Lots of Internet-exposed server management controllers are subject to offline password-cracking attacks — and adversaries have taken note.
Lots of Internet-exposed server management controllers are subject to offline password-cracking attacks — and adversaries have taken note.
Three zero-days could have allowed an attacker to completely compromise the Concerto application and the host system running it.
A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device’s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu’s other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force. Tengu supports 25 distributed…
What’s believed to be a global phishing-as-a-service enterprise using cloaking techniques has been riding on public cloud infrastructure for more than 3 years.
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new botnet malware called HTTPBot that has been used to primarily single out the gaming industry, as well as technology companies and educational institutions in China. “Over the past few months, it has expanded aggressively, continuously leveraging infected devices to launch external attacks,” NSFOCUS said in a report…
Google has announced the integration of a Rust-based Domain Name System (DNS) parser into the modem firmware as part of its ongoing efforts to beef up the security of Pixel devices and push memory-safe code at a more foundational level. “The new Rust-based DNS parser significantly reduces our security risk by mitigating an entire class of…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday removed three individuals linked to the Intellexa Consortium, the holding company behind a commercial spyware known as Predator, from the specially designated nationals list. The names of the individuals are as follows – Merom Harpaz Andrea Nicola Constantino Hermes Gambazzi Sara…