Anti-Phishing, DMARC, Business Email Compromise (BEC), Cybercrime Presented by KnowBe4 60 minutes Even the world’s most successful organizations have significant weaknesses in their cybersecurity defenses, which today’s determined hackers can exploit at will. There’s even a term for it: Assume Breach. But assuming that you will be hacked is not an option for you. Your […]
Security of critical infrastructures, Cybercrime, Cybercrime as-a-service Cring Ransomware Unleashed After Attackers Exploited Unpatched Flaw From 2009 Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • September 27, 2021 Ransom note left by attackers using Cring ransomware (Source: Sophos) To fight ransomware, experts advise security teams to stay on top of how attackers hacked their latest victims. In particular, […]
The old is sometimes not gold, especially when it comes to old versions of ColdFusion running on versions of Windows that have reached end of life, as the global company demonstrated. Sophos security through its research on a server that was taken over by strangers. actors using Cring ransomware. Andrew Brandt, Senior Researcher at SophosLabs, […]
Unidentified malicious actors broke into a server running an unpatched 11-year-old version of Adobe’s ColdFusion 9 software in minutes to take remote control and deploy file-encrypting Cring ransomware to the target’s network 79 hours after the hack. The server, which was owned by an anonymous service company, was used to collect timesheets and accounting data […]
Adobe Cring Ransomware ColdFusion Ransom Note
Tuesday patch For its September Patch Tuesday, Microsoft released fixes for 66 vulnerabilities as well as 20 Chromium security bugs in Microsoft Edge. Affected products include: Azure, Edge (Android, Chromium, and iOS), Office, SharePoint Server, Windows, Windows DNS, and Windows Subsystem for Linux. Of these CVE, three are rated critical, one is rated moderate, and […]
“This is truly a watershed moment, I believe, in fusion science and technology.” Mega Magnet A team of scientists from MIT said they have successfully removed what may be the biggest technological hurdle between us, the power of practical nuclear fusion. The researchers succeeded in obtaining a new superconducting electromagnet to generate a magnetic field […]