It has been discovered by indipendent cyber security researchers. It’s a speculative execution attack which allows to steal sensitive information inside PCs and clouds.
It has been discovered by Proofpoint cyber security experts. The cybercrime group behind it is TA505, responsible for Dridex campaigns in 2015 and Locky ransomware in 2016.
The main issue is the cyber security of the elections against foreign cyber attacks. Focus also on cybercrime, use of Internet to recruit and spread violence.
The Agency, as Krebs on Security reported, sent a confidential alert to organization, urging them to review their cyber security to counter this offensive.
Santamarta at Black Hat 2018: satellite communications, used by ships, planes and military are vulnerable. Hackers can use them to launch “cyber-physical attacks”.
The cyber security experts indentified them in the “Cyber Threatscape 2018” report. They go from Iran to APTs, through supply chains and miner malware.
Crescono le cyber truffe “Technical support fraud”, grazie alle info personali condivise dagli utenti sui social media. La falla diventa l’essere umano.
The Technical support frauds are increasing, thanks to the personal info shared by users on social media. Pay attention, prevention is always better than cure.
An independent cyber security researcher found that the cybercrime spreads variant of the Hermes malware, playing on numbers rather than on complexity.