Zeljka Zorz
Israel’s new cyber-kinetic lab will boost the resilience of critical infrastructure
In a building under construction at the Advanced Technologies Park in Be’er Sheva, the “cyber capital” of Israel, a new governmental lab is also taking shape: the …
Microsoft adds default protection against RDP brute-force attacks
“Win11 builds now have a DEFAULT account lockout policy to mitigate RDP and other brute force password vectors,” David Weston of Enterprise and OS Security at …
The rise and continuing popularity of LinkedIn-themed phishing
Phishing emails impersonating LinkedIn continue to make the bulk of all brand phishing attempts; according to Check Point, 45% of all email phishing attempts in Q2 2022 …
Atlassian fixes critical flaws in Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket and other products, update quickly!
Atlassian has fixed three critical vulnerabilities and is urging customers using Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket, Crowd, Fisheye and Crucible, Jira and Jira Service Management …
Vulnerabilities in popular GPS tracker could allow hackers to remotely stop cars
Six vulnerabilities in the MiCODUS MV720 GPS tracker that’s used by organizations around the world to manage and protect vehicle fleets could be exploited by attackers …
Beware of password-cracking software for PLCs and HMIs!
A threat actor is targeting industrial engineers and operators with trojanized password-cracking software for programmable logic controllers (PLCs) and human-machine …
How to address the ongoing risk of Log4j exploitation and prepare for the future
“Vulnerable instances of Log4j will remain in systems for many years to come, perhaps a decade or longer,” the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) has concluded. …
PayPal-themed phishing kit allows complete identity theft
Sometimes phishers are just after your username and password, but other times they are after every scrap of sensitive information they can extract from you. To do that, they …
Phishers steal Office 365 users’ session cookies to bypass MFA, commit payment fraud
A massive phishing campaign has been targeting Office 365 (i.e., Microsoft 365) users in over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 and successfully bypassing multi-factor …
Who are the best fraud fighters?
Seasoned fraud expert PJ Rohall has recently become the new Head of Fraud Strategy & Education at SEON. In this Help Net Security interview, he talks about how he entered …
Microsoft fixes exploited zero-day in Windows CSRSS (CVE-2022-22047)
The July 2022 Patch Tuesday is upon us and has brought fixes for 84 CVEs in various Microsoft products, including an actively exploited zero-day: CVE-2022-22047, an elevation …
Researchers defeat facial recognition systems with universal face mask
Can attackers create a face mask that would defeat modern facial recognition (FR) systems? A group of researchers from from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv …