Russian state hackers rarely share code with one another October 5, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment A first-of-its-kind research project highlights the connections between nearly 2,000 samples of Russian APT malware. Russia’s state-sponsored hacking groups rarely share code with one another, and when they do, it’s usually within groups managed by the same intelligence service, a new joint report published today reveals. This report, co-authored by Check Point and Intezer Labs,… Read More
Binary Hardening in IoT products October 5, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment Binary Hardening in IoT products Source: cyber-itl… Read More
Attackers exploit 0-day vulnerability that gives full control of Android phones October 5, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment Attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Google’s Android mobile operating system that can give them full control of at least 18 different phone models, including four different Pixel models, a member of Google’s Project Zero research group said on Thursday night. There’s evidence the vulnerability is being actively exploited, either by exploit developer NSO… Read More
France and Germany agree to block Facebook’s Libra September 14, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment France and Germany have agreed to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency, the French finance ministry said on Friday. In a joint statement, the two governments affirmed that “no private entity can claim monetary power, which is inherent to the sovereignty of nations”. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday that Facebook’s new cryptocurrency should… Read More
NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million September 14, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment MyPayrollHR, a now defunct cloud-based payroll processing firm based in upstate New York, abruptly ceased operations this past week after stiffing employees at thousands of companies. The ongoing debacle, which allegedly involves malfeasance on the part of the payroll company’s CEO, resulted in countless people having money drained from their bank accounts and has left… Read More
SimJacker attack allows hacking any phone with just an SMS September 14, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment Cybersecurity researchers at AdaptiveMobile Security disclosed a critical vulnerability in SIM cards dubbed SimJacker that could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise targeted mobile phones and spy on victims just by sending an SMS. The SimJacker vulnerability resides in the S@T (SIMalliance Toolbox) Browser dynamic SIM toolkit that is embedded in most SIM cards… Read More
Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House September 14, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most likely behind the placement of cellphone surveillance devices that were found near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, according to three former senior U.S. officials with knowledge of the matter. But unlike most other occasions when flagrant incidents of… Read More
Russian Hackers Behind Ukraine Power Outage May Have Sought More Damage September 14, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment The Russia-linked hackers who triggered a power outage in Ukraine back in 2016 may have hoped to cause much more damage, according to a report published recently by U.S.-based industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos. The threat group, which Dragos tracks as Electrum, used a piece of malware named Crashoverride and Industroyer to target industrial control systems… Read More
France to block Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency in Europe September 14, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment The French finance minister, Bruno Le Maire, said plans for Libra could not move ahead until concerns over consumer risk and governments’ monetary sovereignty were addressed. Facebook unveiled plans for Libra in June, triggering immediate warnings from some experts that it could shift control over the economy from governments and their central banks to big… Read More
AWS power outage with data loss September 8, 2019 | sento | Leave a comment On August 31st, 2019, an Amazon AWS US-EAST-1 datacenter in North Virginia experienced a power failure at 4:33 AM, which led to the datacenter’s backup generators to kick on. Unfortunately, these generators started failing at approximately 6:00 AM , which led to 7.5% of the EC2 instances and EBS volumes becoming unavailable. ‘1:30 PM PDT… Read More