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New Golang malware plays the Linux field in quest for cryptocurrency

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A new form of malware has been spotted in the wild by cybersecurity companies which say the code's main focus is the fraudulent mining of the Monero (XMR) cryptocurrency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 04, 2019

US Cyber Command warns nation-state hackers are exploiting old Microsoft Outlook bug. Make sure you’re patched!

US Cyber Command has issued a warning about an unnamed foreign country’s attempt to spread malware through the exploitation of a vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 03, 2019

China's Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists' Phones

Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 03, 2019

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OpenSSH to protect keys in memory against side-channel attacks

The OpenSSH project has received a patch that prevents private keys from being stolen through hardware vulnerabilities that allow hackers to access restricted memory regions from unprivileged processes. The same approach could be used by other software application to protect their secrets in RAM until the issues are fixed in future generations of SDRAM chips and CPUs.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 02, 2019

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What is a botnet? When armies of infected IoT devices attack

A botnet is a collection of internet-connected devices that an attacker has compromised. Botnets act as a force multiplier for individual attackers, cyber-criminal groups and nation-states looking to disrupt or break into their targets’ systems. Commonly used in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, botnets can also take advantage of their collective computing power to send large volumes of spam, steal credentials at scale, or spy on people and organizations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 27, 2019

Experts Weigh In On New Cryptocurrency Mining Botnet

There is a new cryptocurrency-mining botnet that arrives via open ADB (android Debug Bridge) ports and can spread via SSH, according to Trend Micro.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 26, 2019

Report reveals Russian Hackers May Be Responsible for $530 Million Cryptocurrency Hack

A new report of the investigation into the $530 million hack that ruined Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck in January 2018 states that Russian, not North Korean, actors may have been behind the attack.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2019

Netflix fixes potentially devastating Linux SACK vulnerability

Eagle-eyed researchers from streaming titan Netflix have uncovered several troubling security vulnerabilities within the TCP implementations on Linux and FreeBSD kernels. The most severe specimen, called SACK Panic, could permit an attacker to remotely induce a kernel panic within recent Linux operating systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 18, 2019

Millions of Email Servers at Risk from Cryptomining Worm

Researchers have spotted a major new cyber-attack campaign targeting millions of Linux email servers around the world with a cryptomining malware payload.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 14, 2019

Ransomware halts production for days at major airplane parts manufacturer

ASCO, one of the world's largest suppliers of airplane parts, has ceased production in factories across four countries due to a ransomware infection reported at its plant in Zaventem, Belgium.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 11, 2019

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Beware Linux users! Vulnerability in Vim or Neovim Editor could compromise your Linux

Security expert Armin Razmjou recently detected a high-risk arbitrary OS command execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-12735) in Vim and Neovim.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 11, 2019

Cryptocurrency startup hacks itself before hacker gets a chance to steal users funds

If you're a cryptocurrency startup, would you face a huge backlash by hacking your own customers to keep their funds safe if you know that a hacker is about to launch an attack and steal their funds?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2019

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Baltimore ransomware attack will cost the city over $18 million

Fresh off dealing with chaos caused by last month's ransomware attack, the city of Baltimore has a new problem to deal with -- the $18 million in damages that came with it.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 06, 2019

Cybersecurity flaws in chips are still taking too long to fix

When Intel and a group of security researchers revealed the existence of new security flaws in older generations of the company’s microchips in May, the news came with a particularly troubling detail: it took over a year to get a solution for one of the flaws in place.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 03, 2019

Massive Quest Diagnostics data breach impacts 12 million patients

A massive data breach has struck Quest Diagnostics and the information of up to 11.9 million patients has potentially been compromised.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 03, 2019

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Unpatched Docker bug allows read-write access to host OS

There are lots of books on tools and techniques to secure software containers, but what happens when someone discovers a basic architectural flaw? And what do you do when there’s no working patch for it?

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 31, 2019

Ransomware attacks in US cities are using a stolen NSA tool

The ransomware attacks in Baltimore and other US cities appear to have a common thread: they're using NSA tools on the agency's home soil. In-the-know security experts talking to the New York Times said the malware in the cyberattacks is using the NSA's stolen EternalBlue as a "key component," much like WannaCry and NotPetya. While the full list of affected cities isn't available, San Antonio and the Pennsylvania city of Allentown have reportedly been victims of EternalBlue-based campaigns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 26, 2019

Linux 5.1 Hit By A Data Loss Bug Due To Overly Aggressive FSTRIM

As a forewarning to those using LVM, dm-crypt, and Samsung solid-state drives, this combination in some manner(s) may lead to data corruption if using the Linux 5.1 kernel.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 25, 2019

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Equifax Has Spent Nearly $1.4bn on Breach Costs

Equifax has incurred losses so far of over $1.35bn from a devastating 2017 breach which affected more than half of all Americans and millions of UK consumers, the firm revealed in its latest financials.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 14, 2019

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Two people indicted for massive Anthem health data breach

The US thinks it knows who’s behind the vast breach that siphoned off 78.8 million customer and employee records from US health insurer Anthem between 2014 and 2015.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 13, 2019

Akira Ransomware Gang Targets Linux Servers, Extorts $42 Million

Threat Actors Are Actively Using Pupy RAT Malware to Attack Linux Systems

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Raises Serious Security Concerns