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Black Hat: Security Bugs Allow Takeover of Capsule Hotel Rooms

A researcher was able to remotely control the lights, bed and ventilation in "smart" hotel rooms via Nasnos vulnerabilities.
Threatpost 5 Aug 2021 778 Views

Several Malware Families Targeting IIS Web Servers With Malicious Modules

A systematic analysis of attacks against Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) servers has revealed as many as 14 malware families, 10 of them newly documented, indicating that the Windows-based web server software continues to be a hotbed for natively developed malware...
The Hacker News 5 Aug 2021 9465 Views

Unpatched Security Flaws Expose Mitsubishi Safety PLCs to Remote Attacks

Multiple unpatched security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Mitsubishi safety programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by an adversary to acquire legitimate user names registered in the module via a brute-force attack, unauthorizedly login to the CPU module, and even cause a...
The Hacker News 5 Aug 2021 8750 Views

Worried your data protection strategy is dated? Don’t let a ransomware infection prove you right

Trust us – you need to tune into this Webcast  Some say the best form of defense is offense. But when it comes to modern ransomware from cyber-crime orgs that are well-funded, possibly have state actor backing, and have your data under...
The Register 5 Aug 2021 8582 Views

COVID-19 vaccine portal for Italy's Lazio region hit with cyberattack

Government officials took to Facebook to say no data was stolen and to notify residents of the daily COVID-19 figures.
ZDnet 3 Aug 2021 857 Views

NSA Warns Public Networks are Hacker Hotbeds

Agency warns attackers targeting teleworkers to steal corporate data.
Threatpost 31 Jul 2021 638 Views

Ransomware attempt volume sets record, reaches more than 300 million for first half of 2021: SonicWall

The US, UK, Germany, South Africa and Brazil topped the list of countries most impacted by ransomware attempts while states like Florida and New York struggled as well.
ZDnet 31 Jul 2021 774 Views

Vultur Bank Malware Infests Thousands Of Devices

Packet Storm 30 Jul 2021 16193 Views

Get patching: US, UK, and Australia issue joint advisory on top 30 exploited vulnerabilities

At the end of almost seven months in 2021, one of the 30 most exploited vulnerabilities dates from 2017, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), the United Kingdom's National Cyber Security Centre...
ZDNet 29 Jul 2021 11512 Views

Hackers Exploit Microsoft Browser Bug to Deploy VBA Malware on Targeted PCs

An unidentified threat actor has been exploiting a now-patched zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer browser to deliver a fully-featured VBA-based remote access trojan (RAT) capable of accessing files stored in compromised Windows systems, and downloading and executing malicious payloads...
The Hacker News 29 Jul 2021 10732 Views