The golden rule — if something is popular, criminals will exploit it — strikes once again. This time, were talking about the trending ChatGPT chatbot, developed by OpenAI, which has been all over the news of late. A word about the popularity of ChatGPT When OpenAI opened access to its AI chatbot (that is, a show more ...
Google's Android and Chrome Vulnerability Reward Programs (VRPs) in particular saw hundreds of valid reports and payouts for security vulnerabilities discovered by ethical hackers.
A DoD email server hosted in the cloud (and now secured) had no password protection in place for at least two weeks.
Open source software dependencies are affecting the software security of different industries in different ways, with mature industries becoming more selective in their open source usage.
It's a banner year for attacks coming through traditional email as well as newer collaboration technologies, such as Slack and Microsoft Teams. What's next?
The platform uses no-code policy workflows to automate the provisioning and revoking of permissions.
Making the option available only to paid subscribers — while also claiming SMS authentication is broken — doesn't make sense, some say. Is it a cash grab?
Attackers are now using multiple types of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to take down sites. Here are some ways to defend and protect.
Organizations are urged to update to the latest versions of FortiNAC to patch a flaw that allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files on the system.
Thanks to burnout and stress, Gartner predicts churn and even departure from profession among half of today's security leaders by 2025.
Despite increased threats, an uncertain economy, and increasing automation, your organization can still thrive.
How to stay safe, even when tech-savvy admins can't tell the difference between a scam and the truth.
Attribute-based encryption could help keep sensitive metadata off of the Dark Web.
Hackers will take anything newsworthy and turn it against you, including the world's most advanced AI-enabled chatbot.
The core-stab backdoor is closely linked with a malicious webshell titled task-controller, and both of them are both closely linked to the widespread and ongoing NDSW/NDSX malware infection.
The newly added vulnerabilities in the KEV Catalog affect a code execution vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex, and a code execution and command injection vulnerability in Mitel MiVoice Connect.
The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said the outage was the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. Reuters was unable to independently verify the reason for the outages.
A critical-severity advisory from VMware tracks the vulnerability as CVE-2023-20858 and warns that hackers can launch injection exploits to gain full access to the underlying server operating system.
In a new report from Cyber Security Works (CSW), Ivanti, Cyware, and Securin, researchers identified 56 new vulnerabilities associated with ransomware threats among a total of 344 threats identified in 2022 – marking a 19% increase year-over-year.
The FortiGuard Labs team discovered another 0-day attack in the PyPI packages (Python Package Index) by the malware authors ‘Portugal’ and ‘Brazil’ who published the packages ‘xhttpsp’ and ‘httpssp’.
By providing insiders with solutions that make security and privacy easier for them, organizations reduce the likelihood that people will find workarounds that undermine data protection objectives.
On Sunday, the cybersecurity and malware research group vx-underground published screenshots of data purportedly stolen from Activision, including the schedule of planned content to be released for the popular first-person shooter Call of Duty.
The released PoC involves writing a cron job to /etc/cron.d/ that triggers every minute to initiate a root reverse shell to the attacker, giving them remote code execution capabilities.
Speaking at the 17th India Digital Summit, organized by the IAMAI in partnership with Google and MessageBird, Dr. Pant emphasized that cybersecurity must never be compromised and that companies must invest in it to meet the challenges of the future.
Crypto exchange Coinbase has confirmed that it was briefly compromised by the same attackers that targeted Twilio, Cloudflare, DoorDash, and more than a hundred other organizations last year.
Millions of UK adults have been victimized by digital scammers in the past, yet a quarter have no security controls to protect their online activity, according to F-Secure.
The Israeli security startup has attracted $15 million in early-stage venture capital funding from Glilot Capital Partners to build technology to address entitlement sprawl in the enterprise.
During a recent customer pilot, Praetorian researchers identified an interesting method to bypass the cross-site scripting (XSS) filtering functionality within the Akamai Web Application Firewall (WAF) solution.
The London-based company said the $20 million financing was led by Evolution Equity Partners. Venture capital firms Resonance and Connect Ventures also joined as investors.
The high-severity vulnerability has a CVSS base score of 7.1 and affects Windows 7, 10, and 11 OS versions. It was patched by Microsoft in its first Patch Tuesday of 2023.
The latest annual IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index released today reported that deployment of backdoor malware, which allows remote access to systems, emerged as the top action by cyberattackers last year.
The exposed server was part of an internal mailbox system storing about three terabytes of internal military emails, many pertaining to U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), the military unit tasked with conducting special military operations.
During a recent incident response case, Fox-IT found evidence that the R1Soft vulnerability was exploited to gain initial access to a server. The attackers then deployed a malicious database driver that gave them backdoor access.
Ransomware extortion tactics range from publishing data bit by bit in an attempt to increase pressure on targets through more aggressive measures, making these threats all the harder for organizations and individuals alike to protect against.
ETW is a high-speed tracing facility built into the Windows operating system. It enables the logging of events and system activities by applications, drivers, and the operating system.
