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Open Redirect Flaw Snags Amex, Snapchat User Data

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Separate phishing campaigns targeting thousands of victims impersonate FedEx and Microsoft, among others, to trick victims.

VMWare Urges Users to Patch Critical Authentication Bypass Bug

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Vulnerabilityβ€”for which a proof-of-concept is forthcomingβ€”is one of a string of flaws the company fixed that could lead to an attack chain.

Universities Put Email Users at Cyber Risk

By Elizabeth Montalbano
DMARC analysis by Proofpoint shows that institutions in the U.S. have among some of the poorest protections to prevent domain spoofing and lack protections to block fraudulent emails.

Securing Your Move to the Hybrid Cloud

By Infosec Contributor
Infosec expert Rani Osnat lays out security challenges and offers hope for organizations migrating their IT stack to the private and public cloud environments.

Malicious Npm Packages Tapped Again to Target Discord Users

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Recent LofyLife campaign steals tokens and infects client files to monitor various user actions, such as log-ins, password changes and payment methods.

Threat Actors Pivot Around Microsoft’s Macro-Blocking in Office

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Cybercriminals turn to container files and other tactics to get around the company’s attempt to thwart a popular way to deliver malicious phishing payloads.

IoT Botnets Fuels DDoS Attacks – Are You Prepared?

By Sponsored Content
The increased proliferation of IoT devices paved the way for the rise of IoT botnets that amplifies DDoS attacks today. This is a dangerous warning that the possibility of a sophisticated DDoS attack and a prolonged service outage will prevent businesses from growing.

Why Physical Security Maintenance Should Never Be an Afterthought

By Infosec Contributor
SecuriThings' CEO Roy Dagan tackles the sometimes overlooked security step of physical security maintenance and breaks down why it is important.

Conti’s Reign of Chaos: Costa Rica in the Crosshairs

By Aamir Lakhani
Aamir Lakhani, with FortiGuard Labs, answers the question; Why is the Conti ransomware gang targeting people and businesses in Costa Rica?

Magecart Serves Up Card Skimmers on Restaurant-Ordering Systems

By Elizabeth Montalbano
300 restaurants and at least 50,000 payment cards compromised by two separate campaigns against MenuDrive, Harbortouch and InTouchPOS services.

Authentication Risks Discovered in Okta Platform

By Nate Nelson
Four newly discovered attack paths could lead to PII exposure, account takeover, even organizational data destruction.

Google Boots Multiple Malware-laced Android Apps from Marketplace

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Google removed eight Android apps, with 3M cumulative downloads, from its marketplace for being infected with a Joker spyware variant.

CISA Urges Patch of Exploited Windows 11 Bug by Aug. 2

By Threatpost
Feds urge U.S. agencies to patch a Microsoft July Patch Tuesday 2022 bug that is being exploited in the wild by August 2.

Large-Scale Phishing Campaign Bypasses MFA

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Attackers used adversary-in-the-middle attacks to steal passwords, hijack sign-in sessions and skip authentication and then use victim mailboxes to launch BEC attacks against other targets.

How War Impacts Cyber Insurance

By Infosec Contributor
Chris Hallenbeck, CISO for the Americas at Tanium, discusses the impact of geopolitical conflict on the cybersecurity insurance market.

β€˜Callback’ Phishing Campaign Impersonates Security Firms

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Victims instructed to make a phone call that will direct them to a link for downloading malware.

Rethinking Vulnerability Management in a Heightened Threat Landscape

By Infosec Contributor
Find out why a vital component of vulnerability management needs to be the capacity to prioritize from Mariano Nunez, CEO of Onapsis and Threatpost Infosec Insiders columnist.

Hack Allows Drone Takeover Via β€˜ExpressLRS’ Protocol

By Nate Nelson
A radio control system for drones is vulnerable to remote takeover, thanks to a weakness in the mechanism that binds transmitter and receiver.

Human Error Blamed for Leak of 1 Billion Records of Chinese Citizens

By Elizabeth Montalbano
A developer appears to have divulged credentials to a police database on a popular developer forum, leading to a breach and subsequent bid to sell 23 terabytes of personal data on the dark web.

Latest Cyberattack Against Iran Part of Ongoing Campaign

By Nate Nelson
Iran's steel manufacturing industry is victim to ongoing cyberattacks that previously impacted the country's rail system.

Google Patches Actively Exploited Chrome Bug

By Elizabeth Montalbano
The heap buffer overflow issue in the browser’s WebRTC engine could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code.

ZuoRAT Can Take Over Widely Used SOHO Routers

By Elizabeth Montalbano
Devices from Cisco, Netgear and others at risk from the multi-stage malware, which has been active since April 2020 and shows the work of a sophisticated threat actor.

A Guide to Surviving a Ransomware Attack

By Oliver Tavakoli
Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, gives us hope that surviving a ransomware attack is possible, so long as we apply preparation and intentionality to our defense posture.

Leaky Access Tokens Exposed Amazon Photos of Users

By Nate Nelson
Hackers with Amazon users’ authentication tokens could’ve stolen or encrypted personal photos and documents.
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