After SITA issued a statement confirming it had been the subject of a cyberattack, more airlines confirmed they have been directly affected. It appears the SITA breach affected all carrier members of Star Alliance and the One World alliance.
The malware strain, identified as SUNSHUTTLE by boffins at security shop FireEye, is a backdoor attack written in Go which uses HTTPS to communicate with a command-and-control server for data exfiltration, adding new code as needed.
Hackers with suspected ties to Iran are actively targeting academia, government agencies, and tourism entities in the Middle East and neighboring regions as part of an espionage campaign aimed at data theft.
While now discontinued and supplanted by other software such as Kiteworks, a zero-day vulnerability in the legacy software was found in December and has since been exploited by attackers in the wild.
Czech officials in Prague have been hit by a large-scale cyberattack, according to the city’s mayor. An immediate outage was made on the email system to maintain security.
The campaign begins with phishing emails that appear to come from a unified communications system used for streamlining corporate communication. This email contains a malicious email attachment.
Every vulnerability addressed by this update, has either a ‘High’ or ‘Critical’ severity rating, making this update a must for Android users so that their devices remain protected.
This was tested on Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake CPUs, client-class CPUs, and should work on server CPUs like Xeon Broadwell. It’s unknown whether more recent Intel server chips are susceptible.
According to a press release issued on March 5, the department said that it received reports that there were certain bad actors who were creating fake websites which copied the websites of SWAs.
A sophisticated attack on Microsoft Corp.’s widely used business email software is morphing into a global cybersecurity crisis, as hackers race to infect as many victims as possible before companies can secure their computer systems.