Krebs on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Malicious hackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director , a software product used by many Internet and IT service providers. Researchers believe the activity is linked to Volt Typhoon , a Chinese cyber espionage group focused on infiltrating critical U.S. networks and laying the groundwork for the ability to disrupt communications between the United States and Asia during any future armed conflict with China.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ars Technica has a good article on what’s happening in the world of television surveillance. More than even I realized.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

The number of organisations that experienced a SaaS data breach in the last 12 months is 5% higher than the previous year according to AppOmni.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new QR code phishing (aka quishing) campaign that leverages Microsoft Sway infrastructure to host fake pages, once again highlighting the abuse of legitimate cloud offerings for malicious purposes.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2024

China-linked APT group Volt Typhoon exploited a zero-day flaw in Versa Director to upload a custom webshell in target networks. China-linked APT Volt Typhoon exploited a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39717 , in Versa Director, to deploy a custom webshell on breached networks. Versa Director is a centralized management and orchestration platform used primarily by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to manage and monitor Software-Defined Wide Area N

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Volt Typhoon has been attributed with moderate confidence to the zero-day exploitation of a recently disclosed high-severity security flaw impacting Versa Director. The attacks targeted four U.S. victims and one non-U.S.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts "almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in the form of shell scripts from the attackers' server," Kaspersky researcher Sergey Puzan said.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2024

A critical flaw in the WPML WordPress plugin, which is installed on 1 million websites, could allow potential compromise of affected sites. The WPML Multilingual CMS Plugin for WordPress is installed on over 1 million sites. An authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked CVE-2024-6386 (CVSS score of 9.9), in WPML Plugin potentially allows the compromise of impacted websites.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 27, 2024

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the WPML WordPress multilingual plugin that could allow authenticated users to execute arbitrary code remotely under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6386 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts all versions of the plugin before 4.6.13, which was released on August 20, 2024.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discover our top picks for reputable free endpoint protection platforms and compare their features, pros and cons in this in-depth guide.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 27, 2024

The Texas Dow Employees Credit Union (TDECU) has filed a data breach notification , reporting that the data of 500,474 people has been accessed in an external system breach. TDECU is the largest Houston-area credit union, and the fourth largest in the state of Texas. The credit union was founded by employees of Dow Chemical Company in December 1954 and membership was initially limited to Dow and Ethyl-Dow employees.

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SecureList

AUGUST 27, 2024

In June 2024, we discovered a macOS version of the HZ Rat backdoor targeting users of the enterprise messenger DingTalk and the social network and messaging platform WeChat. The samples we found almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in the form of shell scripts from the attackers’ server.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw affecting the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-38856, carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating critical severity.

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We Live Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Out-of-date Internet of Things (IoT) devices can easily become exploited by bad actors looking to use them for their own agenda.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Global ransomware attacks surged by 19% in July compared to June, climbing from 331 to 395 incidents, according to the latest data from NCC Group. The post LockBit, RansomHub Lead Ransomware Attacks in July appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 27, 2024

Security researcher Zeyad Azima from SecureLayer7 published the proof-of-concept exploit for arbitrary file write vulnerability (CVE-2024-22263) in Spring Cloud Data Flow, a widely-used tool for cloud-based data processing. The flaw... The post PoC Exploit Released for Arbitrary File Write Flaw (CVE-2024-22263) in Spring Cloud Data Flow appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Frances Haugen, who famously blew the whistle on Facebook and its susceptibility to manipulation, has renewed concerns over the social-networking company. This time, she’s laser-focused on misinformation during the 2024 presidential election. “We are in a new, very nebulous era where we need to think more holistically and creatively” in defending cyberdefenses, Haugen said in.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Want to know what’s the latest and greatest in SecOps for 2024? Gartner’s recently released Hype Cycle for Security Operations report takes important steps to organize and mature the domain of Continuous Threat Exposure Management, aka CTEM.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 27, 2024

SaaS breaches are on the rise, and nearly half the corporate victims have more than 2,500 employees. Those are among the sobering conclusions from a survey of security experts at 644 organizations in six countries — the U.S., UK, France, Germany, Japan and Australia — by AppOmni, which found a third of organizations suffered a SaaS data.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 27, 2024

The largest credit union in Texas, Texas Dow Employees Credit Union (TDECU), has reported a significant data breach affecting more than 500,000 individuals. The incident may have compromised Social Security... The post SSN, Banking Details at Risk in Major Texas Credit Union Breach appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 27, 2024

Ransomware has rapidly escalated from being a financial nuisance to a significant, multi-dimensional threat that jeopardizes the core of our most essential services. Sectors like healthcare, education, and government are particularly vulnerable, where a single attack can cripple critical operations, expose sensitive information, and, in the most severe cases, put lives at risk.

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PCI perspectives

AUGUST 27, 2024

The excitement is building as we get closer to this year’s Europe Community Meeting ! To add to the anticipation, we’re giving you a sneak peek of some of the amazing sessions that will be featured in Barcelona, 8-10 October. Don't pass up the chance to collaborate and gain knowledge into the latest developments in payment security. The PCI SSC Community Meetings are open to all in the payments industry.

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Trend Micro

AUGUST 27, 2024

We provide a technical analysis on how CVE-2023-22527 can be exploited by malicious actors for cryptojacking attacks that can spread across the victim’s system.

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NetSpi Technical

AUGUST 27, 2024

At NetSPI, our mission is to uncover and mitigate security vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. This blog post explores the discovery of CVE-2024-37888 , a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CKEditor 4 Open Link plugin. We’ll discuss the nature of this vulnerability, how it was discovered, and its implications. What is CVE-2024-37888?

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Graham Cluley

AUGUST 27, 2024

In episode 13 of "The AI Fix"", meat avatar Cluley learns that AI doesn't pose an existential threat to humanity and tells meat avatar Stockley how cybersex is about to get very, very weird. Our hosts also learn that men lie on their dating profiles, hear ChatGPT steal somebody's voice, and discover an AI that rick rolls its users. Graham tells Mark about AI's political ambitions and discovers what ChatGPT has in common with the reluctant ruler of the universe, while Mark introduces Graham to th

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently reached a settlement with Equiniti Trust Company, formerly known as American Stock Transfer & Trust, following two separate cyber intrusions that resulted in the loss of $6.6 million in client funds. Equiniti has agreed to pay $850,000 to settle charges that it failed to implement sufficient cybersecurity measures to protect its clients' assets.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 27, 2024

Sophos X-Ops recently released a detailed report on the latest advancements in a malicious toolset known as Poortry, designed to sabotage endpoint detection and response (EDR) software on Windows systems.... The post Poortry EDR Killer Evolves, Now Wipes Security Software From Windows Systems appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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GlobalSign

AUGUST 27, 2024

Learn how to better manage your IoT devices across a fleet of identities using IoT gateways, and how you can keep them secure using PKI solutions.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 27, 2024

Organizations of all sizes are being targeted by bad actors, which is why cybersecurity awareness training is more important than ever. Unfortunately, most organizations are not motivated to implement such training. A study by IBM found that barely half (51%) of organizations that had already experienced a data breach in the past year planned to.

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Penetration Testing

AUGUST 27, 2024

Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a widespread cryptojacking campaign leveraging a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-22527) in the Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server. Attackers are exploiting this flaw to install cryptocurrency... The post Cryptojacking Campaign Exploits Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22527 Vulnerability appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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