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by Paul Ducklin Over the years, we’ve written and spoken on Naked Security many times about the thorny problem of DNS hijacking. DNS, as you probably know, is short for domain name system, and you’ll often hear it described as the internet’s “telephone directory” or “gazetteer”. If you’re not familiar with the word gazeteer, it

A new string of attacks against East Asian organizations has been spotted by security researchers and attributed to the threat actor known as DragonSpark. The campaign, discovered by SentinelLabs, uses the little-known open-source SparkRAT alongside malware tools to evade detection via source code interpretation techniques based on the Go programming language. “The DragonSpark attacks represent

by Paul Ducklin GoTo is a well-known brand that owns a range of products, including technologies for teleconferencing and webinars, remote access, and password management. If you’ve ever used GoTo Webinar (online meetings and seminars), GoToMyPC (connect and control someone else’s computer for management and support), or LastPass (a password manangement service), you’ve used a

The UK’s data protection regulator has shared seven tips for SMBs, designed to save them time and money and boost customer confidence. The UK’s SMB community numbers over 5.5 million firms – amounting to over 99% of all businesses in the country. Yet many don’t have the in-house knowledge and resources to ensure they stay

by Paul Ducklin Last year, on the last day of August 2022, we wrote with mild astonishment, and perhaps even a tiny touch of excitement, about an unexpected but rather important update for iPhones stuck back on iOS 12. As we remarked at the time, we’d already decided that iOS 12 had slipped (or perhaps

Security researchers have spotted another innovative technique phishing actors are using to bypass traditional security filters – this time using blank images. The email in question was detected by Check Point business Avanan, and arrived as a legitimate-looking DocuSign message. Although the link in the email body will take the user directly to a regular

UK postal service Royal Mail announced on January 18, 2022, that it has resumed some “limited” international shipping following the ransomware attack that hit the company on January 11. These limited services include “International Standard and International Economy letters which do not require a customs declaration” and “International Business Standard (untracked) and International Business Economy

WhatsApp has been hit with a €5.5m ($5.9m) fine for GDPR violations by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC). In addition to the fine, WhatsApp Ireland has been directed to bring its data processing operations into compliance within six months. The case showcased significant disagreements between European data protection authorities about the extent of WhatsApp’s liability.

by Paul Ducklin US mobile phone provider T-Mobile has just admitted to getting hacked, in a filing known as an 8-K that was submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) yesterday, 2023-01-19. The 8-K form is described by the SEC itself as “the ‘current report’ companies must file […] to announce major events that

The threat actor known as Roaming Mantis (or Shaoye) has reportedly added a DNS changer function to its latest mobile app Wroba.o to infiltrate WiFi routers and undertake DNS hijacking. The findings come from Kaspersky’s SecureList researchers, who published an advisory about Roaming Mantis earlier today. According to the technical write-up, the threat actor has

by Paul Ducklin GUESS YOUR PASSWORD? NO NEED IF IT’S STOLEN ALREADY! Guess your password? Crack your password? Steal your password? What if the crooks already have one of your passwords, and can use it to figure out all your others as well? Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can

The Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Vixen Panda has been linked to a new series of attacks targeting the Iranian government between July and December 2022. The claims come from cybersecurity researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, who shared a report about them with Infosecurity via email. Called “Playful Taurus” by Unit

The threat actor Vice Society has claimed responsibility for the ransomware attack against the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) in November 2022 and has reportedly published some stolen data on the dark web. UDE made the announcement over the weekend, saying the data publication resulted from the university not complying with the attackers’ ransom demands. At the