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Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe, companies say
10/12/2020

Hackers steal Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine data in Europe, companies say

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their COVID-19 vaccine had been 'unlawfully accessed' in a cyberattack on Europe's medicines regulator. The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which assesses medicines and vaccines for the....

iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever
02/12/2020

iPhone zero-click Wi-Fi exploit is one of the most breathtaking hacks ever

Earlier this year, Apple patched one of the most breathtaking iPhone vulnerabilities ever: a memory corruption bug in the iOS kernel that gave attackers remote access to the entire device—over Wi-Fi, with no user interaction required at all. Oh, and exploits were wormable—meaning radio-proximity...

179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown
11/11/2020

179 Arrested in Massive Global Dark Web Takedown

Operation Disruptor has led to a wave of arrests and seizures, but the dark web drug market has bounced back before. It’s one of the largest global dark web takedowns to date: 179 arrests spread across six countries; 500 kilograms of drugs seized; $6.5 million in cash and cryptocurrency confiscate...

FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies
08/11/2020

FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has sent out a security alert warning that threat actors are abusing misconfigured SonarQube applications to access and steal source code repositories from US government agencies and private businesses. US officials talk about all the methods the Chinese governmen...

Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites
07/11/2020

Company forced to change name that could be used to hack websites

Companies House has forced a company to change its name after it belatedly realised it could pose a security risk. The company now legally known as “THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD” was set up by a British software engineer, who says he did it purely because he thoug...

Fault in NHS Covid app meant thousands at risk did not quarantine
03/11/2020

Fault in NHS Covid app meant thousands at risk did not quarantine

A code error in the NHS Covid-19 app meant users had to be next to a highly infectious patient for five times as long as the NHS had decided was risky before being instructed to self-isolate, the Guardian has learned. Source: theguardian

Hacked Billboards Can Make Teslas See 'Phantom Objects,' Causing Them to Swerve or Stop Abruptly
16/10/2020

Hacked Billboards Can Make Teslas See 'Phantom Objects,' Causing Them to Swerve or Stop Abruptly

Tesla's Autopilot system relies on vision rather than LIDAR, which means it can be tricked by messages on billboards and projections created by hackers. Security researchers have demonstrated how Tesla's Autopilot driver-assistance systems can be tricked into changing speed, swerving or stopping abr...

FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets written in Go
26/09/2020

FritzFrog: A New Generation of Peer-to-Peer Botnets written in Go

Guardicore has discovered FritzFrog, a sophisticated peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet which has been actively breaching SSH servers since January 2020. Golang-Based Malware: FritzFrog executes a worm malware which is written in Golang, and is modular, multi-threaded and fileless, leaving no trace on the in...

Attack of the week: Voice calls in LTE
26/09/2020

Attack of the week: Voice calls in LTE

I haven’t written an “attack of the week” post in a while, and it’s been bumming me out. This is not because there’s been a lack of attacks, but mostly because there hasn’t been an attack on something sufficiently widely-used that it can rouse me out of my blogging torpor. But today brin...

UK Firms pay £200m in ransoms to hackers
26/09/2020

UK Firms pay £200m in ransoms to hackers

Gangs of cybercriminals forced British companies to pay out more than £200 million in ransoms last year, experts have revealed. The extortionists, many from Russia or Eastern European countries, are targeting well-known businesses with malicious software and then charging them tens of millions of p...

CrimeOps: The Operational Art of Cyber Crime
26/09/2020

CrimeOps: The Operational Art of Cyber Crime

Cybercrime rewards innovative organizations. These can innovate at the tactical level (e.g. new or updated tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP)), the strategic level (e.g. new monetisation methods), or at the operational level—the management of resources and personnel to achieve strategic obj...

Spammers use hexadecimal IP addresses to evade detection
25/09/2020

Spammers use hexadecimal IP addresses to evade detection

A spam group has picked up a pretty clever trick that has allowed it to bypass email filters and security systems and land in more inboxes than usual. The trick relies on a quirk inRFC791— a standard that describes the Internet Protocol (IP). Among the various technical details, RFC791 is also the...

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