Cybersecurity
Hackers appear to be increasingly adopting the Havoc command and control (C2) framework, security researchers say. The open source framework, developed by C5pider, supports the building of offensive agents in several formats including Windows PE executable, PE DLL and shellcode and is an alternative to the paid for (or cracked)
February’s Patch Tuesday brings the post-Valentine’s Day hangover of 75 bug fixes from Microsoft including three for CVEs known to be exploited in the wild: CVE-2023-21715, CVE-2023-23376 , and CVE-2023-21823. Strikingly, more than half of the bugs fixed this month are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. (A record 26,
In early 2021 a successful attack by hackers on Accellion, a file transfer service provider, resulted in significant repercussions downstream: Energy supermajor Shell, global law firm Goodwin Procter, and investment bank Morgan Stanley were among the blue chips that saw data stolen as a result. Now a critical vulnerability in
VMware denies zero day being used
The way we instrument for security doesn't require us to put out 25 different agents
This story has been updated here on February 8. Security researchers are reporting an explosion in the compromise of VMware ESXi hypervisors with over 500 machines hit by ransomware this weekend, with the automated attacks likely exploiting CVE-2021-21974. As The Stack published, some 20 ESXi machines were reportedly being ransomed
Security researchers regularly chafe at the deafening silence when they report a critical vulnerability in software: White Hats simply wanting to help organisations fix their cybersecurity all too often still find themselves being ignored – or worse, threatened with legal action when trying to help publicly exposed organisations that have not
"If a ban is considered the Government should be ready to step in..."