Intelligent features and internet connectivity are built into most television sets, baby monitors, and many other digital devices these days. Regardless of whether you use these smart features or not, smart devices produce security risks that you should know about and take steps to protect yourself against, while if show more ...
The implosion of Silicon Valley Bank will impact investors, startups, and enterprise customers as they become more cautious over the near term, security experts say.
AI-generated videos pose as tutorials on how to get cracked versions of Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and more.
AT&T, PayPal, and Microsoft top the list of domains that victims visit following a link in a phishing email, as firms fight to prevent fraud and credential harvesting.
Developers must balance creativity with security frameworks to keep applications safe. Correlating business logic with security logic will pay in safety dividends.
Campaign demonstrates the DPRK-backed cyberattackers are gaining tools to avoid EDR tools.
Cerebral has revealed it shared the private health information, including mental health assessments, of more than 3.1 million patients in the United States with advertisers and social media giants like Facebook, Google, and TikTok.
Mandiant says the particular group has previously targeted tech firms, media groups, and entities in the defense industry. Its latest campaign shows it has evolved its targeting scope and adapted its capabilities.
The database contained gigabytes of personal information, including email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, details of university achievements and scores, and resumes containing detailed work histories and employment details.
The organizations impacted by the incident include many entities, such as charities, foundations, non-profits, and universities worldwide, from the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and the Netherlands.
The Chinese-owned video-sharing app will be temporarily prohibited from devices owned or paid for by Belgium's federal government for at least six months, according to a post on Alexander de Croo's website.
Passwords are still the weakest link in an organization’s network, as proven by the analysis of over 800 million breached passwords, according to a study by Specops Software.
Dark Pink, also called Saaiwc, was first profiled by Group-IB earlier this year, describing its use of custom tools such as TelePowerBot and KamiKakaBot to run arbitrary commands and exfiltrate sensitive information.
Given the increase in virtual and hybrid work, government employees’ increasing reliance on out-of-office technologies presents new challenges when it comes to cyber resilience.
Researchers at the School of Cyber Security at Korea University, Seoul, have presented a new covert channel attack named CASPER can leak data from air-gapped computers to a nearby smartphone at a rate of 20bits/sec.
Mandiant reports that since June 2022, the North Korean cyberespionage organization UNC2970 has been focusing on media and tech firms in the United States and Europe. Crims specifically targets security researchers of an enterprise using a job recruitment theme. Organizations are suggested to leverage the available show more ...
"Last year, 4,518 data breaches were reported," researchers from Flashpoint said in a new report. "Threat actors exposed or stole 22.62 billion credentials and personal records, ranging from account and financial information to emails and SSNs."
Tracked as CVE-2020-5741, this security flaw allows threat actors with admin privileges to execute arbitrary Python code remotely in low-complexity attacks that don't require user interaction.
IC3 reported that BEC—in which attackers trick businesses into making bogus payments or intercept legitimate payments—resulted in nearly $2.4 billion worth of losses in 2021 and $2.7 billion in 2022.
Medical technology developer Zoll Medical is notifying roughly one million individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in a recent data breach.
The frenzy around the SVB collapse presents a huge opportunity for cybercriminals, and it creates a cyber risk for thousands of SVB account holders, and their customers and suppliers.
One of the popular malware distribution channels is YouTube, with CloudSEK witnessing a 200-300% month-over-month increase in videos containing links to stealer malware in the description section.
The use of ChatGPT is becoming a serious problem in the workspace, it can potentially cause the leak of sensitive and confidential data. Companies like JP Morgan and Verizon are blocking access to the chatbot over concerns about confidential data.
The Medusa operation started in June 2021 but had relatively low activity, with few victims. However, in 2023 the ransomware gang increased in activity and launched a 'Medusa Blog' used to leak data for victims who refused to pay a ransom.
Researchers have made a significant breakthrough in secure communication by developing an algorithm that conceals sensitive information so effectively that it is impossible to detect anything hidden.
According to cybersecurity company eSentire, the malicious ads are used to spoof a wide range of legitimate apps and services such as Adobe, OpenAPI's ChatGPT, Spotify, Tableau, and Zoom.
