Category Archives: Threat intelligence
Google: Attacker ‘likely’ had access to Android zero-day vulnerabilities
Google’s Project Zero this week introduced a six-part series that offers an analysis of four zero-day vulnerabilities on Windows and Chrome, and known-day Android exploits it found during the team’s extensive research last year.
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Researchers see links between SolarWinds Sunburst malware and Russian Turla APT group
While researchers may want to invest time and energy towards attributing the latest high-profile attack to a particular adversary, more productive is the ability to see similarities in the underlying techniques employed in the attack were to prior attacks.
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Thousands infected by trojan that targets cryptocurrency users on Windows, Mac and Linux
A new remote access trojan (RAT) lures cryptocurrency users to download trojanized apps by promoting the apps in dedicated online forums and on social media.
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Financial services industry hit with tens of millions of attacks per day
The report found that the bad threat actors primarily used common attack paths, such as SQL injection, local file inclusion and cross-site scripting.
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A new year, a new administration: Doors open in 2021 for public-private cooperation
While much is speculative, a few aspects of how the government’s information security interactions with the private sector have begun to crystalize.
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2021 threat predictions: Bad actors that honed their craft with COVID are ready to go big
Cyber experts expect more sophisticated attacks to come – with ransomware and phishing continuing at a steady, but more advanced clip, and emerging threats tied to deepfakes and 5G beginning to show impact.
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DDoS attacks hit Citrix Application Delivery Controllers, hindering customer performance
The attacker or bots can overwhelm the Citrix ADC Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) network throughput, potentially leading to outbound bandwidth exhaustion.
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