We often talk about the perils of downloading pirated versions of games, since they may harbor malware. But they arent the only threat. Nasty surprises can pop up in free-to-play games, too, which is what happened just recently with Super Mario 3: Mario Forever. But first things first… Malware in free-to-play Super show more ...
The latest edition of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast begins with discussion around Android phones accidentally dialling emergency services in the U.K. From there, discussion moves to malware-laced malware games and law-makers in the U.S share concerns around Alphabets relaxing of fake-news policies. To wrap up the show more ...
With the right collaboration among employers, educators, and policymakers, we can come together to create a more secure environment for all.
Cybersecurity leaders should strive to reward high-performing teams that are powered by high levels of inclusion.
Thales will build new machine learning-powered data discovery and classification features based on Google Cloud's Vertex AI.
Now, if you've got an IoT network powered by Pepper, you can insure it through Embedded Insurance — even if your business is too small to support a SOC.
The number of malware samples is up as attackers aim to compromise users where they work and play: Their smartphones.
The APT35 group (aka Charming Kitten), have added backdoor capabilities to their spear-phishing payloads — and targeted an Israeli reporter with it.
The new network visibility mandate provides a good foundation for identifying risks and building better security programs at federal agencies.
Cyberattacks against organizations in some African nations increased significantly in 2022, despite a major expansion in cybersecurity hiring to support cloud and digital migration.
As cybercrime amidst the Russia-Ukraine war continues to escalate, the DDoSia project, launched by a known hacktivist group, has exploded in its number of members and quality of tools used for attacks.
The group has given one of Apple's biggest semiconductor suppliers until Aug. 6 to pay $70 million or risk having its data and "points of entry" to its network publicly leaked.
The latest PowerStar variant offers remote execution of PowerShell and C# commands, persistence through various methods, dynamic configuration updates, multiple C2 channels, system reconnaissance, and monitoring of established persistence mechanisms.
The new investment round was led by One Peak, with participation from Senovo and Presto Ventures. The company says it can help organizations address three main issues with network management — automation, complexity, and assurance.
The US National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published a comprehensive set of guidelines aimed at defending Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments.
The Iranian state-sponsored group dubbed MuddyWater has been attributed to a previously unseen command-and-control (C2) framework called PhonyC2 that's been put to use by the actor since 2021.
The volume of mobile malware, phishing sites dedicated to mobiles, and mobile vulnerabilities increased significantly in 2022, according to the Global Mobile Threat Report 2023 from Zimperium.
According to analysis in the Acronis Mid-Year Cyberthreats Report 2023 LockBit’s known victims totaled 280 (49% of the total reviewed) and included the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), Aguas do Porto, and Wabtec Corporation.
In a new report, Sekoia analysts say that the DDoSia platform has grown significantly over the year, reaching 10,000 active members contributing firepower to the project's DDoS attacks and 45,000 subscribers on its main Telegram channel.
A Cleveland-based healthcare system is notifying a not-yet-undisclosed number of individuals about an incident involving unauthorized medical records access by an employee over the past 15 years.
The Metior framework allows engineers and scientists to study various factors such as victim programs, attacker strategies, and obfuscation scheme configurations to determine the extent of information leakage.
Apple has joined the rapidly growing chorus of tech organizations calling on British lawmakers to revise the nation's Online Safety Bill – which for now is in the hands of the House of Lords – so that it safeguards strong end-to-end encryption.
National Hazard Agency, a sub-group of the LockBit ransomware gang, posted the name of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest chip manufacturer, on LockBit’s dark web leak site on June 29, 2023.
One telemedicine scheme involved telemarketers targeting elderly and disabled patients, resulting in $1.9 billion in allegedly fraudulent claims to Medicare and other government insurers.
"This is an active campaign in which the attacker leverages SSH for remote access, running malicious scripts that stealthily enlist victim servers into a P2P proxy network, such as Peer2Profit or Honeygain," Akamai researcher Allen West said.
The exploitation of remote services like VPNs and RDP was the most commonly seen attack technique last year, according to the Annual Cyber-Threat Report 2023 from ReliaQuest.
By sharing this list, MITRE provides the broader community with valuable information regarding the most critical software security weaknesses that require immediate attention.
