Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Microsoft announced that it caught Chinese, Russian, and Iranian hackers using its AI tools—presumably coding tools—to improve their hacking abilities. From their report : In collaboration with OpenAI, we are sharing threat intelligence showing detected state affiliated adversaries—tracked as Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, Charcoal Typhoon, and Salmon Typhoon—using LLMs to augment cyberoperations.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

AI chatbots are computer programs that talk like humans, gaining popularity for quick responses. They boost customer service, efficiency and user experience by offering constant help, handling routine tasks, and providing prompt and personalized interactions. Related: The security case for AR, VR AI chatbots use natural language processing, which enables them to understand and respond to human language and machine learning algorithms.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The enforcement action is a major blow against the ransomware-as-a-service provider, which has been connected to 2,000 victims globally.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) following the discovery of a critical security flaw. Tracked as CVE-2024-22245 (CVSS score: 9.6), the vulnerability has been described as an arbitrary authentication relay bug.

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WIRED Threat Level

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

LockBit’s website, infrastructure, and data have been seized by law enforcement—striking a huge blow against one of the world's most prolific ransomware groups.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A critical security flaw in the Bricks theme for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to run arbitrary PHP code on susceptible installations. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-25600 (CVSS score: 9.8), enables unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. It impacts all versions of the Bricks up to and including 1.9.6.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

End-to-end encrypted (E2EE) messaging app Signal said it’s piloting a new feature that allows users to create unique usernames (not to be confused with profile names) and keep the phone numbers away from prying eyes. “If you use Signal, your phone number will no longer be visible to everyone you chat with by default,” Signal’s Randall Sarafa said.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement provided additional details about the international Operation Cronos that led to the disruption of the Lockbit ransomware operation. Yesterday, a joint law enforcement action, code-named Operation Cronos , conducted by law enforcement agencies from 11 countries disrupted the LockBit ransomware operation. Below is the image of the Tor leak site of the Lockbit ransomware gang that was seized by the UK National Crime Agency (NCA).

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) on Tuesday confirmed that it obtained LockBit's source code as well as intelligence pertaining to its activities and their affiliates as part of a dedicated task force called Operation Cronos.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ConnectWise addressed two critical vulnerabilities in its ScreenConnect remote desktop access product and urges customers to install the patches asap. ConnectWise warns of the following two critical vulnerabilities in its ScreenConnect remote desktop access product: CWE-288 Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel (CVSS score 10) CWE-22 Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory (“path traversal”) (CVSS score 8.4) Both vulnerabilities were reported on February 1

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that were found leveraging a technique called DLL side-loading to circumvent detection by security software and run malicious code.

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Pen Test Partners

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

TL;DR The VMware Enhanced Authentication plugin that is offered as part of VMware vSphere’s seamless login experience for the web console contains multiple vulnerabilities relating to Kerberos authentication relay. The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-22245, is a Kerberos relay vulnerability where a malicious public website can communicate with the Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) and request arbitrary Kerberos service tickets on behalf of the user visiting the malicious site.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The North Korean state-sponsored threat actors have been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign targeting the defense sector across the world.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In an act of exquisite trolling, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has announced further details about its disruption of the LockBit ransomware group by using the group’s own dark web website. The LockBit dark web site has a new look Since the demise of Conti in 2022, LockBit has been unchallenged as the most prolific ransomware group in the world.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A novel malware campaign has been observed targeting Redis servers for initial access with the ultimate goal of mining cryptocurrency on compromised Linux hosts. "This particular campaign involves the use of a number of novel system weakening techniques against the data store itself," Cado security researcher Matt Muir said in a technical report.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A team of academic researchers show that a new set of attacks called 'VoltSchemer' can inject voice commands to manipulate a smartphone's voice assistant through the magnetic field emitted by an off-the-shelf wireless charger. [.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ConnectWise has released software updates to address two security flaws in its ScreenConnect remote desktop and access software, including a critical bug that could enable remote code execution on affected systems. The vulnerabilities, which currently lack CVE identifiers, are listed below - Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel (CVSS score: 10.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

On the internet, people need to worry about more than just opening suspicious email attachments or entering their sensitive information into harmful websites—they also need to worry about their Google searches. That’s because last year, as revealed in our 2024 ThreatDown State of Malware report , cybercriminals flocked to a malware delivery method that doesn’t require they know a victim’s email address, login credentials, personal information, or, anything, really.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new influence operation targeting Ukraine that leverages spam emails to propagate war-related disinformation.

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Tech Republic Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Explore our list of Ivanti's competitors and find out which VPN solutions can meet your business needs. Compare features, pricing, pros and cons.

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The Hacker News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework is one of the world's most important guidelines for securing networks. It can be applied to any number of applications, including SaaS. One of the challenges facing those tasked with securing SaaS applications is the different settings found in each application.

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Trend Micro

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Trend and other private entities recently contributed to INTERPOL’s Operation Synergia, a global operation that successfully took down over 1,000 C&C servers and identified suspects related to phishing, banking malware, and ransomware activity.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

VMware urged admins today to remove a discontinued authentication plugin exposed to authentication relay and session hijack attacks in Windows domain environments via two security vulnerabilities left unpatched. [.

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We Live Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

ESET Research discovers Operation Texonto, a disinformation/psychological operations (PSYOPs) campaign that uses spam emails to demoralize Ukrainian citizens with disinformation messages about war-related topics.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A Ukrainian national, Mark Sokolovsky, has been indicted for crimes related to fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft and extradited to the United States from the Netherlands, the US Attorney’s Office of the Western District of Texas has announced. In March 2022, around the same time of Sokolovsky’s arrest by Dutch authorities, the FBI and law enforcement partners in Italy and the Netherlands dismantled the digital infrastructure supporting the Raccoon Infostealer, taking its then

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

RaaS nicked: 11-nation army led by UK eliminates ransomware-for-hire scrotes’ servers. The post LockBit Takedown by Brits — Time for ‘Operation Cronos’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Law enforcement arrested two operators of the LockBit ransomware gang in Poland and Ukraine, created a decryption tool to recover encrypted files for free, and seized over 200 crypto-wallets after hacking the cybercrime gang's servers in an international crackdown operation. [.

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We Live Security

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Bad actors have opted to poison the internet and the flow of information by spreading polarizing material to influence people, which can include fake news, altered media content, bots, and trolls spreading biased sources and polarizing comments online.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Last September, we wrote an article about how Wyze home cameras temporarily showed other people’s security feeds. As far as home cameras go, we said this is absolutely up there at the top of the “things you don’t want to happen” list. Turning your customers into Peeping Tom against their will and exposing other customers’ footage is definitely not OK.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Boards and non executive directors can lead from the front on cyber security and reduce risk for your organisation. Yet sometimes it is not easy to find a path forward to engage in a technical area. Here are 10 practice suggestions to take forward with your cyber security leader. The post 10 steps to effective board leadership on cyber security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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