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Auditors: Feds’ Cybersecurity Gets the Dunce Cap
Out of eight agencies, four were given D grades in a report for the Senate, while the Feds overall got a C-.
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MacOS Flaw in Telegram Retrieves Deleted Messages
Telegram declined to fix a scenario in which the flaw can be exploited, spurring a Trustwave researcher to decline a bug bounty and to disclose his findings instead.
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Black Hat: Microsoft’s Patch for Windows Hello Bypass Bug is Faulty, Researchers Say
Researchers show how to circumvent Microsoft’s Windows Hello biometric authentication using a spoofed USB camera.
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Black Hat: Charming Kitten Leaves More Paw Prints
IBM X-Force detailed the custom-made "LittleLooter" data stealer and 4+ hours of ITG18 operator training videos revealed by an opsec goof.
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‘I’m Calling About Your Car Warranty’, aka PII Hijinx
Black Hat: Researchers created 300 fake identities, signed them up on 185 legit sites, then tracked how much the sites used signup PII to pester the accounts.
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Black Hat: Security Bugs Allow Takeover of Capsule Hotel Rooms
A researcher was able to remotely control the lights, bed and ventilation in "smart" hotel rooms via Nasnos vulnerabilities.
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Black Hat: Let’s All Help Cyber-Immunize Each Other
We're selfish if we're only mitigating our own stuff, said Black Hat USA 2021 keynoter Jeff Moss. Let's be like doctors battling COVID and work for herd immunity.
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Phishing Campaign Dangles SharePoint File-Shares
Attackers spoof sender addresses to appear legitimate in a crafty campaign that can slip past numerous detections, Microsoft researchers have discovered.
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We COVID-Clicked on Garbage, Report Finds: Podcast
Were we work-from-home clicking zombies? Steganography attacks snagged three out of eight recipients. Nasty CAPTCHAs suckered 50 times more clicks during 2020.
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Iranian APT Lures Defense Contractor in Catfishing-Malware Scam
Fake aerobics-instructor profile delivers malware in a supply-chain attack attempt from TA456.
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Ransomware Volumes Hit Record Highs as 2021 Wears On
The second quarter of the year saw the highest volumes of ransomware attacks ever, with Ryuk leading the way.
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Raccoon Stealer Bundles Malware, Propagates Via Google SEO
An update to the stealer-as-a-service platform hides in pirated software, pilfers crypto-coins and installs a software dropper for downloads of more malware.
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‘DeadRinger’ Targeted Exchange Servers Long Before Discovery
Cyberespionage campaigns linked to China attacked telecoms via ProxyLogon bugs, stealing call records and maintaining persistence, as far back as 2017.
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‘PwnedPiper’: Devastating Bugs in >80% of Hospital Pneumatics
Podcast: Blood samples aren’t martinis. You can’t shake them. But bugs in pneumatic control systems could lead to that, RCE or ransomware.
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Vulnerability Name Affected Component
Vulnerability Name Affected Component CVE# Date Underflow in udpRXThread HMI3 Control Panel in: Nexus Panel CVE-2021-37161 02/08/2021 Overflow in sccProcessMsg HMI3 Control Panel in: Nexus Panel CVE-2021-37162 02/08/2021 Overflow in hmiProcessMsg HMI3 Control Panel in: Nexus Panel CVE-2021-37165 02/08/2021 Off-by-three stack overflow in tcpTxThread HMI3 Control Panel in: Nexus Panel CVE-2021-37164 02/08/2021 GUI socket Denial […]
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Chipotle Emails Serve Up Phishing Lures
Mass email distribution service compromise mirrors earlier Nobelium attacks.
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NSA Warns Public Networks are Hacker Hotbeds
Agency warns attackers targeting teleworkers to steal corporate data.
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Novel Meteor Wiper Used in Attack that Crippled Iranian Train System
A July 9th attack disrupted service and taunted Iran’s leadership with hacked screens directing customers to call the phone of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei with complaints.
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UC San Diego Health Breach Tied to Phishing Attack
Employee email takeover exposed personal, medical data of students, employees and patients.
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CISA’s Top 30 Bugs: One’s Old Enough to Buy Beer
There are patches or remediations for all of them, but they're still being picked apart. Why should attackers stop if the flaws remain unpatched, as so many do?
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