Deepfake is the name given technology that creates convincing copies of images, videos and voices using AI. Deepfake technologies have been developing rapidly for about five years already. The idea of creating fakes by combining real and generated data is not new. But its the use of neural networks and deep learning show more ...
A predictable patch cadence is nice, but the software giant can do more.
The freshly minted ransomware gang is customizing leaked Babuk source code to go after cyber targets in the US and South Korea — and it's expanding its operations quickly.
US Transportation Security Agency (TSA) administrator reflects on how the Colonial Pipeline incident has moved the needle in public-private cooperation.
With the introduction of generative AI, even more business users are going to create low-code/no-code applications. Prepare to protect them.
Relatives are being alerted that a PharMerica compromise exposed the sensitive data of their deceased loved ones, which could be used for identity theft.
A two-bit comedian is using a patched Microsoft vulnerability to attack the hospitality industry, and really laying it on thick along the way.
A misconfigured cloud instance exposed vehicle data, but not personally identifiable information, the car maker says.
This Tech Tip demonstrates how security engineers can best use rate limits to mitigate distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Poorly managed Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers are the target of a new campaign that's designed to propagate a category of malware called CLR SqlShell that ultimately facilitates the deployment of cryptocurrency miners and ransomware.
After gaining access to SMB shares, threat actors behind CheckMate ransomware encrypt all files and leave a ransom note demanding payment in exchange for the decryption key.
One aspect all the vulnerabilities appear to have in common is their connection to Linux, which indicates that they might have been leveraged in attacks on Linux systems.
The company was working to restore print operations after a cyber incursion that prevented the printing of the newspaper’s Sunday print edition, the Inquirer reported on its website.
A former employee of Ubiquiti has been sentenced to six years in jail after he pleaded guilty to posing as an anonymous hacker and a whistleblower in an attempt to extort almost $2 million worth of cryptocurrency while working at the company.
Red Stinger, a newly discovered advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, has been found conducting targeted attacks in Ukraine since 2020. Military, transportation, and critical infrastructure entities were among their primary targets, along with organizations involved in the September East Ukraine referendums. The show more ...
Researchers also stumbled upon 70,000 customer credentials. Although leaked passwords were not in plain text, they were hashed using the easily crackable WordPress MD5/phpass hashing algorithm.
This new feature will clear not only cookies at the sites you specify but also data in local storage and the cache when you close a website. While this will also log users out of sites, it also prevents re-identification when they return to the site.
A rural Utah healthcare provider is notifying more than one hundred thousand individuals of a hacking incident involving the health information of individuals who received care for over a decade.
The allegations were made in a complaint by Yintao Yu, the head of engineering for ByteDance’s U.S. operations from August 2017 to November 2018, as part of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed earlier this month in San Francisco Superior Court.
South Korea has charged four trade union leaders with spying for North Korea in a plot that involved the accused allegedly communicating with their handlers by leaving coded comments on obscure YouTube videos.
Hackers are actively exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability in the WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin roughly 24 hours after a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit was made public.
Cybercriminals were found distributing Aurora information-stealing malware via a simulated Windows update within the browser, in a malvertising campaign. Researchers identified more than a dozen domains used in the campaigns, several posing as adult websites. Technical analysis of the malware, its behavior, and IOCs have been released.
Arm issued a statement last Friday declaring that a successful side attack on its TrustZone-enabled Cortex-M-based systems was "not a failure of the protection offered by the architecture."
Ransomware actors aim to spend the shortest amount of time possible inside your systems, and that means the encryption they employ is shoddy and often corrupts your data.
The group is swiftly expanding its operations. To date, it has compromised three organizations in the U.S. and one in South Korea across several business verticals, including manufacturing, wealth management, insurance providers, and pharmaceuticals.
The Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services (HFS) and Department of Human Services (IDHS) have disclosed a data breach within the State of Illinois Application for Benefits Eligibility (ABE) system’s Manage My Case (MMC) portal.
The targeting of VMware ESXi hypervisors with ransomware to scale such campaigns is a technique known as hypervisor jackpotting. Over the years, the approach has been adopted by several ransomware groups, including Royal.
Although threat actors may not be directly correlating the insurance factor to find targets, a reason for this may be that as insurers require more from companies those able to pay for insurance are also likely to be able to afford bigger ransoms.
PharMerica’s letter does not provide details on the type of cyberattack that it suffered, but it appears that the Money Message ransomware group is responsible for the incident the group started leaking PII and PHI allegedly stolen from PharMerica.
Almost six weeks after the attack was disclosed, Capita warned Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the largest private pension scheme in the UK, to react to the incident under the assumption that their members' data was stolen.
SentinelLabs detected 10 ransomware families employing VMware ESXi lockers, derived from the leaked 2021 Babuk source code. These variants emerged between H2 2022 and H1 2023. The report also highlights similarities between Babuk's source code and the ESXi encrypters used by Conti and REvil, indicating some connection between them.
