Security News
Colonial Pipeline aims to restore operations by end of the week after cyberattack
Meanwhile, the hacker group DarkSide said a statement that its goal is "to make money, and not creating problems for society".
ZDnet
11 May 2021 1002 Views
CISA Releases Analysis Reports on New FiveHands Ransomware
CISA is aware of a recent, successful cyberattack against an organization using a new ransomware variant, known as FiveHands, that has been used to successfully conduct a cyberattack against an organization.
ZDnet
7 May 2021 850 Views
Justice Department seizes fake COVID-19 vaccine website stealing info from visitors
“Freevaccinecovax.org” was being used for fraud, phishing attacks, and/or deployment of malware, according to The U.S. Attorney’s Office.
ZDnet
6 May 2021 812 Views
'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely
Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets built since 2009 and running Windows can be exploited to grant rogue users and malware system-administrator-level access to the computers. We're told this...
The Register
5 May 2021 20285 Views
McAfee, Akamai Q1 reports top expectations on security technology growth
McAfee and Akamai both had double-digit growth for security technology, with Akamai focusing on enterprise, and McAfee focusing on personal security products.
ZDnet
5 May 2021 936 Views
You should update your iPhone and iPad to iOS 14.5.1 right away
The update includes security fixes for bugs that are actively being exploited.
ZDnet
4 May 2021 861 Views
China calls out 33 apps for collecting more user data than deemed necessary
Citing complaints from users, the Cyberspace Administration of China lists 33 mobile apps it says breached various regulatory rules, mainly, for collecting personal data deemed not necessary to provide their service.
ZDNet
3 May 2021 17149 Views
Multi-Gov Task Force Plans to Take Down the Ransomware Economy
A coalition of 60 global entities (including the DoJ) has proposed a sweeping plan to hunt down and disrupt ransomware gangs by going after their financial operations.
Threatpost
30 Apr 2021 865 Views
A New PHP Composer Bug Could Enable Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks
The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and "backdoor every PHP package," resulting in a supply-chain attack.
Tracked as CVE-2021...
The Hacker News
29 Apr 2021 19318 Views
Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks
SharePoint servers are being picked at with high-risk, legitimate-looking, branded phish messages and preyed on by a ransomware gang using an old bug.
Threatpost
29 Apr 2021 906 Views
