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More SolarWinds News

Schneier on Security

Details are in the Microsoft blog: We have published our in-depth analysis of the Solorigate backdoor malware (also referred to as SUNBURST by FireEye), the compromised DLL that was deployed on networks as part of SolarWinds products, that allowed attackers to gain backdoor access to affected devices.

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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Analyzing the APT34’s Jason project

Security Affairs

Today I want to share a quick analysis on a new leaked APT34 Tool in order to track similarities between APT34 public available toolsets. Username and password list can be selected (included in the distributed ZIP file) and threads number should be provided in order to optimize the attack balance. Michael Lortz. Jason Project GUI.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

Today I’d like to share an interesting analysis of a Targeted Attack found and dissected by Yoroi (technical details are available here ). How Microsoft Excel is able to decrypt such a content if no password is requested to the end user? A quick analysis of the Stage2 exposes a new object inclusion. (as

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Appeals Court Holds “Reasonable Suspicion” Required for Forensic Search of Laptop at the Border

Hunton Privacy

Cotterman , holding that the federal government must have “reasonable suspicion” of criminal activity to conduct a forensic search of laptops and similar devices in the possession of individuals attempting to cross the border. On March 8, 2013, a U.S. federal appeals court issued a decision in the case United States v.

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HHS Announces Settlements with Health Care System and Medical Research Institute over Potential HIPAA Violations

Hunton Privacy

In announcing the settlement with North Memorial, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels noted that North Memorial had overlooked “[t]wo major cornerstones of the HIPAA Rules” by failing to enter into compliant BAAs and conducting a risk analysis. The resolution agreement requires North Memorial to pay $1.55 Feinstein Institute.

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Free Ransomware Decryption Site Celebrates Milestone as New Threats Emerge

eSecurity Planet

The project now boasts 16 associate partners, including Emsisoft, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, Avast, Bleeping Computer, Cisco, Check Point, Tesorion, McAfee, ESET, CERT_PL, Eleven Paths, KISA, the French Police, and F-Secure. .” No More Ransom was founded in 2016 by the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab.