didn’t intend to ...
Read More »Longest DDoS attack since 2015 lasts 329 hours
While the number of DDoS attacks have declined, they have become much more sophisticated, according to a Kaspersky Lab report. The last quarter of 2018 saw the longest DDoS attack since 2015, lasting 329 hours—almost 2 weeks—according to a Kaspersky Lab report released on Thursday. But the top three countries with the most DDoS attacks are still the same: China in first place ...
Read More »Australian government falls prey to a hacking attempt, incident under investigation
Officials are investigating the security incident that occurred on the government’s computer network. Following the hack attempt, the Department of Parliamentary Services announced that it reset all user passwords in the network. The Australian Parliament became a victim to a hacking attempt yesterday, allegedly perpetrated by a foreign entity. Reportedly, ‘no evidence’ was available to show whether any confidential information ...
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Read More »Cyber-attack’ on Bernard Matthews staff bank details
A suspected cyber-attack “potentially compromised” the bank account details of 200 workers at Bernard Matthews. The Norfolk-based turkey producer said it was alerted by its bank on 22 January, as first reported in the EDP. “We reported the incident to the relevant authorities and put in place extra security measures,” a spokesman said. “We continue to monitor the situation but we ...
Read More »MATRIX RANSOMWARE CHANGES THE RULES AGAIN | HOW MUCH ARE YOU WORTH?
As noted in the SentinelOne-sponsored EMA Security Megatrends 2019 report, the two greatest threats currently facing enterprise are ransomware and ATAs, advanced targeted attacks that have been designed for a specific environment. The last two years have seen an increase in both kinds of threats, as well as their combination: targeted ransomware such as Ryuk, SamSam, and now Matrix. Matrix variants have been observed before, but ...
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