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By Eduard Kovacs on January 20, 2021 Researchers at Israel-based boutique cybersecurity consultancy JSOF this week disclosed the details of seven potentially serious DNS-related vulnerabilities that could expose millions of devices to various types of attacks. The vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as DNSpooq, impact Dnsmasq, a widely used piece of open source software designed to provide DNS, DHCP, router advertisement and network boot capabilities for small networks. Its DNS subsystem “provides a local DNS server for the network, with forwarding of all query types to upstream recursiv...

The banking trojan has climbed back to the top of Check Point's Global Threat Index

Forescout Research Labs last month released a 14-page white paper and a 47-page research report detailing 33 vulnerabilities affecting millions of Internet of Things (IoT), Operational Technology (OT), and IT devices. Dubbed AMNESIA:33, these newly identified vulnerabilities include four broadly used TCP/IP stacks and have left more than 150 vendors potentially compromised. Forescout’s findings are the first published study under Project Memoria, an initiative to understand the flaws and threats rooted in TCP/IP stacks for organizations. Malicious actors familiar with the vulnerabilities ca...

Dec 28, 2020 There has been a new surge in infections by the well-known Phorpiex botnet which has made it the month’s most prevalent malware, impacting 4% of organisations globally. Phorpiex was last seen in the Threat Index’s top 10 in June this year, according to Check Point Research’s latest Global Threat Index for November 2020. The Phorpiex botnet was first reported in 2010, and at its peak controlled more than a million infected hosts. Known for distributing other malware families via spam as well as fueling large-scale “sextortion” spam campaigns and cryptomining, Phorpiex h...

On February 24, 2021, Shipit!, our monthly event series, presented Making Commerce Extensible with WebAssembly. The video is now available. At Shopify we aim to make what most merchants need easy, and the rest possible. We make the rest possible by exposing interfaces to query, extend and alter our Platform. These interfaces empower a rich ecosystem of Partners to solve a variety of problems. The primary mechanism of this ecosystem is an “App”, an independently hosted web service which communicates with Shopify over the network. This model is powerful, but comes with a host of technica...