New Sunspot Malware Found While Investigating SolarWinds Hack Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has discovered the malware used by the SolarWinds hackers to inject backdoors in Orion platform builds during the supply-chain attack that led to the compromise of several companies and government agencies. Sunspot, as it was dubbed by CrowdStrike, was dropped Read more…
Intel Adds Hardware-based Ransomware Detection To 11th Gen CPUs Intel announced today at CES 2021 that they have added hardware-based ransomware detection to their newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors. These hardware-based detections are accomplished using Intel Threat Detection Technology (Intel TDT) and Hardware Shield that run directly Read more…
Microsoft Sysmon Now Detects Malware Process Tampering Attempts Microsoft has released Sysmon 13 with a new security feature that detects if a process has been tampered using process hollowing or process herpaderping techniques. To evade detection by security software, threat actors inject malicious code into a legitimate Windows process. This Read more…
Microsoft Releases Linux Endpoint Detection And Response Features Microsoft announced today that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint’s detection and response (EDR) capabilities are now generally available on Linux servers. EDR capabilities allow admins and security teams to spot attacks targeting or involving Linux servers in their environments almost in real-time with Read more…
Networking Giant Ubiquiti Alerts Customers Of Potential Data Breach Networking device maker Ubiquiti has announced a security incident that may have exposed its customers’ data. Ubiquiti is a very popular networking device manufacturer best known for its UniFi line of wired and wireless network products and a cloud management platform. Read more…
Windows 10 Hardware Security Enabled By Default On New Surface PC Microsoft has unveiled today the new Surface Pro 7+ for enterprise and educational customers, an ultra-light 2-in-1 device that comes with Windows Enhanced Hardware Security features enabled by default. The new Surface PC will help defend against escalation of privilege attacks which Read more…
Mac Malware Uses ‘run-only’ AppleScripts To Evade Analysis A cryptocurrency mining campaign targeting macOS is using malware that has evolved into a complex variant giving researchers a lot of trouble analyzing it. The malware is tracked as OSAMiner and has been in the wild since at least 2015. Yet, analyzing Read more…
DarkSide Ransomware Decryptor Recovers Victims’ Files For Free Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender has released a free decryptor for the DarkSide ransomware to allow victims to recover their files without paying a ransom. DarkSide is a human-operated ransomware that has already earned millions in payouts since it started targeting enterprises in August 2020. The operation has Read more…
Typeform Fixes Zendesk Sell Form Data Hijacking Vulnerability Online surveys and form building software as a service Typeform has patched an information hijacking vulnerability. The flaw which existed in Typeform’s Zendesk Sell app integration could let attackers quietly redirect form submissions with potentially sensitive data to themselves. Typeform form IDs indexed by search engines Online survey and form Read more…
Sunburst Backdoor Shares Features With Russian APT Malware Kaspersky researchers found that the Sunburst backdoor, the malware deployed during the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, shows feature overlaps with Kazuar, a .NET backdoor tentatively linked to the Russian Turla hacking group. Turla (aka VENOMOUS BEAR and Waterbug) has been coordinating information theft and espionage campaigns as far back Read more…
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