June 2019 – Page 10

New Spam Campaign Controlled by Attackers via DNS TXT Records

A new finance spam campaign with HTML attachments has been discovered that utilizes Google’s public DNS resolver to retrieve JavaScript commands embedded in a domain’s TXT record. These commands will then redirect a user’s browser to a aggressive trading advertisement site, which has been reported as a scam. […]

10 Jun

Microsoft is Bringing Predictive Typing to All Windows 10 Apps

A new predictive typing feature has been found hidden in the latest Windows 10 20H1 builds. This feature displays suggestions of words that Windows predicts you are going to write so that you can quickly select them. […]

10 Jun

FBI Issues Warning on ‘Secure’ Websites Used For Phishing

FBI issued a public service announcement regarding TLS-secured websites being actively used by malicious actors in phishing campaigns to trick users into trusting attacker-controlled sites and handing over sensitive personal information. […]

10 Jun

‘jesushelpme’ Password Sums Up CyberSec Agency Security State

Agents of the Information Network Security Agency (INSA) – the top-level cyber security agency in Ethiopia, used laughingly weak credentials to protect their email accounts. […]

10 Jun

Sysmon Getting DNS Query Logging with Querying Process Name

To the delight of Windows system administrators everywhere, Microsoft has announced that a new version of Sysmon is coming out this week that will include the ability to log DNS queries performed on a monitored computer. Even better, Sysmon will also log the executable that performed the query. […]

09 Jun

VLC 3.0.7 is Biggest Security Release Due to EU Bounty Program

VLC Media Player 3.0.7 was released on Friday and contained the most security updates ever in one release of the program. The president of the VideoLan non-profit organization states that this was due to their inclusion in the EU-FOSSA bug bounty program. […]

09 Jun

Google Chrome 75 Has a Working Tab Hover Card Feature

If you are like me and lose track of the dozens of tabs you have open at the same time in Google Chrome, you will be happy to know that a working implementation of the browser ‘s Tab Hover Tab feature is available as an experimental flag. […]

08 Jun

New Extortion Scam Threatens to Ruin a Website’s Reputation

A new extortion scam campaign is underway that is targeting websites owners and stating that if they do not make a payment, the attacker will ruin their site’s reputation and get them blacklisted for spam. […]

08 Jun

China Routed Traffic from European Carriers for Two Hours

Mobile internet traffic from multiple carriers in Europe took an unintended turn through China Telecom for over two hours on June 6 because of a route leak incident. […]

08 Jun

Quest, LabCorp, AMCA Sued For Breach Impacting Over 19 Million

Multiple class action lawsuits have been filed against Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings (LabCorp) since they disclosed that personal information of over 19 million of their customers was exposed in a data breach. […]

Month: June 2019

New Spam Campaign Controlled by Attackers via DNS TXT Records

Microsoft is Bringing Predictive Typing to All Windows 10 Apps

FBI Issues Warning on ‘Secure’ Websites Used For Phishing

‘jesushelpme’ Password Sums Up CyberSec Agency Security State

Sysmon Getting DNS Query Logging with Querying Process Name

VLC 3.0.7 is Biggest Security Release Due to EU Bounty Program

Google Chrome 75 Has a Working Tab Hover Card Feature

New Extortion Scam Threatens to Ruin a Website’s Reputation

China Routed Traffic from European Carriers for Two Hours

Quest, LabCorp, AMCA Sued For Breach Impacting Over 19 Million