U.S. Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Security

U.S. Senate Passes Cybersecurity Bill to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Security,

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the « Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act » on Tuesday in an attempt to bolster the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure owners in the country.
The new bipartisan legislation, among other things, stipulates entities that experience a cyber incident to report the attacks within 72 hours to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),

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The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the « Strengthening American Cybersecurity Act » on Tuesday in an attempt to bolster the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure owners in the country.
The new bipartisan legislation, among other things, stipulates entities that experience a cyber incident to report the attacks within 72 hours to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/us-senate-passes-cybersecurity-bill-to.html

Hackers Try to Target European Officials to Get Info on Ukrainian Refugees, Supplies

Hackers Try to Target European Officials to Get Info on Ukrainian Refugees, Supplies,

Details of a new nation-state sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on European governmental entities in what’s seen as an attempt to obtain intelligence on refugee and supply movement in the region.
Enterprise security company Proofpoint, which detected the malicious emails for the first time on February 24, 2022, dubbed the social engineering attacks « Asylum

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Details of a new nation-state sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on European governmental entities in what’s seen as an attempt to obtain intelligence on refugee and supply movement in the region.
Enterprise security company Proofpoint, which detected the malicious emails for the first time on February 24, 2022, dubbed the social engineering attacks « Asylum

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/hackers-try-to-hack-european-officials.html

Nvidia, victime d’un énorme piratage, semble à la merci de ses hackers

Nvidia, victime d’un énorme piratage, semble à la merci de ses hackers,

Les pirates multiplient les revendications face à Nvidia tout en s’acoquinant avec la communauté des mineurs de cryptomonnaie. Une situation plutôt complexe à gérer pour l’entreprise américaine.

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Les pirates multiplient les revendications face à Nvidia tout en s’acoquinant avec la communauté des mineurs de cryptomonnaie. Une situation plutôt complexe à gérer pour l’entreprise américaine.

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https://www.01net.com/actualites/nvidia-a-bel-et-bien-ete-victime-d-un-enorme-piratage-2055210.html

Hackers Begin Weaponizing TCP Middlebox Reflection for Amplified DDoS Attacks

Hackers Begin Weaponizing TCP Middlebox Reflection for Amplified DDoS Attacks,

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the novel attack mechanism was presented in theory.
« The attack […] abuses vulnerable firewalls and content filtering systems to reflect and amplify TCP traffic to a victim machine, creating a powerful DDoS

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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the novel attack mechanism was presented in theory.
« The attack […] abuses vulnerable firewalls and content filtering systems to reflect and amplify TCP traffic to a victim machine, creating a powerful DDoS

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/hackers-begin-weaponizing-tcp-middlebox.html

LIVE Webinar: Key Lessons Learned from Major Cyberattacks in 2021 and What to Expect in 2022

LIVE Webinar: Key Lessons Learned from Major Cyberattacks in 2021 and What to Expect in 2022,

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact, and perhaps permanently changing, how we work, cybercriminals again leveraged the distraction in new waves of cyberattacks.
Over the course of 2021 we saw an increase in multiple attack approaches; some old, some new. Phishing and ransomware continued to grow from previous years, as expected, while new attacks on supply chains and

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With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to impact, and perhaps permanently changing, how we work, cybercriminals again leveraged the distraction in new waves of cyberattacks.
Over the course of 2021 we saw an increase in multiple attack approaches; some old, some new. Phishing and ransomware continued to grow from previous years, as expected, while new attacks on supply chains and

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/live-webinar-key-lessons-learned-from.html

Critical Bugs Reported in Popular Open Source PJSIP SIP and Media Stack

Critical Bugs Reported in Popular Open Source PJSIP SIP and Media Stack,

As many as five security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the PJSIP open-source multimedia communication library that could be abused by an attacker to trigger arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) in applications that use the protocol stack.
The weaknesses were identified and reported by JFrog’s Security Research team, following which the project maintainers released

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As many as five security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the PJSIP open-source multimedia communication library that could be abused by an attacker to trigger arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) in applications that use the protocol stack.
The weaknesses were identified and reported by JFrog’s Security Research team, following which the project maintainers released

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-bugs-reported-in-popular-open.html

Critical Security Bugs Uncovered in VoIPmonitor Monitoring Software

Critical Security Bugs Uncovered in VoIPmonitor Monitoring Software,

Critical security vulnerabilities have been uncovered in VoIPmonitor software that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges to the administrator level and execute arbitrary commands.
Following responsible disclosure by researchers from Kerbit, an Ethiopia-based penetration-testing and vulnerability research firm, on December 15, 2021, the issues

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Critical security vulnerabilities have been uncovered in VoIPmonitor software that, if successfully exploited, could allow unauthenticated attackers to escalate privileges to the administrator level and execute arbitrary commands.
Following responsible disclosure by researchers from Kerbit, an Ethiopia-based penetration-testing and vulnerability research firm, on December 15, 2021, the issues

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/critical-security-bugs-uncovered-in.html

TeaBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Again Through Google Play Store Apps

TeaBot Android Banking Malware Spreads Again Through Google Play Store Apps,

An Android banking trojan designed to steal credentials and SMS messages has been observed once again sneaking past Google Play Store protections to target users of more than 400 banking and financial apps, including those from Russia, China, and the U.S.
« TeaBot RAT capabilities are achieved via the device screen’s live streaming (requested on-demand) plus the abuse of Accessibility Services

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An Android banking trojan designed to steal credentials and SMS messages has been observed once again sneaking past Google Play Store protections to target users of more than 400 banking and financial apps, including those from Russia, China, and the U.S.
« TeaBot RAT capabilities are achieved via the device screen’s live streaming (requested on-demand) plus the abuse of Accessibility Services

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/teabot-android-banking-malware-spreads.html

La guerre en Ukraine sème la zizanie chez les pirates

La guerre en Ukraine sème la zizanie chez les pirates,

1Les hackers prennent position et s’organisent pour défendre l’un ou l’autre belligérant. Le déchirement se fait même parfois sentir au sein même des groupes.

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1Les hackers prennent position et s’organisent pour défendre l’un ou l’autre belligérant. Le déchirement se fait même parfois sentir au sein même des groupes.

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https://www.01net.com/actualites/la-guerre-en-ukraine-seme-la-zizanie-chez-les-pirates-2055189.html

Second New ‘IsaacWiper’ Data Wiper Targets Ukraine After Russian Invasion

Second New ‘IsaacWiper’ Data Wiper Targets Ukraine After Russian Invasion

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A new data wiper malware has been observed deployed against an unnamed Ukrainian government network, a day after destructive cyber attacks struck multiple entities in the country preceding the start of Russia’s military invasion.
Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET dubbed the new malware « IsaacWiper, » which it said was detected on February 24 in an organization that was not affected by HermeticWiper 

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A new data wiper malware has been observed deployed against an unnamed Ukrainian government network, a day after destructive cyber attacks struck multiple entities in the country preceding the start of Russia’s military invasion.
Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET dubbed the new malware « IsaacWiper, » which it said was detected on February 24 in an organization that was not affected by HermeticWiper 

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https://thehackernews.com/2022/03/second-new-isaacwiper-data-wiper.html