The U.S. government is warning that “smart locks” securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be used to remotely open any of the locks. The lock’s maker Chirp Systems remains unresponsive, even though it was first notified about the critical show more ...
The responsibility to hold Microsoft accountable for abiding by its self-proclaimed principles shouldn't fall to customers and competition authorities.
A third-party telephony service provider for Cisco Duo falls prey to social engineering, and the company advises customer vigilance against subsequent phishing attacks.
A Russian-language cyberattack campaign impersonates legitimate game operations to spread various cross-platform infostealers.
Roku assures customers that no financial information was stolen and that any purchases made through user accounts have been reimbursed.
A sophisticated threat actor is leveraging the bug to deploy a Python backdoor for stealing data and executing other malicious actions.
Handala threat group claims to have hacked radar systems in Israel as tensions rise between the two nations.
The COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force (CFETF) was set up in 2021 to tackle what is believed to be fraud on a vast scale, taking advantage of generous government loans and relief payments during the pandemic.
The campaign is said to be highly targeted in nature, with the apps available on Google Play having a negligible number of installs ranging from zero to 45. The apps have since been taken down.
The campaign targets Web3 gamers, exploiting their potential lack of cyber hygiene in the pursuit of profits. It represents a significant cross-platform threat, utilizing a variety of malware to compromise users' systems.
Financial services firms have been hit with $12bn in losses over the last two decades as a result of cyber attacks, according to a recently published report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The public draft – titled Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile, was published by NIST on April 3. The agency is seeking public comments on the draft through May 20.
Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday.
The first three months of 2024 saw 841 publicly reported “data compromises” – up 90% on the same period last year, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).
liblzma-sys, which has been downloaded over 21,000 times, provides Rust developers with bindings to the liblzma implementation, an underlying library that is part of the XZ Utils data compression software. The impacted version in question is 0.3.2.
Malware Next-Gen was originally designed to allow U.S. federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial government agencies to submit suspicious files and receive automated malware analysis through static and dynamic analysis tools.
Russia is the most significant source of global cybercrime and serves as the top hub for digital threat actors worldwide, according to the newly released World Cybercrime Index.
According to BOD 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, FCEB agencies have to address the identified vulnerabilities by the due date to protect their networks against attacks exploiting the flaws in the catalog.
GSM Association’s Fraud and Security Group (FASG) has published the first version of a framework for describing, in a structured way, how adversaries attack and use mobile networks, based on the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used.
This campaign’s strategic inclusion of a clipper module alongside FatalRAT hints at a targeted approach towards cryptocurrency users, amplifying data interception capabilities with the addition of a keylogger module.
A former security engineer has been sentenced to three years in prison in the U.S. for charges relating to hacking two decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12.3 million.
JuicyFields operated as a classic Ponzi scheme between 2020 and July 2022, according to Europol. Promising high returns with little to no risk, the scammers simply used money from new investors to pay returns to earlier ones.
Upstream Security, an Israeli auto cybersecurity startup, said on Wednesday it received an undisclosed investment from Cisco Investments as demand grows for internet-connected vehicles and other devices.
Organizations with on-prem installations of Delinea Secret Server are urged to update them immediately, to plug a critical vulnerability that may allow attackers to bypass authentication, gain admin access and extract secrets.
This maximum severity security flaw (CVE-2024-3400) affects PAN-OS 10.2, PAN-OS 11.0, and PAN-OS 11.1 firewalls with device telemetry and GlobalProtect (gateway or portal) enabled.
At many financial institutions, your voice is your password. Tiny variations in pitch, tone and timbre make human voices unique - apparently making them an ideal method for authenticating customers phoning for service.
The threat actor known as Muddled Libra has been observed actively targeting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud service provider (CSP) environments in a bid to exfiltrate sensitive data.
A secretive U.S. cyber military force ramped up global operations in 2023, executing more than double the average number of "hunt forward" campaigns than the previous five years, according to the head of U.S. Cyber Command.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a "renewed" cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy.
