Ransomware Is Back and Worse Than Ever

A couple years ago, it looked like crypto-ransomware attacks were falling by the wayside.  Business email compromise (email account hijacking) and associated wire transfer fraud were becoming easier and more successful for cyber-criminals than ransomware.  I made some predictions in this blog and in public presentations that ransomware had seen it’s day.  Unfortunately, I was wrong.  In 2018 and ...

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Android OS Set Top Boxes Target of Botnet

A new botnet known as “Ares” is targeting misconfigured set top boxes that run the light-weight Android OS.  Two older botnets, Fbot and Trinity, are also targeting this misconfiguration.  A module, the Android Debug Bridge (ADB), is the specific vulnerability, and it should not be available at all.  The debug bridge is used by software developers during code writing to check for ...

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Hack Turns iPhones and Android phones into Ultimate Surveillance Tool

If you visited certain websites with your iPhone (or Android or Windows device**) over the last two years, it is possible that your iPhone downloaded and installed malware that allowed attackers to intercept and record everything you did and everywhere you went with your iPhone.  This includes real-time location information, all your emails and messaging (including encrypted versions ...

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.


FBI Releases Article on Think Before You Post Campaign

Original release date: September 5, 2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released an article on their Think Before You Post campaign, designed to educate students on the use of social media and how to avoid making poor choices when posting, texting, or emailing thoughts or grievances ...

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Many Popular Printers Provide Easy Attack Surfaces

Printers seems to be simple devices that we use to convert information into a physical form, usually text on paper.  But all printers are really small special purpose computers.  They have processors, RAM memory, and storage in the form of solid state chips or entire hard drives.  The operating system is often some form of Linux.  They usually can be accessed and ...

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