A new variant of the Mirai botnet has been found to use as many as 13 different exploits to target routers and other IoT devices. The malware, called Backdoor.Linux.MIRAI.VWIPT, includes both backdoor and DDoS capabilities. The Mirai variant uses three XOR keys to encrypt data and uses four different URLsRead More…
Joomla and WordPress owners are being warned of a malicious redirect script that pushes visitors to malicious websites. A security researcher with Sucuri recently published a report describing a rogue hypertext access (.htaccess) injector found on a client website. He noted that the site was directing website traffic to advertising sitesRead More…
Users of WINDOWS 10 are being warned of a new zero-day security vulnerability, shortly after Microsoft started releasing the May 2019 update to its operating system. A zero-day is a vulnerability that is unknown or not remedied by the main party involved, which in this case, is Microsoft.Read More…
HCL Technologies has inadvertently exposed passwords, sensitive project reports and other private data of thousands of customers and internal employees on various public HCL subdomains, a report by Threatpost said.Read More…
Fortinet, a global leader in broad, integrated, and automated cybersecurity solutions, today announced the findings of its latest quarterly Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals that cybercriminals continue to evolve the sophistication of their attack methods, from tailored ransomware and custom coding for some attacks, to living-off-the-land (LoTL) or sharingRead More…
Ingram Micro has appointed Brian Verburg as the Manager of its European Cyber Security Center of Excellence. Brian will manage the Centre of Excellence (COE) recently launched in the Netherlands, that extends support across Europe.Read More…
Tenable®, Inc., the Cyber Exposure company, today announced the expansion of its Cyber Exposure ecosystem with 19 new and enhanced technology integrations. The integrations span industry-leading Mobile Device Management (MDM), public cloud infrastructure, SIEM and IT Service Management solutions to deliver greater visibility across the modern attack surface plus integratedRead More…
Tenable Inc, the Cyber Exposure company, announced that its research team has discovered a vulnerability in the Slack Desktop Application for Windows that could have allowed an attacker to alter where a victim’s files are stored when the documents are downloaded within Slack.Read More…
