The most popular Firefox extensions with millions of active users are open to attacks that can quietly compromise machines and pass Mozilla's automated and human security tests.
The extension reuse attacks exploit weaknesses in the structure of Firefox extensions such that malicious activity can be hidden behind legitimate functionality.
Bitdefender Labs has released BDAntiRansomware, a free tool which keeps your PC safe from some of the most common ransomware threats.
The program "protects against known and possible future versions of the CTB-Locker, Locky and TeslaCrypt crypto ransomware families", the company explains.
BDAntiRansomware requires installation, but by default displays no interface, and doesn’t appear to consume any significant system resources. We had no difficulties with false positives or anything else, but if you do run into problems, protection can be temporarily disabled.
Rancher Labs today announced the general availability of its namesake platform Rancher 1.0, which provides tools that enable organizations to easily manage and deploy Docker containers.
Officially started in September 2014, Rancher Labs has raised $10 million in funding to date. In a June 2015 video interview with eWEEK, Shannon Williams, co-founder of Rancher Labs, detailed his vision for the company, which is coming to fruition with the Rancher 1.0 release.
Hospitals and healthcare providers are increasingly falling victim to crypto-ransomware attacks. While attacks over the past few months have not been highly targeted thus far, they have caused a great deal of disruption. And disruptions at hospitals can have a much more dire impact than at most other organizations vulnerable to malware-based extortion.
Imagine being given the keys to the internet. One minute you could be looking at a building's air conditioning panel, a pharmacist's inventory, and a Windows programmer's console, and the next minute it's a school administrator's email inbox, and a touch-screen toilet customer satisfaction monitor (which, sadly isn't a joke).
Researchers are digging through samples of the Petya ransomware, and while they’ve learned some about its inner workings, they still haven’t mastered enough to come up with a decryptor.
Petya is the latest twist on crypto-malware. It was found recently targeting companies in Germany in a spam campaign aimed at human resources organizations. The emails contained a link to a Dropbox file that if clicked loads a dropper that installs Petya.
Mattel, the popular toy maker behind Barbie and Hot Wheels, was the victim of a Phishing attack last year that nearly cost them $3 million. The only thing preventing a total loss was a mixture of timing and luck, because the day following the attack happened to be a banking holiday in China.
Details of the attack against Mattel come from a report by the Associated Press, investigating money laundering and other financial crime in Wenzhou, China.
Last Thursday the vBulleting.org and vBulleting.com domains went offline for maintenance and remained so until Friday afternoon. As soon as the forums came back online, all users were forced to reset their passwords in order to access their accounts.
The combination of this non-scheduled maintenance and the forced password reset is a typical sign of a data breach. The hacking incident was confirmed hours later on Friday by Paul M., Lead Developer for vBulletin.org & vBulletin.com.
Jerome Segura, a security researcher at Malwarebytes Labs, has announced that the company found Australia's most popular classifieds site, Gumtree.com.au, serving the Angler Exploit Kit to visitors.
The site is Australia's eleventh most popular website. SimilarWeb estimates the website attracts nearly 50 million views a month.
Firewalls are still central to most network defense strategies, new State of the Firewall report says.
In spite of lots of advanced technology and moves to add many more layers of security to most enterprise defenses, firewalls aren't going anywhere soon as the heart of the cybersecurity toolset, according to a new report out today. Based on a survey of over 600 IT security practitioners, the State of the Firewall Report shows that the firewall is as entrenched as ever in modern network defense strategies.
