Cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) addresses security challenges in multicloud environments, including integrating applications across multicloud or hybrid cloud environments.
Balancing gameplay and security can drive down risks and improve gamers' trust and loyalty.
Security leaders also need to take a more holistic approach to addressing supply chain risks, company says in new research report.
MuddyWater joins threat groups BatLoader and Luna Moth, which have also been using Syncro to take over devices.
A new report helps companies understand an ever-changing threat landscape and how to strengthen their defenses against emerging cybersecurity trends.
A reliance on CPE names currently makes accurate searching for high-risk security vulnerabilities difficult.
Texas and Maryland this week joined three other states in prohibiting accessing the popular social media app from state-owned devices.
At Black Hat Europe, a security researcher details the main evasion techniques attackers are currently using in the cloud.
The custom malware used by the state-backed Iranian threat group Drokbk has so far flown under the radar by using GitHub as a "dead-drop resolver" to more easily evade detection.
North Korea-linked APT37, aka ScarCruft, was found leveraging a previously undocumented backdoor, named Dolphin, against South Korean entities. Experts are not sure of the final payload for this campaign, however, they evaluate it can be ROKRAT, BLUELIGHT, or DOLPHIN, which the group distributed previously.
Resecurity identified the largest mobile malware marketplace on the dark web, InTheBox, which is used by threat actors to target more than 300 financial institutions, payment systems, and others across 43 nations. InTheBox offers region-specific services for the U.S. and the U.K., including over 28 countries, namely Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, India, and others.
North Korean IT pros are using freelancing platforms to earn money that the nation's authoritarian government uses to fund the development of missiles and nuclear weapons, according to South Korea's government.
As concerns over cyber-espionage mount, Texas has become the latest state to ban agencies from using TikTok on government-issued devices, making it the fifth state to impose legislation of this kind.
A browsing app for Android devices, Web Explorer – Fast Internet, left open its Firebase instance, exposing app and user data, the Cybernews research team has discovered.
Australia plans to develop a new cybersecurity strategy that aims to strengthen the country’s critical infrastructure, among other goals, following a spate of high-profile cyberattacks against Australian companies this year.
Researchers at industrial and IoT cybersecurity firm Claroty have identified a generic method for bypassing the web application firewalls (WAFs) of several major vendors.
The Vice Society ransomware group emerged as a major threat to the education sector, especially in the U.S. It has been disproportionately targeting K 12 schools and higher education institutions worldwide. Overall, the group has impacted more than 100 organizations in different sectors since it started its operations show more ... in 2021. The ransomware operators have the largest number of victims in the U.S., followed by the U.K, Spain, France, Brazil, Germany, and Spain.
The company warned on Thursday that its Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is "aware that proof-of-concept exploit code is available" and that the "vulnerability has been publicly discussed."
The total size of the dataset was 601.84 GB and the total number of documents was over 1.16 billion. Upon further research, researchers found references indicating that the data belonged to the California-based online retailer, Vevor.
This year has seen jamming, GPS spoofing, and other cyberattacks launched against ViaSat and Starlink internet services in Ukraine -- attacks that have coincided with Russia's invasion of the country.
According to Microsoft, cybercriminal group DEV-0139 is approaching cryptocurrency investment firms’ VIP customers to infect their systems with malware. The adversaries took to Telegram chat groups to identify such targets, win their trust, and then share malicious Excel spreadsheets with them. The campaign also delivers a second payload which is an MSI package for a CryptoDashboardV2 app.
An investigation revealed that the information compromised in the two incidents belonged to current and former employees and members of Acuity’s health plan. There is no indication that customer information was stolen.
This figure was published today on the U.S. Department of Health breach portal, where healthcare organizations are legally obligated to report data breaches impacting over 500 individuals.
Cloud breaches often stem from misconfigured storage services or exposed credentials. A growing trend of attacks specifically targets cloud compute services to steal associated credentials and illicitly gain access to cloud infrastructure.
ESET researchers attributed a new wiper malware, dubbed Fantasy, and its execution tool to the Agrius APT group. The Iranian group has been targeting diamond industries in South Africa, Hong Kong, and Israel. The malware’s foundations are pretty similar to that of Apostle wiper, except that it (the latter) also posed as a ransomware strain.
Regulators are exploring how to update critical infrastructure protection—or CIP—standards in order to secure electric utilities and other energy-sector entities from attacks against their software supply chains.
Federal agencies in charge of intelligence and cybersecurity will be required by the NDAA bill to study how to build a new cyber information collaboration environment to enable government and industry to better mitigate malicious cyber activity.
Dubbed Aikido, the researcher’s wiper abuses the extended privileges that EDR and AV products have on the system, relying on decoy directories containing specially crafted paths to trigger the deletion of legitimate files.
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) —HHS' security team— revealed in a new analyst note published Wednesday that the ransomware group has been behind multiple attacks against U.S. healthcare organizations.
