Tag: Man-In-The-Middle
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Convincing Google Impersonation Opens Door to MiTM, Phishing
An attack that uses homographic characters to impersonate domain names and launch convincing but malicious websites takes minutes and a …
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Magecart Group Switches Up Tactics with MiTM, Phishing
This new skimming/phishing hybrid threat tactic means that even stores that send customers to external payment processors are …
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What Is SSL Inspection? Why Use SSL Inspection?
SSL Inspection or HTTPS Inspection is the process of intercepting SSL encrypted internet communication between the client and the server. …
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New Attack exploiting serious Bluetooth weakness can intercept sensitive data
What’s more, the security notice from the Bluetooth Special Interest Group said: For an attack to be successful, an attacking device …
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Vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps put consumers and businesses at risk
Security hubris. It’s the phrase we use to refer to our feeling of confidence grounded on assumptions we all have (but may not be aware …
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China hijacking internet traffic using BGP, claim researchers
China has been accused of hijacking the internet’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to carry out covert man-in-the-middle surveillance on …
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Decade-old Bluetooth flaw lets hackers steal data passing between devices
A large number of device makers are patching a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth specification that allows attackers to intercept and …
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When three isn’t a crowd: Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks explained
Gone are the days when eavesdropping is just the stuff of spies and the town gossip. In fact, it has evolved to become everyone’s …
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ISPs ‘likely’ helped infect targets of state surveillance
A spying tool known as FinFisher is involved in a seven-country campaign that most likely involves “complicit” internet providers helping to infect targets of surveillance, according to researchers with the cybersecurity firm ESET. “In two of the campaigns, the spyware has been spread via a man-in-the-middle attack and we believe that major internet providers have played the…
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Lenovo Faces No Significant Penalty for Security-Destroying Superfish Debacle
The shovelware PC OEMs ship on their hardware is definitionally terrible; the handful of exceptions to this only serve to prove the rule. In early 2015, however, news broke that Lenovo hadn’t simply shipped poor bundled software, but had fundamentally destroyed internet security on its products in the process. Read full news article on Extreme…
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Watch out: don’t lose your passwords when you sign up online
Who would have thought that by providing registration information on one site, you could make other online accounts vulnerable? That’s exactly what Dr Nethanel Gelernter and other researchers at the Israeli College of Management Academic Studies demonstrated via their paper The Password Reset MitM Attack presented at the 38th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.…
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