John Clifton Davies, a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investment schemes, has a brand new pair of scam companies that are busy dashing startup dreams: A fake investment firm called Equity-Invest[.]ch, and Diligere[.]co.uk, a scam show more ...
No matter how clearly security professionals express themselves, not everyone thinks the same way. Here's why communication can go wrong.
Abandoned sites — like Wordpress — are easy to break into, offer a legitimate looking cover, and can remain active for longer than average.
Company's experience highlights the tightrope tech organizations walk when integrating AI into their products and services.
Adopting these recommendations will help SMBs and public-sector agencies that must deal with the same questions of network security and data safety as their larger cousins, but without the same resources.
Global law enforcement operation leads to arrests of suspects behind sale of popular phishing kits.
State's Department of Health Care Policy & Financing is the latest to acknowledge an attack by the Russian group's ongoing exploitation of third-party systems.
The industry's understanding of mobile or client-side security is too limited, leaving many mobile apps vulnerable. Don't let these three myths lead you astray.
Developers need to focus on creating secure web and mobile applications, because flaws in Web application programming interfaces (APIs) have left companies open to attack.
Messaging from joint summit in Saint Petersburg amounts to little more than "diplomatic subterfuge," observers note.
Update to the NIST framework adds new "govern" function for cybersecurity.
A high-severity security flaw disclosed in the Python URL parsing function could be exploited to bypass domain or protocol filtering methods implemented with a blocklist, resulting in arbitrary file reads and command execution.
The White House ONCD released a request for information to get input from public and private sector stakeholders on key issues surrounding open-source security, a critical piece of the Biden administration’s national cybersecurity strategy.
The malware is packed twice to evade detection, including the use of a Go crypter called ShellGo. The malware payload is a remote access trojan (RAT) called AsyncRAT, which is executed in memory through a complex sequence of function calls.
The Department of Homeland Security's Cyber Safety Review Board will conduct its next investigation on cloud security and examine a recent cyberattack that targeted government email accounts supplied through Microsoft software.
Dependency confusion attacks, involving malicious code injection into applications through vulnerable dependencies, pose a significant security risk to organizations, with a high percentage of applications and assets being vulnerable to such attacks.
A couple of techniques collectively known as TunnelCrack can, in the right circumstances, be used by snoops to force victims' network traffic to go outside their encrypted VPNs, it was demonstrated last week.
With recent reports indicating that API vulnerabilities are costing businesses billions of dollars annually, it’s no wonder they are at the top of mind of many cybersecurity professionals.
The Monti ransomware group has reemerged after a two-month break, targeting legal and government institutions with a new Linux-based variant that shows significant differences from its previous versions.
Reviewing the group’s operations started in December last year following a long trail of incidents attributed to or claimed by Lapsus$ after leaking proprietary data from alleged victims.
While the cyber threat landscape has seen this major shift, security software to manage these direct personal risks has not kept up to protect public-facing individuals and leaders the way large enterprise organizations have.
Last week, the election oversight body disclosed that its systems had been broken into, and the attackers had access to the servers that host the organization's email, as well as copies of the electoral registers for the entire UK.
Threat actors leverage malware as an initial foothold to infiltrate targeted infrastructures and move laterally to gain long-term access, cause damage, or exfiltrate data and trade secrets.
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in AudioCodes desk phones and Zoom's Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) that could be potentially exploited by a malicious attacker to conduct remote attacks.
OCBC introduced a security feature that locks out access if it detects mobile apps downloaded from unofficial app stores on the user's phone. The bank cites the need to safeguard against malware, but is instead frustrating customers.
Several vulnerabilities in the ScrutisWeb ATM could be exploited to remotely hack ATMs. The security holes were discovered by Synack Red Team members and they were patched by the vendor in July 2023 with the release of ScrutisWeb version 2.1.38.
The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (HCPF) is alerting more than four million individuals of a data breach that impacted their personal and health information.
Anonymous Italia, a group claiming to be affiliated with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, has launched cyber protests against the Japanese government over its decision to release wastewater from the Fukushima Daini Nuclear Power Plant.
The issue is described as a buffer overflow that could lead to remote code execution. An attacker within the wireless range of an impacted device can trigger the flaw using a specially crafted frame.
Researchers from Trellix Advanced Research Center discovered multiple vulnerabilities impacting CyberPower’s PowerPanel Enterprise Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform and Dataprobe’s iBoot Power Distribution Unit (PDU).
The Knight ransomware is being distributed in an ongoing spam campaign that pretends to be TripAdvisor complaints. Knight ransomware is a recent rebrand of the Cyclop Ransomware-as-a-Service, which switched its name at the end of July 2023.
