This Week in Security News – January 7th, 2022
This week, read about Log4j vulnerabilities in connected cars and charging stations and how iOS malware can fake iPhone shutdowns...
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Codex Exposed: Exploring the Capabilities and Risks of OpenAI’s Code Generator
The first of a series of blog posts examines the security risks of Codex, a code generator powered by the...
This Week in Security News – January 7, 2022
This week, read about Log4j vulnerabilities in connected cars and charging stations and how iOS malware can fake iPhone shutdowns...
Organized Cybercrime Cases: What CISOs Need to Know
Jon Clay, VP of Threat Intelligence at Trend Micro, explores the latest Trend Micro Research covering Access as a Service...
Ransomware attacks Finalsite, renders 8,000 school sites unreachable for days
Finalsite, a popular platform for creating school websites, appears to have recovered significant functionality after being attacked by a still-unknown...
How to secure QNAP NAS devices? The vendor’s instructions
QNAP is warning customers of ransomware attacks targeting network-attached storage (NAS) devices exposed online. Taiwanese vendor QNAP has warned customers...
Patchwork APT caught in its own web
Patchwork is an Indian threat actor that has been active since December 2015 and usually targets Pakistan via spear phishing...
Sophisticated phishing scheme spent years robbing authors of their unpublished work
Three years ago on Quora, someone asked what writers do to keep their manuscripts from being stolen. One of the...
Google and Facebook fined $240 million for making cookies hard to refuse
French privacy watchdog, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), has hit Google with a 150 million euro...
Threat actor targets VMware Horizon servers using Log4Shell exploits, UK NHS warns
A threat actor attempted to exploit the Log4Shell vulnerability to hack VMWare Horizon servers at UK NHS and deploy web...
Norton Crypto, the controversial cryptomining feature of Norton 360
Experts warn that the popular antivirus product Norton 360 has installed a cryptocurrency miner on its customers’ computers. Many users...
Over 3.7 million accounts were compromised in the FlexBooker data breach
The appointment scheduling service FlexBooker discloses a data breach that impacted over 3.7 million accounts. Threat actors compromised the FlexBooker...
Night Sky, a new ransomware operation in the threat landscape
Researchers warn of a new ransomware family, called ‘Night Sky,’ that uses a double-extortion model in attacks again businesses. Researchers...
North Korea-linked Konni APT targets Russian diplomatic bodies
North Korea-linked APT group Konni targets Russian Federation’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) new versions of malware implants. Security researchers...
Threat actors stole 1.1 million customer accounts from 17 well-known companies
NY OAG warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million of their customers have had their user accounts compromised in credential...
Google Docs comment feature abused in phishing campaign
Experts warn of a new phishing technique that abuses the commenting feature of Google Docs to send out emails that...
New iPhone malware spies via camera when device appears off
When removing malware from an iOS device, it is said that users need to restart the device to clear the...
France hits Google, Facebook with fines over ‘Cookies’ management
The French data privacy and protection authority hit Google and Facebook with 210 million euros ($237 million) in fines. France’s...
Hackers take over 1.1 million accounts by trying reused passwords
The New York State Office of the Attorney General has warned 17 companies that roughly 1.1 million customers have had...
Intercepting 2FA: Over 1200 man-in-the-middle phishing toolkits detected
Two-factor authentication (2FA) has been around for a while now and for the majority of tech users in the US...
Card skimmers strike Sotheby’s in Brightcove supply chain attack
Over 100 real estate websites have been compromised by the same web skimmer in a supply chain attack. So what...
NoReboot persistence technique fakes iPhone shutdown
Researchers devised a sophisticated persistence technique, named NoReboot, for iOS malware that fake shut downs. Researchers from Zecops devised a...
VMware fixed CVE-2021-22045 heap-overflow in Workstation, Fusion and ESXi
VMware addressed a heap-overflow issue (CVE-2021-22045) in Workstation, Fusion and CVE-2021-22045 products that can lead to code execution on the...
Workshop: Building Modern Applications with DevOps Security
In this workshop, you’ll learn how to leverage DevOps Security with your serverless applications running on AWS Lambda or containerized...