A stranger may be receiving your private WhatsApp messages, and also be able to send messages to all of your contacts – if you have changed your phone number and didn't delete the WhatsApp account linked to it.
The skimmer uses iframes that are loaded if the current page is the checkout and if the browser's local storage does not include a font item (this is equivalent to using cookies to detect returning visitors).
Google has started working to harden the security of Android at the firmware level, a component of the software stack that interacts directly with the various processors of a system on a chip (SoC).
Trend Micro reported about a new threat actor that would drop a new backdoor dubbed WhiskerSpy. The cybercriminal group, tracked as Earth Kitsune, is a relatively new threat group that conducts watering hole attacks. The malware is delivered to users when they attempt to watch videos on attacker-compromised websites.
Internet domain registrar GoDaddy revealed that it has been the victim of a three-year-long campaign that deployed malware on internal systems and pilfered source code. Experts detected that an unauthorized third party had gained access to the company's cPanel hosting servers and installed malware. This resulted in random customer websites being intermittently redirected to malicious sites.
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged show more ...
pyLoad versions prior to 0.5.0b3.dev31 are vulnerable to Python code injection due to the pyimport functionality exposed through the js2py library. An unauthenticated attacker can issue a crafted POST request to the flash/addcrypted2 endpoint to leverage this for code execution. pyLoad by default runs two services, show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5739-2 - USN-5739-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MariaDB. It caused a regression. This update fixes the problem. MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.38 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and to 10.6.12 in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0774-01 - 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 4.11.28. Issues addressed include denial of service and out of bounds read vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5881-1 - It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page. It was discovered that Chromium did not properly manage memory. A remote attacker who show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0833-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-0888-01 - A security update for 2.13.2-1 is now available. The purpose of this text-only errata is to inform you about the security issues fixed. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
With the fresh capital, Scrut aims to focus on simplifying risk management and infosec compliance for cloud-native SaaS, Fintech, and Healthtech companies
Latest threat prevention module helps resource-strapped security teams block unsafe, untrusted or vulnerable applications.
Technology tuck-in enhances industry's broadest XDR security platform.
A combined team of UL Solutions safety science experts will address automotive cybersecurity, functional safety, automated driving and software development processes to help customers bring safer, more secure innovations to market.
Apple has revised the security advisories it released last month to include three new vulnerabilities impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The first flaw is a race condition in the Crash Reporter component (CVE-2023-23520) that could enable a malicious actor to read arbitrary files as root. The iPhone maker said it addressed the issue with additional validation. The two other vulnerabilities,
In what's a continuing assault on the open source ecosystem, over 15,000 spam packages have flooded the npm repository in an attempt to distribute phishing links. "The packages were created using automated processes, with project descriptions and auto-generated names that closely resembled one another," Checkmarx researcher Yehuda Gelb said in a Tuesday report. "The attackers referred to retail
If you Google "third-party data breaches" you will find many recent reports of data breaches that were either caused by an attack at a third party or sensitive information stored at a third-party location was exposed. Third-party data breaches don't discriminate by industry because almost every company is operating with some sort of vendor relationship – whether it be a business partner,
Shipping companies and medical laboratories in Asia have been the subject of a suspected espionage campaign carried out by a never-before-seen threat actor dubbed Hydrochasma. The activity, which has been ongoing since October 2022, "relies exclusively on publicly available and living-off-the-land tools," Symantec, by Broadcom Software, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. There is no
An open source command-and-control (C2) framework known as Havoc is being adopted by threat actors as an alternative to other well-known legitimate toolkits like Cobalt Strike, Sliver, and Brute Ratel. Cybersecurity firm Zscaler said it observed a new campaign in the beginning of January 2023 targeting an unnamed government organization that utilized Havoc. "While C2 frameworks are prolific, the
At the beginning of January, Gcore faced an incident involving several L3/L4 DDoS attacks with a peak volume of 650 Gbps. Attackers exploited over 2000 servers belonging to one of the top three cloud providers worldwide and targeted a client who was using a free CDN plan. However, due to Gcore’s distribution of infrastructure and a large number of peering partners, the attacks were mitigated,
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of shortcomings is as follows - CVE-2022-47986 (CVSS score: 9.8) - IBM Aspera Faspex Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-41223 (CVSS score: 6.8) - Mitel MiVoice Connect Code Injection
VMware on Tuesday released patches to address a critical security vulnerability affecting its Carbon Black App Control product. Tracked as CVE-2023-20858, the shortcoming carries a CVSS score of 9.1 out of a maximum of 10 and impacts App Control versions 8.7.x, 8.8.x, and 8.9.x. The virtualization services provider describes the issue as an injection vulnerability. Security researcher Jari
A ransomware outfit is advising its victims to secretly tell them how much insurance they have, so their extortion demands will be met. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Russian media has blamed hackers after commercial radio stations in the country broadcast bogus warnings about air raids and missile strikes, telling listeners to head to shelters.
