Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers hunted for access to cloud resources

Microsoft continues to investigate the supply chain attack that SolarWinds and its customers have suffered this year. Microsoft analysts reported that SolarWinds hackers were hunting for access to cloud resources. Let me remind you that unknown hackers attacked SolarWinds and infected its Orion platform with malware. Among the victims were such giants as Microsoft, Cisco,… Continue reading Microsoft says SolarWinds hackers hunted for access to cloud resources

Citrix expects attacks on fresh issues in XenMobile

Citrix engineers released a number of Citrix Endpoint Management patches this week. Citrix expects attacks on XenMobile Server corporate mobile device management systems. These issues give an attacker the ability to gain administrative privileges on vulnerable systems. The severity of the encountered issues, which received CVE IDs CVE-2020-8208, CVE-2020-8209, CVE-2020-8210, CVE-2020-8211, and CVE-2020-8212, differs depending… Continue reading Citrix expects attacks on fresh issues in XenMobile

Trump declared a state of emergency due to cyberattacks on US energy systems

Last Friday, President Trump declared a state of emergency in the country due to cyberattacks on the US energy system. Now he is taking steps to protect the energy system from cyberattacks and foreign interference. The order prohibits the use of electrical equipment that was produced by the company under the control of a foreign… Continue reading Trump declared a state of emergency due to cyberattacks on US energy systems

Information security experts said that AMD processors are vulnerable to two attacks

A joint group of specialists from the National Center for Scientific Research of France and the Graz Technical University published a report on new attack vectors for AMD processors. Researchers said AMD processors are vulnerable to two attacks. These problems, discovered by experts back in 2019, affect the security of data processed by processors and… Continue reading Information security experts said that AMD processors are vulnerable to two attacks

Citrix releases new patches, racing with the hackers that install encryptors on vulnerable machines

Destructive race: Citrix releases new patches, and hackers are actively attacking vulnerable servers and installing encryption engines on them. It seems that users are losing. At the beginning of this year was discovered CVE-2019-19781 vulnerability, which affects a number of versions of Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, as well as two old versions… Continue reading Citrix releases new patches, racing with the hackers that install encryptors on vulnerable machines

Who stands behind cyberattacks? Top 5 types of attackers

When accessing the internet, we are often introduced to seemingly wonderful websites, which we think would assist us with our internet surfing, and we often fall into the trap of thinking that these websites are save to use. In addition to that, it is advisable to us to install a number of web applications to… Continue reading Who stands behind cyberattacks? Top 5 types of attackers