Emotet malware takes part in the 2020 U.S. elections
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/emotet-malware-takes-part-in-the-2020-us-elections/ Emotet is now taking part in the United States 2020 Presidential election with a new spam campaign pretending to be from the Democratic National Convention’s Team Blue initiative.
XDSpy cyber-espionage group operated discretely for nine years
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/xdspy-cyber-espionage-group-operated-discretely-for-nine-years/ Researchers at ESET today published details about a threat actor that has been operating for at least nine years, yet their activity attracted almost no public attention. Lisäksi:
vblocalhost.com/presentations/xdspy-stealing-government-secrets-since-2011/. Lisäksi:
www.zdnet.com/article/eset-discovers-a-rare-apt-that-stayed-undetected-for-nine-years
HP Device Manager backdoor lets attackers take over Windows systems
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hp-device-manager-backdoor-lets-attackers-take-over-windows-systems/ HP released a security advisory detailing three critical and high severity vulnerabilities in the HP Device Manager that could lead to system takeover.
Graphology of an Exploit Fingerprinting exploit authors to help with hunting zero-day exploits in the wild
blog.checkpoint.com/2020/10/02/graphology-of-an-exploit-fingerprinting-exploit-authors-to-help-with-hunting-zero-day-exploits-in-the-wild/ In the cyber-crime economy, which is all about exploiting vulnerabilities in software and products, the most valuable and prized asset is the zero day’ a vulnerability for which there is no patch or update available. Our research methodology was to fingerprint’ an exploit author’s working technique, looking for unique identifiers that could be associated with that individual.
Google is creating a special Android security team to find bugs in sensitive apps
www.zdnet.com/article/google-is-creating-a-special-android-security-team-to-find-bugs-in-sensitive-apps Google is hiring to create a special Android security team that will be tasked with finding vulnerabilities in highly sensitive apps on the Google Play Store. Android apps that will be on the team’s radar include COVID-19 contact tracing apps and election-related apps.
Microsoft explains the cause of the recent Office 365 outage
www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-explains-the-cause-of-the-recent-office-365-outage/ A preliminary report by Microsoft states that a bug in the deployment of an Azure AD service update caused Monday’s Office 365 outage.
Serious Security: Phishing without links when phishers bring along their own web pages
nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/10/02/serious-security-phishing-without-links-when-phishers-bring-along-their-own-web-pages/ In the past few days we received two phishing campaigns one sent in by a thoughtful reader and the other spammed directly to us that we thought would tell a useful visual story.
Attacks Aimed at Disrupting the Trickbot Botnet
krebsonsecurity.com/2020/10/attacks-aimed-at-disrupting-the-trickbot-botnet Over the past 10 days, someone has been launching a series of coordinated attacks designed to disrupt Trickbot
