IT Security News
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FBI: Rise in Business Email-based Attacks is a $43B Headache
A huge spike in fraudulent activities related to attacks leveraging business email accounts is a billion-dollar-problem.
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Your Phone May Soon Replace Many of Your Passwords
Apple, Google and Microsoft announced this week they will soon support an approach to authentication that avoids passwords altogether, and instead requires users to merely unlock their smartphones to sign in to websites or online services. Experts say the changes should help defeat many types of phishing attacks and ease the overall password burden on Internet users, but caution that a true passwordless future may still be years away for most websites.
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USB-based Wormable Malware Targets Windows Installer
Activity dubbed ‘Raspberry Robin’ uses Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to communicate with threat actors and execute nefarious commands.
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CANs Reinvent LANs for an All-Local World
A close look at a new type of network, known as a Cloud Area Network.
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F5 Warns of Critical Bug Allowing Remote Code Execution in BIG-IP Systems
The vulnerability is 'critical' with a CVSS severity rating of 9.8 out of 10.
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VHD Ransomware Linked to North Korea’s Lazarus Group
Source code and Bitcoin transactions point to the malware, which emerged in March 2020, being the work of APT38, researchers at Trellix said.
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China-linked APT Caught Pilfering Treasure Trove of IP
A state-sponsored threat actor designed a house-of-cards style infection chain to exfiltrate massive troves of highly sensitive data.
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Attackers Use Event Logs to Hide Fileless Malware
A sophisticated campaign utilizes a novel anti-detection method.
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Unpatched DNS Bug Puts Millions of Routers, IoT Devices at Risk
A flaw in all versions of the popular C standard libraries uClibe and uClibe-ng can allow for DNS poisoning attacks against target devices.
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Mozilla: Lack of Security Protections in Mental-Health Apps Is ‘Creepy’
Popular apps to support people’s psychological and spiritual well-being can harm them by sharing their personal and sensitive data with third parties, among other privacy offenses.
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