The SolarWinds Cyberattack: The Hack, The Victims, And What We Know Since the SolarWinds supply chain attack was disclosed last Sunday, there has been a whirlwind of news, technical details, and analysis released about the hack. Because the amount of information that was released in such a short time is definitely Read more…
The Week In Ransomware – December 18th 2020 – Targeting Israel The SolarWinds supply chain attack has dominated this week’s cybersecurity news, but there was still plenty of ransomware news this week. Over the past month, Israel has been targeted in a series of cyberattacks that are attributed to Iran. This Read more…
Stealthy Magecart Malware Mistakenly Leaks List Of Hacked Stores A list of dozens of online stores hacked by a web skimming group was inadvertently leaked by a dropper used to deploy a stealthy remote access trojan (RAT) on compromised e-commerce sites. The threat actors use this RAT for maintaining persistence and Read more…
Europol Launches New Decryption Platform For Law Enforcement Europol and the European Commission have launched a new decryption platform that will help boost Europol’s ability to gain access to information stored in encrypted media collected during criminal investigations. The new decryption platform operated by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) was developed in collaboration Read more…
Windows 10 Updates Cause CorsairVBusDriver BSOD Crash Loop Microsoft’s December 2020 Windows 10 updates are conflicting with the Corsair Utility Engine software and causing the operating system to go into a BSOD crash loop. After the December 2020 Patch Tuesday updates were released, Windows 10 users began reporting that the Read more…
NSA Warns Of Hackers Forging Cloud Authentication Information An advisory from the U.S. National Security Agency provides Microsoft Azure administrators guidance to detect and protect against threat actors looking to access resources in the cloud by forging authentication information. The document considers an adversary that already breached the local network Read more…
Google Chrome Disables Insecure Form Warnings After Complaints Google has disabled a feature that displays a warning when submitting insecure forms after receiving many complaints from users and website administrators. Google has been focusing on removing mixed-content in Google Chrome, when a secure page (HTTPS) loads content from an insecure (HTTP) Read more…
Microsoft Identifies 40+ Victims Of SolarWinds Hack, 80% from US Microsoft said that over 40 of its customers had their networks infiltrated by hackers following the SolarWinds supply chain attack after they installed backdoored versions of the Orion IT monitoring platform. Last weekend, FireEye discovered that a group of nation-state Read more…
Microsoft Confirms Breach In SolarWinds Hack, Denies Infecting Others Microsoft has confirmed that they were hacked in the recent SolarWinds attacks but denied that their software was compromised in a supply-chain attack to infect customers. This past weekend it was discovered that Russian state-sponsored hackers breached SolarWinds and used their auto-update mechanism to distribute Read more…
SolarWinds Hackers Breach US Nuclear Weapons Agency Update: US DOE has confirmed that the hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise also hacked the networks of the US nuclear weapons agency: Department of Energy is responding to a cyber incident related to the SolarWinds compromise in coordination with our federal and industry Read more…
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