The primary cause of cyberattacks against Japanese computer systems is the strength and quality of its manufacturing base. The size of Japanese manufacturers makes them an attractive target for criminal extortion.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5442-1 - It was discovered that in some conditions the Flask web framework may disclose a session cookie.
GZ Multi Hotel Booking System version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3954-01 - This release of Red Hat Fuse 7.12 serves as a replacement for Red Hat Fuse 7.11 and includes bug fixes and enhancements, which are documented in the Release Notes document linked in the References. Issues addressed include bypass, code execution, denial of service, information leakage, resource exhaustion, server-side request forgery, and traversal vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6194-1 - Hangyu Hua discovered that the Flower classifier implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Xingyuan Mo and Gengjia Chen discovered that the io_uring show more ...
GZ E Learning Platform version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6193-1 - Hangyu Hua discovered that the Flower classifier implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that for some Intel processors the INVLPG show more ...
CRM Platform version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6192-1 - Hangyu Hua discovered that the Flower classifier implementation in the Linux kernel contained an out-of-bounds write vulnerability. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Xingyuan Mo and Gengjia Chen discovered that the io_uring show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3947-01 - The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
GZ Forum Script version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3950-01 - The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5441-1 - Two vulnerabilities were found in maradns, an open source domain name system (DNS) implementation, that may lead to denial of service and unintended domain name resolution.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6191-1 - USN-6081-1, USN-6084-1, USN-6092-1 and USN-6095-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. Unfortunately, that update introduced a spurious warning in the IPv6 subsystem. This update removes the undesired warning message.
GZ Hotel Booking Script version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ticket Booking Script version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3936-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language, which includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3932-01 - Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language that supports modules, classes, exceptions, high-level dynamic data types, and dynamic typing. The python27 packages provide a stable release of Python 2.7 with a number of additional utilities and database connectors for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Sysdig Falco is a behavioral activity monitoring agent that is open source and comes with native support for containers. Falco lets you define highly granular rules to check for activities involving file and network activity, process execution, IPC, and much more, using a flexible syntax. Falco will notify you when these rules are violated. You can think about Falco as a mix between snort, ossec and strace.
WordPress Ultimate Member plugin versions 2.6.6 and below suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.
GZ Appointment Scheduling version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5440-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium, which could result in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information disclosure.
Property Listing Script version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Car Listing Script version 1.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3948-01 - The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-3946-01 - The Open Virtual Machine Tools are the open source implementation of the VMware Tools. They are a set of guest operating system virtualization components that enhance performance and user experience of virtual machines. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
One Peak investment will advance the ubiquity of network assurance, helping organizations to reduce network complexity, assure network automation, and improve network security.
The detection model identifies LLM patterns to counter the rising abuse of generative AI in social engineering attacks.
Nokod Security is building a platform that enables organizations to secure in-house low-code/no-code custom applications by scanning for security and compliance issues and applying remediation policies
MITRE has released its annual list of the Top 25 "most dangerous software weaknesses" for the year 2023. "These weaknesses lead to serious vulnerabilities in software," the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said. "An attacker can often exploit these vulnerabilities to show more ...
Meta's WhatsApp has rolled out updates to its proxy feature, allowing more flexibility in the kind of content that can be shared in conversations. This includes the ability to send and receive images, voice notes, files, stickers and GIFs, WhatsApp told The Hacker News. The new features were first reported by BBC Persian. Some of the other improvements include streamlined steps to simplify the
An active financially motivated campaign is targeting vulnerable SSH servers to covertly ensnare them into a proxy network. "This is an active campaign in which the attacker leverages SSH for remote access, running malicious scripts that stealthily enlist victim servers into a peer-to-peer (P2P) proxy network, such as Peer2Profit or Honeygain," Akamai researcher Allen West said in a Thursday
In today's fast-paced digital landscape, the widespread adoption of AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools is transforming the way organizations operate. From chatbots to generative AI models, these SaaS-based applications offer numerous benefits, from enhanced productivity to improved decision-making. Employees using AI tools experience the advantages of quick answers and accurate results, enabling
Charming Kitten, the nation-state actor affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been attributed to a bespoke spear-phishing campaign that delivers an updated version of a fully-featured PowerShell backdoor called POWERSTAR. "There have been improved operational security measures placed in the malware to make it more difficult to analyze and collect intelligence,"
The growing use of synthetic media and the difficulties in distinguishing between real and fake content raise a slew of legal and ethical questions
