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HawkEye Attack Wave Sends Stolen Data to Another Keylogger Provider

A recent attack wave involving HawkEye malware sends data stolen from its victims to another keylogger provider's website. On 21 May, My Online Security came across a new sample of HawkEye. The actual delivery mechanism itself wasn't unique compared to previous attacks involving the malware. In this particular instance, the attack email used the...
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Women and Nonbinary People in Information Security: Yaz

Last time, I spoke with technology marketing communicator Stacey Holleran. Our work is similar but different. Plus, she warned me about what I might expect from the tech industry in a few years when I turn 40! For my last interview until fall/autumn, I had the pleasure of speaking with Yaz. She went from the military to a civilian career as a...
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Letting Go While Holding On: Managing Cyber Risk in Cloud Environments

As recently as 2017, security and compliance professionals at many of Tripwire’s large enterprise and government customers were talking about migration to the cloud as a possibility to be considered and cautiously explored in the coming years. Within a year, the tone had changed. What used to be “we’re thinking about it” became “the CIO wants to see...
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Company Behind LeakedSource Pleads Guilty after RCMP Investigation

A company responsible for helping to operate LeakedSource.com has submitted a guilty plea following an investigation by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). On 17 May, Defiant Tech Inc. pleaded guilty to the charge of "trafficking in identity information and possession of property obtained by crime" in association with an investigation...
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Things You Need to Know About Open Source – The FAQ Edition

Open Source projects can be a great asset, or they can be a curse – it's all in how you manage it. To be successful in using open source, there are several things to keep in mind, from licensing to updates. And if you ignore any of them, it can cause problems. Here are some things to consider. What is the license? There are a range of license options for an open source project, and components...
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The Latest Techniques Hackers are Using to Compromise Office 365

It was only a few years back that cloud technology was in its infancy and used only by tech-savvy, forward-thinking organisations. Today, it is commonplace. More businesses than ever are making use of cloud services in one form another. And recent statistics suggest that cloud adoption has reached 88 percent. It seems that businesses now rely on the...
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A Simple Data Breach Guide (Interpreting GDPR)

Perhaps it’s too melodramatic to claim that the debate over how to define a data breach "rages on" because we haven’t seen bodies flying out of windows yet, but it is a serious question with genuine financial ramifications now that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its accompanying fines for mishandling data have arrived to save (and...
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Magecart Used Same Skimmer against Two Web-Based Suppliers

Magecart threat actors used the same skimmer against two web-based suppliers to try to steal users' payment card information. As discovered by security researcher Willem de Groot, the first attack occurred at 15:56:42 GMT on 10 May when bad actors injected the skimmer into the bottom of a script used by enterprise content management system CloudCMS....
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VERT Threat Alert: May 2019 Patch Tuesday Analysis

Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s May 2019 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-830 on Wednesday, May 15th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2019-0863 Windows Error Reporting (WER) incorrectly handles certain files and, when exploited, could lead to the execution of code...
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Bad Actors Using MitM Attacks against ASUS to Distribute Plead Backdoor

Researchers believe bad actors are using man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks against ASUS software to distribute the Plead backdoor. Near the end of April 2019, researchers at ESET observed several attack attempts that both created and executed the Plead backdoor using "AsusWSPanel.exe," a legitimate process which belongs to the Windows client for the...
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6 Common Compliance Conundrums to Know About

Cyber security assessment initiatives and frameworks abound in the US government, the most important being the Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA) passed in 2002. The law’s broad scope included a mandate to the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), charging it to create methods and standards to assess and optimize...
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Women and Nonbinary People in Information Security: Stacey Holleran

Last week I spoke with Trica Howard about social engineering attacks and user education. Considering how social engineering and poorly trained users are two of the most significant cybersecurity problems ever, it was a great conversation. This week I spoke with another security communications specialist, tech writer Stacey Holleran. We both write...
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MITRE ATT&CK April 2019 Update

MITRE has released an April 2019 update to its ATT&CK framework. It’s been a year since the last major update featuring a new tactic. There are a number of changes for this year: the most major being the addition of a 12th Tactic, Impact, which contains 14 new Techniques. There are also seven new Techniques under existing Tactics, as well as a...
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A Changing Threat Landscape: Inside Verizon’s 2019 DBIR

Verizon Enterprise has once again released its annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). The publication doesn’t disappoint in providing crucial insight into today’s digital threats. On the one hand, Verizon’s 2019 report captures how many forces in the threat landscape have remained the same since its previous report. The study observed how...
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Highlights from the Verizon DBIR 2019

Every year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report comes out, and there’s a mad scramble to inspect and interpret the data. The report is data-rich, as always, and already contains a bunch of analysis, so there are really only a few options for adding value to the conversation. Industry commentators can choose to disagree with the analysis,...
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With Great Freedom Comes Great Cloud Responsibility

Modern digital and cloud technology underpins the shift that enables businesses to implement new processes, scale quickly and serve customers in a whole new way. Historically, organisations would invest in their own IT infrastructure to support their business objectives, and the IT department's role would be focused on keeping the "lights on." To...
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Online Tutoring Program Reveals Customer Data Breach

An online tutoring program has revealed that it suffered a data breach in which an unauthorized individual might have compromised customers' information. The Hacker News received a copy of a notice sent out by Wyzant to its customers informing them about the data breach. According to this letter, the...
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What Is DevOps Maturity, and How Does It Relate to DevOps Security?

By now, many organizations have turned to DevOps as part of their ongoing digital transformations. This process has not been the same for any two companies. Indeed, organizations have embraced DevOps at their own place, and they’ve invested varying levels of time and budget into their nascent deployments. Such variety has helped shape organizations’...