The main purpose of a VPN is to encrypt your internet connection and protect your data from being intercepted, viewed and altered. The technology is used by companies to ensure secure remote working or communication between branches. For regular users, a VPN helps protect privacy and access content from a specific show more ...
Time to get real about what it takes to set and enforce cybersecurity and resilience standards for AI risk management in the enterprise.
Diplomats who didn't use VPNs may have lost sensitive state information to a Belarusian threat actor that wields the "Disco" and "Nightclub" malware.
At Black Hat "mini summit," providers and customers get clearer about premium costs and coverage — and the risk of doing without.
Decoding private keys from even one Dell customer could give attackers control over VMWare environments across all organizations running the same programs.
When it comes to cybersecurity automation, the pluses outweigh the minuses.
Stringent efficiency measures in new environmental regulations create an unintended consequence for the shipping industry: increased cybersecurity risks in operational technology systems.
A campaign sent 120,000 phishing emails in three months, circumventing MFA to compromise cloud accounts of high-level executives at global organizations
Experienced cybercriminals are taking on script kiddies in a new malware campaign through malicious OpenBullet configuration files. Malicious configurations are shared on platforms like Telegram to deliver a Rust-based dropper and a Python-based RAT named Patent. Adversaries have made a profit in crypto worth $1,703.15 over the past two months.
An advisory on the vulnerability published by JFrog shed light on the exact nature of the flaw, its potential victims, and a proof-of-concept (POC) illustrating the scenarios in which this flaw could be triggered for unauthorized access.
The company is participating in a larger collaboration between government agencies and private sector partners to help target rich, resource-poor organizations like local schools combat malicious attacks.
In total, Kubernetes clusters belonging to more than 350 organizations, open-source projects, and individuals were discovered, 60% of which were the target of an active crypto-mining campaign.
Tactical similarities have been unearthed between the double extortion ransomware group known as Rhysida and Vice Society, including in their targeting of education and healthcare sectors.
The Biden-Harris Administration has launched a major two-year competition using AI to protect the United States’ most important software, such as code that helps run the internet and critical infrastructure.
The Missouri Department of Social Services (DSS) has issued an alert urging residents to safeguard their personal information following a cyberattack originating from a data security breach at IBM Consulting in May 2023.
Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, attributed the attack to the infamous hacking group known as Sandworm, working on behalf of GRU, the Russian military intelligence agency. The SBU said it was able to stop the operation during the planning phase.
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has mistakenly shared sensitive data of all 10,000 serving police officers in response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request. The request aimed at determining the number of PSNI officers.
Multiple zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in some of the most used cryptographic multi-party computation (MPC) protocols, putting consumers’ cryptocurrency funds at risk of theft.
Google has changed the Google Chrome security updates schedule from bi-weekly to weekly to address the growing patch gap problem that allows threat actors extra time to exploit published n-day and zero-day flaws.
A recent disclosure highlights a fresh wave of vulnerabilities, with a major focus on AMD's 'Inception.' This vulnerability enables data leakage through a novel attack approach. Any system with an affected CPU can potentially be the target of the attack. AMD has released microcode in “Zen 3” and “Zen 4” CPU architectures to fully mitigate the attack.
The Balada Injector malware continues to evade security software by using new domain names and obfuscation techniques, posing a persistent threat to vulnerable WordPress websites.
Threat actors are spurning the rise of automation and using manual tactics to intrude organizations’ networks and rapidly access sensitive data, according to CrowdStrike’s 2023 Threat Hunting Report released Tuesday.
Ukrainian government agencies were targeted by hackers in a phishing campaign that utilized the open-source program MerlinAgent. The campaign was conducted by UAC-0154 and involved sending malicious emails to the targets. As attackers adapt their techniques, vigilance becomes paramount.
An Israeli hospital near the city of Tel Aviv was hacked on Tuesday by a group of unknown cybercriminals, prompting it to stop admitting new patients and redirecting people to nearby hospitals.
Adobe on Tuesday rolled out a big batch of security updates for its flagship Acrobat and Reader software, patching at least 30 vulnerabilities affecting Windows and macOS installations.
The mass exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in MOVEit has compromised more than 600 organizations and 40 million individuals to date, but the numbers mask a more disastrous outcome that’s still unfolding.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released a long-anticipated draft version of the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 Tuesday, the first major update of the agency’s risk guidance since 2014.
The latest attacks come a week after the group, NoName057(16), hit Spanish and Italian government and private sector organizations with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Examining data since 2013, Abnormal identified a massive increase in third-party apps integrated with email, underscoring the proliferation of an emerging threat vector that cybercriminals are exploiting as they continue to shift their tactics.
Hackers associated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from 2021 to 2023.
A market survey of prospective enterprises by Spirent reveals that security and network resiliency are key drivers motivating enterprises to consider private networking, fuelling a market forecast to reach $7.7 billion by 2027.
Most of the attacks targeted high-ranking executives. The researchers estimated that the campaign targeted over 100 organizations globally, collectively representing 1.5 million employees.
The $12 million seed round was led by Glilot Capital Partners, with participation from CyberArk Ventures and a number of angel investors including Gerhard Eschelbeck, a former CISO at Google, and Travis McPeak, who led product security at Databricks.
The findings come from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which carried out an analysis of the encryption mechanism used in Tencent's Sogou Input Method, an app that has over 455 million monthly active users across Windows, Android, and iOS.
