Cybercriminals Abusing Internet-Sharing Services to Monetize Malware Campaigns

Are you at risk? 7 Important Questions For Business Operations

You ARE at Risk... and it [usually] starts with a short, disturbing phone call from one of the managers within your operation: “Our customers have alerted accounting about services they paid for but never received. What’s going on? ”

New BrakTooth Flaws Leave Millions of Bluetooth-enabled Devices Vulnerable

A set of new security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in commercial Bluetooth stacks that could enable an adversary to execute arbitrary code and, worse, crash the devices via denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.  Collectively dubbed "BrakTooth" (referring to the Norwegian word "Brak" which ...

WhatsApp Photo Filter Bug Could Have Exposed Your Data to Remote Attackers

A now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in WhatApp's image filter feature could have been abused to send a malicious image over the messaging app to read sensitive information from the app's memory. Tracked as CVE-2020-1910 (CVSS score: 7.8), the flaw concerns an out-of-bounds read/write ...

Is Traffic Mirroring for NDR Worth the Trouble? We Argue It Isn't

Network Detection & Response (NDR) is an emerging technology developed to close the blind security spots left by conventional security solutions, which hackers exploited to gain a foothold in target networks. Nowadays, enterprises are using a plethora of security solutions to protect their network ...

Chinese Authorities Arrest Hackers Behind Mozi IoT Botnet Attacks

The operators of the Mozi IoT botnet have been taken into custody by Chinese law enforcement authorities, nearly two years after the malware emerged on the threat landscape in September 2019. News of the arrest, which originally happened in June, was disclosed by researchers from Netlab, the ...

FTC Bans Stalkerware App SpyFone; Orders Company to Erase Secretly Stolen Data

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday banned a stalkerware app company called SpyFone from the surveillance business over concerns that it stealthily harvested and shared data on people's physical movements, phone use, and online activities that were then used by stalkers and domestic ...

Are you at risk? 7 Important Questions For Business Operations

You ARE at Risk... and it [usually] starts with a short, disturbing phone call from one of the managers within your operation: “Our customers have alerted accounting about services they paid for but never received. What’s going on? ”