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From communicating why security should be a priority to advocating for accountability and greater focus on protecting data in the cloud, CISOs can make the case for keeping people and sensitive data secure.
The executive order is ambitious and seeks to protect a variety of different groups that are most at risk from the irresponsible use of AI.
The country has issued a recommendation to update after a high-risk vulnerability was disclosed last week in the browser.
A determination to be taken seriously as a cyber player sees the United Arab Emirates announce a series of collaborations.
An advanced feature of Google targeted ads can allow a rarely precedented flood of malware infections, rendering machines completely useless.
LockBit gives Boeing a Nov. 2 deadline to pay the ransom or have its sensitive documents leaked to the public, but it hasn't given evidence of the compromise.
Politicians are suggesting massive cuts to CISA's budget, threatening its missions to secure federal networks and help critical infrastructure operators fend off cyberattacks.
The complexity of OT environments, the convergence of IT and OT, insider attacks, and supply chain vulnerabilities contribute to the lack of success in defending against these attacks.
Many chief information security officers (CISOs) are facing challenges when it comes to the purpose and value of security controls data in supporting critical business decisions, according to a report by Panaseer.
The request for comment aims to establish uniform parameters for tracking critical information such as known vulnerabilities and approved software, enhancing software security.
The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-4886, CVE-2023-5043, and CVE-2023-5044, include path sanitization bypass, annotation injection for arbitrary command execution, and code injection via the permanent-redirect annotation.
Though it shares strong similarities, Hunters International denies being the same group as Hive, claiming to have purchased the source code from them, and focuses on stealing data rather than encryption.
The recent DDoS attacks by pro-Ukrainian hackers targeted Russian ISPs, including Miranda-media, Krimtelekom, and MirTelekom, affecting not only Crimea but also occupied parts of other regions.
QR codes are particularly vulnerable to exploitation due to their ability to encode complex data and redirect users to malicious sites, making them an attractive target for hackers.
Parents have received emails from the threat actors, with leaked PDF documents containing student data, causing concerns about potential identity theft and phishing attacks.
The new disclosure requirement aims to empower consumers by providing them with breach data and enabling them to make more informed decisions about which financial institutions to trust with their information.
The GHOSTPULSE malware employs multiple evasion techniques, such as DLL side-loading and module stomping, to load and execute various malware including SectopRAT, Rhadamanthys, Vidar, Lumma, and NetSupport RAT.
Raven scans GitHub workflows, breaks them into components, and utilizes a knowledge base to identify vulnerabilities, making it easier for security teams to assess and address risks.
According to GuidePoint Security, ransomware activity continued to surge in Q3 of 2023. There was a 15% increase in ransomware activity compared to Q2, with 10 new emerging groups tracked during this quarter.
QR code phishing attacks, including quishing and QRLJacking, have seen a dramatic 587% increase from August to September 2023, with threat actors extracting login information from users. This social engineering tactic takes advantage of the trust in QR codes and the routine nature of security updates. The prevalence of quishing is a testament to the ever-evolving nature of cyber threats.
Huawei, Honor, and Vivo devices are displaying false security alerts urging the deletion of the Google app due to a supposed TrojanSMS-PA malware, but Google denies that its app triggered the alerts.
The Wiki-Slack attack relies on crafting a legitimate footnote in a Wikipedia article and exploiting Slack's rendering of the shared page's preview to generate a hidden malicious link.
The organization has confirmed that it is a cybersecurity incident, and while there is no evidence of compromised personal information, it may take several days to fully restore normal operations.
The manufacturing sector is particularly vulnerable to IoT malware attacks, experiencing an average of 6,000 attacks per week according to Zscaler, which can disrupt critical OT processes and pose long-term challenges for security teams.
The order directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology to establish new standards for red-team testing and the Department of Health and Human Services to create a safety program for AI in healthcare.
The compromised website injected malicious content, including overlays promoting software serial keys, which resulted in misleading ads being automatically generated by Google Ads.
The threat actor behind the campaign quickly scans and clones GitHub repositories to capture exposed keys, highlighting the importance of promptly removing and revoking any compromised credentials.
