Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 17, 2024
This indicates that the most prominent ransomware groups are succumbing to law enforcement takedowns, according to researchers from Cyberint.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The men’s world conkers champion is accused of cheating with a steel chestnut.
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Lohrman on Security
OCTOBER 13, 2024
Bad actors often take advantage of natural disasters, and especially hurricanes, in times of crisis. Hurricanes Helene and Milton pose significant new online threats, including misinformation and fraud.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua Security said. It can also exploit CVE-2023-33246, a vulnerability with a severity rating of 10 out of 10 that was patched last year in Apache RocketMQ, a messaging and streaming platform that’s found on ma
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Troy Hunt
OCTOBER 13, 2024
It wasn't easy talking about the Muah.AI data breach. It's not just the rampant child sexual abuse material throughout the system (or at least requests for the AI to generate images of it), it's the reactions of people to it. The tweets justifying it on the basis of there being noo "actual" abuse, the characterisation of this being akin to "merely thoughts in someone's head", and following my recording of this video, the backlash from their users about any att
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 11, 2024
The Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library best known for its Wayback Machine, has disclosed a major data breach affecting over 31 million users.
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Trend Micro
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Trend Micro's Threat Hunting Team discovered EDRSilencer, a red team tool that threat actors are attempting to abuse for its ability to block EDR traffic and conceal malicious activity.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 11, 2024
In July, I wrote about my new book project on AI and democracy, to be published by MIT Press in fall 2025. My co-author and collaborator Nathan Sanders and I are hard at work writing. At this point, we would like feedback on titles. Here are four possibilities: Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform our Politics, Government, and Citizenship The Thinking State: How AI Can Improve Democracy Better Run: How AI Can Make our Politics, Government, Citizenship More Efficient, Effective and Fair AI a
Security Boulevard
OCTOBER 17, 2024
There has been a sharp increase in the perceived value of AI technologies in hacking, according to a report from Bugcrowd platform, which surveyed 1,300 ethical hackers and security researchers. The post Hackers Turn to AI as Hardware Attacks Surge appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Almost all businesses in the U.K. were breached by cyber attackers in the last 12 months, a report has found.
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The Hacker News
OCTOBER 13, 2024
The Iranian threat actor known as OilRig has been observed exploiting a now-patched privilege escalation flaw impacting the Windows Kernel as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.A.E. and the broader Gulf region.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Passwordless Authentication without Secrets! divya Fri, 10/11/2024 - 08:54 As user expectations for secure and seamless access continue to grow, the 2024 Thales Consumer Digital Trust Index (DTI) research revealed that 65% of users feel frustrated with frequent password resets. This highlights an increasing demand for advanced authentication methods like passkeys and multi-factor authentication (MFA), which provide robust security for most use cases.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 11, 2024
After retiring in 2014 from an uncharacteristically long tenure running the NSA (and US CyberCommand), Keith Alexander founded a cybersecurity company called IronNet. At the time, he claimed that it was based on IP he developed on his own time while still in the military. That always troubled me. Whatever ideas he had, they were developed on public time using public resources: he shouldn’t have been able to leave military service with them in his back pocket.
Security Boulevard
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Fortinet has made generally available a version of the CNAPP it gained that is now integrated with the Fortinet Security Fabric, an orchestration framework the company developed to centralize the management of its cybersecurity portfolio. The post Fortinet Integrates Lacework CNAPP into Cybersecurity Portfolio appeared first on Security Boulevard.
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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 15, 2024
SentinelOne’s Alex Stamos sees a future where defenders have the advantage when it comes to generative AI. At least until it can write exploit code.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 16, 2024
The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Windows to infect devices with malware known as RokRAT. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-38178 (CVSS score: 7.5), a memory corruption bug in the Scripting Engine that could result in remote code execution when using the Edge browser in Internet Explorer Mode.
Trend Micro
OCTOBER 13, 2024
Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a surge of malicious activities involving a threat actor group that we track as Water Makara. This group is targeting enterprises in Brazil, deploying banking malware using obfuscated JavaScript to slip past security defenses.
