Month: August 2019

A database reportedly containing 6,840,339 unique user accounts from the recent StockX data breach is being sold and distributed online. Bad actors have stated that they have already begun to decrypt the passwords and it is expected for this information to be used in future attacks. […]

Vulnerabilities in the image transfer protocol used in digital cameras enabled a security researcher to infect with ransomware a Canon EOS 80D DSLR over a Wifi connection. […]

Researchers analyzing the security of legitimate device drivers found that more than 40 of them from at least 20 hardware vendors can be abused to achieve privilege escalation. […]

Researchers analyzing the security of legitimate device drivers found that more than 40 of them from at least 20 hardware vendors can be abused to achieve privilege escalation. […]

As we creep towards the end of the summer, things have started to thankfully slow down a bit. The biggest news was a wiper called GermanWiper targeting Germany and pretending to be a ransomware. Otherwise, for this week we mostly saw new variants of existing ransomware being released. […]

A code execution vulnerability in the KDE desktop manager has been resolved by removing support for shell commands in the KConfig configuration system. […]

An ongoing phishing campaign targeting several organizations with the help of DocuSign branded spam e-mails has been observed by Proofpoint’s Threat Insight Team while abusing Amazon Web Services to host their landing pages. […]

Air New Zealand sent e-mails to customers enrolled in its Airpoints loyalty program​​​​​​ to warn them of a phishing attack that successfully compromised the email accounts of two staff members which potentially led to personal information being accessed by the attackers. […]