WordPress is the worlds most popular content management system. As its developers like to point out, over 40% of all websites are built on WordPress. However, this popularity has its downside: such a huge number of potential targets inevitably attracts malicious actors. For this very reason, cybersecurity researchers show more ...
The latest episode of the Transatlantic Cable podcast begins with news that General Electric are investigating claims of a data breach, where it was reported that an attacker was selling access to the business for just $500. From there, the team discuss how U.S police forces are returning $9 million in seized crypto show more ...
A report from the firm Recorded Future finds that billions in gains from cryptocurrency heists fund close to half of North Korea's military budget. The post BitCoins To Bombs: North Korea Funds Military With Billions In Stolen Cryptocurrency first appeared on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Roberts. Related show more ...
No Iranian bank customers are safe from financially motivated cybercriminals wielding convincing but fake mobile apps.
Security updates are tedious and difficult, so users continue to use a weak version of a core protocol and remain exposed to major attacks on critical infrastructure.
A decade and a half after Gh0st RAT first appeared, the "SugarGh0st RAT" variant aims to make life sweeter for cybercriminals.
The prolific threat actor has laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in stolen virtual currency through the service.
Cybercriminals use legal search terms to ensnare unwitting victims, then launch ransomware or business email compromise attacks.
Early disclosures related to September compromise insisted less than 1% of Okta customers were impacted; now, the company says it was all of them.
AI tools can deliver quick and easy results and offer huge business benefits — but they also bring hidden risks.
Melissa Hathaway, a former White House cybersecurity adviser, says Biden is pushing through more regulatory reforms than previous administrations.
Office giving-friendly fidgets, stress balls, brain teasers, and more that are perfect to calm the most harried cybersecurity professionals.
Amazon Web Services announced enhancements to several of its security tools, including GuardDuty, Inspector, Detective, IAM Access Analyzer, and Secrets Manager, to name a few during its re:Invent event.
The collaboration focuses on helping security teams detect and address cloud threats more effectively.
It’s long been suspected that Black Basta is an offshoot of Conti, a prolific ransomware group that ceased operations at the time Black Basta began. The new analysis from Corvus highlighted a significant crossover in targeted sectors.
The ransomware group claims to have stolen a substantial trove of ‘sensitive data’ and is auctioning it for 10 BTC. As usual, the Rhysida ransomware operators plan to sell the stolen data to a single buyer.
While he mostly tried to cover his tracks by using what prosecutors described as "anonymized" Amazon Web Services IP addresses for the scam, law enforcement were able to trace his actions to a Comcast IP address and his Massport email address.
The bill also aligns state privacy law more closely with national privacy principles and reforms the Right to Information framework to reduce barriers to citizens accessing government-held information.
In the case of the Municipal Water Authority of Aliquippa, CISA noted that the attackers likely accessed the ICS device “by exploiting cybersecurity weaknesses, including poor password security and exposure to the internet”.
The finding highlights the potential misuse of service accounts to gain unauthorized access to SaaS systems. Abusing the bug enabled attackers to predict service account email addresses, hijack the accounts, and collect sensitive information.
Three Command injection vulnerabilities have been discovered in Zyxel NAS (Network Attached Storage) products, which could allow a threat actor to execute system commands on successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities.
Dollar Tree's service provider, Zeroed-In, suffered a security incident between August 7 and 8, 2023. As part of this cyberattack, the threat actors managed to steal data containing the personal information of Dollar Tree and Family Dollar employees.
The attack on Hendersonville is the latest incident affecting a North Carolina government institution since the state became the first in the nation to ban payments to ransomware gangs.
The scam is proving so fruitful that sales of Booking.com portal credentials are commanding sale prices of up to $2000 in two cybercrime forums, according to the researchers.
The company’s IT team said it is working to restore hospital systems and data but noted that its emergency rooms are still open to those in need of care. Some elective surgeries have been moved to later dates.
Additionally, there are unconfirmed reports that Staples employees have been instructed to avoid logging into Microsoft 365 using single sign-on (SSO) and that call center employees have been sent home for two consecutive days.
Threat actors dabbles in obfuscation and evasion techniques. However, as previously detailed by Confiant, they are using much more advanced tricks. Their JavaScript uses obfuscation with changing variable names, making identification harder.
As per DataDome’s report shared with Hackread.com ahead of publication on Tuesday, 72.3% of e-commerce websites and 65.2% of classified ad websites failed the bot tests, whereas 85% of DataDome’s fake Chrome bots remained undetected.
Cybersecurity analysts identified that the attacker, posing as a financial services company in this campaign, tricks the target with a fake invoice email. The attacker dodges detection using a fake page and a real link.
