Russian Hackers Use RATs to Target Financial Entities
A financially motivated threat actor believed to speak Russian has used remote access Trojans (RATs) in attacks on financial entities in the United States...
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Symfony, jQuery Vulnerabilities Patched in Drupal
Updates released on Wednesday for Drupal 7 and 8 patch several vulnerabilities affecting third-party Symfony and jQuery components used by the Drupal core. The...
Network DoS Attack on PLCs Can Disrupt Physical Processes
A team of researchers has demonstrated an interesting type of denial-of-service (DoS) attack on programmable logic controllers (PLCs), where network flooding can lead to...
Cisco Patches Critical Flaw in ASR 9000 Routers
Cisco on Wednesday released patches for 30 vulnerabilities, including a critical bug impacting ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Routers running IOS XR 64-bit software....
Mysterious Operative Haunted Kaspersky Critics
Keir Giles’ first thought was that the man’s cheap-looking suit didn’t seem right for a private equity executive. The man seated in front of...
Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem
Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities — such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and...
Fortinet Settles Whistleblower Case for $545,000
Sunnyvale, CA-based Fortinet agreed a deal worth $545,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit brought by the U.S. government and Yuxin ‘Jay’ Fang. The lawsuit...
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Russian Hackers Scrambled to Erase Digital Footprints After Triton Attribution Report
SINGAPORE — SECURITYWEEK 2019 ICS CYBER SECURITY CONFERENCE — Some of the pieces of digital evidence that led to security researchers linking the notorious...
Brazilian Hackers Described as Adaptable Pirates
Brazil does not have a highly organized hacker underground in the same way as Russia and eastern Europe. Most of the malicious activity by...
Iranian Hackers Heavily Reliant on DNS Tunneling
Iran-linked cyber-espionage group OilRig is making broad use of DNS tunneling across its tools portfolio, Palo Alto Networks security researchers reveal. Active since at...