Outdated and completely unsupported versions of Exchange Servers pose an undeniable danger to corporate infrastructure and to mail flow. However, many administrators still believe in the proverb if it aint broke — dont fix it, and prefer not to update Exchange unless absolutely necessary. And this appears to be why show more ...
Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, and Andrew Yang are among more than 1,000 tech leaders asking for time to establish human safety parameters around AI.
With an infrastructure for observability, security teams can make better decisions about access and identity-based threats.
Credential phishing emails are the clear favorite of threat actors, with a 478% spike last year, new research shows.
A vulnerability with a 9.8 CVSS rating in IBM's widely deployed Aspera Faspex offering is being actively exploited to compromise enterprises.
Microsoft's new AI assistant tool helps cybersecurity teams investigate security incidents and hunt for threats.
Security analysts expect little improvement until at least the second half of the year.
With the rise in cloud-based security concerns and other issues, organizations must improve data literacy across the enterprise.
Attackers are targeting cryptocurrency accounts belonging to users in Russia and more than 50 other countries.
For the foreseeable future, with the spigots closing shut, CISOs will need to find ways to do more with less.
Google TAG researchers reveal two campaigns against iOS, Android, and Chrome users that demonstrate how the commercial surveillance market is thriving despite government-imposed limits.
While Crown Resorts confirmed that it is being extorted by Clop, who claims to have stolen data from its networks, it says there is no evidence of the data breach impacting customers.
Proofpoint analysts uncovered variants of the IcedID banking Trojan—Lite, and Forked—that focus on additional payload and bot delivery, respectively. According to experts, the initial developers of Emotet and IcedID operators have worked together on the Lite version. Meanwhile, the new threat group TA581 was show more ...
Successful digital skimming attacks are often the result of misconfigurations or lack of security controls within a merchant’s environment, which threat actors exploit to deploy the malicious skimming code.
The company exposed credentials to the Salesforce Marketing Cloud, a provider of digital marketing automation and analytics software and services. Cybernews has reached out to the car manufacturer, and the dataset has been secured.
Threat actors target OT and IoT devices because they are the most difficult to patch. Researchers also said botnets have expanded their capabilities, targeting internet of things (IoT) devices to conduct lateral movement in enterprise networks.
North Dakota’s EduTech division will develop examples of cybersecurity and computer science plans that administrators and teachers can use to assist schools in developing their plans.
Trojanized Tor installations are typically promoted as "security-strengthened" versions of the official vendor, Tor Project, or pushed to users in countries where Tor is prohibited, making it harder to download the official version.
APT43 has shifted its targets, and the malware it uses, in campaigns over the years in response to the demands of the North Korean government and the cyberespionage activities it requires of the group, according to Mandiant.
The first vendor to acknowledge the impact of the WiFi protocol flaw is Cisco, admitting that the attacks outlined in the paper may be successful against Cisco Wireless Access Point products and Cisco Meraki products with wireless capabilities.
The ransomware attack hit Technion on February 12, forcing the university to block all communication networks. DarkBit originally demanded 80 bitcoins as ransom from the university.
Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and Microsoft’s security-specific model, Security Copilot looks like a simple prompt box like any other chatbot. You can ask “what are all the security incidents in my enterprise?”
The company did not reveal the spyware vendors involved but said one of the campaigns used a link directing targets to a landing page identical to one Google revealed in November 2022 from Spanish spyware firm Variston IT.
Euler Finance was hacked on March 13, 2023, and around $197 million worth of cryptocurrency was stolen, including $135.8 million stETH, $33.8 million USDC, $18.5 million WBTC, and $8.7 million DAI.
Tracked as CVE-2022-47986, the vulnerability makes it possible for unauthenticated threat actors to remotely execute malicious code by sending specially crafted calls to an outdated programming interface.
The protocol is good for cybercriminals in that it lets attackers cut back on phishing webpage hosting costs and its distributed nature makes it near impossible to delete files.
