Heise Sicherheits NewsAngreifer könnten etwa Industrie-Steuerungssysteme abschießen oder übernehmen, die Codemeter nutzen....

Heise Sicherheits NewsMit den Versionen 81 und ESR 78.3 des Webbrowsers Firefox liefert das Mozilla-Team auch diverse Lücken-Fixes aus....

Heise Sicherheits NewsEin neues MITRE-Projekt stellt Informationen bereit, die Red Teams Schritt für Schritt beim Nachstellen realitätsnaher Angriffsszenarien unterstützen sollen....

TheHackersNewsA back-end server associated with Microsoft Bing exposed sensitive data of the search engine's mobile application users, including search queries, device details, and GPS coordinates, among others. The logging database, however, doesn't include any personal details such as names or addresses. The data leak, discovered by Ata Hakcil of WizCase on September 12, is a massive 6.5TB cache of log...

TheHackersNewsA UK man who threatened to publicly release stolen confidential information unless the victims agreed to fulfill his digital extortion demands has finally pleaded guilty on Monday at U.S. federal district court in St. Louis, Missouri. Nathan Francis Wyatt , 39, who is a key member of the infamous international hacking group 'The Dark Overlord,' has been sentenced to five years in prison and...

TheHackersNewsGerman authorities last week disclosed that a ransomware attack on the University Hospital of Düsseldorf (UKD) caused a failure of IT systems, resulting in the death of a woman who had to be sent to another hospital that was 20 miles away. The incident marks the first recorded casualty as a consequence of cyberattacks on critical healthcare facilities, which has ramped up in recent months. The...

TheHackersNewsThe U.S. government on Thursday imposed sweeping sanctions against an Iranian threat actor backed by the country's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) for carrying out malware campaigns targeting Iranian dissidents, journalists, and international companies in the telecom and travel sectors. According to the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the sanctions target...

TheHackersNewsDear Android users, if you use the Firefox web browser on your smartphones, make sure it has been updated to version 80 or the latest available version on the Google Play Store. ESET security researcher Lukas Stefanko yesterday tweeted an alert demonstrating the exploitation of a recently disclosed high-risk remote command execution vulnerability affecting the Firefox app for Android. Discovered...

TheHackersNewsCapping off a busy week of charges and sanctions against Iranian hackers, a new research offers insight into what's a six-year-long ongoing surveillance campaign targeting Iranian expats and dissidents with an intention to pilfer sensitive information. The threat actor, suspected to be of Iranian origin, is said to have orchestrated the campaign with at least two different moving parts — one for...

TheHackersNewsAfter a long wait and months of beta testing, Google last week finally released Android 11, the latest version of the Android mobile operating system—with features offering billions of its users more control over their data security and privacy. Android security is always a hot topic and almost always for the wrong reason, including Google's failure to prevent malicious apps from being...

TheHackersNewsThe US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday indicted two hackers for their alleged involvement in defacing several websites in the country following the assassination of Iranian major general Qasem Soleimani earlier this January. Behzad Mohammadzadeh (aka Mrb3hz4d), 19, and Marwan Abusrour (aka Mrwn007), 25, have been charged with conspiracy to commit intentional damage to a protected...

TheHackersNewsDid you ever try extracting any information from any website? Well, if you have then you have surely enacted web scraping functions without even knowing it! To put in simpler terms, Web scraping, or also known as web data extraction, is the process of recouping or sweeping data from web-pages. It is a much faster and easier process of retrieving data without undergoing the time-consuming...

TheHackersNewsImmediately after revealing criminal charges against 5 Chinese and 2 Malaysian hackers, the United States government yesterday also made two separate announcements charging two Iranian and two Russian hackers and added them to the FBI's most-wanted list. The two Russian nationals—Danil Potekhin and Dmitrii Karasavidi—are accused of stealing $16.8 million worth of cryptocurrencies in a series of...

TheHackersNewsThe United States government today announced charges against 5 alleged members of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group and 2 Malaysian hackers that are responsible for hacking more than 100 companies throughout the world. Named as APT41 and also known as 'Barium,' 'Winnti, 'Wicked Panda,' and 'Wicked Spider,' the cyber-espionage group has been operating since at least 2012 and is not just...

TheHackersNewsMost cybersecurity professionals fully anticipated that cybercriminals would leverage the fear and confusion surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic in their cyberattacks. Of course, malicious emails would contain subjects relating to Covid-19, and malicious downloads would be Covid-19 related. This is how cybercriminals operate. Any opportunity to maximize effectiveness, no matter how contemptible...

threatpost.comSecurity researchers and U.S. government authorities alike are urging admins to address Microsoft's critical privilege escalation flaw....

Heise Sicherheits NewsDie mit dem CVSS-Score 10 bewertete Lücke CVE-2020-1472 in Windows Server kann mittels "Zerologon" ausgenutzt werden. Nutzer sollten jetzt updaten....

Heise Sicherheits NewsDer IT-Ausfall an der Uniklinik Düsseldorf hat gravierende Folgen für immer mehr Patienten. Experten gehen von einem Hackerangriff aus....

securitymagazine.comNew research from DataGrail this morning that uncovers how people are using the California Consumer Privacy Act since it went into effect in January 2020 and the data shows people want control of their data and are taking action to restrict the sale of their personal information....

securitymagazine.comNew findings by The App Analyst reveal a privacy bug in Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's official campaign app. ...

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