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March 3, 2021
SolarWinds reports $3.5 million in expenses from supply-chain attack By SolarWinds has reported expenses of $3.5 million from last years supply-chain attack, including costs related to incident investigation and remediation. Further expenses were recorded by SolarWinds after paying for legal, consulting, and other professional services related to the December hack and provided to customers for free. Additional costs expected While $3.5 million doesnt seem too much compared to the aftermath of ...
March 3, 2021
Cash App phishing kit deployed in the wild, courtesy of 16Shop By 03:29 AM The developer of the 16Shop phishing platform has added a new component that targets users of the popular Cash App mobile payment service. Deployment of the new 16Shop product started as soon as it became available, luring potential victims into providing sensitive details that would give fraudsters access to the account and the associated payment information. 16Shop is a complex phishing kit from a developer known as D...
March 3, 2021
Business email compromise (BEC) scammers are utilizing a new type of attack targeting investors that could leverage payouts seven times greater than average.
March 2, 2021
Malicious NPM packages target Amazon, Slack with new dependency attacks By 12:14 AM Threat actors are targeting Amazon, Zillow, Lyft, and Slack NodeJS apps using a new Dependency Confusion vulnerability to steal Linux/Unix password files and open reverse shells back to the attackers. Last month, BleepingComputer reported that security researcher Alex Birsan earned bug bounties from 35 companies by utilizing a new flaw in open-source development tools. This flaw works by attackers creating pa...
February 27, 2021
American telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after an unknown number of customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks.
February 26, 2021
Dutch Research Council (NWO) confirms ransomware attack, data leak By 01:30 PM The recent cyberattack that forced the Dutch Research Council (NWO) to take its servers offline and suspend grant allocation processes was caused by the DoppelPaymer ransomware gang. The hackers gained access to NWO’s network on February 8 and stole internal documents, threatening with leaking them unless the organization paid a ransom. No dime for DoppelPaymer Since NWO does not cooperate with cybercriminals, Dop...
February 25, 2021
Cisco fixes maximum severity MSO auth bypass vulnerability By 04:03 PM Cisco has addressed a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability found in the API endpoint of the Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) installed on the Application Services Engine. Cisco ACI MSO is an intersite network and policy orchestration solution that helps admins monitor the health of their organizations interconnected sites across multiple data centers. Impacts only MSO 3.0 releases "A vulnerability in ...
February 24, 2021
Business jet maker Bombardier is the latest company to suffer a data breach by the Clop ransomware gang after attackers exploited a zero-day vulnerability to steal company data.
February 23, 2021
Twitter has removed dozens of accounts connected to Russian government-backed actors disseminating disinformation and targeting the European Union, the United States, and the NATO alliance.
February 19, 2021
RIPE NCC is warning members that they suffered a credential stuffing attack attempting to gain access to single sign-on (SSO) accounts.