Social engineering attacks against C-level executives, hacks of cloud-based email servers, and compromises of payment card web apps were all notably up last year, according to the newly released 2019 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Other key takeaways from the past year included a marked decrease in successful attacks against physical point-of-sale terminals and…
The employment website Ladders exposed almost 14 million user records when it left an Amazon Elasticsearch database unprotected. Security researcher Sanyam Jain found the open server and informed TechCrunch of the situation. After Ladders was informed of the issue the server was quickly taken down the issue is being addressed. The information that was exposed…
Taking advantage of recent stolen credential dumps, attackers have been exploiting legacy protocols like IMAP to engage in high-volume password-spraying campaigns for the purpose of breaking into companies’ cloud accounts, researchers at Proofpoint are reporting. Used by email clients to retrieve messages from a server, IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) is an ideal protocol to…
A vulnerability found in the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) component of IBM Cloud’s Bare Metal Server product could allow attackers to overwrite the firmware and then leverage the compromised firmware to attack future users of the product. IBM has issued a firmware update to patch the flaw, which the company’s PSIRT team classified as low…
1989. Acid wash jeans, Bon Jovi and the compassionate conservatism of the Reagan Era were actually, unironically popular. The Berlin Wall fell, free elections were held in the then Soviet Congress of Deputies, Vaclev Havel became president of Czechoslavakia, and pro-democracy rallies held sway in China. And, SC Media was born. It was a time…
A breach at Mumsnet, a website geared toward parents, could have caused users logging in at the same time to have their account information switched. “We believe that a software change, as part of moving our services to the cloud, that was put in place on Tuesday p.m. was the cause of this issue,” a…
Persistent malicious attacks exposing cloud infrastructure are the result of a perfect storm combining cryptomining, ransomware and botnet/worms for both Linux and Windows, the Securonix Threat Research Team reported. “The attack activity described in the report is likely prevalent and mass-scale,” Oleg Kolesnikov told SC Media. The research Addison, Texas-based Securonix provides further insight into…
An unsecured storage server belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities exposed millions of files, containing personal data, systems credentials and internal commission documents as well as communications meant for the Oklahoma Securities Commission. The server, discovered by the UpGuard Data Breach Research team, has since been secured, the researchers said in a blog post.…
Stan Lowe, CISO, Zscaler Global governments will look to the private sector to help with securing cloud apps as they offload commodity IT applications and services. Due to skills shortages, governments don’t have the knowledge, skills and abilities to migrate data and applications and services to the cloud. As a result, governments around the world…
A recently discovered phishing campaign has been targeting financial sector employees in the U.S. and UK with remote access trojan payloads stored on a Google Cloud Storage domain. In a company blog post today, researchers from Menlo Security’s Menlo Labs division report that the campaign seeks to infect PCs and other endpoints by tricking victims…
