Troy Hunt

MARCH 18, 2024

I hate having to use that word - "alleged" - because it's so inconclusive and I know it will leave people with many unanswered questions. But sometimes, "alleged" is just where we need to begin and over the course of time, proper attribution is made and the dots are joined. We're here at "alleged" for two very simple reasons: one is that AT&T is saying "the data didn't come from us", and the other is that I have no way of proving otherwise.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 26, 2024

Several Apple customers recently reported being targeted in elaborate phishing attacks that involve what appears to be a bug in Apple’s password reset feature. In this scenario, a target’s Apple devices are forced to display dozens of system-level prompts that prevent the devices from being used until the recipient responds “Allow” or “Don’t Allow” to each prompt.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection. But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.

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Tech Republic Security

MARCH 1, 2024

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework defines federal policy, but it can be used by private enterprises, too. Here's what you need to know.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 27, 2024

Security researcher Gabe Kirkpatrick has released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for CVE-2024-21345, a high-severity Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege vulnerability. This exploit allows authenticated attackers to escalate privileges to the SYSTEM level, granting them... The post Windows Kernel EoP Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21345) Gets PoC Exploit Code appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 20, 2024

A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with a Microsoft repository, making the files appear trustworthy.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Enrolling users to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an essential security step for any organization. But user enrollment can be a logistical challenge and comes with security risks. In this blog we’ll discuss enrollment options and best security practices for Duo admins, whether they are rolling out MFA for the first time or maintaining enrollment for their users.

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Kali Linux

MARCH 31, 2024

Following the recent disclosure of a backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma , we are writing this “get started” kind of blog post. We will explain how to setup an environment with the backdoored version of liblzma, and then the first commands to run to validate that the backdoor is installed. All in all, it should just take a few minutes, and there’s no learning curve, it’s all very simple.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 30, 2024

Read more » The post An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections appeared first on Deepfactor. The post An Accidental Discovery of a Backdoor Likely Prevented Thousands of Infections appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

Telecommunications giant AT&T has finally confirmed that 73 million current and former customers have been caught up in a massive dark web data leak. The leaked data includes names, addresses, mobile phone numbers, dates of birth, and social security numbers. Malwarebytes VP of Consumer Privacy, Oren Arar, describes the AT&T breach as “especially risky” because much of the type of data that’s been exposed. “SSN, name, date of birth—this is personal identifiable in

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Advertiser: Revenera

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2024

Threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2023-22518 flaw in Atlassian servers to deploy a Linux variant of Cerber (aka C3RB3R) ransomware. At the end of October 2023, Atlassian warned of a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-22518 (CVSS score 9.1), that affects all versions of Confluence Data Center and Server. The vulnerability is an improper authorization issue that can lead to significant data loss if exploited by an unauthenticated attacker.

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NetSpi Technical

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2023 NetSPI discovered that Microsoft Outlook was vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution (RCE) via synced form objects. This blog will cover how we discovered CVE-2024-21378 and weaponized it by modifying Ruler , an Outlook penetration testing tool published by SensePost. Note, a pull request containing the proof-of-concept code is forthcoming to provide organizations with sufficient time to patch.

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WIRED Threat Level

APRIL 17, 2024

Cyber Army of Russia Reborn, a group with ties to the Kremlin’s Sandworm unit, is crossing lines even that notorious cyberwarfare unit wouldn’t dare to.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 19, 2024

Oxford University researchers used an approach dubbed “blind quantum computing” to connect two quantum computing entities in a way that is completely secure.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 22, 2024

Security researcher Naor Hodorov has made public a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a severe vulnerability (CVE-2024-21111) in Oracle VirtualBox. This vulnerability plagues VirtualBox versions before 7.0.16 and allows attackers with basic access to a... The post Oracle VirtualBox Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (CVE-2024-21111): PoC Published appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 16, 2024

Cisco warns about a large-scale credential brute-forcing campaign targeting VPN and SSH services on Cisco, CheckPoint, Fortinet, SonicWall, and Ubiquiti devices worldwide. [.

