A serious vulnerability in VMware has been discovered: VMSA-2021-0029 (vmware.com) As the article on The Register says “ignore this at your peril”. Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to fix • The Register
Beware of contact forms – of course the hackers abuse these as well!
Contact forms are everywhere – no one puts email addresses on website because “people” just harvest those for spam/phishing campaigns – we have a contact form on this site. Here is a description on the SANS Internet Storm Diary explaining how these scam attacks are carried. It is not very …
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Why “just anti-virus” is not the whole solution
Obfuscated backdoor attack: Simple but Undetected PowerShell Backdoor – SANS This is a more complex read but if you are in the business it is a real help to see how these old school attacks still work.
Developers beware! Attacks on the code supply chain
The security team at the open source repository, NPM, have removed 17 malware infected Java Script libraries from their servers. This is important as many code developers depend on the trust of NPM to develop application that we all use, and if they use infected code, then that will be …
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You should know that Phishing is not always done by email
There is an article on the Sans Internet Storm Diary looking at a phishing attack/exploit that is running on Discord. Phishing Direct Messages via Discord (sans.edu) Now you may not know what Discord is, but your takeaway from this blog post is that phishing is not just something that attacks …
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