If you try to protect yourself against every threat in the world, youll soon run out of energy and make your life unbearable. Three-factor authentication here, a twenty-character password with musical notes and Chinese characters there, different browsers for different websites, and abstinence from social media dont show more ...
The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta, which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those show more ...
Improving the security of open source repositories and keeping malicious components out requires a combination of technology and people.
Ukraine's head of cybersecurity Victor Zhora says the world needs "efficient legal instruments to confront cyber terrorism."
Informants have released data that includes thousands of safety complaints the company has received about its self-driving capability, as well as sensitive information regarding current and past employees.
To mitigate risk, both developers and users must include security principles and technologies as core foundations in new devices.
Phishing campaigns targeting travelers have evolved from simple, easy-to-spot fraud attempts to highly sophisticated operations.
Recently, CISA updated the CPGs to align with NIST’s standard cybersecurity framework, establishing each of the five goals as a prioritized subset of IT and OT cybersecurity practices.
AhRAT is a newly discovered threat by ESET researchers on the Google Play Store that disguises itself as a screen recording application, which witnessed tens of thousands of installations. Threat actors added malicious functionality at a later stage of its release in August 2022. Organizations must use the updated IOCs to understand the attack patterns and implement necessary detection systems.
Alarm bells continue to ring in the cybersecurity world around the potential threats from AI in the hands of threat actors. In particular, malware being created through ChatGPT appears to be a reality.
D-Link has fixed two critical-severity vulnerabilities in its D-View 8 network management suite that could allow remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code.
Among the reasons behind this growth is the fact that malicious actors continue to gain widespread access to new tools, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML)-powered tools.
The malware can create disruptions in the electrical power supply by interacting with IEC 60870-5-104 (IEC-104) devices. These devices, including RTUs, are widely used in electric transmission and distribution in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Kimsuky, the North Korean APT group, is actively distributing a variant of custom malware known as RandomQuery as part of its reconnaissance campaigns. The malware has been specifically designed to perform two primary functions: file enumeration and data exfiltration. A real-time threat intelligence exchange platform can help fend off the threats from RandomQuery and other similar custom espionage tools.
Cybercriminals are increasingly posing as multi-factor authentication vendors and small businesses are becoming more popular targets, according to VIPRE. Financial institutions (48%) are still the most targeted sector by a wide margin.
On April 10, Unit 42 researchers observed a Mirai variant called IZ1H9, which used several vulnerabilities to target exposed servers and networking devices running Linux, including CVE-2023-27076, CVE-2023-26801, CVE-2023-26802, and others.
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Technology has confirmed it will have a cybersecurity authority soon. As per local media, state minister Kanaka Herath told the Cyber Security Conference in Colombo that efforts to create the authority in 2023 are underway.
Intellexa’s spyware products, like most recently exposed spyware tools, have multiple components that can be grouped into three major buckets aligned with consecutive stages of the attack: exploitation, privilege escalation, and malware deployment.
The application of the GDPR across the EU on May 25, 2018, was a landmark occasion – with the legislation replacing often disjointed and outdated data protection rules across Europe with a coordinated one designed for the modern digital age.
Trustwave researchers reported that over the recent days, they had observed phishing attacks that employed a mix of compromised Microsoft 365 accounts and .rpmsg encrypted emails to distribute the phishing message.
Today, when threats are coming from a variety of places, not just one or a few, it becomes much harder to prepare for attacks and know what to patch or otherwise remediate because there is a lot more to address.
Despite years of public shaming by security professionals, some SaaS vendors only offer Single Sign-On (SSO) in high-end "enterprise" product tiers. By withholding this capability from smaller organizations, they put customers' security at risk.
A clever phishing campaign aimed at stealing users’ business email account credentials by impersonating OpenAI, the company behind the ChatGPT chatbot, has been spotted by Inky researchers.
The ICO published new guidance for businesses and employers on responding to Subject Access Requests (SARs). The right of access, commonly referred to SAR, gives someone the right to request a copy of their personal information from organizations.
The malware tries to use runas.exe, a command-line utility program in Windows operating systems (OS) that allows users to run specific programs or commands with user credentials or permissions other than those from the current user's account.
In the inaugural 2023 Offensive Security Vision Report by NetSPI, lack of resources, vulnerability prioritization, and business priorities, were reported as the top three barriers to timely and effective vulnerability remediation.
In a Wednesday statement about the "network outage" posted on the city's website, Augusta Mayor Garnett Johnson said the "technical difficulties" – which disrupted some of the city's computer systems – started on Sunday, May 21.
Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the summer travel season. U.S. authorities and network defenders in the private sector are quietly paying attention to potential threats that may emerge during key holiday weekends over the next three months.
Technicians were working to "mitigate the consequences" of the attack, the ministry wrote in a statement, adding that initial checks showed no evidence of data theft. It was too early to predict when activities would be back to normal, it said.
The attacks began in mid-May 2023 when the attackers started targeting Internet-exposed private Emby servers and infiltrating those configured to allow admin logins without a password on the local network.
Since the first known appearance of AceCryptor back in 2016, many malware authors have used the services of this cryptor, even the best-known crimeware like Emotet, back when it didn’t use its own cryptor.
Dark Frost represents the latest iteration of a botnet that appears to have been stitched together by stealing source code from various botnet malware strains such as Mirai, Gafgyt, and QBot.
The multi-stage attack chain identified by Dig, in a nutshell, leveraged a gap in the cloud platform's security layer associated with SQL Server to escalate the privileges of a user to that of an administrator role.
An unidentified threat actor group has been observed employing a malicious Windows kernel driver in targeted attacks, primarily focusing on the Middle East region. Fortinet security experts have dubbed the artifact as WINTAPIX (WinTapix.sys). To stay protected, users are suggested to immediately implement the driver blocklist feature in Windows to block malicious drivers.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5411-1 - Multiple issues were found in GPAC multimedia framework, which could result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6109-1 - Zheng Wang discovered that the Intel i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly handle certain error conditions, leading to a double-free. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Jordy Zomer and Alexandra Sandulescu discovered that the Linux show more ...
This Metasploit module exploits the broken access control vulnerability in Seagate Central External NAS Storage device. Subject product suffers several critical vulnerabilities such as broken access control. It makes it possible to change the device state and register a new admin user which is capable of SSH access.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5413-1 - An issue has been found in sniproxy, a transparent TLS and HTTP layer 4 proxy with SNI support. Due to bad handling of wildcard backend hosts, a crafted HTTP or TLS packet might lead to remote arbitrary code execution.
SCM Manager versions 1.2 through 1.60 suffer from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3326-01 - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.6.6 images. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, which fix several bugs.
Ulicms version 2023.1 create administrator user via mass assignment exploit.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3325-01 - Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.1.7 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 ...
Zenphoto version 1.6 suffers from multiple persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3323-01 - Go Toolset provides the Go programming language tools and libraries. Go is alternatively known as golang.
Laravel version 10.11 suffers from database disclosure and information leakage vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6054-2 - USN-6054-1 fixed a vulnerability in Django. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Moataz Al-Sharida and nawaik discovered that Django incorrectly handled uploading multiple files using one form field. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain validations.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3319-01 - Go Toolset provides the Go programming language tools and libraries. Go is alternatively known as golang.
WBCE CMS version 1.6.1 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Email protection and network security services provider Barracuda is warning users about a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited to breach the company's Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances. The zero-day is being tracked as CVE-2023-2868 and has been described as a remote code injection vulnerability affecting versions 5.1.3.001 through 9.2.0.006. The California-headquartered firm
A new strain of malicious software that's engineered to penetrate and disrupt critical systems in industrial environments has been unearthed. Google-owned threat intelligence firm Mandiant dubbed the malware COSMICENERGY, adding it was uploaded to a public malware scanning utility in December 2021 by a submitter in Russia. There is no evidence that it has been put to use in the wild. "The
Security researchers have shared a deep dive into the commercial Android spyware called Predator, which is marketed by the Israeli company Intellexa (previously Cytrox). Predator was first documented by Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) in May 2022 as part of attacks leveraging five different zero-day flaws in the Chrome web browser and Android. The spyware, which is delivered by means of
5G is a game changer for mobile connectivity, including mobile connectivity to the cloud. The technology provides high speed and low latency when connecting smartphones and IoT devices to cloud infrastructure. 5G networks are a critical part of all infrastructure layers between the end user and the end service; these networks transmit sensitive data that can be vital for governments and
A new security flaw has been disclosed in the Google Cloud Platform's (GCP) Cloud SQL service that could be potentially exploited to obtain access to confidential data. "The vulnerability could have enabled a malicious actor to escalate from a basic Cloud SQL user to a full-fledged sysadmin on a container, gaining access to internal GCP data like secrets, sensitive files, passwords, in addition
Bad enough for your company to be held to ransom after a cyber attack. Worse still to then have one of your own employees exploit the attack in an attempt to steal the ransom for themselves. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
