Tag: Virus&Threats
ASUS Warns of Cyclops Blink Botnet Targeting Its Routers
Taiwanese electronics giant ASUS has issued an alert to warn users of Cyclops Blink botnet attacks targeting its routers.
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Emergency Firefox Update Patches Two Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Mozilla over the weekend issued an emergency security update for Firefox to address two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been exploited in attacks.
Slight Increase in Attacks on ICS Computers in 2021: Report
Kaspersky said it saw only a small increase in the percentage of industrial control system (ICS) computers targeted in 2021 compared to the previous year, but there was a more significant rise for certain types of threats.
Hacked Ukrainian Military Emails Used in Attacks on European Governments
Staff at European government organizations have been receiving malicious emails that appear to be coming from email accounts belonging to members of the Ukrainian military.
DDoS Attacks Abuse Network Middleboxes for Reflection, Amplification
Threat actors specializing in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have started abusing network middleboxes for reflection and amplification, Akamai warns.
CISA Urges Organizations to Patch Actively Exploited Zimbra XSS Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday announced that it has expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with a zero-day recently identified in the Zimbra email platform.
US, UK Warn of Iranian Cyberattacks on Government, Commercial Networks
Governmental agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom warn of cyberespionage operations that the Iranian state-sponsored threat actor MuddyWater has been running against both public and private sector organizations worldwide.
Ransomware Used as Decoy in Destructive Cyberattacks on Ukraine
Ransomware was used as a decoy in some of the recent data-wiping cyberattacks against organizations in Ukraine, Symantec reports.
Destructive ‘HermeticWiper’ Malware Targets Computers in Ukraine
Just as Russia was preparing to launch an invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian government websites were disrupted by DDoS attacks and cybersecurity firms reported seeing what appeared to be a new piece of malware on hundreds of devices in the country.
Chinese Researchers Detail Linux Backdoor of NSA-Linked Equation Group
A team of researchers from China’s Pangu Lab on Wednesday published a 50-page report detailing a piece of Linux malware allegedly used against many targets by the threat actor known as the Equation Group, which has been linked to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
CISA Warns of Attacks Exploiting Recent Vulnerabilities in Zabbix Monitoring Tool
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog with two critical flaws in the Zabbix enterprise monitoring solution.
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