The nuclear energy sector of China is reportedly facing threats from Bitter, a South Asian APT. The group specializes in using Excel exploits, Windows Installer (MSI) files, and Microsoft Compiled HTML Help (CHM) files. Besides, the group is infamous for targeting energy and government organizations in Bangladesh, Pakistan, China, and Saudi Arabia.
MacStealer is a new information-stealing malware threat attempting to pilfer sensitive information from compromised macOS devices. The malware uses Telegram as its C2 channel and specifically affects devices running Catalina and later versions on M1 and M2 CPUs. It can harvest documents, browser cookies, and login information from individuals.
As seen with past attacks from this group, these most recent attacks do not seem to be originating from a single botnet, and the attack methods and sources seem to vary, suggesting the involvement of multiple individual threat actors.
The report also found that 80% of attacks happened over authenticated APIs, making it a widespread problem for all. Given that it is one of the easiest types of attack to execute, it is no surprise that attackers are increasingly taking this route.
ENISA says the three dominant threats to the transportation sector are ransomware (38 percent), data-related threats (30 percent), and malware (17 percent). However, each subgroup has reported experiencing other attack types than ransomware.
Mélofée's features are no different from other backdoors of its kind, enabling it to contact a remote server and receive instructions that allow it to carry out file operations, create sockets, launch a shell, and execute arbitrary commands.
In this blog, researchers have shared details about two distinct campaigns that used various 0-day exploits against Android, iOS, and Chrome and were both limited and highly targeted.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1392-01 - 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 4.10.55.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1393-01 - 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 RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10.55.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5981-1 - It was discovered that the System V IPC implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle large shared memory counts. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability existed in the SGI GRU driver in the Linux show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5982-1 - It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. It was discovered that show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5980-1 - It was discovered that the System V IPC implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle large shared memory counts. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5686-4 - USN-5686-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Git. This update provides the corresponding fix for CVE-2022-39253 on Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Cory Snider discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain symbolic links. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an unexpected behaviour.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5979-1 - It was discovered that the KVM VMX implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly handle indirect branch prediction isolation between L1 and L2 VMs. An attacker in a guest VM could use this to expose sensitive information from the host OS or other guest VMs. It was discovered that show more ...
A new North Korean nation-state cyber operator has been attributed to a series of campaigns orchestrated to gather strategic intelligence that aligns with Pyongyang's geopolitical interests since 2018. Google-owned Mandiant, which is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker APT43, said the group's motives are both espionage- and financially-motivated, leveraging techniques like credential
Trojanized installers for the TOR anonymity browser are being used to target users in Russia and Eastern Europe with clipper malware designed to siphon cryptocurrencies since September 2022. "Clipboard injectors [...] can be silent for years, show no network activity or any other signs of presence until the disastrous day when they replace a crypto wallet address," Vitaly Kamluk, director of
An unknown Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has been linked to a novel piece of malware aimed at Linux servers. French cybersecurity firm ExaTrack, which found three samples of the previously documented malicious software that date back to early 2022, dubbed it Mélofée. One of the artifacts is designed to drop a kernel-mode rootkit that's based on an open source project referred to as
Malware analysis is an essential part of security researcher's work. But working with malicious samples can be dangerous — it requires specialized tools to record their activity, and a secure environment to prevent unintended damage. However, manual lab setup and configuration can prove to be a laborious and time-consuming process. In this article, we'll look at 4 ways to create a reverse
The emergence of smart mobility services and applications has led to a sharp increase in the use of APIs in the automotive industry. However, this increased reliance on APIs has also made them one of the most common attack vectors. According to Gartner, APIs account for 90% of the web application attack surface areas. With no surprise, similar trends are emerging also in the smart mobility
A number of zero-day vulnerabilities that were addressed last year were exploited by commercial spyware vendors to target Android and iOS devices, Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed. The two distinct campaigns were both limited and highly targeted, taking advantage of the patch gap between the release of a fix and when it was actually deployed on the targeted devices. "These
