If you ask parents and kids what their favorite days of the year are, many of the answers will be similar – but therell be one key difference. And that day comes to certain days of school… Kids favorite school day is typically the last day of the academic year: the onset of summer and freedom – what could be show more ...
Realistic expectations and caution began to replace wonder and confusion for generative AI at the recent security industry gatherings.
A new sextortion scam is making the rounds that pretends to be an email from the adult site YouPorn, warning that a sexually explicit video of you was uploaded to the site and suggesting you pay to have it taken down.
A hacking group linked to Russian domestic intelligence agency the FSB has intensified attacks in tandem with a Ukrainian military push to expel Russian invaders, say Kyiv cyber defenders.
Given the lack of any security boundary between the extension and a site's elements, the former has unrestricted access to data visible in the source code and may extract any of its contents.
In the data breach announcement, the university says that the incident had a limited impact and the preliminary investigation found no evidence that local students, staff, or alumni have been impacted.
Victims are approached through various platforms ranging from Facebook and LinkedIn to WhatsApp and freelance job portals like Upwork. Another known distribution mechanism is the use of search engine poisoning to boost bogus software.
Freecycle, an online community that encourages sharing unwanted items with eachother than chucking them in the bin or taking them to landfill, has told users to change their passwords after it suffered a data breach.
Threat actors are manipulating the technology behind large language model chatbots to access confidential information, generate offensive content, and "trigger unintended consequences," warned the U.K. cybersecurity agency.
While 69% have seen their premiums rise by more than 50% in the past year, companies still feel the need to carry policies, overwhelmingly choosing to allocate more budget to pay for the increases, according to a report published by Delinea.
Civil society organizations in South Korea came under the brunt of a phishing attack that used a new RAT called SuperBear. The intrusion targeted an undisclosed activist, who received a malicious LNK file in late August, posing as a member of their organization. The researchers have provided the IOCs to defend against this threat.
CareSource, the entity that manages software for the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA), suffered a data breach in May that may have exposed the personal information of 212,193 Indiana Medicaid members.
A campaign named DB#JAMMER is utilizing poorly secured MS SQL servers to distribute Cobalt Strike and a ransomware strain called FreeWorld. Cybersecurity firm Securonix revealed that the attackers gain initial access by brute-forcing the MS SQL server, followed by reconnaissance, system firewall impairment, and establishing persistence.
A company, that makes a chastity device that can be controlled over the internet, exposed users’ email addresses, plaintext passwords, home addresses and IP addresses, and — in some cases — GPS coordinates, due to several flaws in its servers.
The compromised data also contains sensitive information about doctors, including their PII, login credentials, usernames, passwords, and phone numbers. The data breach was initiated by a threat actor named "Tanaka".
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4910-01 - Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector, the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library. This show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4909-01 - Red Hat JBoss Web Server is a fully integrated and certified set of components for hosting Java web applications. It is comprised of the Apache Tomcat Servlet container, JBoss HTTP Connector, the PicketLink Vault extension for Apache Tomcat, and the Tomcat Native library. This show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6335-1 - It was discovered that BusyBox incorrectly handled certain malformed gzip archives. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted gzip archive, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause BusyBox to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6334-1 - Peter Wang discovered that atftp did not properly manage certain inputs. A remote attacker could send a specially crafted tftp request to the server to cause a crash. Andreas B. Mundt discovered that atftp did not properly manage certain inputs. A remote attacker could send a specially show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6333-1 - Junsung Lee discovered that Thunderbird did not properly validate the text direction override unicode character in filenames. An attacker could potentially exploits this issue by spoofing file extension while attaching a file in emails. Max Vlasov discovered that Thunderbird Offscreen show more ...
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5488-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
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.
There is a race between mbind() and VMA-locked page faults in the Linux 6.4 kernel, leading to a use-after-free condition.
NVClient version 5.0 suffers from a stack buffer overflow vulnerability.
CSZ CMS version 1.3.0 suffers from multiple persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities.
nullcon Goa 2023 will be having a live bug hunting competition to win money. Registration deadline is September 7, 2023. The conference will be held September 22nd through the 24th, 2023.
AdminTLE PiHole versions prior to 5.18 suffer from a broken access control vulnerability.
Ivanti Avalanche versions prior to 6.4.0.0 suffer from a remote code execution vulnerability.
ImpressionTech CMS version 1.4 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Impress CMS version 1.3.9 suffers from an open redirection vulnerability.
ImgHosting version 1.3 suffers from a html injection vulnerability.
Humhub version 1.3.13 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
As businesses continue to grapple with third-party threats, a revamped approach to non-employee risk management can help limit their potential exposure.
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new antivirus evasion technique that involves embedding a malicious Microsoft Word file into a PDF file. The sneaky method, dubbed MalDoc in PDF by JPCERT/CC, is said to have been employed in an in-the-wild attack in July 2023. "A file created with MalDoc in PDF can be opened in Word even though it has magic numbers and file structure of PDF,"
Malicious actors associated with the Vietnamese cybercrime ecosystem are leveraging advertising-as-a-vector on social media platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook to distribute malware. “Threat actors have long used fraudulent ads as a vector to target victims with scams, malvertising, and more,” WithSecure researcher Mohammad Kazem Hassan Nejad said. “And with businesses now leveraging the reach
X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, has updated its privacy policy to collect users’ biometric data to tackle fraud and impersonation on the platform. “Based on your consent, we may collect and use your biometric information for safety, security, and identification purposes,” the company said. The revised policy is expected to go into effect on September 29, 2023. The social
There’s been a great deal of AI hype recently, but that doesn’t mean the robots are here to replace us. This article sets the record straight and explains how businesses should approach AI. From musing about self-driving cars to fearing AI bots that could destroy the world, there has been a great deal of AI hype in the past few years. AI has captured our imaginations, dreams, and occasionally,
A new large-scale smishing campaign is targeting the U.S. by sending iMessages from compromised Apple iCloud accounts with an aim to conduct identity theft and financial fraud. “The Chinese-speaking threat actors behind this campaign are operating a package-tracking text scam sent via iMessage to collect personally identifying information (PII) and payment credentials from victims, in the
An unknown threat actor has been observed weaponizing high-severity security flaws in the MinIO high-performance object storage system to achieve unauthorized code execution on affected servers. Cybersecurity and incident response firm Security Joes said the intrusion leveraged a publicly available exploit chain to backdoor the MinIO instance. The comprises CVE-2023-28432 (CVSS score: 7.5) and
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Phishing emails are a weapon of choice for criminals intent on stealing people’s personal data and planting malware on their devices. The healing process does not end with antivirus scanning.
