Kaspersky says it detected infections with DarkPulsar, alleged NSA malware

Kaspersky Lab said today that it detected computers infected with DarkPulsar, a malware implant that has been allegedly developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA). “We found around 50 victims, but believe that the figure was much higher,” Kaspersky Read More …

Oceansalt cyberattack wave linked to defunct Chinese APT Comment Crew

A fresh wave of cyberattacks striking the US, South Korea, and Canada has been connected to an APT group with ties to the Chinese military. On Thursday, cybersecurity researchers from McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research team said they have discovered a new campaign Read More …

SettingContent-ms can be Abused to Drop Complex DeepLink and Icon-based Payload

Microsoft’s SettingContent-ms has become a recent topic of interest. In July, we saw one spam campaign use malicious SettingContent-ms files embedded in a PDF to drop the remote access Trojan FlawedAmmyy, a RAT also used by the Necurs botnet. That campaign was Read More …

Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System

A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range of IoT devices and critical infrastructure systems to hackers What is FreeRTOS (Amazon, WHIS Read More …

Simplifying identity and access management for more businesses

Effective identity management underpins the modern enterprise, and Google has been hard at work to provide simple, secure solutions for administrators and developers. In March, we launched Cloud Identity to help customers manage users, devices and apps from a central console. In July, we Read More …

CVE-2018-3211: Java Usage Tracker Local Elevation of Privilege on Windows

Trend Micro found design flaw/weakness in Java Usage Tracker that can enable hackers to create arbitrary files, inject attacker-specified parameters, and elevate local privileges. In turn, these can be chained and used to escalate privileges in order to access resources Read More …

GreyEnergy: New malware campaign targets critical infrastructure companies

The hacking group which took down Ukrainian power grids is systematically targeting critical infrastructure in Ukraine and beyond in what security researchers believe could be cyber espionage and reconnaissance ahead of future attacks. Dubbed GreyEnergy by researchers at ESET, the group Read More …

LibSSH Flaw Allows Hackers to Take Over Servers Without Password

A four-year-old severe vulnerability has been discovered in the Secure Shell (SSH) implementation library known as Libssh that could allow anyone to completely bypass authentication and gain unfettered administrative control over a vulnerable server without requiring a password. The security vulnerability, tracked Read More …