HackerOne Apologizes to Ukrainian Hackers for Mistakenly Blocking Payouts Today, Chris Evans, the CISO of bug bounty platform HackerOne, apologized to Ukrainian hackers after erroneously blocking their bug bounty payouts following sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus after Ukraine’s invasion. The bounty hunters were informed of this in emails notifying Read more…
Dozens of Ransomware Variants Used in 722 Attacks over 3 months The ransomware space was very active in the last quarter of 2021, with threat analysts observing 722 distinct attacks deploying 34 different variants. This massive amount of activity creates problems for the defenders, making it harder to keep up Read more…
FBI Warns of MFA Flaw Used by State Hackers for Lateral Movement The FBI says Russian state-backed hackers gained access to a non-governmental organization (NGO) cloud after enrolling their own device in the organization’s Duo MFA following the exploitation of misconfigured default multifactor authentication (MFA) protocols. To breach the network, Read more…
New Linux Botnet Exploits Log4J, Uses DNS Tunneling for Comms A recently discovered botnet under active development targets Linux systems, attempting to ensnare them into an army of bots ready to steal sensitive info, installing rootkits, creating reverse shells, and acting as web traffic proxies. The newly found malware, dubbed B1txor20 by Read more…
Android Trojan Persists on the Google Play Store Since January Security researchers tracking the mobile app ecosystem have noticed a recent spike in trojan infiltration on the Google Play Store, with one of the apps having over 500,000 installs and available to download. Most of these apps belong to a Read more…
FTC to Fine CafePress for Cover up of Massive Data Breach The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) wants to slap the former owner of the CafePress custom t-shirt and merchandise site with a $500,000 fine for failing to secure its users’ data and attempting to cover up a significant data Read more…
Russia Faces IT Crisis with just Two Months of Data Storage Left Russia faces a critical IT storage crisis after Western cloud providers pulled out of the country, leaving Russia with only two more months before they run out of data storage. The Russian government is exploring various solutions to Read more…
Massive Phishing Campaign Uses 500+ Domains to Steal Credentials Large-scale phishing activity using hundreds of domains to steal credentials for Naver, a Google-like online platform in South Korea, shows infrastructure overlaps linked to the TrickBot botnet. The resources used for this attack show the sheer size of the cybercriminal effort Read more…
German Government Advises Against Using Kaspersky Antivirus Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, BSI, is warning companies against using Kaspersky antivirus products due to threats made by Russia against the EU, NATO, and Germany. Kaspersky is a Moscow-based cybersecurity and antivirus provider founded in 1997, that has a long history Read more…
What every organization should know about the purpose limitation obligation The Personal Data Protection Act of 2012 (PDPA) governs organizations’ collection, use, and disclosure of individuals’ personal data in a way that recognizes both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need of organizations to collect, Read more…
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