Critics warn that a ban on ransomware payments may lead to dangerous unintended consequences, including forcing victims into secrecy or incentivizing attackers to shift tactics. The post UK’s Ransomware Payment Ban: Bold Strategy or Dangerous Gamble? appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Akamai’s analysis of the Coyote malware revealed that it abuses Microsoft’s UIA accessibility framework to obtain data. The post Coyote Banking Trojan First to Abuse Microsoft UIA appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A database with 3.5 million records was exposed, with no password protection or encryption.
The US government has issued an alert on the Interlock ransomware, which targets organizations via drive-by download attacks. The post Organizations Warned of Interlock Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It will be interesting to watch what will come of this private lawsuit: Google on Thursday announced filing a lawsuit against the operators of the Badbox 2.0 botnet, which has ensnared more than 10 million devices running Android open source software. These devices lack Google’s security protections, and the perpetratorsRead More »Google Sues the Badbox Botnet Operators
Security experts have been talking about Kerberoasting for over a decade, yet this attack continues to evade typical defense methods. Why? It’s because existing detections rely on brittle heuristics and static rules, which don’t hold up for detecting potential attack patterns in highly variable Kerberos traffic. They frequently generate falseRead More »Kerberoasting Detections: A New Approach to a Decade-Old Challenge
Sophos has patched five vulnerabilities in Sophos Firewall that could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. The post Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in Sophos Firewall appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Fresh security updates for Chrome and Firefox resolve multiple high-severity memory safety vulnerabilities. The post High-Severity Flaws Patched in Chrome, Firefox appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Lumma Stealer is back after Microsoft and law enforcement took action to significantly disrupt the malware’s infrastructure. The post Lumma Stealer Malware Returns After Takedown Attempt appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google has announced the launch of a new initiative called OSS Rebuild to bolster the security of the open-source package ecosystems and prevent software supply chain attacks. “As supply chain attacks continue to target widely-used dependencies, OSS Rebuild gives security teams powerful data to avoid compromise without burden on upstreamRead More »Google Launches OSS Rebuild to Expose Malicious Code in Widely Used Open-Source Packages
