Monthly Archives: March 2019

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Banks risk $350bn loss to cyber-attacks — IMF

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IMF Managing Director, Christine Lagarde disclosed this while making the call for better regulation of the banking system as a requirement for building a safer, more sustainable and ethically sound financial sector.

Speaking in London on Thursday while delivering in […]

By |March 4th, 2019|Cyber News|

Running Elasticsearch 1.4.2 or earlier? There’s targeted malware going for your boxen

 

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Cisco’s security limb has spotted nefarious people targeting Elasticsearch clusters using relatively ancient vulns to plant malware, cryptocurrency miners and worse – though it does root out some other cybercrims’ dodgy wares, cuckoo-style.

“These attackers are targeting clusters using versions […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Web hacker ‘Alfabeto Virtual’ thrown in the clink for 3 months by US judge who wanted to ‘send a message’

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A US judge this week sentenced website hacker Billy Anderson to three months behind bars, refusing his lawyer’s request not to put him in jail, in order to “send a message” to others.

Anderson, 42, of Torrance, California, targeted thousands […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Qbot malware’s back, and latest strain relies on Visual Basic script to slip into target machines

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A new version of the decade-old banking credential-stealing Qbot malware is doing the rounds, according to infosec firm Varonis.

The latest version, spotted after an unfortunate customer’s systems were infected, retains the anti-analysis polymorphism features of the original, Varonis researchers […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

In the cloud, things aren’t always what they SIEM: Microsoft rolls out AI-driven Azure Sentinel

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RSA Microsoft has wheeled out two new enterprise security tools – Azure Sentinel, a cloud-based SIEM, and Microsoft Threat Experts, an infosec advice-as-a-service bundled with a panic button.

The two services are part of Redmond’s ongoing invasion of the cloud security market. […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Did you hear the one about Cisco routers using strcpy insecurely for login authentication? Makes you go AAAAA-AAAAAAArrg *segfault*

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Cisco has patched three of its RV-series routers after Pen Test Partners (PTP) found them using hoary old C function strcpy insecurely in login authentication function. The programming blunder can be exploited to potentially hijack the devices.

PTP looked at how the […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Kerala Cyberdome, Dubai police tie up on cyber security

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The Kerala Cyberdome has decided to cooperate with Dubai police in cyber security. The two sides reached an agreement on sharing the information about those who are engaged in criminal activities on social media, said Police Cyberdome chief Manoj […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Jyotipriya Singh, DCP cyber crime, Pune, says stronger policies are needed to prevent fraud through breach of KYC data

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It is too easy to obtain and breach KYC data collected from customers by banks, mobile phone companies and other organisations, Jyotipriya Singh, deputy commissioner of police, cyber crime and economic offences wing, Pune, has said.

KYC or know your […]

By |March 3rd, 2019|Cyber News|

Bengaluru gets cyber crime research, training centre

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Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy inaugurated the Centre for Cyber Crime Investigation Training and Research (CCITR) at CID headquarters on Thursday. This is a public-private partnership project between the state government and Infosys Foundation, which has funded `22 crore […]

By |March 1st, 2019|Cyber News|

India Pakistan stand-off: Govt asks NIC to take precautions against cyber attacks

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The Government has directed the National Informatics Centre (NIC) to enhance its level of preparedness and take precautions against possible cyber attacks and hacking incidents on government websites and strategic IT infrastructure after India destroyed a terrorist training camp […]

By |March 1st, 2019|Cyber News|