Although the principles of machine learning were laid down some half a century ago, only recently have they found widespread application in practice. As computing power grew, computers learned first to distinguish objects in images and play Go better than humans, then to draw pictures based on text descriptions and show more ...
Denis Emelyantsev, a 36-year-old Russian man accused of running a massive botnet called RSOCKS that stitched malware into millions of devices worldwide, pleaded guilty to two counts of computer crime violations in a California courtroom this week. The plea comes just months after Emelyantsev was extradited from show more ...
Machine learning offers great opportunities, but it still can't replace human experts.
Ticketmaster testified in the Senate that a cyberattack was to blame for the high-profile Taylor Swift concert sales collapse, but some senators aren't so sure.
When EVs and smart chargers plug in to critical infrastructure, what can go wrong? Plenty.
API Leak Management software discovers exposed API keys and other secrets, blocks their use, and monitors for abuse, the company says.
The company will block the configuration files, which interact with Web applications — since threat actors increasingly use the capability to install malicious code.
Hackers cleverly cobbled together a suite of open source software — including a novel RAT — and hijacked servers owned by ordinary businesses.
Hacktivists have used DDoS attacks on both sides of the Ukraine-Russian conflict to disrupt critical services, usually as retaliation for actions or announcements made concerning the ongoing war.
FortiGuard Labs discovered a phishing campaign using a variety of QR codes to target Chinese language users. It aims to steal credentials by luring users into entering their data into a phishing website owned by the threat actor.
The newly created Cyber Unit falls under the state’s Office of Homeland Security and will act as a centralized cybersecurity information and response center. The unit will be led by the state’s first Cyber Director Bobby Freeman.
The incident impacted all computer systems and temporarily disrupted certain operating procedures. While the description of the incident points to ransomware, officials did not confirm the cause behind the attack.
The private equity giant has announced plans to spend $1.3 billion to acquire Canadian software firm Magnet Forensics, a deal that expands Thoma Bravo’s push into the lucrative cybersecurity category.
On Tuesday, a group of hackers going by the name “Genesis Day” claimed it attacked Samsung’s offices in South Korea because of the country’s recent opening of a mission to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
The task force aims to foster collaboration in global law enforcement agencies and cybersecurity authorities. In addition to swapping intelligence, it will share best practices policy and legal authority frameworks.
The arrival vector likely involves the exploitation of a public-facing website or abuse of compromised RDP credentials. The weaponized tool used is Cobalt Strike, which allows Vice Society to remotely access and control the infected endpoint.
The current FCC definition of a breach relies on an intent to gain access to such CPNI, excluding instances of accidental accesses and disclosures. The proposed definition would now include such cases.
Hackers are dropping the new version of the RAT via an NSIS installer file, with a free icon. This variant uses the Dynamic Imports technique to evade detection by static analysis-based tools. Since the malware distributes itself through malicious documents attached to emails, organizations must ensure to cross-check the email before opening.
According to the NSA, issues that networks new to IPv6 are expected to encounter include the lack of mature configuration and network security tools and the lack of administrator experience in IPv6.
A police crackdown on the Bitzlato crypto exchange includes arrests of its senior management in Spain and Cyprus in addition to last Tuesday's capture of its co-founder, Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov, by the FBI in Miami.
Microsoft on Friday said it would start blocking XLL add-ins from the internet to combat the growing number of malware attacks in recent months as attackers shift away from macros in Office documents to distribute their payloads.
The CVE-2022-42856 flaw is a type confusion issue that impacts the WebKit browser engine, an attacker can exploit the bug when processing specially crafted content to achieve arbitrary code execution.
The legitimate Sliver C2 framework is catching more attention from threat actors as it emerges as an open-source alternative to Cobalt Strike and Metasploit. Cybereason’s GSOC team recently reported that the Exotic Lily group was using LNK files to distribute BumbleBee loader malware. Users are suggested to handle files originating from external sources such as emails and web browsing with caution.