Global cybersecurity services provider Cyderes has acquired Ipseity Security, a Canadian company specializing in identity and access management (IAM). The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
The password of database connections in AWS Glue is loaded into the website when a connection's edit page is requested. Principals with appropriate permissions can read the password. This behavior also increases the risk that database passwords will be intercepted by an attacker during transmission in the server show more ...
This Metasploit exploit module leverages an improperly controlled modification of dynamically-determined object attributes vulnerability (CVE-2023-43177) to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution. This affects CrushFTP versions prior to 10.5.1. It is possible to set some user's session properties by sending show more ...
Google's American Fuzzy Lop is a brute-force fuzzer coupled with an exceedingly simple but rock-solid instrumentation-guided genetic algorithm. afl++ is a superior fork to Google's afl. It has more speed, more and better mutations, more and better instrumentation, custom module support, etc.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5659-1 - Bartek Nowotarski discovered that Apache Traffic Server, a reverse and forward proxy server, was susceptible to denial of service via HTTP2 continuation frames.
This is a backdoored version of openssh-8.0p1 where the ssh client will log the ssh username and ssh password into /opt/.../log.txt.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6731-1 - It was discovered that YARD before 0.9.11 does not block relative paths with an initial ../ sequence, which allows attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and read arbitrary files. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It was discovered that yard before 0.9.20 is affected show more ...
GLPI versions 10.x.x suffers from a remote command execution vulnerability via the shell commands plugin.
WordPress WP Video Playlist plugin version 1.1.1 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5658-1 - Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks.
BMC Compuware iStrobe Web version 20.13 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
Kruxton version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Kruxton version 1.0 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
WBCE version 1.6.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
AMPLE BILLS version 0.1 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5657-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Xorg X server, which may result in privilege escalation if the X server is running privileged or denial of service.
PrusaSlicer versions 2.6.1 and below suffer from an arbitrary code execution vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1812-03 - Custom Metrics Autoscaler Operator for Red Hat OpenShift including security updates. Issues addressed include denial of service and memory leak vulnerabilities.
Moodle version 3.10.1 suffers from a remote time-based SQL injection vulnerability.
Django REST Framework SimpleJWT versions 5.3.1 and below suffer from an information disclosure vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1804-03 - An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1803-03 - Updates for bind and bind-dyndb-ldap are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support.
Jenkins version 2.441 suffers from a local file inclusion vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1802-03 - An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1801-03 - An update for unbound is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-1800-03 - Updates for bind and bind-dyndb-ldap are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a "renewed" cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy. "The latest iteration of LightSpy, dubbed 'F_Warehouse,' boasts a modular framework with extensive spying show more ...
Palo Alto Networks has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), the critical vulnerability is a case of command injection in the GlobalProtect feature that an unauthenticated attacker could weaponize to execute arbitrary code with root
Imagine a world where the software that powers your favorite apps, secures your online transactions, and keeps your digital life could be outsmarted and taken over by a cleverly disguised piece of code. This isn't a plot from the latest cyber-thriller; it's actually been a reality for years now. How this will change – in a positive or negative direction – as artificial intelligence (AI) takes on
The threat actor known as Muddled Libra has been observed actively targeting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud service provider (CSP) environments in a bid to exfiltrate sensitive data. "Organizations often store a variety of data in SaaS applications and use services from CSPs," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said in a report published last week. "The threat
To minimize the risk of privilege misuse, a trend in the privileged access management (PAM) solution market involves implementing just-in-time (JIT) privileged access. This approach to privileged identity management aims to mitigate the risks associated with prolonged high-level access by granting privileges temporarily and only when necessary, rather than providing users with
A security flaw impacting the Lighttpd web server used in baseboard management controllers (BMCs) has remained unpatched by device vendors like Intel and Lenovo, new findings from Binarly reveal. While the original shortcoming was discovered and patched by the Lighttpd maintainers way back in August 2018 with version 1.4.51, the lack of a CVE identifier or an advisory meant that
Law enforcement officers in Zambia have arrested 77 people at a call centre company they allege had employed local school-leavers to engage in scam internet users around the world. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Here’s how cybercriminals target cryptocurrencies and how you can keep your bitcoin or other crypto safe
Source: www.databreachtoday.com – Author: 1 Critical Infrastructure Security , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Reports: 100s of Drones and Missiles Shot Down; Cyber Group Makes Threats Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • April 14, 2024 Israel Defense Forces reported show more ...
