December 2020 – Page 10

Ex-Cisco engineer who nuked 16k WebEx accounts goes to prison

Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, a former Cisco engineer, was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison and ordered to pay a $15,000 fine for shutting down more than 16,000 WebEx Teams accounts and over 450 virtual machines in 2018, […]

11 Dec

Facebook unmasks Vietnam’s APT32 hacking group

The Facebook security team has revealed today the real identity of APT32, a Vietnam-backed hacking group active in cyberespionage campaigns targeting foreign government, multi-national corporations, and journalists since at least 2014. […]

11 Dec

Microsoft: New malware can infect over 30K Windows PCs a day

Microsoft has warned of an ongoing campaign pushing a new browser hijacking and credential-stealing malware dubbed Adrozek which, at its peak, was able to take over more than 30,000 devices every day. […]

11 Dec

Massive Subway UK phishing attack is pushing TrickBot malware

A massive phishing campaign pretending to be a Subway order confirmation is underway distributing the notorious TrickBot malware. […]

10 Dec

U.S. warns of increased cyberattacks against K-12 distance learning

K-12 educational institutions in the U.S. are being targeted by malicious actors for extortion, data theft, and general disruption of normal activity. The trend will continue through the 2020/2021 academic year. […]

10 Dec

Fake data breach alerts used to steal Ledger cryptocurrency wallets

A phishing scam is underway that targets Ledger wallet users with fake data breach notifications used to steal cryptocurrency from recipients. […]

10 Dec

Sophos fixes SQL injection vulnerability in their Cyberoam OS

Sophos has deployed a hotfix for their line of Cyberoam firewalls and routers to fix a SQL injection vulnerability. […]

10 Dec

250,000 stolen MySQL databases for sale on dark web auction site

Hackers have set up an auction site on the dark web to sell 250,000 databases stolen from tens of thousands of breached MySQL servers. […]

10 Dec

Windows Kerberos Bronze Bit attack gets public exploit, patch now

Proof-of-concept exploit code and full details on a Windows Kerberos security bypass vulnerability have been published earlier this week by Jake Karnes, the NetSPI security consultant and penetration tester who reported the security bug to Microsoft. […]

09 Dec

Qbot malware switched to stealthy new Windows autostart method

A new Qbot malware version now activates its persistence mechanism right before infected Windows devices shutdown and it automatically removes any traces when the system restarts or wakes up from sleep. […]

Month: December 2020

Ex-Cisco engineer who nuked 16k WebEx accounts goes to prison

Facebook unmasks Vietnam’s APT32 hacking group

Microsoft: New malware can infect over 30K Windows PCs a day

Massive Subway UK phishing attack is pushing TrickBot malware

U.S. warns of increased cyberattacks against K-12 distance learning

Fake data breach alerts used to steal Ledger cryptocurrency wallets

Sophos fixes SQL injection vulnerability in their Cyberoam OS

250,000 stolen MySQL databases for sale on dark web auction site

Windows Kerberos Bronze Bit attack gets public exploit, patch now

Qbot malware switched to stealthy new Windows autostart method