Hackers Look to Steal COVID-19 Vaccine Research
The Russia-linked APT29 has set its sights on pharma research in Western nations in a likely attempt to get ahead on a cure for coronavirus.
Zoom Addresses Vanity URL Zero-Day
An attacker could pose as a company employee, invite customers or partners to meetings, then use socially engineered conversation to extract sensitive information.
Amazon-Themed Phishing Campaigns Swim Past Security Checks
A pair of recent campaigns aim to lift credentials and other personal information under the guise of Amazon package-delivery notices.
Threat Actors Introduce Unique ‘Newbie’ Hacker Forum
CryptBB becomes more inclusive by inviting less experienced hackers to learn from expert cybercriminals and one another.
You Can Now Use Binary Log Checksums with Group Replication
Group Replication enables you to create fault-tolerant systems with redundancy by replicating the system state to a set of servers. Even if some of the servers subsequently fail, as long it is not all or a majority, the system is still available.…
The Streaming Wars: A Cybercriminal’s Perspective
Cyber threats aren’t relegated to the world of big businesses and large-scale campaigns. The most frequent attacks aren’t APTs and massive data breaches—they’re the daily encounters with malware and spam by everyday users. And, one of the areas where we’re most vulnerable is entertainment—particularly when we’re so used to finding everything and anything we want…
LokiBot Redux Attacks Massive List of Common Android Apps
BlackRock, based on the Xerxes source code, can steal info not only from financial apps but also TikTok, Tinder, Instagram, Uber and many others.
Twitter Elite Accounts Are Hijacked in Unprecedented Cryptocurrency Scam
The Twitter accounts of Gates, Musk, Biden, Apple and Uber have each been hijacked at the same time to push a cryptocurrency scam in an unprecedented breach of Twitter accounts.
Brazil’s Banking Trojans Go Global
Four sophisticated malware families are ramping up their techniques and actively spreading to new countries, including the U.S.
Automatic Schema Synchronization in NDB Cluster 8.0: Performance Schema Tables
The Automatic Schema Synchronization mechanism, detailed in a two part series: part 1 and part 2, automatically detects and synchronizes mismatches in metadata between NDB Dictionary and MySQL Server’s Data Dictionary. Information about the mechanism is exposed through different MySQL Server status variables.…