Microsoft takes precautions to minimize abilities of SolarWinds hack
Microsoft has taken a number of measures to prevent the hack on SolarWinds from working. The company has seized a domain and blocked the software with Microsoft Defender.
A coalition of several other companies seized the domain avsmcloud.com and made sure it ended up in the hands of Microsoft. T...
Investigation into SolarWinds hack in full swing
Thousands of companies and various government organisations are looking for clues that they have been affected by the hack on the SolarWinds software. Presumably Russian hackers had built a backdoor into the company's Orion software.
Some Reuters sources have reported that the hackers have been ...
Massive hack hits US government and many other organizations
SolarWinds software, which is used by various American organizations, has been hit by an extensive hack. Russia seems to have played an important part in the hack.
The New York Times writes that it may well be the biggest hack in the last five years. SolarWinds is in use by parties such as the W...
Security company FireEye hit by cyber attack
FireEye, a company that provides digital security for other companies, has itself fallen victim to a hack. The hackers captured a tool that was used for pen tests.
The company announced the hack in a press release on its website. In it, the company writes that the attack was probably state-spons...
‘North Korean hackers attack company developing Covid-19 vaccine’
Hackers suspected to be based from North Korea seem to be targeting employees of the British-Swiss pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. The company is at an advanced stage in the development of a vaccine against Covid-19.
The hackers are said to have approached employees of AstraZeneca via Linked...
GitHub CEO denies that their source code was hacked
CEO Nat Friedman calls the repo post a fake and promises to make impersonation more difficult.
Recently a site called Resynth (resynth1943.net) posted a link to a Wayback Machine snapshot of a GitHub repo that appeared to come from GitHub CEO Nat Friedman. The poster had labelled the repo as: "T...
Collection of thousands of hacked databases leaks
A collection of more than 23,000 hacked databases has temporarily appeared on a forum. The collection came from the hacker website Cit0day, which recently went offline.
Cit0day was a website where cybercriminals could buy access to the hacked databases and then abuse the stolen personal data. Th...
Critical Bluetooth vulnerability gives hackers full access
A new vulnerability has been found in the Bluetooth wireless standard. Hackers can exploit it to connect to devices remotely in any given area and access phone apps. The flaw has since been named Blurtooth and was described in detail by the Bluetooth SIG industry body that oversees the standard dev...
Cybercriminals steal over 200,000 euros with AI voice manipulation
A group of cybercriminals has managed to steal $243,000 (€222,000) by using artificial intelligence (AI) and voice technology. Using the technologies, they imitated a British entrepreneur.
The fraud took place in March this year and was carried out by an unknown group of hackers. The news was ...
Cisco publishes research manual for hacked Cisco equipment
Cisco has launched four manuals for incident responders who are investigating company equipment that they suspect has been hacked. The four manuals focus on four of the company's major software platforms.
The manuals provide step-by-step plans on how to extract forensic information from hacked devic...
Many companies don’t notice cyber attacks until it’s too late
According to Kaspersky Lab, many companies only notice that a cyber attack takes place when it is already too late. The companies only ask for help when money or data has already been stolen, or when devices have broken down.
Kaspersky Lab states that in a new report, IT Pro writes. Half of the inci...
Mining malware switches from Arm-IoT to Intel servers
A mining malware previously only seen on Arm-controlled Internet or Things (IoT) devices has made the switch to Intel systems. That's what security investigator Larry Cashdollar of Akamai discovered.
Cashdollar states that one of its honeypot systems has recently discovered an IoT malware that seems...