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Vulnerability Recap 6/10/24 – RCE Attacks in Major Platforms

eSecurity Planet

Cox Communications Fixes Vulnerability in Modems Type of vulnerability: Authorization bypass. The problem: Cox Communications fixed an authorization bypass flaw that allowed remote attackers to use backend APIs to reset modem settings and steal user data. With a CVSS score of 7.4,

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

18 Central European Time (CET), cyptocurrency mining service NiceHash disccovered that some of the settings for its domain registration records at GoDaddy were changed without authorization, briefly redirecting email and web traffic for the site. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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What is Incident Response? Ultimate Guide + Templates

eSecurity Planet

Communication is critical, with response teams keeping everyone informed, including management, IT staff, victims, law enforcement agencies, and other stakeholders. Password attacks: These involve various methods to obtain or crack passwords, including brute force attacks, dictionary attacks, or credential stuffing.

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Fixing Data Breaches Part 4: Bug Bounties

Troy Hunt

I started out by talking about the value of education ; let's do a better job of stopping these incidents from occurring in the first place by avoiding well-known coding and configuration flaws. The seller then sold it multiple times over before it leaked into the public domain and became commercially worthless. across the internet.

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2019 eDiscovery Case Law Year in Review, Part 2

eDiscovery Daily

Yesterday, we looked back at cases related to passwords and Fifth Amendment protection, non-party discovery and mobile and messaging. As we noted yesterday , eDiscovery Daily published 66 posts related to eDiscovery case decisions and activities over the past year, covering 56 unique cases !

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #27 [Heads Up] Massive Impersonation Phishing Campaign Imitates Over 100 Brands and Thousands of Domains

KnowBe4

Use PasswordIQ to find which users are sharing passwords and which ones have weak passwords See the fully automated user provisioning and onboarding Find out how 60,000+ organizations have mobilized their end-users as their human firewall. It is safer to end such communication and contact your financial institution right away. "Do