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The world’s largest manufacturer of wind turbines was forced to shut down IT systems across several locations over the weekend after a cybersecurity incident. In a brief notice on Saturday, Vestas Wind Systems claimed the attack struck the day before, with IT services in multiple business units affected. At the time, the Danish firm said that customers, employees and other stakeholders could be affected by the incident, and that it was working with internal and…

The time to repurpose vulnerabilities into working exploits will be measured in hours and there’s nothing you can do about it… except patch By Fred House 2021 is already being touted as one of the worst years on record with respect to the volume of zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. Some cite this as evidence of better detection by the industry while others credit improved disclosure by victims. Others will simply conclude that as…

Word splitting is a function of BASH that I was unfamiliar with, but it is definitely one that impacted my recent research. From the bash(1) man page: IFS The Internal Field Separator that is used for word splitting after expansion and to split lines into words with the read builtin command. The default value is <space><tab><newline>. Word Splitting The shell scans the results of parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion that did not occur…

Currently, ransomware is the most prominent cyber threat to businesses and individuals. Ransomware attacks are growing more prevalent as cybercriminals find new ways to profit from them. According to CyberEdge’s 2021 Cyberthreat Defense Report, 62% of organizations were victimized by ransomware in 2019—up from 56% in 2018 and 55% in 2017. This rise is arguably fueled by the dramatic increase in ransomware payments. More than half (58%) of ransomware victims paid a ransom last year,…

By CISO T.J. Minichillo Work may never be the same again as the world continues to grapple with the global pandemic — pivoting from office-based business environments to fully remote home-based work and now to a hybrid of the two. Just 11% of companies expect all of their employees to return to the office fulltime, according to a survey by the National Association for Business Economics. The new normal is a hybrid model with over…

Researchers discovered threat actors installing a Linux backdoor on compromised e-commerce servers after deploying a credit card skimmer into e-stores. Security researchers from Sansec Threat Research Team discovered a Linux backdoor during an investigation into the compromised of an e-commerce server with a software skimmer. The attackers initially conducted a reconnaissance phase by probing the e-store with automated eCommerce attack probes. After a day and a half, the threat actors found and exploited a file…