Category: News

Attackers Hijack Email Threads Using ProxyLogon/ProxyShell Flaws

Exploiting Microsoft Exchange ProxyLogon & ProxyShell vulnerabilities, attackers are malspamming replies in existing threads and slipping past malicious-email filters.

Imunify360 Bug Leaves Linux Web Servers Open to Code Execution, Takeover

CloudLinux’ security platform for Linux-based websites and web servers contains a high-severity PHP deserialization bug.

Iranians Charged in Cyberattacks Against U.S. 2020 Election

The State Department has offered a $10M reward for tips on the two Iran-based threat actors accused of voter intimidation and disinformation.

6M Sky Routers Left Exposed to Attack for Nearly 1.5 Years

Pen Test Partners didn’t disclose the vulnerability after 90 days because it knew ISPs were struggling with a pandemic-increased network load as work from home became the new norm.

California Pizza Kitchen Serves Up Employee SSNs in Data Breach

A hefty slice of data – that of 100K+ current and former employees – was spilled in an “external system breach,” the pizza chain said. 

Ransomware Phishing Emails Sneak Through SEGs

The MICROP ransomware spreads via Google Drive and locally stored passwords.

3 Top Tools for Defending Against Phishing Attacks

Phishing emails are now skating past traditional defenses. Justin Jett, director of audit and compliance at Plixer, discusses what to do about it.

FBI: FatPipe VPN Zero-Day Exploited by APT for 6 Months

The bureau’s flash alert said an APT has been exploiting the flaw to compromise FatPipe router clustering and load balancer products to breach targets’ networks.

Spear-Phishing Campaign Exploits Glitch Platform to Steal Credentials

Threat actors are targeting Middle-East-based employees of major corporations in a scam that uses a specific ‘ephemeral’ aspect of the project-management tool to link to SharePoint phishing pages.

How to Choose the Right DDoS Protection Solution

Pankaj Gupta, Senior Director at Citrix, outlines how distributed denial of service attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, bigger and economically motivated.