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DuckDuckGo Makes Changes after Increased Pressure from US Lawmakers
Posted on Friday, 11 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine and browser company, has come under a lot of negative press recently and now are facing pressure from the US government. They have already been labeled as a search engine for “conspiracy theorists” by many…
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New Report Shows WordPress Sites leave 30% of Critical Vulnerabilities Unpatched.
Posted on Thursday, 10 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
PatchStack has pushed out a report that shows that a shocking 30% of vulnerabilities in WordPress sites are left unpatched. This is not to say that people are not patching (they are not), but the report illustrates that vendors for…
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Emotet’s Comeback Shows no Sign of Slowing as Bot Number Exceeds 100,000
Posted on Thursday, 10 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Emotet, (not to be confused with Imhotep the ancient Egyptian Polymath) was originally identified in 2014 and quickly became one of the top threats of the decade. After an early start as a banking trojan, the group amassed a huge…
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16 New Vulnerabilities Found in HP UEFI Firmware Implementations by Binarly
Posted on Wednesday, 09 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
The Security Group Binarly has disclosed 16 high-severity vulnerabilities in different implementations of UEFI firmware in HP Enterprise devices. The list of affected devices includes Laptops, Desktops, POS (point-of-sale) and edge computing nodes. The vulnerabilities range in severity from 7.5…
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Another Linux Kernel Bug Found that can allow an Unauthenticated user Root Privileges
Posted on Tuesday, 08 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Linux, often thought of as a more secure alternative to Microsoft, has not had an easy year. We have seen vulnerabilities that affect the iSCSI subsystem, the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter, the Polkit pkexec component bug and now two Kernel…
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Supply Chain Vulnerabilities Found in 150 Devices Spanning Multiple Industries Dubbed Access 7
Posted on Tuesday, 08 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Supply chain attacks are always a concern when it comes to device manufacture and distribution. If an attacker can compromise a part of the supply or management chain, they can affect a large part of the market with relatively minimal…
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Google Announces Plans to Buy Mandiant for $5.4 Billion in Cash
Posted on Tuesday, 08 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
In early February, rumors about a potential acquisition of Mandiant by Microsoft started to circle the internet. The response was not positive with many feeling that it was allowing the fox to run the chicken coop. Although unpopular the rumor…
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Samsung Confirms Breach and Theft of Source Code
Posted on Monday, 07 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Earlier today we reported that the same group that hit NVIDIA and stole source code along with employee logins also hit Samsung and stole around 190GB of source code data related to how galaxy mobile devices operate. The data, according…
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Firefox Users Urged to Update to Version 97.0.2 over two Use After free Vulnerabilities Found Exploited in the Wild
Posted on Monday, 07 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Mozilla is urging users to update to the latest version of Firefox after two vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486) have been found to be actively exploited in the wild. Both vulnerabilities are listed as use-after-free vulnerabilities. This type of vulnerability relies…
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Samsung Might be the Next Victim of the Same Group that Hacked NVIDIA
Posted on Monday, 07 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
The Lapsus$ group, the same ones that broke into NVIDIA and Stole corporate data and had their attack VM encrypted, appear to have also broken into Samsung. Lapsus$ has leaked what they claim to be source code for several sensitive…
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New Banking Malware in the Google Play Store Impersonates Mobile Antimalware App
Posted on Monday, 07 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
As mobile devices continue to be a focus for attackers, we are hearing that there is new banking malware in the Google Play Store. The new malware belongs to a the SharkBot family and, according to researchers, is also a…
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Large numbers of Medical IoT Devices are Vulnerable to Attack According to Unit 42
Posted on Thursday, 03 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
IoT devices in general are the bane of most security teams. Typically, they lack basic security features and are complicated at best to keep patched. Much of this is due to the process needed to patch them and the rest…
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NVIDIA Confirms Breach as Details Show up Around what the Attackers Took
Posted on Thursday, 03 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
In one of the “odder” breaches that we have covered, NVIDIA has confirmed it was the victim of a breach that resulted in the loss of data. Information about the breach first crossed our paths about a week ago, but…
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1, 2, 3, 4… I Think I see a Hacker War. Just as Anonymous Declares Cyberwar on Russia, Conti Declares Cyberwar Back
Posted on Wednesday, 02 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has given an insight into how modern warfare is carried out on a strategic level. We have seen how Russia used malware and specific cyber attacks to interrupt communications and to potentially wipe critical data.…
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More Banking Malware Slips by the Protections in the Google Play Store, Meet TeaBot
Posted on Wednesday, 02 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
Banking malware for mobile devices is on the rise thanks to the ubiquitous use of mobile apps for personal financial tracking and transactions. This move was almost certain to attract threat actors like a moth to a porchlight. When given…
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Microsoft Says that Reset My PC Option Does not Work as Expected Due to a Bug
Posted on Tuesday, 01 March 2022
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Sean Kalinich
It seems that Microsoft shares an issue that is a bit like one that can happen in mobile devices. When you reset your device on an Android Device and you have accounts that sync data with their own internal folders,…
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