Tag: cybersecurity

GreyEnergy: Updated arsenal of one of the most dangerous threat actors

October 18, 2018

ESET research reveals a successor to the infamous BlackEnergy APT group targeting critical infrastructure, quite possibly in preparation for damaging attacks. Recent ESET research has uncovered details of the successor of the BlackEnergy APT group, whose main toolset was last seen in December 2015 during the first-ever blackout caused by a cyberattack. Around the time … More GreyEnergy: Updated arsenal of one of the most dangerous threat actors

Asking the US public about cybercrime and cybersecurity

October 5, 2018

Answers could help raise awareness of situations that people fear. Cybersecurity involves protecting the digital technologies upon which we depend against criminals who seek to abuse them for their own ends. Public support for efforts to reduce cybercrime is critical to society’s efforts to preserve the benefits of digital technologies. That is why I am … More Asking the US public about cybercrime and cybersecurity

Why keeping your cyber-wits about you matters

October 3, 2018

WeLiveSecurity is happy to support the European Cyber Security Month (ECSM) with its own “two cents”, split into four articles over the course of October that will be dedicated to promoting the campaign’s goals. Information and communications technologies permeate our day-to-day lives and are vital for the daily operations of both enterprises and governments. This … More Why keeping your cyber-wits about you matters

50 million Facebook users affected in breach

October 2, 2018

It has yet to be determined whether the accounts were misused or what information was accessed. In the meantime, you can improve your account security with a few easy steps. Facebook disclosed on Friday, September 28, that attackers had exploited a flaw in its code that allowed them “to steal Facebook access tokens which they could … More 50 million Facebook users affected in breach

LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group

September 28, 2018

ESET researchers have shown that the Sednit operators used different components of the LoJax malware to target a few government organizations in the Balkans as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. UEFI rootkits are widely viewed as extremely dangerous tools for implementing cyberattacks, as they are hard to detect and able to survive security … More LoJax: First UEFI rootkit found in the wild, courtesy of the Sednit group