This week on The 443 – Security Simplified, we discuss the latest out-of-band security patch from Microsoft solving two potentially serious vulnerabilities, a cryptocurrency phishing campaign that made its way on to the Google Play app store, and a neat way that payment card skimming malware hide’s its malicious code. … [Read more...]
Q1 2020 Internet Security Report
It’s that time of year again! This week on The 443 we cover the latest internet security report from the WatchGuard Threat Lab. In this episode, we’ll cover the stats and key findings from threat intelligence gathered from over 44,000 security appliances deployed across the world. … [Read more...]
ClearSky’s $200 Million Lesson on Security for High Value Targets
Yesterday ClearSky, a security research group, released a report on a threat actor group called CryptoCore. As you may guess by the name, CryptoCore specifically targets cryptocurrency wallets and exchanges. This group carefully and methodically social engineers companies that run exchanges for cryptocurrency like Bitcoin. At first, they target the personal account of an … [Read more...]
US Senators Introduce Bill to Backdoor Encryption
Three Republican Senators today introduced the Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act, in their latest attack on the security and privacy of everyday citizens. The press release for the bill describes it as a way to “bolster national security interests” by “ending the use of ‘warrant-proof’ encrypted technology by terrorists and other bad actors to conceal illicit behavior.” At a … [Read more...]
RIpple20 Causes Waves in Network Security
Last week JSOF, a cybersecurity team, released 19 vulnerabilities found in a library developed by Treck, Inc. Two of these include code execution vulnerabilities. According to the report, millions of devices ranging from printers to other embedded networking devices use the Treck library as the TCP/IP stack. JSOF hasn't released too many details on most of the … [Read more...]
