Original release date: November 11, 2021 VMware has released a security advisory to address a privilege escalation vulnerability in vCenter Server and Cloud Foundation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0025 and apply the necessary workaround. >>More
NEWS PROVIDED BY Cyber-Forensics.net November 16, 2021, 00:00 GMT The remote desktop scam involves convincing users to install apps like Anydesk to gain control of your computer and get hold of bank details. SOFIA, BULGARIA, November 16, 2021 / — With significant aspects of our lives digitized today, work from home proved to be…
NEWS PROVIDED BY Cyber-Forensics.net November 09, 2021, 13:27 GMT Cyber-Forensics.net More than 350 partners, including Cyber-Forensics.net across the United States, joined the fight this year under the theme “let’s talk scams.” the more we talk about scams, the more awareness we have, and the harder it is for scammers to steal money or personal information.”…
NEWS PROVIDED BY Cyber-Forensics.net November 08, 2021, 17:56 GMT SHARE THIS ARTICLE Cyber-Forensics.net helps victims trace their money back to the criminals Cyber-Forensics.net report found a 1500% in romance scam fraud, tens of millions of dollars last quarter. Cyber-Forensics recommends victims report all cases of such fraud to local authorities” — Timothy Benson, Chief Analyst…
Summary alerts from us-cert.cisa.gov Russian cyber operations have posed a longstanding threat to the United States. Prior to 2018, several private cyber security companies published reports about APT 29 operations to obtain access to victim networks and steal information, highlighting the use of customized tools to maximize stealth inside victim networks and APT 29 actors’…
Summary alerts from us-cert.cisa.gov Sophisticated Spearphishing Campaign Targets Government Organizations, IGOs, and NGOs The US-CISA and FBI are investigating a sophisticated spearphishing campaign targeting government organizations and other entities. A cyber threat actor leveraged a compromised end-user account from Constant Contact, a legitimate email marketing software company, to send phishing emails to more than 7,000…
Summary Alerts for us-cert.cisa.gov NSA, CISA, and FBI have observed increasingly sophisticated Chinese state-sponsored cyber activity targeting U.S. political, economic, military, educational, and CI personnel and organizations. NSA, CISA, and FBI have identified the following trends in Chinese state-sponsored malicious cyber operations through proactive and retrospective analysis: Acquisition of Infrastructure and Capabilities. Chinese state-sponsored cyber…
CVE-2021-40539, rated critical by the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), is an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting representational state transfer (REST) application programming interface (API) URLs that could enable remote code execution. The FBI, CISA, and CGCYBER assess that advanced persistent threat (APT) cyber actors are likely among those exploiting the vulnerability. The exploitation of ManageEngine…
The Conti ransomware is a RaaS model that differentiates from the standard affiliate-based model. It’s likely that the developers of Conti pay the deployers of this ransomware a wage rather than a percentage of the proceeds, and receive shares of the proceeds from successful attacks. >>MORE
Cyber Threats to U.S. Water and Wastewater Systems WWS facilities may be vulnerable to the following common tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by threat actors to compromise IT and OT networks, systems, and devices. >>MORE