Phorpiex Botnet Returns with New Tricks Making it Harder to Disrupt The previously shutdown Phorpiex botnet has re-emerged with new peer-to-peer command and control infrastructure, making the malware more difficult to disrupt. The botnet first launched in 2016 and quickly accumulated a massive army of over 1 million devices over Read more…
Firefox Users can’t reach Microsoft.com — Here’s What to Do Those using the Mozilla Firefox web browser are left unable to access microsoft.com and its subdomains this week. Tests by BleepingComputer confirm the issue relates to SSL certificate validation errors. Below we explain what can you do to remedy the issue. Read more…
Emotet Starts Dropping Cobalt Strike again for Faster Attacks Right in time for the holidays, the notorious Emotet malware is once again directly installing Cobalt Strike beacons for rapid cyberattacks. For those not familiar with Emotet, it is considered one of the most widespread malware infections and is distributed through Read more…
Microsoft to set Windows Terminal as Default Console in Windows 11 Microsoft is working on making Windows Terminal the default terminal emulator program in Windows 11 instead of the Windows Console Host, starting next year. Windows Terminal was unveiled by Redmond at the Build developer conference in May 2019 and was officially launched Read more…
Large-scale Phishing Study Shows Who Bites the Bait More Often A large-scale phishing study involving 14,733 participants over a 15-month experiment has produced some surprising findings that contradict previous research results that formed the basis for popular industry practices. The study was conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich in collaboration Read more…
CISA Warns Critical Infrastructure to Stay Vigilant for Ongoing Threats The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned critical infrastructure organizations today to strengthen their cybersecurity defenses against potential and ongoing threats. The federal agency also issued guidance to help executives and senior leaders proactively reinforce their orgs’ resilience against threats arising from Read more…
State-sponsored Hackers Abuse Slack API to Steal Airline Data A suspected Iranian state-supported threat actor is deploying a newly discovered backdoor named ‘Aclip’ that abuses the Slack API for covert communications. The threat actor’s activity started in 2019 and targeted an unnamed Asian airline to steal flight reservation data. According Read more…
AWS Down Again, Outage Impacts Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Hulu, Others Amazon AWS is experiencing an outage that has impacted numerous online services, including Twitch, Zoom, PSN, Xbox Live, Doordash, Quickbooks Online, and Hulu. This ongoing outage started at approximately 7:43 AM PST and affects the US-WEST-1 and US-WEST-2 regions according to AWS’ Read more…
Log4j Vulnerability Now Used by state-backed Hackers, Access Brokers As expected, nation-state hackers of all kinds have jumped at the opportunity to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) in the Apache Log4j Java-based logging library. Also known as Log4Shell or LogJam, the vulnerability is now being used by threat Read more…
Microsoft Fixes Bug Blocking Defender for Endpoint on Windows Server Microsoft has addressed a known issue that plagued Windows Server customers for weeks, preventing the Defender for Endpoint enterprise security platform from launching on some systems. When it acknowledged the bug in November, Microsoft explained that the endpoint security solution (previously known as Read more…
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