Ubuntu Security Notice 4897-2 - USN-4897-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in Pygments. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ben Caller discovered that Pygments incorrectly handled parsing certain files. If a user or automated system were tricked into parsing a specially crafted file, a remote attacker could cause Pygments to hang or consume resources, resulting in a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6287-1 - Simon Ferquel discovered that the Go yaml package incorrectly handled certain YAML documents. 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 cause the system to crash, resulting in a denial of show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6280-1 - It was discovered that PyPDF2 incorrectly handled PDF files with certain markers. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted file, an attacker could possibly use this issue to consume system resources, resulting in a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6286-1 - Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. It was discovered that some Intel Xeon Processors did show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5476-1 - Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in the RealMedia demuxers for the GStreamer media framework, which may result in denial of service or potentially the execution of arbitrary code if a malformed media file is opened.
jSQL Injection is a lightweight application used to find database information from a distant server. jSQL Injection is also part of the official penetration testing distribution Kali Linux and is included in various other distributions like Pentest Box, Parrot Security OS, ArchStrike and BlackArch Linux. This is the source code release.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6283-1 - Ruihan Li discovered that the bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly perform permissions checks when handling HCI sockets. A physically proximate attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Zheng Zhang discovered that the device-mapper implementation in the show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6284-1 - It was discovered that the netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate policies when parsing attributes in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that the CIFS network file system show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6285-1 - It was discovered that the NTFS file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check buffer indexes in certain situations, leading to an out-of-bounds read vulnerability. A local attacker could possibly use this to expose sensitive information. Stonejiajia, Shir Tamari show more ...
Advantech EKI-1524-CE series, EKI-1522 series,and EKI-1521 series versions 1.21 and below and 1.24 and below suffer from cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
Phoenix Contact TC Router 3002T-4G* versions prior to 2.0.2, TC Cloud Client 1002-4G* versions prior to 2.07.2, and Cloud Client 1101T-TX/TX versions prior to 2.06.10 suffer from cross site scripting and memory consumption vulnerabilities.
This is a Metasploit module for enumerating public Azure services by validating legitimate subdomains through various DNS record queries. This cloud reconnaissance module rapidly identifies API services, storage accounts, key vaults, databases, and more!
Qualys scanners use the ssh-rsa algorithm for pubkey signing in its attempt of SSH login. Modern SSHD servers reject pubkey login with ssh-rsa, so Qualys is unable to scan up-to-date Linux e.g. Debian12 or RHEL9. Qualys does not check the list of pubkey signing algorithms accepted by SSHD servers, and therefore cannot notify about any insecure ones.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4627-01 - Migration Toolkit for Applications 6.2.0 Images. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4625-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4623-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an OpenShift Container Platform installation.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4624-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation. Issues addressed include a memory leak vulnerability.
BookingWizz version 6.0.1 suffers from an information leakage vulnerability.
E-commerce Growisei CMS version 2.0 appears to leave default credentials installed after installation.
DBCInfoTech CMS version 2.0 suffers from an unauthenticated administrator reinstall vulnerability.
Education Time Indonesian School CRM version 1.7 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Eden CMS version 1.02 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Ecommerce Responsive version 1.2 suffers from an insecure direct object reference vulnerability.
E-Biz CMS version 2.0 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
EasyPX CMS version 06.02.04 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
MDR empowers organizations with enhanced security. Look for these four capabilities when selecting an MDR product.
The Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Friday granted assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB) after it was unanimously passed by both houses of the parliament last week, marking a significant step towards securing people's information. "The Bill provides for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognizes both the rights of the individuals to protect their
E-commerce sites using Adobe's Magento 2 software are the target of an ongoing campaign that has been active since at least January 2023. The attacks, dubbed Xurum by Akamai, leverage a now-patched critical security flaw (CVE-2022-24086, CVSS score: 9.8) in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that, if successfully exploited, could lead to arbitrary code execution. "The attacker seems to be
Why SaaS Security Is a Challenge In today's digital landscape, organizations are increasingly relying on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to drive their operations. However, this widespread adoption has also opened the doors to new security risks and vulnerabilities. The SaaS security attack surface continues to widen. It started with managing misconfigurations and now requires a
Germany's Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) has warned of cyber attacks targeting Iranian persons and organizations in the country since the end of 2022. "The cyber attacks were mainly directed against dissident organizations and individuals – such as lawyers, journalists, or human rights activists – inside and outside Iran," the agency said in an advisory. The
Users in Latin America (LATAM) are the target of a financial malware called JanelaRAT that's capable of capturing sensitive information from compromised Microsoft Windows systems. "JanelaRAT mainly targets financial and cryptocurrency data from LATAM bank and financial institutions," Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Gaetano Pellegrino and Sudeep Singh said, adding it "abuses DLL side-loading
A new remote access trojan (RAT) called QwixxRAT is being advertised for sale by its threat actor through Telegram and Discord platforms. "Once installed on the victim's Windows platform machines, the RAT stealthily collects sensitive data, which is then sent to the attacker's Telegram bot, providing them with unauthorized access to the victim's sensitive information," Uptycs said in a new
'Ello ello ello. What's all this then? Just days after it was learned that the police had exposed the details of their 10,000 staff in Northern Ireland, another force has admitted to an embarrassing breach of sensitive data. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Security researchers have demonstrated how they were able to exploit a flaw which allowed them to hack the card-shuffling devices used in casinos and poker rooms. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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