COVID-bit is the latest technique devised by Dr. Mordechai Guri this year after SATAn, GAIROSCOPE, and ETHERLED, which are designed to jump over air gaps and harvest confidential data.
Congress is poised to vote in coming days on an $858 billion annual defense policy bill that contains significant spending increases for U.S. Cyber Command and other efforts to bolster national cybersecurity defenses.
Jen Easterly, director of the CISA, said the agency’s 2023 priorities include working with state and local officials to prepare for the next presidential election and making inroads with corporate boards to improve how the C-suite manages cyber risk.
While investigating a new malware campaign targeting Android and Windows systems, researchers at Threat Fabric discovered a darknet service, dubbed Zombinder, used to embed malicious payloads in legitimate Android apps.
This Python package was published on December 2, 2022, as shown in its official PyPI repository. The package includes malicious code in its setup.py installation script that downloads and runs an executable file as a part of its installation.
“An unauthorized party may have accessed a cloud storage system that contained personal information,” the company wrote in the customer and individual disclosures. WIRED reviewed examples of both notifications.
Ransomware groups are constantly devising new methods for infecting victims and convincing them to pay up, but a couple of strategies tested recently seem especially devious.
ILIAS eLearning versions 7.15 and below suffer from authenticated command injection, persistent cross site scripting, local file inclusion, and open redirection vulnerabilities.
Intel Data Center Manager's endpoint at "/DcmConsole/DataAccessServlet?action=getRoomRackData" is vulnerable to an authenticated, blind SQL injection attack when user-supplied input to the HTTP POST parameter "dataName" is processed by the web application. Versions 4.1 and below are affected.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2022-8889-01 - This is an Openshift Logging bug fix release. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
The latest version (5.1) and all prior versions of Intel's Data Center Manager are vulnerable to a local privileges escalation vulnerability using the application user "dcm" used to run the web application and the rest interface. An attacker who gained remote code execution using this dcm user (i.e., show more ... through Log4j) is then able to escalate their privileges to root by abusing a weak sudo configuration for the "dcm" user.
Zhuhai Suny Technology ESL Tag suffers from replay attacks and a forgery attack allowing for the displaying of arbitrary contents.
Qualys discovered a race condition (CVE-2022-3328) in snap-confine, a SUID-root program installed by default on Ubuntu. In this advisory,they tell the story of this vulnerability (which was introduced in February 2022 by the patch for CVE-2021-44731) and detail how they exploited it in Ubuntu Server (a local privilege show more ... escalation, from any user to root) by combining it with two vulnerabilities in multipathd (an authorization bypass and a symlink attack, CVE-2022-41974 and CVE-2022-41973).
Planet eStream versions prior to 6.72.10.07 suffer from shell upload, account takeover, broken access control, SQL injection, both persistent and reflective cross site scripting, path traversal, and information disclosure vulnerabilities.
Delta Electronics DVW-W02W2-E2 version 2.42 suffers from an authenticated command injection vulnerability.
Delta Electronics DX-2100-L1-CN version 1.5.0.10 suffers from command injection and cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
The Iran-linked MuddyWater threat actor has been observed targeting several countries in the Middle East as well as Central and West Asia as part of a new spear-phishing activity. "The campaign has been observed targeting Armenia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Tajikistan, and the United Arab Emirates," Deep Instinct researcher Simon Kenin said in a technical write-up.
API attacks are on the rise. One of their major targets is eCommerce firms like yours. APIs are a vital part of how eCommerce businesses are accelerating their growth in the digital world. ECommerce platforms use APIs at all customer touchpoints, from displaying products to handling shipping. Owing to their increased use, APIs are attractive targets for hackers, as the following numbers expose
The subgroup of an Iranian nation-state group known as Nemesis Kitten has been attributed as behind a previously undocumented custom malware dubbed Drokbk that uses GitHub as a dead drop resolver to exfiltrate data from an infected computer, or to receive commands. "The use of GitHub as a virtual dead drop helps the malware blend in," Secureworks principal researcher Rafe Pilling said. "All the
For today's businesses data privacy is already a big headache, and with modern privacy laws expanding to more of the world's population, regulatory compliance is on track to become a more complicated, high-stakes process touching on every aspect of an organization. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2024, 75% of the Global Population will have its personal data covered under privacy regulations.
Businesses know they need cybersecurity, but it seems like a new acronym and system is popping up every day. Professionals that aren’t actively researching these technologies can struggle to keep up. As the cybersecurity landscape becomes more complicated, organizations are desperate to simplify it. Frustrated with the inefficiencies that come with using multiple vendors for cybersecurity, often
Cybersecurity researchers have reported an increase in TrueBot infections, primarily targeting Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, and the U.S. Cisco Talos said the attackers behind the operation have moved from using malicious emails to alternative delivery methods such as the exploitation of a now-patched remote code execution (RCE) flaw in Netwrix auditor as well as the Raspberry Robin worm. "
As ever, what matters most is not so much whether an organisation gets hit or not by a ransomware attack, but how well it handles the aftermath and recovery. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
