The Kremlin on Thursday denied any official Russian involvement in cybercrimes after the US indicted two FSB intelligence agents over cyberattacks on Yahoo that compromised 500 million accounts.
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Star Trek-Themed “Kirk” Ransomware Emerges
A newly discovered piece of ransomware featuring a Star Trek theme is targeting 625 different file types and demanding a ransom be paid in virtual currency Monero, security researchers have discovered.
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U.S. Warns of Security Issues With HTTPS Inspection Products
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT has issued a new alert warning about problems with some HTTPS inspection products.
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Hackers Earn Big Bounties for GitHub Enterprise Flaws
White hat hackers have earned tens of thousands of dollars in bounties after finding serious vulnerabilities in GitHub Enterprise.
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Recent Fileless Attacks Linked to Single Framework, Researchers Say
A series "fileless attacks" previously attributed to two different threat attackers are now believed to have been carried out by the same actor, from a single attack framework, Israeli security firm Morphisec reveals.
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Network Layer DDoS Attacks Hit Record Levels: Imperva
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow in size and sophistication, with network layer attacks reaching record levels in the fourth quarter of 2016, Imperva reports.
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Critical Flaw Exposes Many Ubiquiti Devices to Attacks
Dozens of products from Ubiquiti Networks are affected by a critical flaw that can be exploited to hijack devices. The security hole was reported to the vendor in November, but patches have yet to be released for most of the impacted versions.
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Windows, macOS Hacked at Pwn2Own 2017
Researchers hacked Windows, macOS, Firefox, Edge, Safari and Flash Player on the second day of the Pwn2Own 2017 competition taking place these days alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, Canada.
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Travel Agent Association Breach Highlights Supply Chain Threat
The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) today informed users of a breach that may have affected up to 43,000 customers.
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Advanced Persistent “Bad Bots” are Rampant
In 2016, 40% of all web traffic originated from bots — and half of that came from bad bots. A bot is simply a software application that runs automated tasks over the internet. Good bots are beneficial. They index web pages for the search engines, can be used to monitor web site health and can perform vulnerability scanning. Bad bots do bad things: they are used for content scraping, comment spamming, click fraud, DDoS attacks and more. And they are everywhere.
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