Olympus US Systems Hit By Cyberattack Over The Weekend Olympus, a leading medical technology company, was forced to take down IT systems in the Americas (U.S., Canada, and Latin America) following a cyberattack that hit its network Sunday, October 10, 2021. “Upon detection of suspicious activity, we immediately mobilized a Read more…
Microsoft Revokes Insecure SSH Keys For Azure DevOps Customers Microsoft revoked insecure SSH keys some Azure DevOps have generated using a GitKraken git GUI client version impacted by an underlying issue found in one of its dependencies. Azure DevOps is a Microsoft cloud service specifically designed for code development collaboration with Read more…
SnapMC Hackers Skip File Encryption And Just Steal Your Files A new actor tracked as SnapMC has emerged in the cybercrime space, performing the typical data-stealing extortion that underpins ransomware operations, but without doing the file encryption part. File encryption is considered a core component of ransomware attacks, as it’s Read more…
Study Reveals Android Phones Constantly Snoop On Their Users A new study by a team of university researchers in the UK has unveiled a host of privacy issues that arise from using Android smartphones. The researchers have focused on Samsung, Xiaomi, Realme, and Huawei Android devices, and LineageOS and /e/OS, Read more…
FreakOut Botnet Now Attacks Vulnerable Video DVR Devices A new update to the FreakOut (aka Necro, N3Cr0m0rPh) Python botnet has added a recently published PoC exploit for Visual Tools DVR in its arsenal to further aid in breaching systems. Mining Monero on a DVR Researchers at Juniper Threat Labs have analyzed a Read more…
Phishing Campaign Uses Math Symbols To Evade Detection Phishing actors are now using mathematical symbols on impersonated company logos to evade detection from anti-phishing systems. One notable case spotted by analysts at INKY involves the spoofing of Verizon, a large U.S.-based telecommunication service provider. In this case, the actors are using Read more…
Microsoft October 2021 Patch Tuesday Fixes 4 Zero-days, 71 Flaws Today is Microsoft’s October 2021 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for four zero-day vulnerabilities and a total of 74 flaws. Microsoft has fixed 74 vulnerabilities (81 including Microsoft Edge) with today’s update, with three classified as Critical, and 70 as Read more…
Windows 10 Updates KB5006670 & KB5006667 Released The October 2021 Patch Update is now rolling out and Microsoft has published cumulative updates KB5006670 and KB5006667 for recent versions of Windows 10. This month’s cumulative updates include security fixes for PCs with May 2021 Update (version 21H1), October 2020 Update (version 20H2), and May Read more…
PyPI Removes ‘mitmproxy2’ Over Code Execution Concerns The PyPI repository has removed a Python package called ‘mitmproxy2’ that was an identical copy of the official “mitmproxy” library, but with an “artificially introduced” code execution vulnerability. The official ‘mitmproxy’ Python library is a free and open-source interactive HTTPS proxy with over 40,000 weekly downloads. Copycat package could trick Read more…
Chinese Hackers Use Windows zero-day To Attack Defense, IT Firms A Chinese-speaking hacking group exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the Windows Win32k kernel driver to deploy a previously unknown remote access trojan (RAT). The malware, known as MysterySnail, was found by Kaspersky security researchers on multiple Microsoft Servers between late August Read more…
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