S3 Ep113: Pwning the Windows kernel – the crooks who hoodwinked Microsoft [Audio + Text]
Return o’ the rookit, super-sneaky wireless spyware, credit card skimming, and patches galore. Listen and learn!
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends
- December 15, 2022
NSA, CISA Warn Against Threats to 5G Network Slicing
Improper network slice management may enable attackers to access data from different network slices
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsOperation Power Off: 50 DDoS-services taken offline in international crackdown
Law enforcement agencies in the United States, UK, Netherlands, Poland, and Germany have brought down the most popular DDoS-for-hire services on the internet, responsible for tens of millions of attacks against websites. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsOperation Power Off: 50 DDoS-services taken offline in international crackdown
Law enforcement agencies in the United States, UK, Netherlands, Poland, and Germany have brought down the most popular DDoS-for-hire services on the internet, responsible for tens of millions of attacks against websites. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSmashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob
Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the microscope. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Rico Acosta, […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsSmashing Security podcast #302: Lensa AI, and a dog called Bob
Drug dealers come unstuck while using the Encrochat encrypted-messaging app, and we put the Lensa AI’s avatar-generation tool under the microscope. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Rico Acosta, […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsA Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command—like its controllers did one day while Akamai was watching—created a panic crash with an “index out of range” error. Because there’s no persistence, the bot stays down, and malicious agents would need to reinfect […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsA Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command—like its controllers did one day while Akamai was watching—created a panic crash with an “index out of range” error. Because there’s no persistence, the bot stays down, and malicious agents would need to reinfect […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsA Security Vulnerability in the KmsdBot Botnet
Security researchers found a software bug in the KmsdBot cryptomining botnet: With no error-checking built in, sending KmsdBot a malformed command—like its controllers did one day while Akamai was watching—created a panic crash with an “index out of range” error. Because there’s no persistence, the bot stays down, and malicious agents would need to reinfect […]
Cyber News, Cyber Threat Trends