Cybersecurity experts took the wraps off of a newer variant of BPFDoor (BPF stands for Berkeley Packet Filter), which is capable of maintaining persistent access to breached systems for extended periods. The new variant has remained entirely undetected by all the virus-detection engines on VirusTotal. To show more ...
Screen SFT DAB 600/C is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to improper access control enforcement. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this via a specially crafted request to gain access to sensitive information including usernames and source IP addresses.
Screen SFT DAB 600/C suffers from a weak session management that can allow an attacker on the same network to bypass these controls by reusing the same IP address assigned to the victim user (NAT) and exploit crucial operations on the device itself. By abusing the IP address property that is binded to the Session ID, show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6060-3 - USN-6060-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MySQL. The new upstream 8.0.33 version introduced a regression on the armhf architecture. This update fixes the problem. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL show more ...
Screen SFT DAB 600/C exploit that circumvents the control and requirement of the admin's old password and directly changes the password.
Screen SFT DAB 600/C suffers from a weak session management that can allow an attacker on the same network to bypass these controls by reusing the same IP address assigned to the victim user (NAT) and exploit crucial operations on the device itself. By abusing the IP address property that is binded to the Session ID, show more ...
Screen SFT DAB 600/C suffers from a weak session management that can allow an attacker on the same network to bypass these controls by reusing the same IP address assigned to the victim user (NAT) and exploit crucial operations on the device itself. By abusing the IP address property that is binded to the Session ID, show more ...
Screen SFT DAB 600/C suffers from a weak session management that can allow an attacker on the same network to bypass these controls by reusing the same IP address assigned to the victim user (NAT) and exploit crucial operations on the device itself. By abusing the IP address property that is binded to the Session ID, show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5403-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6075-1 - 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 ...
RockMongo version 1.1.7 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6074-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. Irvan Kurniawan show more ...
TinyWebGallery version 2.5 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5402-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
This python script is a tool for fuzzing Fortigate 7.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6073-5 - USN-6073-3 fixed a vulnerability in Nova. The update introduced a regression causing Nova to be unable to detach volumes from instances. This update fixes the problem. Jan Wasilewski and Gorka Eguileor discovered that Nova incorrectly handled deleted volume attachments. An authenticated user or attacker could possibly use this issue to gain access to sensitive information.
Epson Stylus SX510W suffers from a power off denial of service vulnerability.
Siemens SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU start/stop command cross site request forgery exploit. This older issue elaborates on t4rkd3vilz's CVE-2015-5698 by issuing a POST command to a specified web server path.
Online Clinic Management System version 2.2 suffers from multiple persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
FLEX versions prior to 1085 Web 1.6.0 suffer from a denial of service vulnerability.
Former Humu, Google, and Twitter security leader adds deep security experience.
Poorly managed Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) servers are the target of a new campaign that's designed to propagate a category of malware called CLR SqlShell that ultimately facilitates the deployment of cryptocurrency miners and ransomware. "Similar to web shell, which can be installed on web servers, SqlShell is a malware strain that supports various features after being installed on an MS SQL server,
A former employee of Ubiquiti has been sentenced to six years in jail after he pleaded guilty to posing as an anonymous hacker and a whistleblower in an attempt to extort almost $2 million worth of cryptocurrency while working at the company. Nickolas Sharp, 37, was arrested in December 2021 for using his insider access as a senior developer to steal confidential data and sending an anonymous
A new ransomware group known as RA Group has become the latest threat actor to leverage the leaked Babuk ransomware source code to spawn its own locker variant. The cybercriminal gang, which is said to have been operating since at least April 22, 2023, is rapidly expanding its operations, according to cybersecurity firm Cisco Talos. "To date, the group has compromised three organizations in the
It's easy to think high-tech companies have a security advantage over other older, more mature industries. Most are unburdened by 40 years of legacy systems and software. They draw some of the world’s youngest, brightest digital natives to their ranks, all of whom consider cybersecurity issues their entire lives. Perhaps it is due to their familiarity with technology that causes them to overlook
Government, aviation, education, and telecom sectors located in South and Southeast Asia have come under the radar of a new hacking group as part of a highly-targeted campaign that commenced in mid-2022 and continued into the first quarter of 2023. Symantec, by Broadcom Software, is tracking the activity under its insect-themed moniker Lancefly, with the attacks making use of a "powerful"
A new ransomware-as-service (RaaS) operation called MichaelKors has become the latest file-encrypting malware to target Linux and VMware ESXi systems as of April 2023. The development points to cybercriminal actors increasingly setting their eyes on the ESXi, cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "This trend is especially noteworthy given the fact that ESXi
Several security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in cloud management platforms associated with three industrial cellular router vendors that could expose operational technology (OT) networks to external attacks. The findings were presented by Israeli industrial cybersecurity firm OTORIO at the Black Hat Asia 2023 conference last week. The 11 vulnerabilities allow "remote code execution and
