Tech Republic Security
MARCH 7, 2024
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The Hacker News
MARCH 7, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the indictment of a 38-year-old Chinese national and a California resident of allegedly stealing proprietary information from Google while covertly working for two China-based tech companies.
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Tech Republic Security
MARCH 7, 2024
Which is the best VPN for social media? Use our guide to compare key features, pros, cons, and more.
The Hacker News
MARCH 7, 2024
Threat actors have been observed leveraging the QEMU open-source hardware emulator as tunneling software during a cyber attack targeting an unnamed "large company" to connect to their infrastructure.
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Security Affairs
MARCH 7, 2024
Threat actors are using Facebook messages to spread a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake, researchers warn. Cybereason researchers warn that threat actors are utilizing Facebook messages to spread the Snake malware, a Python-based information stealer. The researchers noticed that the threat actors are maintaining three different Python Infostealer variants.
The Hacker News
MARCH 7, 2024
Threat actors are conducting brute-force attacks against WordPress sites by leveraging malicious JavaScript injections, new findings from Sucuri reveal. The attacks, which take the form of distributed brute-force attacks, “target WordPress websites from the browsers of completely innocent and unsuspecting site visitors,” security researcher Denis Sinegubko said.
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Malwarebytes
MARCH 7, 2024
Pet retail company PetSmart has emailed customers to alert them to a recent credential stuffing attack. Credential stuffing relies on the re-use of passwords. Take this example: User of Site A uses the same email and password to login to Site B. Site A gets compromised and those login details are exposed. People with access to the credentials from Site A try them on Site B, often via automation, and gain access to the user’s account.
Security Affairs
MARCH 7, 2024
The national intelligence agency of Moldova warns of hybrid attacks from Russia ahead of the upcoming elections. The Moldovan national intelligence agency warns of hybrid attacks from Russia ahead of the upcoming elections. 2024 is a crucial year for Moldova; like more than 70 other countries worldwide, it will go to the polls, and the outcome will also determine the request to join the European Union.
Malwarebytes
MARCH 7, 2024
The US Treasury Department has sanctioned Predator spyware vendor Intellexa Consortium, and banned the company from doing business in the US. Predator can turn infected smartphones into surveillance devices. Intellexa is based in Greece but the Treasury Department imposed the sanctions because of the use of the spyware against Americans, including US government officials, journalists, and policy experts.
The Hacker News
MARCH 7, 2024
The China-linked threat actor known as Evasive Panda orchestrated both watering hole and supply chain attacks targeting Tibetan users at least since September 2023. The end of the attacks is to deliver malicious downloaders for Windows and macOS that deploy a known backdoor called MgBot and a previously undocumented Windows implant known as Nightdoor.
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Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
An easy phishing attack using a Flipper Zero device can lead to compromising Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7. [.
The Hacker News
MARCH 7, 2024
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a critical security flaw impacting JetBrains TeamCity On-Premises software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-27198 (CVSS score: 9.
Penetration Testing
MARCH 7, 2024
A severe security vulnerability (CVE-2024-28222) has been uncovered in Veritas NetBackup, the widely used enterprise backup solution. This flaw, with a near-perfect CVSS score of 9.8, could allow unauthenticated hackers to remotely execute malicious... The post CVE-2024-28222 (CVSS 9.8): Veritas NetBackup Remote Code Execution Vulnerability appeared first on Penetration Testing.
The Hacker News
MARCH 7, 2024
In today's rapidly evolving SaaS environment, the focus is on human users. This is one of the most compromised areas in SaaS security management and requires strict governance of user roles and permissions, monitoring of privileged users, their level of activity (dormant, active, hyperactive), their type (internal/ external), whether they are joiners, movers, or leavers, and more.
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Penetration Testing
MARCH 7, 2024
A recently patched vulnerability (CVE-2024-2044) in pgAdmin, the widely-used PostgreSQL administration tool, highlights the ever-present risks of unsafe data deserialization and insufficient input validation. This flaw, if left unaddressed, could have enabled remote code... The post CVE-2024-2044: pgAdmin Remote Code Execution Vulnerability appeared first on Penetration Testing.
