Developers with the open source content management framework Drupal today patched a series of highly critical remote code execution bugs in three separate modules. If exploited, the bugs could let an attacker take over any site running the modules. Fixes for pushed for RESTful Web Services, a module used for creating REST APIs, Coder, a module...

Networked printers have always posed an interesting attack vector, mostly for academics looking for vulnerabilities, and vandals sending garbage to the print bin. Microsoft, today, however patched a legitimate vulnerability that an attacker could abuse to attack corporate and home networks. MS16-087, one of a half-dozen critical security bulletins published today by Microsoft, patches a...

The xDedic market has resurfaced, this time on a Tor network domain and with the inclusion of a new $50 USD enrollment fee. XDedic’s original domain (xdedic[.]biz) disappeared shortly after a June 16 Kaspersky Lab report describing how xDedic provided a platform for the sale of compromised RDP servers. At the time of the report, there...

If you’re sick and sitting in a drab hospital room hooked-up to a dialysis pump, the last thing you want to worry about is hackers. But according to IT healthcare security experts, there is a chance that life-saving dialysis machine is infected with malware, could even be processing fraudulent credit card transactions, or is part...

Don’t judge an APT by its exploits alone. That’s the takeaway from a report that details a unique advanced persistent threat that leverages a kludge of unsophisticated, outdated and rudimentary attack tools to conduct cyber espionage. The target of the attacks are government and diplomatic agencies in Asia with close ties to China. Researchers discovered the...

An advanced persistent threat tied to Southeast Asia and the South China Sea is targeting governments and entities around the world including the U.S. The attacks are unique, according to security experts, because the perpetrators are relying nearly 100 percent on computer code copied-and-pasted from sources on the web. Cymmetria Research, which discovered the APT...

Top router firm TP-Link has lost control of two key top level domains accessed by millions of consumers and small businesses each month. The domains, which are used to configure the company’s routers, have expired and been resold to domain name brokers who are actively seeking buyers. Security experts say the domains are at risk...

Think hackers use advanced malware and mysterious tools once they have infiltrated a network? According to security startup LightCyber, most attackers use the same mainstream security tools the good guys use, only for lateral movement, network mapping and remote control of endpoints. Of course, tactics for penetrating the network include tried-and-true techniques such as malware,...

LizardStresser, a distributed denial of service botnet, has found new life leveraging hundreds of internet-based webcams in attacks against Brazilian-based banks, government agencies as well as a handful of U.S.-based gaming companies. Researchers at the Arbor’s Security Engineering and Response Team (ASERT) say publicly released source code of the LizardStresser botnet in 2015, by the...

Internet-connected medical devices such as MRI machines, CT scanners and dialysis pumps are increasingly being targeted by hacker seeking to steal patient medical records from hospitals. Attackers consider the devices soft digital targets, seldom guarded with same security as client PCs and servers within hospitals. In a report by security firm TrapX Labs, researchers found...