The tool provides step-by-step installation instructions, prebuilt elastic security detection rules, and coding to reduce cost barriers, making it accessible for organizations aiming to implement basic logging and monitoring capabilities.
Researchers uncovered a phishing campaign distributing the Remcos remote access trojan. Cybercriminals disguised the malware as a payslip in a deceptive email. Remcos RAT can perform a range of malicious activities, including keylogging, capturing screenshots, controlling webcams and microphones, and extracting browser histories and passwords.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-20 - A vulnerability has been discovered in rxvt-unicode where data written to the terminal can lead to code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 9.30 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-19 - A vulnerability has been discovered in Dovecot that can lead to a privilege escalation when master and non-master passdbs are used. Versions greater than or equal to 2.3.19.1-r1 are affected.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5538-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Thunderbird, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5537-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the OpenJDK Java runtime, which may result in bypass of sandbox restrictions or denial of service.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-18 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Rack, the worst of which can lead to sequence injection in logging components. Versions greater than or equal to 2.2.3.1 are affected.
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory 202310-17 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in UnZip, the worst of which could lead to code execution. Versions greater than or equal to 6.0_p27 are affected.
VinChin Backup and Recovery in VinChin VMWare Backup versions 5.0 through 7.0 suffers from hardcoded credential and remote code execution vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6455-1 - It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled validation of user-supplied data, which could lead to memory corruption. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that Exim incorrectly handled validation of user-supplied data, which show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6456-1 - 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. Kelsey Gilbert show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6161-01 - The Migration Toolkit for Containers 1.7.14 is now available. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6158-01 - An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6156-01 - The components for Red Hat OpenShift support for Windows Containers 8.1.0 are now available. This product release includes bug fixes and security updates for the following packages: windows-machine-config-operator and windows-machine-config-operator-bundle. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6144-01 - An update for custom-metrics-autoscaler-adapter-container, custom-metrics-autoscaler-admission-webhooks-container, custom-metrics-autoscaler-container, custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator-bundle-container, and custom-metrics-autoscaler-operator-container is now available for the show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6022-01 - An update for the varnish:6 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-6021-01 - An update for the varnish:6 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-5992-01 - An update for the python27:2.7 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Telecommunications Update Service, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
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Three unpatched high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in the NGINX Ingress controller for Kubernetes that could be weaponized by a threat actor to steal secret credentials from the cluster. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2022-4886 (CVSS score: 8.8) - Ingress-nginx path sanitization can be bypassed to obtain the credentials of the ingress-nginx controller CVE-2023-5043 (
A new cyber attack campaign has been observed using spurious MSIX Windows app package files for popular software such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to distribute a novel malware loader dubbed GHOSTPULSE. "MSIX is a Windows app package format that developers can leverage to package, distribute, and install their applications to Windows users," Elastic
Modern web app development relies on cloud infrastructure and containerization. These technologies scale on demand, handling millions of daily file transfers – it's almost impossible to imagine a world without them. However, they also introduce multiple attack vectors that exploit file uploads when working with public clouds, vulnerabilities in containers hosting web applications, and many other
Earlier this week, ServiceNow announced on its support site that misconfigurations within the platform could result in “unintended access” to sensitive data. For organizations that use ServiceNow, this security exposure is a critical concern that could have resulted in major data leakage of sensitive corporate data. ServiceNow has since taken steps to fix this issue. This article fully analyzes
A new ongoing campaign dubbed EleKtra-Leak has set its eyes on exposed Amazon Web Service (AWS) identity and access management (IAM) credentials within public GitHub repositories to facilitate cryptojacking activities. "As a result of this, the threat actor associated with the campaign was able to create multiple AWS Elastic Compute (EC2) instances that they used for wide-ranging and
A pro-Hamas hacktivist group has been observed using a new Linux-based wiper malware dubbed BiBi-Linux Wiper, targeting Israeli entities amidst the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war. "This malware is an x64 ELF executable, lacking obfuscation or protective measures," Security Joes said in a new report published today. "It allows attackers to specify target folders and can potentially destroy an entire
Cybersecurity Awareness Month draws to a close and Halloween is just around the corner, so here is a bunch of spine-tingling figures about some very real tricks and threats lurking online
