Новости за 21.09.2018

A newly discovered piece of malware combines ransomware and botnet capabilities in a single package, Trend Micro security researchers reveal.

Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) on Thursday made public details on a vulnerability impacting the Microsoft JET Database Engine, although a patch isn’t yet available for it.

Cloudflare on Thursday announced a new service to provide Tor users with improved security and performance, while also aiming at reducing malicious network traffic.

Moss Adams (an accounting firm founded 105 years ago) has merged in AsTech Consulting (a cyber risk management firm founded 21 years ago). Moss Adams is the thirteenth largest tax company in the U.S., and the leading firm on the West Coast. AsTech is a successful West Coast tech firm that counts the nation's third largest bank among its clients.

Remote administration tools (RATs) installed for legitimate purposes in operational technology (OT) networks can pose a serious security risk, allowing malicious actors to abuse them in attacks aimed at industrial organizations, Kaspersky Lab warns.

Whenever someone wants to invoke a hacker for any purpose, we usually get some (stock photography) image of a lone, hooded malware author bent over a dark keyboard. Movies, too, perpetuate the idea of some socially maladjusted loner wreaking havoc single-handedly from his (or her) laptop, with the plot usually culminating in the arrest of the individual—and there the mayhem ends, because the single genius is now in solitary.

Facebook on Wednesday said it will have a "war room" up and running on its Silicon Valley campus to quickly repel efforts to use the social network to meddle in upcoming elections.

DMARC has been fully implemented on roughly two thirds of U.S. government domains, but agencies have less than a month to roll out the email security standard on the remaining websites.

Rockwell Automation has patched several critical and high severity vulnerabilities in its RSLinx Classic communications software.

The United States is taking off the gloves in the growing, shadowy cyber war waged with China, Russia and other rivals, a top White House official said Thursday.