Malware Can Fake iPhone Shutdown via ‘NoReboot’ Technique
Researchers at mobile security firm ZecOps have shown how a piece of iOS malware can achieve “persistence” on a device by faking its shutdown process.
Attackers Hitting VMWare Horizon Servers With Log4j Exploits
Threat hunters in the U.K.’s National Health Service have raised an alarm for an unknown threat actor hitting vulnerable VMWare Horizon servers with exploits for the ubiquitous Log4j security flaw.
Log4Shell-Like Vulnerability Found in Popular H2 Database
A critical, unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability has been impacting the H2 database console since 2008.
An open-source Java SQL database, H2 is an in-memory solution that eliminates the need to store data on disk, and is one of the most popular Maven packages, having roughly 7,000 artifact dependencies,
Research: Simulated Phishing Tests Make Organizations Less Secure
A large-scale, long-term phishing experiment conducted in a 56,000-employee organization has come to a startling conclusion: Those simulated phishing tests commonly seen in corporate user-education campaigns are actually making things much worse.
Microsoft Confirms ‘NotLegit’ Azure Flaw Exposed Source Code Repositories
Microsoft has quietly started notifying some Azure customers that a serious security vulnerability in the Azure App Service has caused the exposure of hundreds of source code repositories.
Ubisoft Confirms Unauthorized Access to ‘Just Dance’ User Data
French video game company Ubisoft this week confirmed that ‘Just Dance’ user data was compromised in a recent cybersecurity incident.
The data breach was the result of a misconfiguration that has since been corrected, but not before player data was accessed and potentially copied by a third party.
CISA Says No Federal Agencies Compromised in Log4Shell Attacks to Date
Chinese Government Punishes Alibaba for Not Telling It First About Log4Shell Flaw: Report
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) said it will temporarily suspend its collaboration with Alibaba Cloud as a cyber threat intelligence partner due to the fact that the company did not inform the government first about the discovery of the Log4Shell vulnerability, according to local media reports.
Belgian Military in Five-Day Battle Against Cyberattack
The Belgian military said on Tuesday it had been hit with a cyberattack five days ago and was still battling to restore affected parts of its system.
Military spokesman Olivier Severin told AFP that elements hit by last Thursday’s attack, which contaminated services connected to the internet, were still being analysed and restored.
