As soon as your company becomes more or less famous, more often than not someone starts exploiting your success for their own purposes. At best, they simply hide behind your name in order to promote some dubious quality goods and services. At worst, they prey on your clients, partners, or even employees. The latter show more ...
Ethical hackers were given voluntary access to digital scanners, ballot markers, and electronic pollbooks, all in the name of making the voting process more resilient to cyber threats.
All of the security bugs are under active attacks, but the extent of their exploitation is unknown.
The newly emerged ransomware actively targets both Windows and Linux systems with a double-extortion approach.
The new SEC rules make it seem that there is no need to report the presence of security vulnerabilities, but that doesn't quite tell the full story.
Tens of millions in losses later, the MGM and Caesars systems are back online following dual cyberattacks by the same threat actor — here's what experts say about their incident responses.
Whether achieved through AI-enabled automation, proactive identification and resolution of issues, or the equitable distribution of risk management responsibilities, the goal must be resilience.
Cisco's surprise agreement could reshape secure information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR) markets.
Most automated attacks from the regions were against e-commerce and telecommunications organizations.
The league is working with more than 100 partners to workshop responses to a host of hypothetical cyberattacks on the upcoming Big Game in Las Vegas.
Terms of service for API access give TikTok publication review over findings and limit access to critical data on the platform's impact on US users, researchers say.
The Sandman group's main malware is among the very few that use the Lua scripting language and its just-in-time compiler.
“We are pleased that all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally,” the Las Vegas-based company posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. It was reported last week that the attack was detected on September 10.
Signal plans to continue adapting and upgrading its encryption mechanism to ensure quantum-resistant end-to-end encryption in the face of emerging challenges and ongoing research.
The exposure of the company's web server version and operating system flavor poses a risk as attackers could target specific vulnerabilities associated with the operating system.
Apple released emergency security updates to patch three new zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks targeting iPhone and Mac users, for a total of 16 zero-days fixed this year.
Approximately 60% of cyberattacks on the industrial sector are carried out by state-affiliated actors, often with the unintentional assistance of internal personnel (about 33% of the time), according to Rockwell Automation.
Canada’s largest airline, Air Canada, announced a data breach this week that involved the information of employees, but said its operations and customer data were not impacted.
Proofpoint has identified a notable rise in cybercrime activity aimed at Chinese-speaking individuals. It noted that ValleyRAT and a Gh0stRAt variant named Sainbox RAT targeted global organizations with Chinese operations. These are being distributed via Excel and PDF attachments containing infected URLs. To learn show more ...
A new report from SolarWinds highlights the benefits of observability for enterprises. The report states that companies that implement observability experience increased operational efficiency, faster innovation, and better business outcomes.
Legit Security, a cybersecurity company developing a platform to identify app vulnerabilities from code, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by CRV with participation from Cyberstarts, Bessemer Venture Partners, and TCV.
The CISA added eight bugs on Monday and another on Tuesday to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities, giving FCEB agencies three weeks to patch the issues that affect products from MinIO, Samsung, Realtek, Zyxel, Laravel, and Owl Labs.
ISC has released fixes for two high-severity bugs affecting the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that could pave the way for a DoS condition.
Tracked as CVE-2023-22513 (CVSS score of 8.5), the most severe of these issues is described as a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Bitbucket that could impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The campaign uses advanced obfuscation techniques, phishing links, and geofencing to ensure victims are located only in Brazil and Mexico, demonstrating an evolution in the attackers' tactics.
In a breach notification on Wednesday, Lakeland Community College didn't provide any details on the attack, which occurred between March 7 and March 31, but the Vice Society ransomware group had earlier listed the college on its data leak site.
The Python package "Culturestreak" is a malicious software that hijacks system resources for unauthorized cryptocurrency mining. The package utilizes obfuscated code and random filenames to evade detection, making it a persistent threat.
The activities of Sandman suggest espionage motivations, with a focus on telecommunications providers and a potential connection to a private contractor or mercenary group.
The campaigns, dubbed Outer Space and Juicy Mix, entailed the use of two previously documented first-stage backdoors called Solar and Mango, which were deployed to collect sensitive information from major browsers and the Windows Credential Manager.
Despite the sophisticated techniques used, users can still protect themselves by being cautious of unsolicited links, suspicious messages, and checking URLs for deception, as well as contacting the company directly for clarification.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6394-1 - It was discovered that Python incorrectly handled certain scripts. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code or cause a crash.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6395-1 - Mickael Karatekin discovered that GNOME Shell incorrectly allowed the screenshot tool to view open windows when a session was locked. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to obtain sensitive information.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5337-01 - A security update for Camel K 1.10.2 is now available. The purpose of this text-only errata is to inform you about the security issues fixed. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Elasticsearch version 8.5.3 stack overflow proof of concept exploit.
BDS Freebsd KLD rootkit for FreeBSD 13 that hides files, hides processes, hides ports, and has a bind shell backdoor.
Ftrace-based Linux loadable kernel module rootkit for Linux kernel versions 5.x and 6.x on x86_64. It hides files, hides process, hides a bind shell and reverse shell port, provides privilege escalation, and cleans up logs and bash history during installation.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6360-2 - USN-6360-1 fixed a vulnerability in FLAC. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. It was discovered that FLAC incorrectly handled encoding certain files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause FLAC to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Taskhub version 2.8.8 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Apple has released yet another round of security patches to address three actively exploited zero-day flaws impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari, taking the total tally of zero-day bugs discovered in its software this year to 16. The list of security vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-41991 - A certificate validation issue in the Security framework that could allow a
Israeli organizations were targeted as part of two different campaigns orchestrated by the Iranian nation-state actor known as OilRig in 2021 and 2022. The campaigns, dubbed Outer Space and Juicy Mix, entailed the use of two previously documented first-stage backdoors called Solar and Mango, which were deployed to collect sensitive information from major browsers and the Windows Credential
Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The Australian software services provider said that the four high-severity flaws were fixed in new versions shipped last month. This includes - CVE-2022-25647 (CVSS score: 7.5) - A deserialization
Thorough, independent tests are a vital resource for analyzing provider’s capabilities to guard against increasingly sophisticated threats to their organization. And perhaps no assessment is more widely trusted than the annual MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Evaluation. This testing is critical for evaluating vendors because it’s virtually impossible to evaluate cybersecurity vendors based on their own
An active malware campaign targeting Latin America is dispensing a new variant of a banking trojan called BBTok, particularly users in Brazil and Mexico. "The BBTok banker has a dedicated functionality that replicates the interfaces of more than 40 Mexican and Brazilian banks, and tricks the victims into entering its 2FA code to their bank accounts or into entering their payment card number,"
Two ESET malware researchers took to the LABScon stage this year to deconstruct sophisticated attacks conducted by two well-known APT groups
ESET researchers have discovered Deadglyph, a sophisticated backdoor used by the infamous Stealth Falcon group for espionage in the Middle East
