Category: Cybercrime

Zehntausende Mail-Server wegen Exchange-Lücke gehackt – Cloud oder Klaut – com-magazin.de Security Newsletter
12.03.2021

scroll down to ENGLISH “Zehntausende Mail-Server wegen Exchange-Lücke gehackt.  Wegen einer vor wenigen Tagen bekanntgewordenen Sicherheitslücke sind laut US-Medienberichten Zehntausende E-Mail-Server von Unternehmen, Behörden und Bildungseinrichtungen Opfer von Hacker-Attacken geworden. “Deutsche Unternehmen sind im internationalen Vergleich besonders stark von dieser […]

Die Vermessung des Patienten: Wem gehören meine Gesundheitsdaten? – Warum es immer weniger Ärzte und Arztpraxen in Deutschland geben wird und das Gesundheitssystem immer schlechter wird – Measuring the patient: who owns my health data? Why there will be fewer and fewer doctors and medical practices in Germany and the health system will get worse and worse
12.02.2021

Update: 2021-05: https://www.golem.de/news/irland-erste-patientendaten-im-netz-aufgetaucht-2105-156599.html Drei Krankheiten: erfolgreich kaputt gespart: schlechte Bezahlung: im Vergleich mit anderen EU-Ländern und auch USA steht Deutschland schlecht da was die Entlohnung von Ärzte an geht auch schlechter als Japan und gar Italien (!) das ist vermutlich […]

SonicWall hardware VPNs hit by worst-case 0-zero-day-exploit attacks
23.01.2021

accroding to BleepingComputer: “zero-day vulnerability in their VPN products” (so not FallOut of SolarWinds-orion-auto-update-software-supply-chain) “…have information about hacking of a well-known firewall vendor and other security products by this they are silent and do not release press releases for their […]

2020-05-18 Russian IT Security Updates
18.05.2020

SecurityLab, [21.04.20 15:35] Bitdefender experts have reported a malicious campaign against oil and gas companies. Attackers use targeted phishing and send emails to victims on behalf of logistics companies and engineering contractors. The goal of the campaign is to infect […]

2020-04-01 Russian IT Security Updates
02.04.2020

SecurityLab, [26.03.20 08:10] The largest free hosting provider on the darknet, Daniel’s Hosting, was hacked for the second time in 16 months, and stopped working on Wednesday, March 25. Unknown attackers deleted the entire database of the hosting provider, as […]

2020-03-25 Russian Security Updates
25.03.2020

SecurityLab, [24.03.20 08: 05] Cybercriminals hack Windows PCs through a previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager library (atmfd.dll) used by the operating system to process PostScript type 1 fonts. Microsoft described attacks exploiting this vulnerability as “targeted” and […]

Top 10 Virus Trojans Malware of 2019
21.03.2020

No. 1 Emotet — 36 026 samples Trojan was first discovered 2014 and was used to intercept data transferred via a secure connection. We will remind, in September of this year Emotet came back to life after 4 months of […]

2020-03 Russian Security Updates
21.03.2020

SecurityLab, [24.12.19 10: 05] An attempt by Chinese farmers to fight drones infecting pigs with African plague has disabled the navigation systems of some aircraft. According to the South China Morning Post, an unauthorized GPS signal jamming device was installed […]

Russian IT Security Updates 2020-01
13.01.2020

now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]

Russian IT Security Updates Dec22
23.12.2019

SecurityLab, [25.11.19 15:44] The Creator of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) presented an action plan to protect the network from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harmful influences. Tim Berners-Lee: “control of information is hugely […]

Mail Thunderbird – disable JavaScript
17.12.2019

MOZILLA ONE URGES YOU! MAKE JAVASCRIPT DISABLED IN THUNDERBIRD THE DEFAULT! Description Using the new logical assignment operators in a JavaScript switch statement could have caused a type confusion, leading to a memory corruption and a potentially exploitable crash. This […]

Russian IT Security Updates Dec3
03.12.2019

SecurityLab, [22.11.19 08:23] French company Edenred reported a cyberattack using malware that affected an unknown number of computer systems. The company has launched an investigation to determine the extent of the contamination. Payment solution provider Edenred has been the victim […]

Russian IT Security Updates Nov2
21.11.2019

new Russian IT Security updates: thanks to https://www.securitylab.ru/ and https://translate.yandex.com/   SecurityLab, [06.11.19 16:12] The Libarchive compression library, which is included by default in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD distributions, contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker […]

07.11.2019

SecurityLab, [01.11.19 15:21] Google has released fixes for two vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day vulnerability exploited in real-world attacks. The issues are fixed in browser version 78.0.3904.87 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and users are strongly advised to install […]