Tag: Feedly

Ransomware scum infect Comic Relief server: Internal systems taken down http://ift.tt/2ctf3CP Comic Relief’s internal systems are down for the third day running after a ransomware attack on one of the charity’s servers on Wednesday. Founded in 1985 by comedy scriptwriters, the charity behind the UK’s Red Nose Day telethon took down all of its internal…

Malicious domains to block 2016-09-16 http://ift.tt/2cO41qQ These domains are part of a cluster, some of with are serving the EITEST RIG exploit kit (similar to that described here). They all share nameservers running on 62.75.167.186 and 62.75.167.187. kisliy.comtatar28.comnetvoyne.comsusana24.comtigkolor.comwartan24.comkitoboyka.comkoktail24. News via Dynamoo’s Blog http://ift.tt/1k2rArj September 16, 2016 at 02:39AM

MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit http://ift.tt/2crHefS MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit: http://ift.tt/2cZCwLD Vulnerabilities via Ecstatic Security http://ift.tt/1TuVnt9 September 15, 2016 at 03:03PM

Cisco drops patch for nasty WebEx remote code execution hole http://ift.tt/2cZ5QSh Cisco is warning admins to apply a patch for a critical WebEx vulnerability, one of nine fixed this week. The remote code execution flaw (CVE-2016-1482) could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands on WebEx servers. Admins can only apply the patch and do not…

Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of DDoS attacks has doubled in one year http://ift.tt/2crujL5 According to the Akamai Q2 2016 report, the number of distributed denial of service attacks has doubled over the last 12 months. The DDoS attacks continue to be privileged attack vectors for crooks, according to the last report published by Akamai…

Mamba: The new Full Disk Encryption Ransomware Family Member http://ift.tt/2cdWL72 A Brazilian Infosec research group, Morphus Labs, just discovered a new Full Disk Encryption (FDE) Ransomware this week, dubbed Mamba. Mamba, as they named it, uses a disk-level encryption strategy instead of the conventional file-based one. This may be just the beginning of a new…

Chief Information Security Officers Should be Reporting to Chief Risk Officers http://ift.tt/2cAq8Mw In the “old days” the physical security team sat in a back room watching cameras on a bunch of CRT monitors and information security was part of the network administration group, tasked mostly with managing firewalls to keep the bad guys from breaking…

35,000 ARRIS Cable Modems At Risk From Firmware Dumper Bot http://ift.tt/2cy12iX News via Packet Storm http://ift.tt/1Fpvz7L September 15, 2016 at 08:18AM

Ammyy Admin Website Hacked, Drops Latest Cerber Ransomware http://ift.tt/2d2NyOY The popular website for remote desktop management tool Ammyy Admin has been compromised to distribute a malware for the seventh time in the past year. The security expert, MalwareHunterTeam, informed that the website stopped delivering the threat at around 6-8 PM yesterday evening. Threat Intel via…

6 steps for defending against DDoS attacks http://ift.tt/2cgi6v9 If your business hasn’t already faced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, brace yourself: fake traffic is coming. Your DevOps team and IT service desk need an action plan to handle these threats. This article will take you step-by-step through the process of identifying, stopping, and responding to…