DHS Orders Agencies To Urgently Patch Or Disconnect Exchange Servers The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity unit has ordered federal agencies to urgently update or disconnect Microsoft Exchange on-premises products on their networks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued the Emergency Directive 21-02 Wednesday after Microsoft patched four Read more…
Ransomware Is A Multi-Billion Industry And It Keeps Growing An analysis from global cybersecurity company Group-IB reveals that ransomware attacks more than doubled last year and increased in both scale and sophistication. The massive payouts that averaged between $1 and $2 million for some ransomware gangs attracted new actors that Read more…
Microsoft: Windows 10 ‘Known Issue Rollback’ Auto-Fixes Update Bugs Microsoft has shared details on Known Issue Rollback (KIR), a Windows 10 capability used to revert buggy non-security fixes delivered through Windows Update. KIR is not used to revert problematic security updates because it would lead to older code being reintroduced, Read more…
Hackers Share Methods To Bypass 3D Secure For Payment Cards Cybercriminals are constantly exploring and documenting new ways to go around the 3D Secure (3DS) protocol used for authorizing online card transactions. Discussions on underground forums offer advice on how to bypass the latest variant of the security feature by Read more…
Investors Are The Next Target Of Large-scale Cyberattacks Business email compromise (BEC) scammers are utilizing a new type of attack targeting investors that could leverage payouts seven times greater than average. When an investor buys into a firm’s investment fund, such as private equity or real estate fund, the firm Read more…
GRUB2 Boot Loader Reveals Multiple High Severity Vulnerabilities GRUB, a popular boot loader used by Unix-based operating systems has fixed multiple high severity vulnerabilities. In 2020, BleepingComputer had reported on the BootHole vulnerability in GRUB2 that could have let attackers compromise an operating system’s booting process even if the Secure Boot verification mechanism was active. Threat actors Read more…
US Government Warns Of Social Security Scams Using Fake Federal IDs Government imposter scams now come with a new twist that has the potential to make them even more effective, as the Inspector General for the Social Security Administration (SSA) warns. Fraudsters behind this type of scam (which commonly involves Read more…
Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Is The Latest Victim Of Accellion Hacks Cybersecurity firm Qualys is likely the latest victim to have suffered a data breach after a zero-day vulnerability in their Accellion FTA server was exploited to steal hosted files. In December, a wave of attacks targeted the Accellion FTA file-sharing application Read more…
State Hackers Rush To Exploit Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers Multiple state-sponsored hacking groups are actively exploiting critical Exchange bugs Microsoft patched Tuesday via emergency out-of-band security updates. Microsoft addressed four zero-days (CVE-2021-26855, CVE-2021-26857, CVE-2021-26858, and CVE-2021-27065) exploited in the wild and three other vulnerabilities (CVE-2021-27078, CVE-2021-26854, and CVE-2021-26412). At least Read more…
Microsoft Starts Force Installing Windows 10 20H2 On More Devices Microsoft is ramping up the forced rollout of Windows 10, version 20H2 to more devices approaching end of service (EOS), as part of a new rollout phase. This new automated feature update rollout phase follows the addition of Windows 10 Read more…
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