CE Phoenix version 1.0.8.20 remote code execution exploit written in Python.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6527-1 - Carter Kozak discovered that OpenJDK, when compiling with AVX-512 instruction support enabled, could produce code that resulted in memory corruption in certain situations. An attacker targeting applications built in this way could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6528-1 - It was discovered that the HotSpot VM implementation in OpenJDK did not properly validate bytecode blocks in certain situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Carter Kozak discovered that OpenJDK, when compiling with AVX-512 instruction support show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6526-1 - It was discovered that GStreamer Bad Plugins incorrectly handled certain media files. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause GStreamer Bad Plugins to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6519-2 - USN-6519-1 added IMDSv2 support to EC2 hibagent. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The EC2 hibagent package has been updated to add IMDSv2 support, as IMDSv1 uses an insecure protocol and is no longer recommended.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6525-1 - Nicky Mouha discovered that pysha incorrectly handled certain SHA-3 operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause pysha3 to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6524-1 - Nicky Mouha discovered that PyPy incorrectly handled certain SHA-3 operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause PyPy to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6522-1 - It was discovered that FreeRDP incorrectly handled drive redirection. If a user were tricked into connection to a malicious server, a remote attacker could use this issue to cause FreeRDP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly obtain sensitive information. It was show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6521-1 - It was discovered that GIMP incorrectly handled certain image files. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted image, an attacker could use this issue to cause GIMP to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6523-1 - It was discovered that U-Boot incorrectly handled certain USB DFU download setup packets. A local attacker could use this issue to cause U-Boot to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. Nicolas Bidron and Nicolas Guigo discovered that U-Boot show more ...
Online Student Clearance System versions 1.0 and below suffer from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7587-01 - An update is now available for IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions including images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7581-01 - An update for the postgresql:13 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Issues addressed include integer overflow and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7580-01 - An update for the postgresql:13 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include integer overflow and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7579-01 - An update for the postgresql:13 module is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include integer overflow and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7578-01 - An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Advanced Update Support. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7577-01 - An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7576-01 - An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Advanced Update Support. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7574-01 - An update for thunderbird 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 use-after-free vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7573-01 - An update for firefox 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 use-after-free vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7570-01 - An update for thunderbird 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 use-after-free vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7569-01 - An update for firefox 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 use-after-free vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7473-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.4 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-7470-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.14.4 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs and add enhancements. Issues addressed include a denial of service vulnerability.
Whitepaper titled BLUFFS: Bluetooth Forward and Future Secrecy Attacks and Defenses. It presents six novel attacks affecting chips from many major Bluetooth vendors.
The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed sanctions against Sinbad, a virtual currency mixer that has been put to use by the North Korea-linked Lazarus Group to launder ill-gotten proceeds. "Sinbad has processed millions of dollars' worth of virtual currency from Lazarus Group heists, including the Horizon Bridge and Axie Infinity heists," the department said. "Sinbad is also used by
Google has revealed a new multilingual text vectorizer called RETVec (short for Resilient and Efficient Text Vectorizer) to help detect potentially harmful content such as spam and malicious emails in Gmail. "RETVec is trained to be resilient against character-level manipulations including insertion, deletion, typos, homoglyphs, LEET substitution, and more," according to the project's
Wing Security recently announced that basic third-party risk assessment is now available as a free product. But it raises the questions of how SaaS is connected to third-party risk management (TPRM) and what companies should do to ensure a proper SaaS-TPRM process is in place. In this article we will share 5 tips to manage the third-party risks associated with SaaS, but first... What exactly is
Threat actors from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) are increasingly targeting the cryptocurrency sector as a major revenue generation mechanism since at least 2017 to get around sanctions imposed against the country. "Even though movement in and out of and within the country is heavily restricted, and its general population is isolated from the rest of the world, the regime's
Welcome to a world where Generative AI revolutionizes the field of cybersecurity. Generative AI refers to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to generate or create new data, such as images, text, or sounds. It has gained significant attention in recent years due to its ability to generate realistic and diverse outputs. When it comes to security operations, Generative AI can play
A CACTUS ransomware campaign has been observed exploiting recently disclosed security flaws in a cloud analytics and business intelligence platform called Qlik Sense to obtain a foothold into targeted environments. "This campaign marks the first documented instance [...] where threat actors deploying CACTUS ransomware have exploited vulnerabilities in Qlik Sense for initial access," Arctic Wolf
Don’t minimise your Teams Meeting video call too hastily, you might reveal your dirty secrets! Would you be prepared to pay for Facebook and Instagram? And who is being faked to promote cryptocurrency scams? All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by show more ...
I thought some of you might enjoy this. Here’s a video of a recent after-dinner talk I gave, exploring (in a hopefully fun way!) whether cybercriminals are quite as smart as we sometimes think they are. Are malicious hackers geniuses? Are they all evil? Be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel if you would … Continue reading "Not all cybercriminals are evil geniuses"
A 28-year-old maj has pleaded guilty to charges that he illegally hacked the network of his former company, telecoms firm Motorola, after he successfully tricked current staff into handing over their login credentials. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Failing to practice what you preach, especially when you are a juicy target for bad actors, creates a situation fraught with considerable risk
