U.S. unveils plan to improve cyber defenses for water utilities

The White House on Thursday unveiled a plan to beef up cybersecurity in the nation’s water sector, an extension of its efforts to thwart attacks against critical infrastructure including electricity and natural gas pipeline operators. Senior administration officials said water Read More …

QNAP warns NAS users of DeadBolt ransomware, urges customers to update

Taiwanese network-attached storage giant QNAP urged its customers to update their systems this week after the DeadBolt ransomware was discovered targeting all NAS instances exposed to the internet. “QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to follow the security setting instructions Read More …

Defending the Supply Chain: Why the DDS Protocol is Critical in Industrial and Software Systems

Given this technology’s ubiquity, Trend Micro researchers decided to investigate further and discovered multiple security vulnerabilities, resulting in 13 new CVE IDs for the six most common DDS implementations. This includes one vulnerability in the standard specifications and other deployment Read More …

German govt warns of APT27 hackers backdooring business networks

The BfV German domestic intelligence services (short for Bun­des­amt für Ver­fas­sungs­schutz) warn of ongoing attacks coordinated by the APT27 Chinese-backed hacking group. This active campaign is targeting German commercial organizations, with the attackers using the HyperBro remote access trojans (RAT) Read More …

New FluBot and TeaBot campaigns target Android devices worldwide

New FluBot and TeaBot malware distribution campaigns have been spotted, using typical smishing lures or laced apps against Android users in Australia, Germany, Poland, Spain, and Romania. The SMS topics used for spreading the FluBot malware include fake courier messages, Read More …

Trickbot will now try to crash researcher PCs to stop reverse engineering attempts

The Trickbot Trojan has been revised with a new set of anti-reverse engineering features including the capability to crash computers if analysis tools are detected. Over the years, Trickbot has evolved from its original state as a banking Trojan to Read More …

Context and Recommendations to Protect Against Malicious Activity by Iranian Cyber Group Emennet Pasargad

This Private Industry Notice provides a historical overview of Iran-based cyber company Emennet Pasargad’s tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to enable recipients to identify and defend against the group’s malicious cyber activities. On 20 October 2021, a grand jury in Read More …

Vulnerability in Apple iOS, iPad OS and MacOS could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory data

Cisco Talos recently discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Apple’s macOS and iOS operating systems that could lead to the disclosure of sensitive memory content. An attacker could capitalize on that information to aid in the exploitation of other vulnerabilities Read More …