Threats & Vulnerabilities: Page
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Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Trickbot takedown: Will it make a dent in ransomware attacks?
A court order allowed Microsoft and several partners to take down the Trickbot botnet, which is commonly used to deploy ransomware, but it's unclear how long the impact will last.
By Arielle Waldman • Oct. 13, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Hackers exploit Netlogon flaw to attack government networks
CISA issued an alert stating those government networks that were targeted by the APT were close to election systems and the activity may pose some risk to those systems.
By Arielle Waldman • Oct. 12, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Surge in ransomware attacks threatens student data
Ransomware attacks are not the only threats facing K-12 schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cybercriminals are stealing and exposing students' personal data as well.
By Arielle Waldman • Oct. 5, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Potential ransomware-related death still under investigation
German authorities say they are still investigating the death of a patient in connection with a ransomware attack on Düsseldorf University Hospital in Germany last month.
By Alexander Culafi • Oct. 1, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Opinion
3 common election security vulnerabilities pros should know
Election security remains top of mind for many right now, with Nabil Hannan discussing vulnerabilities like remote breaches, new attack surfaces and poor current controls.
By Nabil Hannan • Oct. 1, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
IBM: Ransomware attacks surged in Q2, ransom demands rising
IBM Security examined several concerning ransomware for this year, as well as an exponential increase in ransom demands and massive spike in attacks during the spring.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 28, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Microsoft detects Netlogon vulnerability exploitation in the wild
While Microsoft released a patch last month for the Netlogon flaw, the company said it detected threat actors using exploits for the critical vulnerability.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 24, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
FBI: Disinformation attacks on election results ‘likely’
Foreign threat actors and cybercriminals are "likely" to spread disinformation around 2020 election results through social media and also alter election-related websites.
By Alexander Culafi • Sept. 23, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Cyber attacks on schools increasing amid remote learning shift
The pandemic forced schools to make a quick transition to remote learning with little resources and weak security postures, and threat actors have increased their attacks.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 21, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Maze ransomware gang uses VMs to evade detection
A Sophos investigation into a Maze ransomware attack revealed that threat actors borrowed an attack technique pioneered by Ragnar Locker operators earlier this year.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 17, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Opinion
How to protect companies from business email compromise
Research shows that business email compromise attacks continue to proliferate as threat actors continue to see success. Here are a few ways to protect your company.
By Justin Brecese • Sept. 15, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Disinformation, mail-in ballots top election security concerns
While there have been no major cyberattacks this election season, threat actors are waging disinformation campaigns around hot-button issues like mail-in ballots.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 10, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Intel patches critical flaw in Active Management Technology
Intel's Patch Tuesday featured four security advisories, including a critical flaw in Active Management Technology that could allow an attacker privilege escalation.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 9, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
CISA and FBI say there have been no hacks on voter databases
After a false Russian news report circulated on the internet, CISA and the FBI released a joint statement that denied any hacks to election security.
By Arielle Waldman • Sept. 2, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Big ransomware attacks overshadowing other alarming trends
Large ransomware attacks on major enterprises have dominated the news, but security experts say there are other alarming trends.
By Alexander Culafi • Sept. 1, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Cisco issues alert for zero-day vulnerability under attack
Cisco discovered attempted exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability found in the IOS XR software used in some of its networking equipment.
By Arielle Waldman • Aug. 31, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
North Korea’s ‘BeagleBoyz’ target banks with ATM cash-out attacks
The U.S. Government issued a joint alert for an ATM cash-out scheme run by a newly identified North Korean nation-state hacking group known as 'BeagleBoyz.'
By Alexander Culafi • Aug. 27, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Maze ransomware ‘cartel’ expands with new members
Two more ransomware groups have apparently joined the Maze 'cartel' in an effort to expose victims' data on leak sites and shame them into paying expensive ransoms.
By Arielle Waldman • Aug. 27, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
‘Meow’ attacks top 25,000 exposed databases, services
One month after the notorious 'meow' attacks were first detected, the threat to misconfigured databases exposed on the internet shows little sign of slowing down.
By Arielle Waldman • Aug. 25, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
FBI and CISA issue vishing campaign warning
The FBI and CISA have issued a joint advisory related to a vishing campaign that began in mid-July, with numerous attacks that gained access to corporate VPN credentials.
By Alexander Culafi • Aug. 24, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Claroty: 70% of ICS vulnerabilities are remotely exploitable
Out of 365 ICS vulnerabilities that were disclosed by the National Vulnerability Database in the first half of 2020, Claroty found more than 70% can be remotely exploited.
By Alexander Culafi • Aug. 21, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Apache Struts vulnerabilities allow remote code execution, DoS
The Apache Software Foundation issued security advisories last week for two Apache Struts vulnerabilities that were originally patched but not fully disclosed last fall.
By Alexander Culafi • Aug. 18, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Kaspersky reveals 2 Windows zero-days from failed attack
Kaspersky prevented an attack against a South Korean company back in May that used two zero-day vulnerabilities. One, arguably the more dangerous, focused on Internet Explorer.
By Alexander Culafi • Aug. 12, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
Opinion
What cybersecurity teams can learn from COVID-19
Nabil Hannan examines key similarities between medical and computer viruses that cybersecurity teams can use to keep businesses protected effectively.
By Nabil Hannan • Aug. 12, 2020 -
Brand Experience Team/TechTarget
10 years after Stuxnet, new zero-days discovered
A decade after Stuxnet, SafeBreach Labs researchers discovered new zero-day vulnerabilities connected to the threat, which they unveiled at Black Hat USA 2020.
By Alexander Culafi • Aug. 7, 2020
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