“Exploitation for many issues on Android is made more difficult by enhancements in newer versions of the Android platform. We encourage all users to update to the latest version of Android where possible,” Google noted in its security bulletin.
A popular bulletproof hosting platform was taken down by authorities in the U.S. and Poland this week, marking the latest effort to limit the anonymous access cybercriminals have to critical tools.
Deprixa version 3.2.5 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
The Microsoft Windows Kernel CmDeleteLayeredKey may delete predefined tombstone keys, leading to security descriptor use-after-free.
The Microsoft Windows Kernel may reference rolled-back transacted keys through differencing hives.
The Microsoft Windows Kernel may reference unbacked layered keys through registry virtualization.
There is a Microsoft Windows Kernel arbitrary read that can be performed by accessing predefined keys through differencing hives.
Google's American Fuzzy Lop is a brute-force fuzzer coupled with an exceedingly simple but rock-solid instrumentation-guided genetic algorithm. afl++ is a superior fork to Google's afl. It has more speed, more and better mutations, more and better instrumentation, custom module support, etc.
PacketFence is a network access control (NAC) system. It is actively maintained and has been deployed in numerous large-scale institutions. It can be used to effectively secure networks, from small to very large heterogeneous networks. PacketFence provides NAC-oriented features such as registration of new network show more ...
This is a Linux/portable port of OpenBSD's excellent OpenSSH. OpenSSH is based on the last free version of Tatu Ylonen's SSH with all patent-encumbered algorithms removed, all known security bugs fixed, new features reintroduced, and many other clean-ups.
WordPress WP Project Manager plugin versions 2.6.4 and below suffer from a privilege escalation vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4590-01 - Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6281-1 - Alvaro Munoz discovered that Velocity Engine incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4591-01 - Red Hat Update Infrastructure offers a highly scalable, highly redundant framework that enables you to manage repositories and content. It also enables cloud providers to deliver content and updates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux instances. Issues addressed include bypass and denial of service vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6243-2 - USN-6243-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Graphite-Web. It was discovered that the applied fix was incomplete. This update fixes the problem. It was discovered that Graphite-Web incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted show more ...
Dynamic Journal CMS version 2.5 suffers from a database disclosure vulnerability.
e2 Distr CMS version 2.8.5.3 appears to leave backups in a world accessible directory under the document root.
DriverPack Solution CMS version 17.11.108 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
DMIS:CRI LMS version 2.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Discussion On Kontackt The Exclusive PHP Social Network Platform version 1.18 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Digisha CMS version 1.2.7 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
DigaSell Digital Store PHP Script version 1.0.0 suffers from a remote blind SQL injection vulnerability.
Doma CMS version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Desenvolvido C3iM CMS version 2.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Interpol has announced the takedown of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform called 16Shop, in addition to the arrests of three individuals in Indonesia and Japan. 16Shop specialized in the sales of phishing kits that other cybercriminals can purchase to mount phishing attacks on a large scale, ultimately facilitating the theft of credentials and payment details from users of popular services
Attackers continue to target Microsoft identities to gain access to connected Microsoft applications and federated SaaS applications. Additionally, attackers continue to progress their attacks in these environments, not by exploiting vulnerabilities, but by abusing native Microsoft functionality to achieve their objective. The attacker group Nobelium, linked with the SolarWinds attacks, has been
A widely used Chinese language input app for Windows and Android has been found vulnerable to serious security flaws that could allow a malicious interloper to decipher the text typed by users. The findings from the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which carried out an analysis of the encryption mechanism used in Tencent's Sogou Input Method, an app that has over 455 million monthly active
Threat actors are increasingly using a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) toolkit dubbed EvilProxy to pull off account takeover attacks aimed at high-ranking executives at prominent companies. According to Proofpoint, an ongoing hybrid campaign has leveraged the service to target thousands of Microsoft 365 user accounts, sending approximately 120,000 phishing emails to hundreds of organizations
Malicious actors are using a legitimate Rust-based injector called Freeze[.]rs to deploy a commodity malware called XWorm in victim environments. The novel attack chain, detected by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs on July 13, 2023, is initiated via a phishing email containing a booby-trapped PDF file. It has also been used to introduce Remcos RAT by means of a crypter called SYK Crypter, which was
A new information malware strain called Statc Stealer has been found infecting devices running Microsoft Windows to siphon sensitive personal and payment information. "Statc Stealer exhibits a broad range of stealing capabilities, making it a significant threat," Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Shivam Sharma and Amandeep Kumar said in a technical report published this week. "It can steal
Razzlekhan, the self-proclaimed Crocodile of Wall Street, pleads guilty to the biggest crypto laundering scheme in history, and just how safe are you typing while on a Zoom call? Meanwhile, Graham rants about public EV chargers. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Earlier this week, the details of all 10,000 staff at the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) were exposed after a spreadsheet containing the data was mistakenly published online.
Rhysida is a Windows-based ransomware operation that has come to prominence since May 2023, after being linked to a series of high profile cyber attacks in Western Europe, North and South America, and Australia. Learn more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Listen as ESET's Director of Threat Research Jean-Ian Boutin unravels the tactics, techniques and procedures of MoustachedBouncer, an APT group taking aim at foreign embassies in Belarus
Long-term espionage against diplomats, leveraging email-based C&C protocols, C++ modular backdoors, and adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks… Sounds like the infamous Turla? Think again!
