Among social networks, LinkedIn holds a rather unique position. The platform is designed for communication among professionals, which automatically implies contact with new people, almost complete transparency of user information, as well as a fairly high degree of trust in total strangers. The downside of this is the show more ...
Smaller fixes deliver quick improvements for iPhones, iPads, and iMacs between software updates.
The notorious Chinese APT is spreading cyber maliciousness around Southeast Asia, and its next targets are already in sight.
In an effort to curb employees from entering private data into the AI, ChatGPT is blocked from ingesting more than 50+ types of PII and other sensitive information.
The cyberattack campaign, similar to one to spread the Rhadamanthys Stealer, is part of a larger trend by attackers to use malvertising as initial access for ransomware and other threat activity.
Mandiant CEO Kevin Mandia explains why a recently revealed targeted attack by a cyber-espionage group out of China rivals the SolarWinds attack in its complexity, and weighs in on how defenders can best leverage generative AI.
Hundreds of customers are at risk of identity theft after the mobile communication company faces its second breach of the year.
Improving the security of the software development process is key to thwarting bad actors.
APT37 is among a growing list of threat actors that have switched to Windows shortcut files after Microsoft blocked macros last year.
Software developers and application security specialists estimate they are catching only 60% of vulnerabilities, but other measures indicate better results.
The three flaws added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog are CVE-2023-1389 in TP-Link Archer AX-21, CVE-2021-45046 in Apache Log4j2, and CVE-2023-21839 in Oracle WebLogic Server.
The company said no customer, patient, or insured individuals' data had been accessed in the security breach — at least not according to "the current state of knowledge," according to an April 30 update posted on its temporary website.
Insider attacks such as fraud, sabotage, and data theft plague 71% of U.S. businesses, according to Capterra. These schemes can cost companies hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The "rapid security patch" rollout on Monday hasn’t gone so smoothly. Some customers said that they could not install the update. When TechCrunch tested on an iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the updates downloaded but did not immediately install.
The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft began experimenting with oversized LNK files as a delivery route for RokRAT malware as early as July 2022, the same month Microsoft began blocking macros across Office documents by default.
The campaign, which came after months of inactivity, was found to abuse a Windows Defender executable for DLL sideloading and exploit a vulnerable driver, zamguard.sys, to disable security products through a bring-your-own-vulnerable-driver attack.
The Royal ransomware is claiming to have infiltrated public school management and virtual learning provider Edison Learning, posting on its dark web data leak site on Wednesday, April 26, that it had stolen 20GB of the company’s data.
“All our IT systems are fully operational, no funds have been lost and we will communicate fully to our members on the conclusion of the police investigation. We can confirm that this attack has not affected the membership portal...,” the NSRA said.
According to BakerHostetler, the average ransom paid hit $600,688, up from $511,957 the year before, though still below the peak of $794,620 in pandemic-ravaged 2020. About 40 percent of victims paid a ransom.
This week, thousands of students at several U.S. schools, such as Bluefield University, BridgeValley Community and Technical College, Penncrest School District, and Truman State University, are feeling the impact of ransomware and other cyberattacks.
Security analysts face the demanding task of investigating and resolving increasing volumes of alerts daily, while adapting to an ever-changing threat landscape and keeping up with new technology.
FortiGuard Labs researchers are warning of a spike in malicious attacks targeting TBK DVR devices. Threat actors are attempting to exploit a five-year-old authentication bypass issue, tracked as CVE-2018-9995 (CVSS score of 9.8), in TBK DVR devices.
Organizations have strengthened security measures and become more resilient, but threat actors are still finding ways through, according to BakerHostetler. A reduction in ransomware matters in 2022 reversed course by the end of the year.
Late last week, the ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware group posted on its website that 4TB of company data had been hacked, including employee CVs, IDs, financial reports, accounting data, client documentation, credit card data, and a complete network map.
The Online Safety Bill, the United Kingdom’s landmark effort to regulate social media giants, gives regulator Ofcom the power to require tech companies to identify child sex abuse material in private messages.
After detecting the security breach, T-Mobile proactively reset account PINs for impacted customers and now offers them two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services through Transunion myTrueIdentity.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5395-1 - An untrusted search path vulnerability was discovered in Node.js, which could result in unexpected searching or loading ICU data when running with elevated privileges.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2076-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. show more ...
Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command-line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs are based on a shared show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6053-1 - It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain invalid Blowfish password hashes. An invalid password hash could possibly allow applications to accept any password as valid, contrary to expectations.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2072-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. show more ...
MIMEDefang is a flexible MIME email scanner designed to protect Windows clients from viruses. Includes the ability to do many other kinds of mail processing, such as replacing parts of messages with URLs. It can alter or delete various parts of a MIME message according to a very flexible configuration file. It can show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2077-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2073-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. show more ...
Emporium Multi-Vendor version 2.1 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2078-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2014-01 - 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 4.11.39. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
ESET Forwarder version 16.0.26.0 suffers from an unquoted service path vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2061-01 - Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.1.6 images Multicluster engine for Kubernetes provides the foundational components that are necessary for the centralized management of multiple Kubernetes-based clusters across data centers, public clouds, and private clouds. You can use show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2074-01 - GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language, and the capability to read e-mail and news. Issues addressed include a code execution vulnerability.
Fortigate version 7.0.1 post authentication stack overflow zero day proof of concept exploit.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-2075-01 - The libwebp packages provide a library and tools for the WebP graphics format. WebP is an image format with a lossy compression of digital photographic images. WebP consists of a codec based on the VP8 format, and a container based on the Resource Interchange File Format. show more ...
In part two of this three-part series, Microsoft synthesizes the impact of IoT/OT security challenges and offers tips for strengthening security there.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The security vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2023-1389 (CVSS score: 8.8) - TP-Link Archer AX-21 Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2021-45046 (CVSS score: 9.0) - Apache Log4j2 Deserialization of Untrusted
In yet another instance of how threat actors are abusing Google Ads to serve malware, a threat actor has been observed leveraging the technique to deliver a new Windows-based financial trojan and information stealer called LOBSHOT. "LOBSHOT continues to collect victims while staying under the radar," Elastic Security Labs researcher Daniel Stepanic said in an analysis published last week. "One
The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft began experimenting with oversized LNK files as a delivery route for RokRAT malware as early as July 2022, the same month Microsoft began blocking macros across Office documents by default. "RokRAT has not changed significantly over the years, but its deployment methods have evolved, now utilizing archives containing LNK files that initiate
A new Android surveillanceware possibly used by the Iranian government has been used to spy on over 300 individuals belonging to minority groups. The malware, dubbed BouldSpy, has been attributed with moderate confidence to the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran (FARAJA). Targeted victims include Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Azeris, and Armenian Christian groups. "The spyware
The telecom industry has always been a tantalizing target for cybercriminals. The combination of interconnected networks, customer data, and sensitive information allows cybercriminals to inflict maximum damage through minimal effort. It’s the breaches in telecom companies that tend to have a seismic impact and far-reaching implications — in addition to reputational damage, which can be
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in a software implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that could be weaponized to achieve a denial-of-service (DoS) condition on vulnerable BGP peers. The three vulnerabilities reside in version 8.4 of FRRouting, a popular open source internet routing protocol suite for Linux and Unix platforms. It's currently used by several
Students and teachers at the Minneapolis Public School (MPS) District, which suffered a huge ransomware attack
