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 Laws, Policy, Regulations

Preliminary findings suggest that seven men, two women aged 19 to 27, and a 16-year-old facilitated the scam by providing their bank accounts, Internet banking credentials, and Singpass credentials to perpetrators for monetary gain.

 Trends, Reports, Analysis

81% of consumers report feeling “very scared or worried” about their data being held by organizations lacking robust resilience against ransomware. After an attack, one in three consumers demands evidence of resilient backup and recovery strategies.

 Malware and Vulnerabilities

Ghostscript reads in PostScript program code, which describes how to construct the pages in a document, and converts it, or renders it, into a format more suitable for displaying or printing, such as raw pixel data or a PNG graphics file.

 Malware and Vulnerabilities

RedEnergy stealer uses a fake update campaign to target multiple industry verticals and possesses the ability to steal information from various browsers while also incorporating different modules for carrying out ransomware activities.

 Breaches and Incidents

Check Point spotted a new campaign by a Chinese threat actor targeting diplomatic entities in Europe. Dubbed SmugX, the campaign uses HTML smuggling to deploy a new variant of PlugX RAT. The campaign reportedly overlaps with the activity of RedDelta and Mustang Panda. Organizations are advised to use the IOCs associated with the campaign to understand the attack pattern and implement effective security measures.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 6203-1 - Seokchan Yoon discovered that Django incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Django to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 6202-1 - David Korczynski and Adam Korczynski discovered that containerd incorrectly processed certain images with large files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause containerd to crash, resulting in a denial of service. It was discovered that containerd incorrectly set up   show more ...

supplementary groups inside a container. An attacker with direct access to the container could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information or execute code with higher privileges.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 6201-1 - 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. Martin Hostettler   show more ...

discovered that Firefox did not properly block storage of all cookies when configured. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue to store tracking data without permission in localstorage.

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GnuPG (the GNU Privacy Guard or GPG) is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440. As such, it is meant   show more ...

to be compatible with PGP from NAI, Inc. Because it does not use any patented algorithms, it can be used without any restrictions.

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The npm registry for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment is susceptible to what's called a manifest confusion attack that could potentially allow threat actors to conceal malware in project dependencies or perform arbitrary script execution during installation. "A npm package's manifest is published independently from its tarball," Darcy Clarke, a former GitHub and npm engineering manager

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Instagram Threads, the upcoming Twitter competitor from Meta, will not be launched in the European Union due to privacy concerns, according to Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC). The development was reported by the Irish Independent, which said the watchdog has been in contact with the social media giant about the new product and confirmed the release won't extend to the E.U. "at this

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Secrets are meant to be hidden or, at the very least, only known to a specific and limited set of individuals (or systems). Otherwise, they aren't really secrets. In personal life, a secret revealed can damage relationships, lead to social stigma, or, at the very least, be embarrassing. In a developer's or application security engineer's professional life, the consequences of exposing secrets

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A sophisticated stealer-as-a-ransomware threat dubbed RedEnergy has been spotted in the wild targeting energy utilities, oil, gas, telecom, and machinery sectors in Brazil and the Philippines through their LinkedIn pages. The malware "possesses the ability to steal information from various browsers, enabling the exfiltration of sensitive data, while also incorporating different modules for

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