Schneier on Security
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Fishermen in Tamil Nadu are reporting smaller catches of squid. Blog moderation policy.
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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.
Security Boulevard
OCTOBER 14, 2024
A report finds a third (33%) of the cloud security incidents investigated by IBM Security X-Force researchers, involved phishing attacks to steal credentials, followed closely by 28% of incidents that involved attacks where cybercriminals had already obtained some type of valid credential. The post IBM X-Force Security Report Spotlights Lack of Cloud Security Fundamentals appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 15, 2024
Microsoft’s Siva Sundaramoorthy provides a blueprint for how common cyber precautions apply to generative AI deployed in and around security systems.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Cybersecurity researchers have found that entry points could be abused across multiple programming ecosystems like PyPI, npm, Ruby Gems, NuGet, Dart Pub, and Rust Crates to stage software supply chain attacks.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 14, 2024
US-based financial services company Fidelity Investments warns 77,000 individuals of a data breach that exposed their personal information. U.S.-based financial services company Fidelity Investments is notifying 77,099 individuals that their personal information was compromised in an August cyberattack. The data breach occurred on August 17, 2024 and was discovered two days later, on August 19, 2024. “Between August 17 and August 19, a third party accessed and obtained certain information
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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.
Penetration Testing
OCTOBER 14, 2024
Boasting over 2.5 billion users worldwide, Gmail reigns as the most prevalent email service globally. Consequently, it comes as no surprise that this platform has become a focal point for... The post Gmail Scam Alert: Hackers Spoof Google to Steal Credentials appeared first on Cybersecurity News.
Tech Republic Security
OCTOBER 11, 2024
A recent report has revealed errant cybersecurity behaviours in Australia, including employees sharing company data with AI tools.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
North Korean threat actors have been observed using a Linux variant of a known malware family called FASTCash to steal funds as part of a financially-motivated campaign. The malware is "installed on payment switches within compromised networks that handle card transactions for the means of facilitating the unauthorized withdrawal of cash from ATMs," a security researcher who goes by HaxRob said.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 12, 2024
U.S. and U.K. cyber agencies warn that Russia-linked group APT29 is targeting vulnerable Zimbra and JetBrains TeamCity servers on a large scale. Russia-linked cyber espionage group APT29 (aka SVR group , BlueBravo , Cozy Bear , Nobelium , Midnight Blizzard , and The Dukes ) target vulnerable Zimbra and JetBrains TeamCity servers as part of a mass scale campaign, U.S. and U.K. cyber agencies warned.
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Security Boulevard
OCTOBER 11, 2024
Organizations say generative AI is fueling a surge of more sophisticated cyberattacks and that they feel unprepared for the onslaught, but a Keeper Security survey found they are investing more in such foundational protections as data encryption and employee awareness training. The post Generative AI Fueling More Sophisticated Cyberattacks: Survey appeared first on Security Boulevard.
SecureList
OCTOBER 15, 2024
SideWinder, aka T-APT-04 or RattleSnake, is one of the most prolific APT groups that began its activities in 2012 and was first publicly mentioned by us in 2018. Over the years, the group has launched attacks against high-profile entities in South and Southeast Asia. Its primary targets have been military and government entities in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China and Nepal.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 15, 2024
China's National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has doubled down on claims that the threat actor known as the Volt Typhoon is a fabrication of the U.S. and its allies. The agency, in collaboration with the National Engineering Laboratory for Computer Virus Prevention Technology, went on to accuse the U.S.
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 11, 2024
OpenAI disrupted 20 cyber and influence operations in 2023, revealing Iran and China-linked actors used ChatGPT for planning ICS attacks. OpenAI announced the disruption of over 20 cyber and influence operations this year, involving Iranian and Chinese state-sponsored hackers. The company uncovered the activities of three threat actors abusing ChatGPT to launch cyberattacks.
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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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