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February 16, 2022

Chrome Zero-Day Under Active Attack: Patch ASAP | Threatpost

The year's 1st Chrome zero-day can lead to all sorts of misery, ranging from data corruption to the execution of arbitrary code on vulnerable systems.

New Emotet Infection Method

As early as Dec. 21, 2021, Unit 42 observed a new infection method for the highly prevalent malware family Emotet. Emotet is high-volume malware that often changes and modifies its attack patterns. This latest modification of the Emotet attack follows suit.

Russian hackers have obtained sensitive defense information technology by targeting US contractors, according to CISA
High-Severity RCE Security Bug Reported in Apache Cassandra Database Software

Researchers have revealed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in Apache Cassandra that, if left unaddressed, could be abused to gain remote code execution on affected installations.

"This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra," Omer Kaspi, security researcher at DevOps firm JFrog, said in a technical write-up published Tuesday.

Meta to Pay $90 Million to Settle Facebook Data Privacy Lawsuit

Meta will pay $90 million to settle litigation over Facebook's use of cookies to track users’ internet use even after they had logged off.

Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable | Ars Technica

DDoS temporarily take out sites as Ukraine stares down Russian soldiers at its border.

Cyber-attack on ICRC: What we know

Nearly a month has passed since we determined that servers hosting personal data belonging to more than 515,000 people worldwide were hacked in a sophisticated cyber-attack. We are now in a position to share some findings of our analysis of this data breach.

La commission veut renforcer la cybersécurité et l’indépendance de la Suisse

La Commission de la politique de sécurité du Conseil national propose de modifier la législation afin que la Confédération puisse créer, en collaboration avec les cantons, les hautes écoles, les établissements de recherche et les entreprises suisses, une infrastructure numérique indépendante. Elle estime par ailleurs qu’il y a lieu de définir des normes pour la gestion de la sécurité. La commission a donné suite à une initiative parlementaire en ce sens.

Vaud – Etudiant débouté en raison de son inactivité en ligne

Un trentenaire estime que le journal des connexions à la plateforme des supports de cours de son école a été utilisé contre lui abusivement.

Cyberattack takes Ukraine military, bank websites offline

What geopolitical standoff could this possibly be linked to?