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Enhance cybersecurity awareness and survivability for DoD, industry partners, and academia in the face of the ever-increasing threat of cyber attacks. Cybersecurity (CS) includes managing risks related to the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information and the systems and processes used for those purposes, including analog and physical form. CS includes information availability, identification and authentication, confidentiality, integrity, and non-repudiation as well as the economic considerations with respect to selection of CS techniques, CS processes, and industry trends.
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A new powerful rootkit-enabled spyware operation has been discovered wherein hackers are distributing multifunctional malware disguised as cracked software or trojanized app posing as legitimate software like video players, drivers and even anti-virus products. https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/16/scranos-rootkit-passwords-payments/
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The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Amass project was originally created when the project lead was showing organizations what they look like on the Internet. During this process, he noticed that the tools available were returning incomplete results relative to what could be discovered manually. With the identification of this gap in capabilities for… -
The Department of Defense have been using the Common Access Card (CAC) as the main mean of single-point authentication. Recent audit between the Army, Navy and Missile Defense Agency are looking into a multiform-factor authentication to help boost cyber security in their networks. Currently a dual form-factor combined with CAC and a personal password, ID…
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This shows how dangerous an unsecured program can be due to the amount of attempts shown in the article. https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/nearly-700-000-cyber-attacks-attempted-on-mumbai-cloud-server-honeypot-119041001041_1.html
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A ransomware has been discovered finding its way onto individuals' computers and locking their files behind a paywall. To combat this, a company named Emsisoft released a free decrypter that finds the encrypted files, and unlocks them. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ransomware/decryptor/planetary-ransomware-decryptor-gets-your-files-back-for-free/
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"A computer virus that can add fake tumours to medical scan images has been created by cyber-security researchers."
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https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/90083-defense-industry-companies-launch-supply-chain-cybersecurity-task-force The Defense Industrial Base Sector Coordinating Council (DIB SCC) announced the chartering of the Supply Chain Cybersecurity Industry Task Force to identify, prioritize, oversee and drive adoption of implementable solutions to protect controlled unclassified information throughout the supply chain.
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https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/90076-researchers-show-how-hackers-can-dupe-radiologists-and-ai-software Hackers can access a patient’s 3-D medical scans to add or remove malignant lung cancer, and overwhelmingly deceive both radiologists and artificial intelligence algorithms used to aid diagnosis, according to a new study published by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev cybersecurity researchers.
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Researchers from Check Point detected a vulnerability in Xiaomi’s pre-installed security app named Guard Provider that exposes users to MitM attacks. https://cyware.com/news/xiaomis-pre-installed-security-app-guard-provider-exposes-users-to-mitm-attacks-87c514f6
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Office Depot was scanning customers pc's and telling them their computer was infected with malware when in reality there wasn't any. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/03/office-depot-computer-scans-gave-fake-results
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An estimated $124 billion is expected to be spent of cybersecurity products worldwide. The biggest growing market in the cybersecurity industry is the network security market. It is expected to continue to grow in 2019. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/04/02/network-security-market-showing-highest-growth-since-2012.html
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A Chinese woman tried gaining access to Trumps Mar-A-Lago resort, after discovering she was not listed for the event she was trying to attend. Which then she was searched and electronic devices were found that actually contained malware. It will be interesting to see if her intentions of what she was going to do with…
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Jeff Bezos' phone hacked by Saudis, material of a sensitive nature distributed netwise. www.securityweek.com/investigator-says-amazon-chiefs-phone-hacked-saudis
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https://www.securityweek.com/xloader-trojan-poses-security-app-android This is a great example of what a Trojan is. This is an app that is disguised as an antivirus app while it is actually spreading malware.
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Georgia Institute of Technology announced that there was a data breach, where an attacker gained access to the personal information of students, faculty, applicants, and staff. Although the vulnerability was later found and patched, the institute did not reveal what exactly caused the exploitation. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/georgia-tech-data-breach-exposes-info-for-13-million-people/
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OceanLotus threat actor is using steganography to drop variants of Denes and Remy backdoors to affected systems. The variants delivered are concealed within PNG image files. https://cyware.com/news/oceanlotus-threat-actor-group-leverages-steganography-to-deliver-backdoors-781be11c
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This article discusses some guidelines for hiring cybersecurity specialists.
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Windows 7 is now open to attacks since support for security flaws is over...
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Scamers follow the latest news and impersonate employers online in order to obtain personal information.
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Deep learning experts are considering the ways that machine learning can enhance cybersecurity in the future.
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