InfoSec Week 23, 2018
Australian government drafts new laws, that will force technology giants like Facebook, Google to give government agencies access to encrypted data.
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Australian government drafts new laws, that will force technology giants like Facebook, Google to give government agencies access to encrypted data.
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Facebook, Google, Cisco, WhatsApp and other industry partners get together to create Message Layer Security as an open standard for end-to-end encryption with formal verification. Messaging Layer Security is now an IETF working group as well.
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Notoriously known Necurs spam botnet is sending millions of spam emails that are pumping shitcoin cryptocurrency named Swisscoin. Attackers are probably invested and are expecting to do pump-and-dump scheme.
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Security researcher Gal Beniamini from Google has discovered a security vulnerability (CVE-2017-11120) in Apple's iPhone and other devices that use Broadcom Wi-Fi chips and published working exploit after notifying affected parties.
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Microsoft has analyzed EnglishmansDentist exploit used against the Exchange 2003 mail servers on the out-dated Windows Server 2003 OS. Exploit was released by ShadowBrokers back in April 2017.
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Porn spam botnet consisting of more than 80,000 automated female Twitter accounts has been prompting millions of clicks from Twitter users to the various affiliate dating schemes (known as 'partnerka').
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The Cisco Talos team has analyzed ROKRAT remote administration tool targeting South Koreans by spear phishing campaign.
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The tale of a misunderstood malware author who has released banking malware - NukeBot- source code on a GitHub to get a track.
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Cisco Talos analyzed PowerShell trojan 'DNSMessenger' that communicates with the command and control server using DNS TXT record queries.
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