Two latest additions to Emotet's module arsenal comprise an SMB spreader that's designed to facilitate lateral movement using a list of hard-coded usernames and passwords, and a credit card stealer that targets the Chrome web browser.
Hardware security keys are small physical devices that resemble thumb drives and support USB-C (using an adapter) or Near-field communication (NFC) to connect to a Mac or iPhone.
This security flaw is tracked as CVE-2022-47966 and was patched in several waves starting on October 27, 2022. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit it if the SAML-based SSO is or was enabled at least once before the attack to execute arbitrary code.
Insider threats are a growing problem. According to recent research, malicious employees contribute to 20% of incidents and the attacks that insiders are involved in are, on average, 10 times larger than those conducted by external actors.
The threat actors leverage compromised infrastructure in China, Taiwan, and Singapore to launch their attacks, while the intrusion vector observed by SentinelLabs is vulnerable MySQL database servers exposed online.
"Over the next few months, more people will continue to see some of their chats gradually being upgraded with an extra layer of protection provided by end-to-end encryption," Meta's Melissa Miranda said.
The alleged BlackCat incidents come on the heels of a recent U.S. Department of Health and Human Services warning to the healthcare sector about threats involving the cybercrime group.
The Russian advanced persistent threat (APT) group Gamaredon has also put LNK files to work, including a campaign that started in August 2022 against organizations in Ukraine.
A security lapse in a mobile app operated by India’s Education Ministry exposed the personally identifying information of millions of students and teachers for over a year.
Organizations need to strike the balance of carrying out enough due diligence before patching, and then patching as quickly as possible to defend themselves against emerging threats.
According to the email received by cryptocurrency trading platform Coinigy, Zendesk learned on October 25, 2022, that several employees were targeted in a “sophisticated SMS phishing campaign”.
Uber’s recent data breach, which exposed sensitive employee and customer data to the BreachForums hacking forum, was the latest in a string of security incidents to hit the company in the last few years.
In a blog post dated January 17, Datadog Security Labs senior researcher Nick Frichette said the vulnerability impacts the CloudTrail event logging service, a data source for defenders examining API activities.
The law enforcement agency attributed the hack to the Lazarus Group and APT38, the latter of which is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group that specializes in financial cyber operations.
Mandiant suspects that Chinese hackers may have abused the FortiOS SSL-VPN flaw to target the European government and an African MSP with Boldmove, a Linux and Windows malware. Hackers exploited a previously patched flaw, CVE-2022-42475, in FortiOS as a zero-day. The exploitation occurred as early as October 2022 and the patch was out in December.
Cyber adversaries were found leveraging OneNote attachments to infect victims with remote access malware to harvest their credentials or even cryptocurrency wallets. Researchers spotted criminals installing malware, such as Quasar RAT, AsyncRAT, and XWorm RAT, on infected machines via OneNote files. For this infection, the computer does warn users with a pop-up.
New telemetry from SecurityScorecard reflects a 38% rise in high-severity flaws in manufacturing organizations. Almost half of the critical manufacturing organizations, 48%, received poor security ratings on SecurityScorecard's platform. It is crucial for policymakers and business leaders to have a clear understanding of the security measures in place for their manufacturing environments.
This Metasploit module exploits an unauthenticated command injection vulnerability in Cacti versions through 1.2.22 in order to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution as the www-data user.
