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By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #17 Researchers have recently discovered a database that shared an underground forum containing more than 2,300 compromised Zoom credentials. This includes both usernames and passwords for Zoom account. These accounts included corporate accounts belonging to banks, consults, educational facilities, healthcare providers, and software vendors. Some of the accounts included meetingContinue reading “Compromised Zoom Credentials Exchanged in Underground Forums”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #20 BitSight recently conducted research on home office networks compared to corporate office networks and compared there percentages of malware infected. The result? Not good. They recently released a report on their findings titled “Identifying Unique Risks of Work From Home Remote Office Networks,” that determined that 45% of companiesContinue reading “Home Office Networks: Malware Hot spots?”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #19 Zoom is in the news again today as hackers have recently claimed that they have discovered two zero-day vulnerabilities for the Zoom video conferencing platform that would allow threat actors to spy on people’s private video conferences and further exploit a target’s system. Vice Motherboard recently reported that theContinue reading “No Meetings Considered Private on Zoom?”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #18 Apparently “zoom bombing” isn’t considered quality YouTube content for the millennial masses anymore as the FBI hasn’t found it as comical. Recently the FBI has stated that they are cracking down on the issue and warned that web conference hijackers could face jail time. According to the authorities, “anyoneContinue reading “Zoom Bombing Considered Illegal Now?”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #16 The battle against routing attacks has come to the forefront recently as huge names join sides to fight a common internet enemy. Massive tech companies like Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix are all banding together to stop route hijacking, route leaks and IP address-spoofingContinue reading “Cloud Providers, CDNs, Team Up to Battle Internet Routing Attacks”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #15 Yet another corona-virus inspired attack has been discovered recently, this time a phishing attack. This attack was spreading a Lokibot trojan. It was a newly created spearphishing email that was COVID-19 themed and made to look like it was coming from WHO, the World Health Organization. The cyber criminalsContinue reading “Spearphishing Campaign Exploits COVID-19 To Spread Lokibot Infostealer”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #14 This article, brought to you all by Wired, is an article about an infamous hotel hacker/thief by the name of Aaron Cashatt. It all started when Cashatt was able to exploit a software bug in one ultra-common model of hotel keycard lock to break into a hotel he wasContinue reading “Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #13 A group of hackers were recently found promoting a fake antivirus software to distribute a malware payload which could infect the systems with BlackNET RAT, while adding it to a botnet. The two sites that security experts were able to find were  antivirus-covid19[.]site and corona-antivirus[.]com. Experts managed to getContinue reading “Hackers Distributing Malware Hidden as “Corona Antivirus””

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #12 With the spread of COVID-19 across the planet, people worldwide have stayed indoors as much as possible. Citizens of Germany are not exception. Because of this new more sedentary lifestyle with people staying indoors and even working from home in some instances, delivery services have seen a large increaseContinue reading “German Food Delivery Service Falls Victim to DDoS Attack”

By Anthony Berrios Blog Post #11 With the newly introduced pandemic around the world that is the coronavirus a.k.a COVID-19, people across the world have gone into hiding watching the news unfold from their couches. Grocery stores began to get flooded with customers buying as much as the could as the infected counts rose asContinue reading “Coronavirus Opening the Doors to Malicious Cyber Attacks?”