Step Towards Foresight on Emerging Cybersecurity Challenges

ENISA kicks off a new area of work in line with its Strategy objective “Foresight on Emerging and Future Cybersecurity Challenges”. As a key element of ENISA’s strategy, foresight increases knowledge and understanding of emerging and future challenges, thus providing Read More …

Attackers Hijack Email Threads Using ProxyLogon/ProxyShell Flaws

Attackers are gnawing on the ProxyLogon and ProxyShell vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server to hijack email chains, by malspamming replies to ongoing email threads, researchers say. What’s still under discussion: whether the offensive is delivering SquirrelWaffle, the new email loader Read More …

Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

Security researchers have checked the web’s public key infrastructure and have measured a long-known but little-analyzed security threat: hidden root Certificate Authorities. Certificate Authorities, or CAs, vouch for the digital certificates we use to establish trust online. You can be Read More …

RedCurl corporate espionage hackers resume attacks with updated tools

A crew of highly-skilled hackers specialized in corporate espionage has resumed activity, one of their victims this year being a large wholesale company in Russia. Tracked as RedCurl, the group attacked the Russian business twice this year, each time using Read More …

Spear-Phishing Campaign Exploits Glitch Platform to Steal Credentials

A long-term spear-phishing campaign is targeting employees of major corporations with emails containing PDFs that link to short-lived Glitch apps hosting credential-harvesting SharePoint phishing pages, researchers have found. Researchers from DomainTools discovered the suspicious PDFs – which themselves do not Read More …

Android malware BrazKing returns as a stealthier banking trojan

The BrazKing Android banking trojan has returned with dynamic banking overlays and a new implementation trick that enables it to operate without requesting risky permissions. A new malware sample was analyzed by IBM Trusteer researchers who found it outside the Read More …