For companies, training an existing worker is cheaper than hiring, while for employees, training brings job security and more interesting work.
In a possible first for the NuGet repository, more than a dozen components in the .NET code repository run a malicious script upon installation, with no warning or alert.
Aembit launches from stealth with a cloud-based identity access management platform for enterprise workloads.
Threat actors are using legitimate network assets and open source code to fly under the radar in data-stealing attacks using a set of custom malware bent on evasion.
After its second cyberattack in under a year, General Bytes urges customers to up the security on their personal accounts to prevent losses from hackers.
Third-party breaches have a wide effect that legacy security practices can no longer detect.
The application security expert, who went by "@aloria," is being remembered for her brilliance and generosity, as tributes start to pour in honoring her life.
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UK cybersecurity authorities and researchers tamp down fears that ChatGPT will overwhelm current defenses, while the CEO of OpenAI worries about its use in cyberattacks.
ReliaQuest studied a security breach incident by Black Basta ransomware wherein criminals gained entry into the network, and rapidly escalated their privileges, with the use of QBot. The attackers executed the malware via HTML Smuggling, an attack strategy QBot has been observed implementing previously in December 2022.
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) said Google Cloud joined its critical providers program, as part of a larger industry effort to bolster supply chain security in the financial services sector.
On Monday, Google announced that it had flagged several apps made by a Chinese e-commerce giant as malware, alerting users who had them installed, and suspended the company’s official app.
As business and the world in general grow more complex, the shared responsibility between cloud customers and cloud providers becomes, well, cloudier. This is especially true when it comes to security and compliance.
CISA initiated the RVWP by notifying 93 organizations identified as running instances of Microsoft Exchange Service with a vulnerability called "ProxyNotShell," widely exploited by ransomware actors.
Dish Network stated it reinstated the ability of customers of its Boost Mobile brand to access account information as it provided an update on its bid to recover from a cyberattack in February.
Last month, the Australian government announced plans to fight SMS-based scams by implementing an SMS sender ID registry. Under this system, organizations that want to SMS customers will first have to register their sender ID with a government body.
One issue that has been frequently raised in private sector responses to the RFI is the importance of regulatory harmonization of cyber incident reporting timelines issued at different levels of government and by international organizations.
The discovered packages – which were downloaded 150K times over the past month (before they were removed from the NuGet repository) – contained a “download & execute” type of payload.
Because security has been prioritized over UX for so long, it was very often added without properly accounting for the impact of security measures on UX. You can’t fix what you can’t measure, see and experience.
“Upon receipt of the ransom demand, we immediately started an investigation in collaboration with a leading global third-party cybersecurity firm,” the Italian car maker said.
Mandiant researchers tracked 55 zero-day vulnerabilities that they judge were exploited in 2022. Although this count is lower than the record-breaking 81 zero-days exploited in 2021, it still represents almost triple the number from 2020.
The new keys allow the creation of policies that can limit the use of role credentials to only the location from where they originated, reducing the risk of credential exfiltration.
Threat groups behind Killnet and Black Basta ransomware are targeting the healthcare sector and other critical infrastructure industries in force, according to Microsoft and the HHS Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3).
A company’s finance department holds the company’s crown jewels: They ensure financial transactions and systems are secure. The finance department is a key component of a company’s overall security.
The Maryland-based cybersecurity company said the seed-stage financing was provided by Ballistic Ventures and Ten Eleven Ventures, two firms active in funding cybersecurity companies.
ASEC said it identified three different ShellBot versions – LiGhT's Modded perlbot v2, DDoS PBot v2.0, and PowerBots (C) GohacK – the first two of which offer a variety of DDoS attack commands using HTTP, TCP, and UDP protocols.
Baffin Bay Networks, based in Sweden, adds to Mastercard’s multi-layered approach to cybersecurity and helps to stop attacks, while mitigating exposure to risk across the ecosystem.
In October 2022, Kaspersky researchers identified an active infection of government, agriculture, and transportation organizations located in the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea regions.
Details of Medicare beneficiaries that were exposed during the incident included names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, social security numbers, and Medicare Beneficiary Identifiers.
