The Georgia Supreme Court yesterday ruled that law enforcement must obtain a warrant before pulling data from an automobile as part of a crash investigation, overturning a verdict previously rendered and later upheld by lower courts. The decision stems from the criminal case Mobley v. State, in which defendant Victor Mobley was convicted of two…
Researchers today revealed their discovery of what they believe to be the first publicly documented case of a backdoor targeting Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) databases – attributing the malware to the threat actor Winnti Group. Dubbed “skip-2.0,” the malware is installed in memory and provides attackers with a “magic password” that allows them to connect…
Failing to patch a critical vulnerability in its Apache Struts software was not the only major security oversight committed by Equifax in the lead-up to a highly damaging data breach in 2017, according to a document filed as part of a securities fraud class-action lawsuit filed earlier this year. An order and opinion filed last…
Researchers have discovered a trojanized version of a Tor private browser that targets Russian-speaking dark web marketplace visitors and lets cybercriminals steal from their e-wallet transactions. The developers behind the malicious browser have so far stolen at least $40,000 in bitcoin, although the true number is likely higher. Researchers from ESET discovered a version of…
Cybercriminals have devised a phishing campaign that that takes aim at customers of the online payment processing company Stripe, with the intention to steal their credentials, compromise their accounts and presumably view their payment card data. The attackers employ two clever tricks to hide their malicious activity. First, they use a technique to block email…
Amazon.com Echo and Kindle devices were discovered last year to contain WPA/WPA2 protocol vulnerabilities that could potentially allow malicious actors to uncover keychains used to encrypt Wi-Fi traffic. The vulnerabilities, CVE-2017-13077 and CVE-2017-13078, are prone to Key Reinstallation Attacks (aka KRACK attacks), and were disclosed back in 2017 by a pair of Belgian researchers. In essence, they…
Cisco today released 28 security advisories, in the process addressing a total of 30 vulnerabilities, including a critical unauthorized access bug found in the company’s Cisco Aironet Access Points (APs) software. Officially designated CVE-2019-15260, the flaw potentially can be exploited to view sensitive information, interfere with configuration options and disable the AP, in order to create…
VMware yesterday issued a security advisory acknowledging a critical “broken access control” vulnerability found in VMware Cloud Foundation and Harbor Container Registry for Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). According to the advisory, malicious actors with administrative access to a project could potentially exploit the flaw in order to “create a robot account inside of an adjacent…
The cybercriminal group TA505 has developed a new downloader tool and remote access trojan (RAT), both of which were observed in a sequence of phishing campaigns that began this past September. The downloader, named Get2, has been used in campaigns to deliver a variety of secondary payloads, including the FlawedGrace and FlawedAmmyy RATs and Snatch…
Researchers have found what they are calling the first crpytojacking worm to spread to and from compromised containers in the Docker Engine. Named Graboid as an homage to the monster worm in the 1990 movie Tremors, the malware mines Monero cryptocurrency from infected machines and randomly spreads to other vulnerable hosts. Indeed, the malware contains a list…