Anton on Security
MARCH 7, 2024
Pondering ?DR This is the blog where I really (briefly ) miss my analyst life and my “awesome+” peers like Augusto and Anna. It relies on ideas and comments from my past collaborators … and my current ones. And, yes, this blog was inspired by a hallways conversation at a conference that took place more than a year ago :-( So, the question: When and where do you need “<domain>DR” tool for its own technology domain?
We Live Security
MARCH 7, 2024
ESET research uncovers a cyberespionage campaign that has been victimizing Tibetans through targeted watering hole (also known as a strategic web compromise) and supply-chain compromise attacks
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2023 Internet Crime Report, which recorded a 22% increase in reported losses compared to 2022, amounting to a record of $12.5 billion. [.
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Penetration Testing
MARCH 7, 2024
SessionProbe SessionProbe is a multi-threaded pentesting tool designed to assist in evaluating user privileges in web applications. It takes a user’s session token and checks for a list of URLs if access is possible,... The post SessionProbe: assist in evaluating user privileges in web applications appeared first on Penetration Testing.
Graham Cluley
MARCH 7, 2024
If you have been optimistically daydreaming that losses attributed to cybercrime might have reduced in the last year, it's time to wake up. The FBI's latest annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has just been published, and makes for some grim reading. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced the unsealing of an indictment against Linwei (Leon) Ding, 38, a former software engineer at Google, suspected of stealing Google AI trade secrets for Chinese companies. [.
Duo's Security Blog
MARCH 7, 2024
In cybersecurity, the constant emergence of new vulnerabilities keeps organizations on their toes. A recent development is the discovery of the Silver SAML attack, a sophisticated vulnerability that targets Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based authentication systems. Let's delve into what this means for organizations and how solutions like Duo SSO are designed to mitigate such risks.
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Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
The NSA and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have released five joint cybersecurity bulletins containing on best practices for securing a cloud environment. [.
Cisco Security
MARCH 7, 2024
The proliferation of applications across hybrid and multicloud environments continues at a blistering pace.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
An easy phishing attack using a Flipper Zero device can lead to compromising Tesla accounts, unlocking cars, and starting them. The attack works on the latest Tesla app, version 4.30.6, and Tesla software version 11.1 2024.2.7. [.
Penetration Testing
MARCH 7, 2024
In January 2024, eSentire’s Threat Response Unit (TRU) uncovered a sophisticated malware campaign unleashed against Latin American users. This insidious scheme, centered around the Fenix Botnet, employs cunning tactics to compromise victims and inflict... The post Fenix Botnet: A New Cyberthreat Targeting Latin America appeared first on Penetration Testing.
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Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
Microsoft is pushing out a Windows 10 KB5001716 update used to improve Windows Update that is ironically failing to install, showing 0x80070643 errors. [.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 7, 2024
San Francisco, Calif., Mar. 7, 2024 — Badge Inc. , the award-winning privacy company enabling Identity without Secrets™, today launched a new Partner Program and welcomed Identity Data Management and Analytics provider Radiant Logic as its newest partner. Radiant Logic joins Badge’s partner network alongside marquee identity partners, Okta and Ping Identity.
Bleeping Computer
MARCH 7, 2024
AnyCubic has released new Kobra 2 firmware to fix a zero-day vulnerability exploited last month to print security warnings on 3D printers worldwide. [.
SecureWorld News
MARCH 7, 2024
The unprecedented cyberattack on healthcare giant Change Healthcare has taken a chaotic turn, with allegations that the prolific BlackCat ransomware gang conducted an "exit scam"—shutting down operations after receiving a $22 million ransom payment from the company without paying their own affiliate hacker. According to a report from Menlo Security , the affiliate involved in the actual ransomware deployment against Change Healthcare's systems is a criminal hacker operating under the alias "notc
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