The incident is among Clop's ongoing attacks against vulnerable GoAnywhere MFT servers belonging to established enterprises. Although the company states no real customer data is impacted, it did not address if corporate or employee data was stolen.
Data collected by the HP Threat Research team shows that from Q2 2022, attackers have been diversifying their techniques to find new ways to breach devices and steal data using QR code scam campaigns.
About 25% of respondents to a CyberRisk Alliance (CRA) survey who partially or fully implemented zero trust say they’ve had a hard time getting full buy-in from other departments when it comes to scaling these ideas across the enterprise.
Organizations that use human-machine interface (HMI) and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) products from UK-based industrial software maker Aveva have been informed about the existence of several potentially serious vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5904-2 - USN-5904-1 fixed vulnerabilities in SoX. It was discovered that the fix for CVE-2021-33844 was incomplete. This update fixes the problem. Helmut Grohne discovered that SoX incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted show more ... input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5965-1 - It was discovered that TigerVNC mishandled TLS certificate exceptions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to impersonate any server after a client had added an exception and obtain sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5806-3 - USN-5806-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Ruby. This update fixes the problem for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Hiroshi Tokumaru discovered that Ruby did not properly handle certain user input for applications which generate HTTP responses using cgi gem. An attacker could possibly use this issue to maliciously modify the response a user would receive from a vulnerable application.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5376-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Apache HTTP server, which may result in HTTP response splitting or denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1337-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.9.0 ESR.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1332-01 - Network Security Services is a set of libraries designed to support the cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications.
OpenSSL is a robust, fully featured Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols with full-strength cryptography world-wide. The 3.1.x series is the current major version of OpenSSL.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1333-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.9.0 ESR.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1335-01 - OpenSSL is a toolkit that implements the Secure Sockets Layer and Transport Layer Security protocols, as well as a full-strength general-purpose cryptography library.
The kernel tree of CentOS Stream 9 suffers from multiple use-after-free conditions that were already patched in upstream stable trees.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1336-01 - Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance, and portability. This update upgrades Firefox to version 102.9.0 ESR.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5964-1 - Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled certain TELNET connection options. Due to lack of proper input scrubbing, curl could pass on user name and telnet options to the server as provided, contrary to expectations. Harry Sintonen discovered that curl incorrectly handled show more ... special tilde characters when used with SFTP paths. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to circumvent filtering.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5963-1 - It was discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10. It was show more ... discovered that Vim was not properly performing memory management operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 22.10.
IONIX illuminates exploitable risks across the real attack surface and its digital supply chain providing security teams with critical focus to accelerate risk reduction.
Global study reveals boards still undervalue cyber's role.
Bitcoin ATM maker General Bytes disclosed that unidentified threat actors stole cryptocurrency from hot wallets by exploiting a zero-day security flaw in its software. "The attacker was able to upload his own java application remotely via the master service interface used by terminals to upload videos and run it using 'batm' user privileges," the company said in an advisory published over the
As many as 55 zero-day vulnerabilities were exploited in the wild in 2022, with most of the flaws discovered in software from Microsoft, Google, and Apple. While this figure represents a decrease from the year before, when a staggering 81 zero-days were weaponized, it still represents a significant uptick in recent years of threat actors leveraging unknown security flaws to their advantage. The
Poorly managed Linux SSH servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign that deploys different variants of a malware called ShellBot. "ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS Bot malware developed in Perl and characteristically uses IRC protocol to communicate with the C&C server," AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) said in a report. ShellBot is installed on servers that
H0lyGh0st, Magecart, and a slew of state-sponsored hacker groups are diversifying their tactics and shifting their focus to… You. That is, if you're in charge of cybersecurity for a small-to-midsize enterprise (SME). Why? Bad actors know that SMEs typically have a smaller security budget, less infosec manpower, and possibly weak or missing security controls to protect their data and
Amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, government, agriculture, and transportation organizations located in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea have been attacked as part of an active campaign that drops a previously unseen, modular framework dubbed CommonMagic. "Although the initial vector of compromise is unclear, the details of the next stage imply the use of spear phishing or similar