Inout Search Engine version 10.1.3 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Inout Homestay version 2.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
The t2'23 Call For Papers has been announced. It will take place May 4th through the 5th, 2023 in Helsinki, Finland.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5822-1 - It was discovered that Samba incorrectly handled the bad password count logic. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass bad passwords lockouts. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 22.10. Evgeny Legerov discovered that Samba incorrectly handled buffers in certain show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5821-1 - Sebastian Chnelik discovered that wheel incorrectly handled certain file names when validated against a regex expression. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0396-01 - This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0397-01 - The System Security Services Daemon service provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and authentication mechanisms. It also provides the Name Service Switch and the Pluggable Authentication Modules interfaces toward the system, and a pluggable back-end system to connect to multiple different account sources.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0203-01 - The java-1.8.0-openjdk packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. Issues addressed include a deserialization vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0395-01 - The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0241-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.50.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0393-01 - The pcs packages provide a command-line configuration system for the Pacemaker and Corosync utilities. Issues addressed include a file download vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0392-01 - The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5325-1 - It was discovered that SPIP, a website engine for publishing, would allow a malicious user to SQL injection attacks, or bypass authorization access.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-8 - Safari 16.3 addresses code execution vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-7 - watchOS 9.3 addresses bypass, code execution, and information leakage vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-6 - macOS Big Sur 11.7.3 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, and code execution vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-5 - macOS Monterey 12.6.3 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, and information leakage vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-4 - macOS Ventura 13.2 addresses buffer overflow, bypass, code execution, information leakage, and use-after-free vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-3 - iOS 12.5.7 addresses a code execution vulnerability.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-2 - iOS 15.7.3 and iPadOS 15.7.3 addresses bypass and code execution vulnerabilities.
Apple Security Advisory 2023-01-23-1 - iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3 addresses bypass, code execution, and information leakage vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5820-1 - Lorenz Hipp discovered a flaw in exuberant-ctags handling of the tag filename command-line argument. A crafted tag filename specified in the command line or in the configuration file could result in arbitrary command execution.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0387-01 - The OpenJDK 8 packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. This release of the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 for portable Linux serves as a replacement for Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 and includes security and bug fixes as show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0354-01 - The OpenJDK 8 packages provide the OpenJDK 8 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 8 Java Software Development Kit. This release of the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 for Windows serves as a replacement for the Red Hat build of OpenJDK 8 and includes security and bug fixes, and show more ...
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Restoration teams must be part of a collaborative, initial response team to address costly downtime.
Respondents indicate organizations are unprepared to handle cyberwarfare, there's no one-size-fits-all response to ransomware, and cybersecurity spending is on the rise.
Meta Platforms on Monday announced that it has started to expand global testing of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger chats by default. "Over the next few months, more people will continue to see some of their chats gradually being upgraded with an extra layer of protection provided by end-to-end encryption," Meta's Melissa Miranda said. The social media behemoth said it intends to notify
Apple has backported fixes for a recently disclosed critical security flaw affecting older devices, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2022-42856, is a type confusion vulnerability in the WebKit browser engine that could result in arbitrary code execution when processing maliciously crafted web content. While it was originally addressed by the company on November
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Monday confirmed that North Korean threat actors were responsible for the theft of $100 million in cryptocurrency assets from Harmony Horizon Bridge in June 2022. The law enforcement agency attributed the hack to the Lazarus Group and APT38, the latter of which is a North Korean state-sponsored threat group that specializes in financial cyber
Vulnerability analysis results in Orange Cyberdefenses' Security Navigator show that some vulnerabilities first discovered in 1999 are still found in networks today. This is concerning. Age of VOC findings Our Vulnerability Scans are performed on a recurring basis, which provides us the opportunity to examine the difference between when a scan was performed on an Asset, and when a given finding
The Emotet malware operation has continued to refine its tactics in an effort to fly under the radar, while also acting as a conduit for other dangerous malware such as Bumblebee and IcedID. Emotet, which officially reemerged in late 2021 following a coordinated takedown of its infrastructure by authorities earlier that year, has continued to be a persistent threat that's distributed via
Organizations in East Asia are being targeted by a likely Chinese-speaking actor dubbed DragonSpark while employing uncommon tactics to go past security layers. "The attacks are characterized by the use of the little known open source SparkRAT and malware that attempts to evade detection through Golang source code interpretation," SentinelOne said in an analysis published today. A striking
