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Visa Reports POS Malware Infected Two Hospitality Companies
Two hospitality merchants in North America were compromised by point-of-sale malware in May and June of this year, Visa said in a recent technical report.
China-Linked Hackers Found Using UEFI Rootkit
The newly discovered MosaicRegressor framework has been used by attackers linked to China to deliver a UEFI rootkit in some targets.
House Version of EARN IT Act Introduced
The EARN IT Act has now made its was into the House of Representatives, with a key change from the Senate version's stance on encryption.
ESET Identifies 11 Latin American Malware Families
There are multiple distinct banking Trojan families in Latin America, rather than one large group as has been previously believed, ESET researchers said at the Virus Bulletin 2020 conference.
GitHub Releases Integrated Code Scanning Feature
GitHub has released a new code-scanning feature for both public and private repositories that finds security flaws before they make it into a codebase.
Decipher Podcast: Larry Cashdollar
Larry Cashdollar, a senior security researcher at Akamai, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about 20 years of vulnerability research and the many different ways that things can go sideways.
Universal Health Services Network Knocked Offline
A security incident at Universal Health Services has taken the network of the large health system offline.
Framework Outlines How Companies Should Talk About Breaches
Organizations are increasingly developing incident response playbooks to plan out in advance what steps to take in case of a security breach—such as an employees accessing files without authorization, a lost computer, or a server compromised by outside attackers. A team of academics from the UK's University of Kent and University of Warwick outlined a comprehensive playbook on how organizations should communicate after a security incident.
Attackers Actively Targeting Zerologon Flaw, Microsoft Warns
The Zerologon vulnerability Microsoft patched in Windows Server last month is actively being exploited in several attacks, Microsoft warned.
Compromised Credentials Used in Attack Against Federal Agency
An intruder breached a federal agency’s internal network and accessed data files using compromised credentials and custom malware, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in an Analysis Report.
LokiBot Activity Spikes, CISA Warns
CISA alerted administrators that activity from the LokiBot information stealing trojan has been increasingly sharply since July.
SAFE DATA Act Joins Crowded Field of Privacy Bills
The SAFE DATA Act is the latest attempt to pass a national privacy law, but it relies on notice-and-consent and does not apply to federal agencies.
CISA Orders Agencies to Patch Zerologon Flaw
Federal agencies have until the end of Monday to install fixes for a recently-fixed elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows which could be used to take control of the entire network, CISA said in an emergency directive.
MITRE Releases FIN6 Emulation Plan
MITRE’s latest project is a public library of detailed plans replicating tactics and techniques used by known attack groups. The first set of adversary emulation plans released this week describe the behavior of cybercrime group FIN6.
Tech, Privacy Groups Urge Senators to Oppose EARN IT Act
A large coalition of privacy and civil liberty groups have sent a letter urging senators to oppose the EARN IT Act.