The disclosure a week ago that three Apple iOS zero days were used to spy on a political dissident from the United Arab Emirates included high-profile exposes of the activities of a cyber arms-dealing outfit in Israel known as the NSO Group and an emergency update for iOS. Last night, Apple expanded the scope of...

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the MedSec/Muddy Waters story, how the Angler exploit kit was traced back to the Lurk Gang, Fairware hitting Linux servers, and the Bashlite IoT malware. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_September_2_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves

A global malvertising campaign exposing potentially one million users to the risk of being infected with CrypMIC ransomware delivered via the Neutrino Exploit Kit has been shut down, according to researchers. Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group, which discovered the criminal activity, said the malvertising campaign stretched across North America, EU, Asia-Pac and the...

A recent run of attacks against Linux servers called Fairware has been traced to insecure internet-facing Redis installations that hackers have abused to delete web folders and, in some cases, install malicious code. Redis is an open source tool used by web application developers for the purpose of quickly caching data. The tool’s developers configured Redis...

Google continued its onslaught of summer Chrome patches Wednesday when it pushed out version 53 of the browser, fixing 33 bugs, half of which were rated “high” severity by the company. Google paid at least $56,500 in rewards to researchers who discovered vulnerabilities in the browser this time through. The company is still determining how much to...

An Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability addressed Tuesday in a hotfix pushed to users put applications developed on the platform at risk to a number of serious issues. Researcher Dawid Golunski of Legal Hackers today revealed details on the flaw, which he privately disclosed to Adobe, as well as a proof-of-concept of the exploit. Golunski said that ColdFusion...

Reports of additional attacks against banks that use SWIFT, the global financial transaction messaging network, came to light Wednesday. The attacks were reportedly persistent, sophisticated and in some cases successful, impacting an undisclosed number of financial institutions. It’s the latest development since February when cybercriminals used SWIFT to steal $81 million in a Bangladesh Bank...

Single sign-on company OneLogin began notifying customers this week that an attacker was able to take advantage of a bug in its system and view sensitive notes posted by users, thought to be secure. The company, whose authentication technology secures cloud-based applications, confirmed the incident Tuesday in a blog post. The compromised feature, Secure Notes, enables...

Security researchers warn mixing vulnerability disclosures with stock market bets sets a troubling precedent that erodes confidence in the relationship between businesses and white hat hackers who help uncover threats. Researchers are responding to the unprecedented partnership between security research firm MedSec and investment research outfit Muddy Waters LLC. Last week, Muddy Waters released a scathing report based...

When hackers infiltrated Dropbox in 2012 they made off with credentials for roughly 68 million users. The fact that the online storage site was hacked four years ago was no secret. But details around the sheer size of the stolen database, which contains users’ email addresses plus hashed and salted passwords from 2012, were unknown until Tuesday,...