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Emails spreading the ObliqueRAT malware now make use of steganography, disguising their payloads on compromised websites. The ObliqueRAT malware is now cloaking its payloads as seemingly-innocent image files that are hidden on compromised websites. The remote access trojan (RAT), which has been operating since 2019, spreads via emails, which have malicious Microsoft Office documents attached. Previously, payloads were embedded into the documents themselves. Now, if users click on the attachmen...

minute read Share this article: Cybersecurity firm Genua fixes a critical flaw in its GenuGate High Resistance Firewall, allowing attackers to log in as root users. Germany-based cybersecurity company Genua has fast-tracked a fix for a critical flaw in one of its firewall products. If exploited, the vulnerability could allow local attackers to bypass authentication measures and log in to internal company networks with the highest level of privileges. Genua says it offers more than ...

When IT Meets Politics Latest Blog Posts Related Content Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics Download Current Issue Over the past couple of weeks I have been trying make sense of the changing UK Cybersecurity Scene, from reports on the threats we face (like the RUSI report on the impact of fraud on National Security), through analyses of our £8.9 bn  spend with private sector security providers (like that recen...

The Distributed Denial of Secrets group claim they have received more than 70 gigabytes of data exfiltrated from social media platform Gab.

Researchers saw a seven-times increase in ransomware activity in the fourth quarter of 2020, across various families – from Ryuk to Egregor.

Cloud-based POS systems make it easier for businesses to sell merchandise and process payments on the internet.

Quickbooks malware targets tax data for attackers to sell and use in phishing scams. Cybercriminals are ready for tax season with new malware designed to exfiltrate Quickbooks data and post it on the internet, according to a new report from ThreatLocker. Attackers use email to deliver the malware, which the ThreatLocker’s CEO Danny Jenkins told Threatpost is a simple, 15-line piece of code. There are two specific methods attackers used to get the malware to targets: The first is to send a Pow...

Mozilla said its Total Cookie Protection feature in Firefox 86 prevents invasive, cross-site cookie tracking. The Mozilla Foundation has released its latest version of the Firefox browser, which comes with new privacy protections to squash cross-site cookie tracking, as well as a slew of security vulnerability fixes. Firefox 86, released on Tuesday, includes what it touts as a privacy-bolstering feature called Total Cookie Protection. This new feature isolates each cookie assigned by each websi...

minute read Share this article: Cisco also stomped out a critical security flaw affecting its Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches. A critical vulnerability in Cisco Systems’ intersite policy manager software could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication. The vulnerability is one of three critical flaws fixed by Cisco on this week. It exists in Cisco’s ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator (ACI MSO) — this is Cisco’s management software for busines...

The hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060, a ray-tracing-friendly, advanced gaming graphics chip, will also throttle Ethereum mining. Nvidia, the chip company known for its gaming-friendly graphical processing units (GPUs), said that its hotly anticipated GeForce RTX 3060 chipset, launching Thursday, has an added bonus of thwarting crypto-mining. Experts applaud the effort, but are skeptical the move will take the bullseye off the backs of gamers and their computer rigs. “With the launch of GeFo...