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The Hacker News

APRIL 22, 2024

New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes.

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Penetration Testing Lab

APRIL 2, 2024

DLL Proxy Loading is a technique which an arbitrary DLL exports the same functions as the legitimate DLL and forwards the calls to the legitimate… Continue reading → Persistence – DLL Proxy Loading

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Kali Linux

MARCH 28, 2024

As of 5:00 pm ET on March 29, 2024 the following information is accurate. Should there be updates to this situation, they will be edited onto this blog post. The xz-utils package , starting from versions 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). This backdoor could potentially allow a malicious actor to compromise sshd authentication, granting unauthorized access to the entire system remotely.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 8, 2024

Cybercriminals pilfered an average of 50.9 login credentials per device, evidence of the pressing need for cybersecurity measures. The post 10 Million Devices Were Infected by Data-Stealing Malware in 2023 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 26, 2024

Federal US authorities have asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos, according to unsealed court documents Forbes has seen. Of those users that weren’t logged in when they watched those videos between January 1 and 8, 2023, the authorities asked for the IP addresses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A critical vulnerability in Facebook could have allowed threat actors to hijack any Facebook account, researcher warns. Meta addressed a critical Facebook vulnerability that could have allowed attackers to take control of any account. The Nepalese researcher Samip Aryal described the flaw as a rate-limiting issue in a specific endpoint of Facebook’s password reset flow.

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Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

Trend Micro

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this blog, we detail our investigation of the Kasseika ransomware and the indicators we found suggesting that the actors behind it have acquired access to the source code of the notorious BlackMatter ransomware.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 26, 2024

A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 18, 2024

Nearly 10 million devices were infected with data-stealing malware in 2023, with criminals stealing an average of 50.9 credentials per device.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 26, 2024

pphack pphack is a CLI tool for scanning websites for client-side prototype pollution vulnerabilities. Feature Fast (concurrent workers) Default payload covers a lot of cases Payload and Javascript customization Proxy-friendly Support output in a... The post pphack: The Most Advanced Client-Side Prototype Pollution Scanner appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 6, 2024

A threat researcher has disclosed a new arbitrary command injection and hardcoded backdoor flaw in multiple end-of-life D-Link Network Attached Storage (NAS) device models. [.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 29, 2024

RedHat on Friday released an "urgent security alert" warning that two versions of a popular data compression library called XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) have been backdoored with malicious code designed to allow unauthorized remote access. The software supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094, has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity.

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NSTIC

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

NIST CSF 2.0 QUICK LINKS | Explore our Full Suite of Resources: CSF 2.0 Quick Start Guides CSF 2.0 Profiles CSF 2.0 Informative References Cybersecurity & Privacy Reference Tool (CPRT) CSF 2.0 Reference Tool CSF 2.0 Website ( Homepage ) Official NIST News Announcement The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) development process all started with Executive Order (EO)13636 over a decade ago, which called for building a set of approaches ( a framework ) for reducing risks to critical infrastructure.

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Kali Linux

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Hello 2024! Today we are unveiling Kali Linux 2024.1. As this is our the first release of the year, it does include new visual elements! Along with this we also have some exciting new mirrors to talk about, and of course some package changes - both new tools and upgrades to existing ones. If you want to see the new theme for yourself and maybe try out one of those new mirrors, download a new image or upgrade if you have an existing Kali Linux installation.

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Speaker: Ronald Eddings, Cybersecurity Expert and Podcaster

So, you’ve accomplished an organization-wide SaaS adoption. It started slow, and now just a few team members might be responsible for running Salesforce, Slack, and a few others applications that boost productivity, but it’s all finished. Or is it? Through all the benefits offered by SaaS applications, it’s still a necessity to onboard providers as quickly as possible.

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