Category: News

Merck Awarded $1.4B Insurance Payout over NotPetya Attack

Court rules ‘War or Hostile Acts’ exclusion doesn’t apply to the pharma giant’s 2017 cyberattack.

20K WordPress Sites Exposed by Insecure Plugin REST-API

The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin for personalized emails is vulnerable to code injection and phishing due to XSS.

McAfee Bug Can Be Exploited to Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges

McAfee has patched two high-severity bugs in its Agent component, one of which can allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.

Spyware Blitzes Compromise, Cannibalize ICS Networks

The brief spearphishing campaigns spread malware and use compromised networks to steal credentials that can be sold or used to commit financial fraud.

2FA Bypassed in $34.6M Crypto.com Heist

In a display of 2FA’s fallibility, unauthorized transactions approved without users’ authentication bled 483 accounts of funds.

Critical Cisco StarOS Bug Grants Root Access via Debug Mode

Cisco issued a critical fix for a flaw in its Cisco RCM for Cisco StarOS Software that could give attackers RCE on the application with root-level privileges.

Microsoft Sees Log4j Attacks Exploiting SolarWinds Serv-U Bug

SolarWinds has fixed a Serv-U bug that threat actors were exploiting to unleash Log4j attacks on networks’ internal devices.

Pervasive Apple Safari Bug Exposes Web-Browsing Data, Google IDs

The information-disclosure issue, affecting Macs, iPhones and iPads, allows a snooping website to find out information about other tabs a user might have open.

Red Cross Begs Attackers Not to Leak 515K People’s Stolen Data

A cyberattack forced the Red Cross to shut down IT systems running the Restoring Family Links system, which reunites families fractured by war, disaster or migration.

SEC Filing Reveals Fortune 500 Firm Targeted in Ransomware Attack

The Fortune 500 integrated services company confirmed a ‘systems intrusion’ that occurred in late December and is still under investigation in an SEC filing.