Tor Project Appeals Russian Court’s Decision to Block Access to Tor US-based Tor Project and Russian digital-rights protection org RosKomSvoboda are appealing a Russian court’s decision to block access to public Tor nodes and the project’s website. The non-profit Tor Project operates the Tor decentralized network, which runs on top Read more…
CWP Bugs Allow Code Execution as Root on Linux Servers, Patch Now Two security vulnerabilities that impact the Control Web Panel (CWP) software can be chained by unauthenticated attackers to gain remote code execution (RCE) as root on vulnerable Linux servers. CWP, previously known as CentOS Web Panel, is a free Read more…
Android Malware BRATA Wipes your Device After Stealing Data The Android malware known as BRATA has added new and dangerous features to its latest version, including GPS tracking, the capacity to use multiple communication channels, and a function that performs a factory reset on the device to wipe all traces Read more…
Hackers Say they Encrypted Belarusian Railway Servers in Protest A group of hackers (known as Belarusian Cyber-Partisans) claim they breached and encrypted servers belonging to the Belarusian Railway, Belarus’s national state-owned railway company. They say their attack was prompted by Russia using Belarusian Railway’s rail transport network to move military units and equipment Read more…
Ransomware Gangs Increase Efforts to Enlist Insiders for Attacks A recent survey of 100 large (over 5,000 employees) North American IT firms shows that ransomware actors are making greater effort to recruit insiders in targeted firms to aid in attacks. The survey was conducted by Hitachi ID, which performed a Read more…
SonicWall Explains Why Firewalls were Caught in Reboot Loops In a weekend update, SonicWall said the widespread reboot loops that impacted next-gen firewalls worldwide were caused by signature updates published on Thursday evening not being correctly processed. According to online complaints from admins [1, 2, 3], devices from all Gen 7 firewall series running SonicOS Read more…
Malicious PowerPoint Files Used to Push Remote Access Trojans Since December 2021, a growing trend in phishing campaigns has emerged that uses malicious PowerPoint documents to distribute various types of malware, including remote access and information-stealing trojans. According to a report by Netskope’s Threat Labs shared with Bleeping Computer before Read more…
Dark Souls Servers Taken Down to Prevent Hacks Using Critical Bug Bandai Namco has deactivated the online PvP mode for the Dark Souls role-playing game, taking its servers offline to investigate reports about a severe security issue that may pose a risk to players. According to community reports on Reddit, the Read more…
January 2022 PDPC Incidents and Undertaking The January 2022 PDPC Incidents and Undertaking decision of the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) have been published on PDPC’s official website. For this month, only two (2) cases has been issued covering a financial penalty for Nature Society (Singapore) and an undertaking to be executed by JT Legal Read more…
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