Month: July 2020

The Council of the European Union today announced sanctions imposed on a Russian military espionage unit, as well as on front companies for Chinese and North Korean threat groups involved in cyber-attacks targeting the EU and its member states. (6f4c434995edef0548165457c4d90ce3)[…]

Startups have begun to disclose data breaches after a massive leak of stolen databases was published on a hacker forum this month. (6f4c434995edef0548165457c4d90ce3)[…]

Employees of U.S. defense and aerospace contractors were targeted in a large scale spear-phishing campaign between early April and mid-June 2020 in a series of phishing attacks designed to infect their devices and to exfiltrate defense tech intelligence. (6f4c434995edef0548165457c4d90ce3)[…]

A lack of rate limiting in password attempts allowed potential attackers to crack the numeric passcode used to secure Zoom private meetings as discovered by Tom Anthony, VP Product at SearchPilot. (47a9275c481dbf25e49cf753f7102ec1)[…]

Cisco today has released several security updates to address three critical authentication bypass, buffer overflow, and authorization bypass vulnerabilities found to affect Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and multiple Cisco SD-WAN software products. (47a9275c481dbf25e49cf753f7102ec1)[…]

A severe vulnerability exists in almost all signed versions of GRUB2 bootloader used by most Linux systems. When properly exploited, it could allow threat actors to compromise an operating system’s booting process even if the Secure Boot verification mechanism is active. (47a9275c481dbf25e49cf753f7102ec1)[…]

The Emotet malware botnet is now also using stolen attachments to increase the authenticity of spam emails used for infecting targets’ systems. […]