IT Security News
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Patchable and Preventable Security Issues Lead Causes of Q1 Attacks
Attacks against U.S. companies spike in Q1 2022 with patchable and preventable external vulnerabilities responsible for bulk of attacks.
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The Link Between AWM Proxy & the Glupteba Botnet
On December 7, 2021, Google announced it had sued two Russian men allegedly responsible for operating the Glupteba botnet, a global malware menace that has infected millions of computers over the past decade. That same day, AWM Proxy -- a 14-year-old anonymity service that rents hacked PCs to cybercriminals -- suddenly went offline. Security experts had long seen a link between Glupteba and AWM Proxy, but new research shows AWM Proxy's founder is one of the men being sued by Google.
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Top Six Security Bad Habits, and How to Break Them
Shrav Mehta, CEO, Secureframe, outlines the top six bad habits security teams need to break to prevent costly breaches, ransomware attacks and prevent phishing-based endpoint attacks.
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Mitel VoIP Bug Exploited in Ransomware Attacks
Researchers warn threat actors are using a novel remote code execution exploit to gain initial access to victim’s environments.
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‘Killnet’ Adversary Pummels Lithuania with DDoS Attacks Over Blockade
Cyber collective Killnet claims it won’t let up until the Baltic country opens trade routes to and from the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.
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Log4Shell Vulnerability Targeted in VMware Servers to Exfiltrate Data
CISA warns that threat actors are ramping up attacks against unpatched Log4Shell vulnerability in VMware servers.
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Google Warns Spyware Being Deployed Against Android, iOS Users
The company is warning victims in Italy and Kazakhstan that they have been targeted by the malware from Italian firm RCS Labs.
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Fancy Bear Uses Nuke Threat Lure to Exploit 1-Click Bug
The APT is pairing a known Microsoft flaw with a malicious document to load malware that nabs credentials from Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers.
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Meet the Administrators of the RSOCKS Proxy Botnet
Authorities in the United States, Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K. last week said they dismantled the "RSOCKS" botnet, a collection of millions of hacked devices that were sold as "proxies" to cybercriminals looking for ways to route their malicious traffic through someone else's computer. While the coordinated action did not name the Russian hackers allegedly behind RSOCKS, KrebsOnSecurity has identified its owner as a Russian man living abroad who also runs the world's top Russian spamming forum.
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Gamification of Ethical Hacking and Hacking Esports
Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist and Advisory CISO at Delinea, explores why gamified platforms and hacking esports are the future.
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