Users of Honeywell’s Midas and Midas Black gas detectors are being urged to perform a firmware update to fix a pair of critical, remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that would allow ‘an attacker with low skill’ to compromise critical industrial safety equipment. Source: Sophos
There has been news lately highlighting a trend in hackers using LinkedIn, the popular social media platform for professionals looking to connect with like-minded individuals, to dupe unwitting victims. This includes the creation of fake profiles with the aim of stealing personal information. The fake profiles pose as recruiters and quickly begin to add contacts […]
Sofacy (also known as “Fancy Bear”, “Sednit”, “STRONTIUM” and “APT28”) is an advanced threat group that has been active since around 2008, targeting mostly military and government entities worldwide, with a focus on NATO countries. More recently, we have also seen an increase in activity targeting Ukraine. Back in 2011-2012, the group used a relatively […]
Whenever we talk over the phone we tend to give away lots of information about ourselves without even thinking about it. Whether it’s where we are or where we’re going to, confidential details about our professional life, or just daily complaints and events, we do so thinking that what we say is only going to […]
Download PDF version Download EPUB Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Targeted attacks are now an established part of the threat landscape, so it’s no surprise to see such attacks feature in our yearly review. Last year, in our security forecast, we outlined what we saw as the likely future APT developments. The merger of cybercrime […]
You know the routine: you’re sat at home, trying to relax by watching a series online or by trying to get some work done. However, your Wi-Fi connection that you pay so much for is slow, unreliable, and likely doesn’t reach every part of your home with a signal strength that you’d like. So, what […]
Many readers wrote in this past week to say they’d finally been officially notified that their fingerprints, background checks, Social Security numbers, and other sensitive information was jeopardized in the massive data breach discovered this year at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Almost as many complained that the OPM’s response — the offering of […]
During the second quarter of 2015 there were 230,000 new malware samples created daily. This is one of the alarming details to emerge from the latest PandaLabs report, the security laboratory of Panda Security, which analyzes cyberattacks carried out during this period. The document also reveals that the threats aren’t just directed at individuals, but […]
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been quietly launching stealthy cyber attacks against a range of private U.S. companies — mostly banks and energy firms. These digital intrusion attempts, commissioned in advance by the private sector targets themselves, are part of a little-known program at DHS designed to help “critical infrastructure” companies shore up […]
Few schemes for monetizing stolen credit cards are as bold as the fuel theft scam: Crooks embed skimming devices inside fuel station pumps to steal credit card data from customers. Thieves then clone the cards and use them to steal hundreds of gallons of gas at multiple filling stations. The gas is pumped into hollowed-out trucks and […]
