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Continue readingChinese Traders Charged With Trading on Information Stolen from Hacked Law Firms
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Tuesday charged three Chinese men for trading on information stolen from two prominent New York-based law firms they hacked in 2014 and 2015.
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FDA Releases Guidance for Medical Device Cybersecurity
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released guidance on the postmarket management of cybersecurity for medical devices, encouraging manufacturers to implement security controls that cover products throughout their entire life cycle.
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InterContinental Hotels Investigating Possible Card Breach
British multinational hotel company InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) has launched an investigation after being informed of a possible payment card breach at some of its properties in the United States.
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Vulnerabilities Plague PHP 7’s Unserialize Mechanism
PHP 7’s “unserialize” function is plagued by a series of vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to take full control over affected servers, Check Point security researchers reveal.
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Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware
A recently discovered variant of the KillDisk malware encrypts files and holds them for ransom instead of deleting them. Since KillDisk has been used in attacks aimed at industrial control systems (ICS), experts are concerned that threat actors may be bringing ransomware into the industrial domain.
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Massive Attack from New “Leet Botnet” Reaches 650 Gbps
New Leet Botnet Shows IoT Device Security Regulation May Become Necessary
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Five New Year’s Resolutions for the InfoSec Community
This time every year I tell myself the same thing: “You’ve got to cut back on the drinking.” But I’m not about to listen to some weirdo who talks to himself. Yet, I want to make some kind of resolution! What’s left of the professional in me has some ideas about resolutions that we, as a security community, can make. Here are five.
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“Switcher” Android Trojan Hacks Routers, Hijacks Traffic
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have come across a new Android Trojan that hacks routers and changes their DNS settings in an effort to redirect traffic to malicious websites.
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IBM Reports Significant Increase in ICS Attacks
The number of attacks aimed at industrial control systems (ICS) increased by 110 percent in 2016 compared to the previous year, according to data from IBM Managed Security Services.
The company has attributed this significant increase to brute force attacks on supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
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