more than 142 million websites have been using outdated content management system (cms) software and plugins that could be exploited by hackers to serve ransomware by injecting malicious scripts into those websites and then redirect the website visitors to the neutrino trojan exploit kit server, according to the security research conducted by the …With ransomware growing to a billion-dollar industry and the average ransom amount averaging at $1 million, the temptation for many malicious actors becomes irresistible. “There's a huge monetary incentive for performing ransomware attacks.While there is still no news from Microsoft itself ahead of the Patch Tuesday disclosure, the National Security Agency's (NSA) director of cybersecurity, Anne Neuberger, has now confirmed that.
Recently uncovered software flaw ‘most critical vulnerability of the last decade’ Log4Shell grants easy access to internal networks, making them susceptible to data loot and loss and malware.
Accellion: CVE-2021-27101, CVE-2021-27102, CVE-2021-27103, CVE-2021-27104. VMware: CVE-2021-21985. Fortinet: CVE-2018-13379, CVE-2020-12812, and CVE-2019-5591. By releasing these two lists of the .
The flaw is located in a Realtek software developer kit (SDK) and is currently under attack from a group using a variant of the IoT malware, Mirai, which is designed to function on devices with.
Owners of Dell laptops might want to dust off the company’s bundled software update tool. There’s a critical update addressing a flaw that could allow an attacker to take over your system simply by sending you to a compromised website. Amusingly, the bug is in Dell’s own remote support tool that is .
The majority of software flaws are identified by outsiders, according to a report by Risk Based Security. Organisations often encourage outsiders to look for vulnerabilities by offering rewards. There are more cyber criminals looking for vulnerabilities, so it’s more likely that they will be discovered.Security researchers have disclosed multiple architectural vulnerabilities in Siemens SIMATIC and SIPLUS S7-1500 programmable logic controllers (PLCs) that could be exploited by a malicious actor to stealthily install firmware on affected devices and take control of them.