Schneier on Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Everybody is reporting about a new security iPhone security feature with iOS 18: if the phone hasn’t been used for a few days, it automatically goes into its “Before First Unlock” state and has to be rebooted. This is a really good security feature. But various police departments don’t like it, because it makes it harder for them to unlock suspects’ phones.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
In December 2023, KrebsOnSecurity revealed the real-life identity of Rescator , the nickname used by a Russian cybercriminal who sold more than 100 million payment cards stolen from Target and Home Depot between 2013 and 2014. Moscow resident Mikhail Shefel , who confirmed using the Rescator identity in a recent interview, also admitted reaching out because he is broke and seeking publicity for several new money making schemes.
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Tech Republic Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Security researchers from AppOmni have uncovered millions of business records that are accessible to anyone through low-code website builder Microsoft Power Pages.
Malwarebytes
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A 33-year-old Nigerian man living in the UK and his co-conspirators defrauded over 400 would-be home buyers in the US. In the initial phase, Babatunde Francis Ayeni and his criminal gang targeted US title companies, real estate agents, and real estate attorneys. Employees of these companies were tricked into clicking malicious attachments and links and filling in their email account login information on fake sites.
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NetSpi Technical
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Every hacker has a story about abusing SMB shares, but it’s an attack surface that cybersecurity teams still struggle to understand, manage, and defend. For the benefit of both attackers and defenders, I started an open-source GitHub project a few years ago called “PowerHuntShares”. It focuses on distilling data related to shares configured with excessive privileges to better understand their relationships and risk.
Penetration Testing
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
A critical security vulnerability, CVE-2024-52301, has been identified in the Laravel framework, a popular web application framework known for its elegant syntax and comprehensive toolset for building robust applications. Rated... The post Critical Laravel Flaw (CVE-2024-52301) Exposes Millions of Web Applications to Attack appeared first on Cybersecurity News.
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Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
China-linked threat actors breached U.S. broadband providers and gained access to private communications of a limited number of U.S. government officials. The FBI and CISA continues to investigate a large-scale cyber-espionage campaign by China-linked threat actors targeting U.S. telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures.
WIRED Threat Level
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Experts expect Donald Trump’s next administration to relax cybersecurity rules on businesses, abandon concerns around human rights, and take an aggressive stance against the cyber armies of US adversaries.
The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged users to alter environment variables, and potentially lead to code execution or information disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10979, carries a CVSS score of 8.8.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The exploitation of the recently disclosed ‘won’t fix’ issue CVE-2024-10914 in legacy D-Link NAS devices began days after its disclosure. Days after D-Link announced it wouldn’t patch a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10914 (CVSS score of 9.8), in legacy D-Link NAS devices, that threat actors started attempting to exploit. The vulnerability CVE-2024-10914 is a command injection issue that impacts D-Link DNS-320 , DNS-320LW, DNS-325 and DNS-340L up to 20241028.
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The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Multiple threat actors have been found taking advantage of an attack technique called Sitting Ducks to hijack legitimate domains for using them in phishing attacks and investment fraud schemes for years.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
China-linked threat actors breached U.S. broadband providers and gained access to private communications of a limited number of U.S. government officials. The FBI and CISA continues to investigate a large-scale cyber-espionage campaign by China-linked threat actors targeting U.S. telecoms, compromising networks to steal call records and access private communications, mainly of government and political figures.
The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Threat actors have been found leveraging a new technique that abuses extended attributes for macOS files to smuggle a new malware called RustyAttr.
Security Boulevard
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
SANTA CLARA, Calif. — With great promise comes potential peril. And while artificial intelligence (AI) is looked upon as a panacea for enterprises, it also poses an existential security threat. “We stand at the intersection of human ingenuity and technological innovation, where the game of cybersecurity has evolved into a high-stakes match,” Nir Zuk, founder.
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The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Advertising on TikTok is the obvious choice for any company trying to reach a young market, and especially so if it happens to be a travel company, with 44% of American Gen Zs saying they use the platform to plan their vacations.
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Ransomware attacks on healthcare organizations have sharply increased in 2024, as shown by recent research from Safety Detectives. Compared to 2023, healthcare providers are facing a higher frequency of ransomware incidents, impacting their ability to deliver essential services and protect sensitive patient data. Here are the key takeaways from the report.
The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites. "Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent moderation systems and teams from reviewing policy-violating content which enables them to deploy the scam directly to users," Laurie Richardson, VP and Head of Trust and Safety at Google, said.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Phone scams are on the rise, but Pixel users are getting an extra line of defense, thanks to AI.
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The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that two more flaws impacting the Palo Alto Networks Expedition have come under active exploitation in the wild.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Dell's XPS 8960 surpasses the Mac Mini at being one of the best desktops for content creation and gaming. Plus, it's recently been discounted.
The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Lichtenstein was charged for his involvement in a money laundering scheme that led to the theft of nearly 120,000 bitcoins (valued at over $10.5 billion at current prices) from the crypto exchange.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
The ISO lets you install Windows 11 24H2 in a virtual machine or directly on an Arm-based system, though your PC's age will determine how smoothly it goes.
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The Hacker News
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Ransomware isn’t just a buzzword; it’s one of the most dreaded challenges businesses face in this increasingly digitized world. Ransomware attacks are not only increasing in frequency but also in sophistication, with new ransomware groups constantly emerging. Their attack methods are evolving rapidly, becoming more dangerous and damaging than ever. Almost all respondents (99.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
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Security Boulevard
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
As 2024 draws to a close, the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, marked by both familiar adversaries and emerging threats with newer technologies and improved tactics. Rather than merely cataloguing breaches, we look into the anatomy of significant cyber attacks, associated vulnerabilities that led to such events, and relevant controls. We’ve chronicled key developments month […] The post Major cyber attacks and data breaches of 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Businesses using open-source projects like Kubernetes are being targeted more often by patent trolls. Now the open source community is launching a counter-offensive and looking for volunteers.
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Penetration Testing
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
In a world where ransomware has evolved to use complex encryption algorithms, ShrinkLocker—a newly discovered ransomware variant—takes a retro approach. Martin Zugec, a security researcher at Bitdefender, recently analyzed ShrinkLocker... The post Bitdefender Releases Decryptor for ShrinkLocker Ransomware appeared first on Cybersecurity News.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
New research from Slack says AI hype is 'cooling' due to these factors -- and could even cause social degradation amongst younger workers.
Penetration Testing
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Synology, a leading provider of network-attached storage (NAS) solutions, has released urgent security updates to address multiple critical zero-day vulnerabilities discovered in its camera products. These flaws, which affect the... The post Synology Issues Patches for Critical Camera Flaws Discovered at Pwn2Own appeared first on Cybersecurity News.
Zero Day
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Autonomous AI agents may be closer than you think.
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