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The growth of the internet has impacted profoundly on everyday life and the global economy. It has evolved into a global, interconnected network of systems and information – cyberspace – that we know today, transforming the conduct of business and opening new markets.
Threats posed by cybercriminals, state and non-state actors are persistent and constantly evolving. With an ever-growing number of cyber attacks on critical infrastructure, manufacturing, online commerce and digital life in general, security experts are finding that their work has become a race against the attackers.
The Cyber Security Review is designed to draw on the combined knowledge, skills and expertise of the cyber security community to identify the emerging threats and facilitate the development of coherent policies and robust capabilities.
Our mission is to promote dialogue and provide a platform for information exchange and cooperation between stakeholders, industry, academia and security experts worldwide.
- SolarWinds: How Sunburst Sends Data Back to the Attackers
January 22, 2021
In our previous blog we described how the attackers controlled the Sunburst malware, and detailed a variety of commands that will result in data being ...
- Network Attack Trends: Internet of Threats
January 22, 2021
Unit 42 researchers observed interesting attack trends from August-October 2020. Despite a surge in scanner activities and HTTP directory traversal exploitation attempts, CVE-2012-2311 and CVE-2012-1823, ...
- Amazon Kindle RCE Attack Starts with an Email
January 22, 2021
Three vulnerabilities in the Amazon Kindle e-reader would have allowed a remote attacker to execute code and run it as root – paving the way ...
- Cybercriminals kick-off 2021 with sweepstakes, credit card, delivery scams
January 22, 2021
Trend Micro researches have predicted that this year, cybercriminals will continue to take advantage of Covid-19-related effects and incidents — such as people’s reliance on ...
- Windows Remote Desktop servers now used to amplify DDoS attacks
January 21, 2021
Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are now being abused by DDoS-for-hire services to amplify Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The Microsoft RDP service is ...
- CISA Issues Supply Chain Compromise Alert, Forms Coordination Group with Other Government Agencies
January 21, 2021
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an alert regarding an advanced persistent threat (APT) compromising government agencies, critical infrastructures, and private sector ...
- NSA urges system administrators to replace obsolete TLS protocols
January 20, 2021
The US National Security Agency has issued a security advisory this month urging system administrators in federal agencies and beyond to stop using old ...
- Hacker leaks full database of 77 million Nitro PDF user records
January 20, 2021
A stolen database containing the email addresses, names, and passwords of more than 77 million records of Nitro PDF service users was leaked today for ...
- Raindrop Backdoor: New Malware Discovered in SolarWinds Investigation
January 20, 2021
Symantec, a division of Broadcom, has uncovered an additional piece of malware used in the SolarWinds attacks which was used against a select number of ...
- XDR investigation uncovers PlugX, unique technique in APT attack
January 20, 2021
Advanced persistent threats (APT) are known — and are universally dreaded — for their stealth. Actors behind such attacks actively innovate their techniques to evade ...
- Bugs in Signal, Facebook, Google chat apps let attackers spy on users
January 20, 2021
Vulnerabilities found in multiple video conferencing mobile applications allowed attackers to listen to users’ surroundings without permission before the person on the other end picked ...
- Cyberattack fears raise the alarm in Eastern European countries
January 20, 2021
The cyberattacks that targeted multiple US government agencies and companies in recent months have raised the alarm in developing Eastern European countries regarding their own ...