More than 70,000 small office/home office routers have been infiltrated by the novel AVrecon botnet for over two years, making it one of the largest botnets targeted at SOHO devices ever, The Hacker News reports.
Ukraine has been facing a continuous onslaught of attacks against its state services from Russian hacking group Gamaredon, also known as Armageddon, with the country's Computer Emergency Response Team noting the group's targeting of an information infrastructure facility and thousands of government computers, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
An attack against multiple organizations using the company’s cloud email services, including U.S. government agencies, was “invisible” to many of the victims because they hadn’t paid extra to access security logs. One senator likened the extra costs to “selling a car and then charging extra for seatbelts and airbags."
TechCrunch reports that nine security vulnerabilities in Honeywell's Experion distributed control system products could be leveraged to disrupt critical infrastructure organizations, particularly those in the oil and gas sector.
