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The Conti ransomware affiliate program appears to have altered its business plan recently. Organizations infected with Conti’s malware who refuse to negotiate a ransom payment are added to Conti’s victim shaming blog, where confidential files stolen from victims may be published or sold. But sometime over the past 48 hours, the cybercriminal syndicate updated its […]
On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (R) said fixing the flaw could cost the […]
A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting smarter about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. It also shows that phishers are attempting to sign up for new Coinbase accounts by the millions as part of an effort to identify email addresses that are already associated with active […]
Microsoft today issued updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including one vulnerability that is already being exploited. This month’s Patch Tuesday also includes security fixes for the newly released Windows 11 operating system. Separately, Apple has released updates for iOS and iPadOS to address a […]
DNS is the system that associates domain names with IP addresses, so whenever we type in “securitytrails.com”, DNS uses a series of protocols to connect us with the authoritative DNS server of the domain name and serves us the content we intended to visit. DNS is one of the most popular internet services, and at […]
Facebook and its sister properties Instagram and WhatsApp are suffering from ongoing, global outages. We don’t yet know why this happened, but the how is clear: Earlier this morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to revoke key digital records that tell computers and other Internet-enabled devices how to find these destinations online. Kentik’s view […]
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for feedback on new proposed rules to crack down on SIM swapping and number port-out fraud, increasingly prevalent scams in which identity thieves hijack a target’s mobile phone number and use that to wrest control over the victim’s online identity. In a long-overdue notice issued Sept. 30, […]
SecurityTrails’ 125,000 users can now integrate with the leading SOAR platform. We’re excited to announce the immediate availability of our latest API integration into Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR, enabling users to operationalize our security intelligence with over 750 different products. Palo Alto Networks Cortex XSOAR is one of the most comprehensive security orchestration solutions […]
In February, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about a novel cybercrime service that helped attackers intercept the one-time passwords (OTPs) that many websites require as a second authentication factor in addition to passwords. That service quickly went offline, but new research reveals a number of competitors have since launched bot-based services that make it relatively easy for crooks […]
The new $30 AirTag tracking device from Apple has a feature that allows anyone who finds one of these tiny location beacons to scan it with a mobile phone and discover its owner’s phone number if the AirTag has been set to lost mode. But according to new research, this same feature can be abused […]
Whether providing valuable evidence that assists in the investigation and prosecutions of crime perpetrators or proving their innocence or as part of the post-breach investigation and incident response process in organizations of all sizes, digital forensics is a widely used craft by investigators in all sectors. The ever-growing advancements in information technology have potentially proven […]
In October 2016, media outlets reported that data collected by some of the world’s most renowned cybersecurity experts had identified frequent and unexplained communications between an email server used by the Trump Organization and Alfa Bank, one of Russia’s largest financial institutions. Those publications set off speculation about a possible secret back-channel of communications, as […]
While there may be talk about SIEM joining the line of legacy technologies that are proclaimed “dead”, SIEM has been a core system for many security teams, and in different capacities. Furthermore, SIEM (along with its evolution) has been intertwined with relevant threats in the ecosystem as well as the market in which it is […]
And understandably so; cybersecurity continues to receive significant attention on all fronts, from secretive accounts of cyber espionage to the now rather ubiquitous corporate breach scenarios pressuring organizations across the globe. Better security comes at a price too, and in the absence of significant security measures anti-patterns quickly evolve to give miscreants ample targets of […]
It happens all the time: Organizations get hacked because there isn’t an obvious way for security researchers to let them know about security vulnerabilities or data leaks. Or maybe it isn’t entirely clear who should get the report when remote access to an organization’s internal network is being sold in the cybercrime underground. In a […]
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel’s conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty […]
TTEC, [NASDAQ: TTEC], a company used by some of the world’s largest brands to help manage customer support and sales online and over the phone, is dealing with disruptions from a network security incident resulting from a ransomware attack, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. While many companies have been laying off or furloughing workers in response to […]
Microsoft today pushed software updates to plug dozens of security holes in Windows and related products, including a vulnerability that is already being exploited in active attacks. Also, Apple has issued an emergency update to fix a flaw that’s reportedly been abused to install spyware on iOS products, and Google‘s got a new version of […]
With so much exposure to this kind of news, we can become desensitized to the numbers involved in these situations, but it’s important to understand how dangerous and wide-reaching they can be. We’ve put together a list of the largest data breaches involving attackers infiltrating some of the largest companies’ networks, and the misfortunate data […]
On Thursday evening, KrebsOnSecurity was the subject of a rather massive (and mercifully brief) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The assault came from “Meris,” the same new botnet behind record-shattering attacks against Russian search giant Yandex this week and internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare earlier this summer. Cloudflare recently wrote about its attack, which clocked in at […]
