IT Security News
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Novel Attack Turns Amazon Devices Against Themselves
Researchers have discovered how to remotely manipulate the Amazon Echo through its own speakers.
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Samsung Confirms Lapsus$ Ransomware Hit, Source Code Leak
The move comes just a week after GPU-maker NVIDIA was hit by Lapsus$ and every employee credential was leaked.
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NVIDIA’s Stolen Code-Signing Certs Used to Sign Malware
NVIDIA certificates are being used to sign malware, enabling malicious programs to pose as legitimate and slide past security safeguards on Windows machines.
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Critical Firefox Zero-Day Bugs Allow RCE, Sandbox Escape
Both vulnerabilities are use-after-free issues in Mozilla's popular web browser.
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Massive Meris Botnet Embeds Ransomware Notes from REvil
Notes threatening to tank targeted companies' stock price were embedded into the DDoS ransomware attacks as a string_of_text directed to CEOs and webops_geeks in the URL.
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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part III: Weaponry
Part I of this series examined newly-leaked internal chats from the Conti ransomware group, and how the crime gang dealt with its own internal breaches. Part II explored what it's like to be an employee of Conti's sprawling organization. Today's Part III looks at how Conti abused a panoply of popular commercial security services to undermine the security of their targets, as well as how the team’s leaders strategized for the upper hand in ransom negotiations with victims.
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Free HermeticRansom Ransomware Decryptor Released
Cruddy cryptography means victims whose files have been encrypted by the Ukraine-tormenting ransomware can break the chains without paying extortionists.
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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part II: The Office
Earlier this week, a Ukrainian security researcher leaked almost two years’ worth of internal chat logs from Conti, one of the more rapacious and ruthless ransomware gangs in operation today. Tuesday’s story examined how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and governments. In Part II of this series we’ll explore what it’s like to work for Conti, as described by the Conti employees themselves.
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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part I: Evasion
A Ukrainian security researcher this week leaked several years of internal chat logs and other sensitive data tied to Conti, an aggressive and ruthless Russian cybercrime group that focuses on deploying its ransomware to companies with more than $100 million in annual revenue. The chat logs offer a fascinating glimpse into the challenges of running a sprawling criminal enterprise with more than 100 salaried employees. The records also provide insight into how Conti has dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments.
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Russia Sanctions May Spark Escalating Cyber Conflict
President Biden joined European leaders this week in enacting economic sanctions against Russia in response its military invasion of Ukraine. The West has promised tougher sanctions are coming, but experts warn these will almost certainly trigger a Russian retaliation against America and its allies, which could escalate into cyber attacks on Western financial institutions and energy infrastructure.