Black Hat 2020: Mercedes-Benz E-Series Rife with 19 Bugs
Researchers went into detail about the discovery and disclosure of 19 security flaws they found in Mercedes-Benz vehicles, which have all been fixed.
Canon Admits Ransomware Attack in Employee Note, Report
The consumer-electronics giant has suffered partial outages across its U.S. website and internal systems, reportedly thanks to the Maze gang.
Black Hat 2020: Satellite Comms Globally Open to $300 Eavesdropping Hack
Attackers can listen in on internet traffic for high-value targets a continent away, like shipping fleets and oil installations, using some basic home-television gear.
High-Severity Cisco DoS Flaw Plagues Small-Business Switches
Cisco recently patched the high-severity flaw, which could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to launch DoS attacks against its popular small business switches.
Black Hat 2020: ‘Zero-Click’ MacOS Exploit Chain Uses Microsoft Office Macros
At Black Hat 2020, Patrick Wardle disclosed an exploit chain that bypasses Microsoft’s malicious macros protections to infect MacOS users.
Black Hat 2020: Using Botnets to Manipulate Energy Markets for Big Profits
Black Hat 2020 session discusses how high-wattage connected devices like dishwashers and heating systems can be recruited into botnets and used to manipulate energy markets.
U.S. Offers Reward of $10M for Info Leading to Discovery of Election Meddling
Government hopes to avoid interference in the upcoming November presidential vote with a hefty reward.
Policyd – Limit emails per hour
Policyd is used to limit incoming and outgoing emails per hour. Installation instructions sh /scripts/install_cbpolicyd * Run this command from the ssh If needed to set a policy for all currently installed packages, the installer already does that. Based on the user package this command will set limit per domain: /scripts/cwp_api account update_policyd_all The default…
Incident Response Analyst Report 2019
Download full report (PDF) As an incident response service provider, Kaspersky delivers a global service that results in global visibility of adversaries’ cyber-incident tactics and techniques used in the wild. In this report, we share our teams’ conclusions and analysis based on incident responses and statistics from 2019. As well as a range of highlights,…
Black Hat 2020: Linux Spyware Stack Ties Together 5 Chinese APTs
The groups, all tied to the Winnti supply-chain specialist gang, were seen using the same Linux rootkit and backdoor combo.