Five weeks ago, the International Criminal Court detected a serious cyber security incident, thanks to the alert mechanism provided by its monitoring system. The ICC has made various and serious efforts to address this attack. The Court deems it is its responsibility to continue to inform about these efforts and to provide the relevant additional information on the attack itself.
I’m a Swiss voter living abroad, and like all Swiss expats from Basel-Stadt, St.Gallen or Thurgau, I’ve been invited to vote over the internet in this year’s national election. Switzerland’s e-voting system is supposed to have safeguards to protect the election against malicious actors, however as a computer scientist, I have found a flaw in the practical implementation of one of those safeguards.
Several websites of Belgian institutions (such as those of the Royal Palace, the Chancellery of the Prime Minister and the Senate) experienced some disruption late Thursday afternoon.
Grâce à l’usage du Big Data et des algorithmes dans les campagnes électorales et de votation, il devient possible d’influencer le comportement des électeurs et le résultat d’un suffrage. Cela soulève la question du droit à l’autodétermination des individus mais aussi des peuples.
This action, coordinated at international level by Europol and Eurojust, targeted the Ragnar Locker ransomware group. The group were responsible for numerous high-profile attacks against critical infrastructure across the world. In an action carried out between 16 and 20 October, searches were conducted in Czechia, Spain and Latvia. The “key target” of this malicious ransomware strain was arrested in Paris,...
SolarWinds' access controls contain five high and three critical-severity security vulnerabilities that need to be patched yesterday.
Crooks broke into the ClassPad server and swiped online learning database
Japanese electronics giant Casio said miscreants broke into its ClassPad server and stole a database with personal information belonging to customers in 149 countries.
ClassPad is Casio's education web app, and in a Wednesday statement on its website, the firm said an intruder breached a ClassPad server and swiped hundreds of thousands of "items" belonging to individuals and organizations around the globe.
Musk's mega-app-in-waiting goes from chopping headlines to profile URLs
An ethical hacker has exploited a bug in the way X truncates URLs to take over a CIA Telegram channel used to receive intelligence.
Kevin McSheehan, who uses the online handle "Pad," spotted the issue after hovering over the link to the CIA's Telegram channel displayed on its X social media profile.
Team82 has uncovered the use of a weak random number generator in Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM) Linux-based operating system running on the company’s network-attached storage (NAS) products
The insecure Math.random() method was used to generate the password of the admin password for the NAS device itself.
Under some rare conditions, an attacker could leak enough information to restore the seed of the pseudorandom number generator (PRNG), reconstruct the admin password, and remotely take over the admin account.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2729, has been addressed by Synology. Synology’s advisory is here.
In recent weeks, we have noted an increase in malvertising campaigns via Google searches. Several of the threat actors we are tracking have improved their techniques to evade detection throughout the delivery chain.
We believe this evolution will have a real world impact among corporate users getting compromised via malicious ads eventually leading to the deployment of malware and ransomware.
In this blog post, we look at a malvertising campaign that seems to have flown under the radar entirely for at least several months. It is unique in its way to fingerprint users and distribute time sensitive payloads.