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US Congress Passes CLOUD Act Hidden in Budget Spending Bill

The United States Congress passed late last night a $1.3 trillion budget spending bill that also contained a piece of legislation that allows internal and foreign law enforcement access to user data stored online without a search warrant or probable cause.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 23, 2018
- 09:22 AM
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CoinMiner Campaigns Move to the Cloud via Docker, Kubernetes

After becoming a scourge inside browsers, on desktops, and on servers, cryptocurrency-mining malware is now invading the cloud, and it appears to be quite successful.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- March 22, 2018
- 03:10 PM
- 0
Tesla Internal Servers Infected with Cryptocurrency Miner

Hackers have breached Tesla cloud servers used by the company's engineers and have installed malware that mines the cryptocurrency.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- February 20, 2018
- 11:58 AM
- 0
Unsecured Amazon S3 Bucket Exposes Details on 123 Million American Households

US data analytics provider Alteryx has left an Amazon S3 storage bucket exposed online, leaking the sensitive details of over 123 million US households in the process.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 20, 2017
- 10:50 AM
- 1
Malware Trio Has Been Targeting MSSQL and MySQL Servers All Year

A Chinese threat actor has been targeting MSSQL and MySQL databases on Windows and Linux systems all year, deploying one of three malware strains, each with its own design and purpose.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- December 20, 2017
- 01:00 AM
- 0
Golden SAML Attack Lets Attackers Forge Authentication to Cloud Apps

A new technique called "Golden SAML" lets attackers forge authentication requests and access the cloud-based apps of companies that use SAML-compatible domain controllers (DCs) for the authentication of users against cloud services.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 27, 2017
- 01:00 AM
- 1
Amazon, Microsoft Launch Secret Cloud Servers for the US Intelligence Community

Today, Amazon announced a new offering named "AWS Secret Region," which is a cloud server region for use only by US intelligence agencies and their third-party contractors.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- November 20, 2017
- 06:50 PM
- 0
Devilishly Clever KnockKnock Attack Tries to Break Into System Email Accounts

Security researchers have spotted a new type of low-and-slow brute-force attack — which they nicknamed KnockKnock — aimed at companies with Office 365 accounts.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- October 09, 2017
- 09:25 AM
- 2
Cisco Admits to Losing Customer Data in Cloud Service Configuration Snafu

On Friday, last week, Cisco admitted that an engineering gaffe caused the company to lose customer data uploaded before a certain configuration was applied to one of its cloud services.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- August 08, 2017
- 12:30 AM
- 0
Google Will Be Able to Backup Your Entire Computer

Google pre-announced today a new tool named "Backup and Sync," built on top of Google Drive, which will be able to back up files stored anywhere on the user's computer, not just in the Drive folder. The search giant says it will launch Backup and Sync in two weeks, on June 28.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- June 14, 2017
- 05:20 PM
- 4
Chinese Group Is Hacking Cloud Providers to Reach Into Secure Enterprise Networks

A cyber-espionage group that first surfaced in 2009 is using a novel tactic into hacking its targets by first breaching one of its cloud service providers, and then reaching inside the company's secure business network via the cloud service's approved communications channels.
- Catalin Cimpanu
- April 04, 2017
- 10:41 AM
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