BATLOADER, the notorious malware loader, was seen exploiting Google Ads to deliver secondary payloads such as Vidar Stealer and Ursnif. In their ads, attackers fake legitimate apps and services such as Adobe, Tableau, ChatGPT, Spotify, and Zoom. Other samples of BATLOADER display enhanced capability to establish persistence inside compromised networks.
A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022.
UNC4540, a China-linked cybercriminal group, was observed deploying a custom backdoor on a SonicWall SMA appliance. Attackers show a thorough understanding of the appliance and use a set of malicious files to obtain privileges. The malware is capable of extracting credentials, achieving persistence through firmware upgrades, and remotely executing code.
Total cybercrime losses for 2022 were estimated at $10.3bn by the FBI's IC3 on the back of nearly 801,000 complaints. Although the latter figure rose 49% on the previous year’s total, the number of complaints actually fell by over 46,000.
Gert Auväärt, head of the National Cyber Security Centre-Estonia (NCSC-EE), told The Record that his team had been in a “heightened awareness level for two weeks” during the campaign, and that attempts to enter the electoral system were unsuccessful.
GoBruteforcer, a new Golang-based botnet, has been seen scanning and infecting well-known web servers including FTP and MySQL, and deploys an IRC bot to communicate. At the time of the attack, GoBruteforcer uses a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for scanning the network. The best way to avoid threats show more ...
Linux USB usbnet tells minidrivers to unbind while netdev is still up, causing use-after-free conditions.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5946-1 - Lai Han discovered that XStream incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5947-1 - Fabien Potencier discovered that Twig was not properly enforcing sandbox policies when dealing with objects automatically cast to strings by PHP. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 16.04 ESM and Ubuntu 18.04 ESM. show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5945-1 - It was discovered that Protocol Buffers did not properly validate field com.google.protobuf.UnknownFieldSet in protobuf-java. An attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a denial of service attack. This issue only affected protobuf Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. It was show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5943-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website in a browsing context, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information, bypass security restrictions, show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5372-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in rails, the Ruby based server-side MVC web application framework, which could result in XSS, data disclosure and open redirect.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5941-1 - It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5940-1 - It was discovered that the Upper Level Protocol subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle sockets entering the LISTEN state in certain protocols, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute show more ...
Fastly suffers from the poor practice of sending a temporary password in plaintext.
Shopify suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
The Dark Pink advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a fresh set of attacks targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asian countries with a malware called KamiKakaBot. Dark Pink, also called Saaiwc, was first profiled by Group-IB earlier this year, describing its use of custom tools such as TelePowerBot and KamiKakaBot to run arbitrary commands and exfiltrate
More than a dozen security flaws have been disclosed in E11, a smart intercom product made by Chinese company Akuvox. "The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code remotely in order to activate and control the device's camera and microphone, steal video and images, or gain a network foothold," Claroty security researcher Vera Mens said in a technical write-up. Akuvox E11 is
A fake ChatGPT-branded Chrome browser extension has been found to come with capabilities to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts, highlighting one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware. "By hijacking high-profile Facebook business accounts, the threat actor creates an elite army of Facebook bots and a malicious paid media apparatus," Guardio
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the standard-bearers in global cybersecurity. The U.S.-based institute’s cybersecurity framework helps organizations of all sizes understand, manage, and reduce their cyber-risk levels and better protect their data. Its importance in the fight against cyberattacks can’t be overstated. While NIST hasn’t directly developed
Threat actors have been increasingly observed using AI-generated YouTube Videos to spread a variety of stealer malware such as Raccoon, RedLine, and Vidar. "The videos lure users by pretending to be tutorials on how to download cracked versions of software such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD, and other products that are licensed products available only to paid users,"
A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022. The ongoing campaign entails injecting malicious JavaScript code to the hacked websites, often connecting to the target web server using legitimate FTP credentials the threat actor previously obtained via an unknown
No matter how old you are, it is important to learn how to stay safe online! According to a study conducted by Learning Innovation, more than 93% of students have access to smartphones and laptops. Cyber threats show no sign of slowing down, which is why it is important to stay up to date on security best practices. show more ...
