FBI and CISA warn of state hackers exploiting critical Zoho bug
The FBI, CISA, and the Coast Guard Cyber Command (CGCYBER) today warned that state-backed advanced persistent threat (APT) groups are actively exploiting a critical flaw in a Zoho single sign-on and password management solution since early August 2021. Zoho's customer list includes "three out of five Fortune 500 companies," including Apple, Intel, Nike, PayPal, HBO, and many more. READ MORE...
Airline Credential-Theft Takes Off in Widening Campaign
A two-year-old espionage campaign against the airline industry is ongoing, with AsyncRAT and other commodity remote-access trojans (RATs) helping those efforts take flight. The campaign can effectively be a bird strike to the business engine, so to speak, resulting in data theft, financial fraud or follow-on attacks, researchers said, who have uncovered new details about the perpetrators. READ MORE...
Trial Ends in Guilty Verdict for DDoS-for-Hire Boss
A jury in California today reached a guilty verdict in the trial of Matthew Gatrel, a St. Charles, Ill. man charged in 2018 with operating two online services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Internet users and websites. Gatrel's conviction comes roughly two weeks after his co-conspirator pleaded guilty to criminal charges related to running the services. READ MORE...
New malware uses Windows Subsystem for Linux for stealthy attacks
Security researchers have discovered malicious Linux binaries created for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), indicating that hackers are trying out new methods to compromise Windows machines. The finding underlines that threat actors are exploring new methods of attack and are focusing their attention on WSL to evade detection. The first samples targeting the WSL environment were discovered in early May and continued to appear every two to three weeks until August 22. READ MORE...
- ...in 1787, the United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- ...in 1920, the National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio.
- ...in 1976, NASA unveils the first space shuttle, Enterprise. It never went to space, but was used for atmospheric test flights.
- ...in 1991, software engineer Linus Torvalds releases the first version of the Linux kernel to the Internet.