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger data breach may have impacted millions of customers A threat actor claimed the hack of the Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger and leaked 2.8 million records on a hacker forum. A threat actor, who goes online with the show more ...
Source: securityaffairs.com – Author: Pierluigi Paganini Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger data breach may have impacted millions of customers | Security Affairs newsletter Round 467 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION | Crooks manipulate GitHub’s search results to distribute show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Lawrence Abrams OpenTable has reversed its decision to show members’ first names and profile pictures in past anonymous reviews after receiving backlash from members who felt it was a breach of privacy. This follows our reporting last week that OpenTable would show more ...
Source: www.bleepingcomputer.com – Author: Mayank Parmar Medium is banning AI-generated content from its paid Partner program, notifying users that the new policy goes into effect on May 1, 2024. Stories entirely generated using AI will be taken off paywalls and might even result in users getting kicked out of show more ...
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Webinar Cybercriminals are always on the hunt for new ways to breach your privacy, and busy supply chains often look like a good way to get in under the wire. Third-party risk is rising, and its scale could be under-reported. So while your threat intelligence show more ...
Source: go.theregister.com – Author: Team Register Infosec in brief US Congress nearly killed a reauthorization of FISA Section 702 last week over concerns that it would continue to allow warrantless surveillance of Americans, but an amendment to require a warrant failed to pass. Section 702 of the Foreign show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Marc Handelman Security Bloggers Network Home » Security Bloggers Network » USENIX Security ’23 – How to Bind Anonymous Credentials to Humans by Marc Handelman on April 14, 2024 Authors/Presenters: *Julia Hesse, Nitin Singh, Alessandro Sorniotti* Many thanks to show more ...
Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Lohrmann on Cybersecurity Iowa’s Caitlin Clark clearly propelled NCAA women’s basketball viewership. But what do past numbers teach us about future expectations — in both basketball and cyber metrics? April 14, 2024 • Dan Lohrmann Flickr/Erik Drost Everyone show more ...
Source: news.sophos.com – Author: Doug Aamoth Note: The Act is relevant to financial entities in the EU. Click the image above to download the guidance as a PDF file. The Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554) (“DORA” or the “Act”) is a European Union regulation intended to show more ...
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier A new paper presents a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for solving certain hard lattice problems. This could be a big deal for post-quantum cryptographic algorithms, since many of them base their security on hard lattice problems. A few things to note. One, show more ...
Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier About Bruce Schneier I am a public-interest technologist, working at the intersection of security, technology, and people. I’ve been writing about security issues on my blog since 2004, and in my monthly newsletter since 1998. I’m a fellow and show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Apr 15, 2024NewsroomFirmware Security / Vulnerability A security flaw impacting the Lighttpd web server used in baseboard management controllers (BMCs) has remained unpatched by device vendors like Intel and Lenovo, new findings from Binarly reveal. While the original show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Imagine a world where the software that powers your favorite apps, secures your online transactions, and keeps your digital life could be outsmarted and taken over by a cleverly disguised piece of code. This isn’t a plot from the latest cyber-thriller; it’s show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Apr 15, 2024NewsroomCloud Security /SaaS Security The threat actor known as Muddled Libra has been observed actively targeting software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and cloud service provider (CSP) environments in a bid to exfiltrate sensitive data. show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Apr 15, 2024The Hacker NewsActive Directory / Attack Surface To minimize the risk of privilege misuse, a trend in the privileged access management (PAM) solution market involves implementing just-in-time (JIT) privileged access. This approach to privileged identity show more ...
Source: thehackernews.com – Author: . Apr 15, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a “renewed” cyber espionage campaign targeting users in South Asia with the aim of delivering an Apple iOS spyware implant called LightSpy. “The latest iteration show more ...
