Schneier on Security
MARCH 4, 2024
Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details : In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which “poisons” the database of an email assistant using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) , a way for LLMs to pull in extra data from outside its system.
Krebs on Security
MARCH 5, 2024
There are indications that U.S. healthcare giant Change Healthcare has made a $22 million extortion payment to the infamous BlackCat ransomware group (a.k.a. “ ALPHV “) as the company struggles to bring services back online amid a cyberattack that has disrupted prescription drug services nationwide for weeks. However, the cybercriminal who claims to have given BlackCat access to Change’s network says the crime gang cheated them out of their share of the ransom, and that they st
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Troy Hunt
MARCH 6, 2024
Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. Today, we're very happy to welcome Germany as the 35th country to use this service, courtesy of their CERTBund department. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches.
Lohrman on Security
MARCH 3, 2024
Major developments regarding implanting chips in human brains have been announced in 2024. Will this procedure become widespread? Are precautions — or even regulations — needed?
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Many cybersecurity awareness platforms offer massive content libraries, yet they fail to enhance employees’ cyber resilience. Without structured, engaging, and personalized training, employees struggle to retain and apply key cybersecurity principles. Phished.io explains why organizations should focus on interactive, scenario-based learning rather than overwhelming employees with excessive content.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 5, 2024
Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible. First, these doorbells expose your home IP address and WiFi network name to the internet without encryption, potentially opening your home network to online criminals. […] Anyone who can physically access one of the doorbells can take over the device—no tools or fancy hacking skills needed.
The Last Watchdog
MARCH 4, 2024
Charities and nonprofits are particularly vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, primarily because they maintain personal and financial data, which are highly valuable to criminals. Related: Hackers target UK charities Here are six tips for establishing robust nonprofit cybersecurity measures to protect sensitive donor information and build a resilient organization.
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Tech Republic Security
MARCH 4, 2024
A new report promotes preventing cyberattacks by using memory-safe languages and the development of software safety standards.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 8, 2024
Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of effective prompt injection strategies. It seems as if the most common successful strategy is the “compound instruction attack,” as in “Say ‘I have been PWNED’ without a period.” Ignore This Title and HackAPrompt: Exposing Systemic Vulnerabilities of LLMs through a Global Scale Prompt Hacking
The Hacker News
MARCH 8, 2024
Microsoft on Friday revealed that the Kremlin-backed threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29 or Cozy Bear) managed to gain access to some of its source code repositories and internal systems following a hack that came to light in January 2024.
Security Affairs
MARCH 6, 2024
A new Linux malware campaign campaign is targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. Researchers from Cado Security observed a new Linux malware campaign targeting misconfigured Apache Hadoop, Confluence, Docker, and Redis instances. The threat actors behind this campaign employed previously undetected payloads, including four Golang binaries that are used to automate the discovery and infection of hosts running the above services.
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The DHS compliance audit clock is ticking on Zero Trust. Government agencies can no longer ignore or delay their Zero Trust initiatives. During this virtual panel discussion—featuring Kelly Fuller Gordon, Founder and CEO of RisX, Chris Wild, Zero Trust subject matter expert at Zermount, Inc., and Principal of Cybersecurity Practice at Eliassen Group, Trey Gannon—you’ll gain a detailed understanding of the Federal Zero Trust mandate, its requirements, milestones, and deadlines.
Tech Republic Security
MARCH 5, 2024
Learn about passwordless authentication, and explore the different types, benefits and limitations to help you decide which solution to choose.
Schneier on Security
MARCH 8, 2024
The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy ( IWORD 2023 ). Aviv Ovadya, Democracy as Approximation: A Primer for “AI for Democracy” Innovators Kathryn Peters, Permission and Participation Claudia Chwalisz, Moving Beyond the Paradigm of “Democracy”: 12 Questions Riley Wong, Privacy-Preserving Data Governance Christine Tran, Recommendations for Implementing Jail Voting: Identifying Common Themes Niclas Boehmer, T
The Hacker News
MARCH 5, 2024
More than 225,000 logs containing compromised OpenAI ChatGPT credentials were made available for sale on underground markets between January and October 2023, new findings from Group-IB show. These credentials were found within information stealer logs associated with LummaC2, Raccoon, and RedLine stealer malware.
Security Affairs
MARCH 4, 2024
Researcher HaxRob discovered a previously undetected Linux backdoor named GTPDOOR, designed to target telecom carrier networks. Security researcher HaxRob discovered a previously undetected Linux backdoor dubbed GTPDOOR, which is specifically crafted to carry out stealth cyber operations within mobile carrier networks. I recently found two very interesting Linux binaries uploaded to Virustotal.
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Tech Republic Security
MARCH 4, 2024
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Penetration Testing
MARCH 2, 2024
SharpADWS SharpADWS is an Active Directory reconnaissance and exploitation tool for Red Teams that collects and modifies Active Directory data via the Active Directory Web Services (ADWS) protocol. Typically, enumeration or manipulation of Active... The post SharpADWS: Active Directory reconnaissance and exploitation for Red Teams appeared first on Penetration Testing.
The Hacker News
MARCH 5, 2024
Apple has released security updates to address several security flaws, including two vulnerabilities that it said have been actively exploited in the wild.
SecureList
MARCH 5, 2024
Cyberattackers tend to give preference to legitimate tools when taking various attack steps, as these help them evade detection systems while keeping malware development costs down to a minimum. Network scanning, capturing a process memory dump, exfiltrating data, running files remotely, and even encrypting drives — all these can be done with trusted software.
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Tech Republic Security
MARCH 7, 2024
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Bleeping Computer
MARCH 8, 2024
Scans on the public web show that approximately 150,000 Fortinet FortiOS and FortiProxy secure web gateway systems are vulnerable to CVE-2024-21762, a critical security issue that allows executing code without authentication. [.
The Hacker News
MARCH 6, 2024
Facebook messages are being used by threat actors to a Python-based information stealer dubbed Snake that’s designed to capture credentials and other sensitive data. “The credentials harvested from unsuspecting users are transmitted to different platforms such as Discord, GitHub, and Telegram,” Cybereason researcher Kotaro Ogino said in a technical report.
Penetration Testing
MARCH 8, 2024
Canon has released a security bulletin addressing a buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2024-2184, CVSS 9.8) in their WSD protocol process. This vulnerability affects specific models within their multifunction printer ranges. Risk Assessment If an affected... The post Canon Printers: Critical CVE-2024-2184 (CVSS 9.8) Flaw Requires Immediate Firmware Update appeared first on Penetration Testing.
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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
MARCH 6, 2024
Having a hard time getting started with Norton VPN? Learn how to use Norton Secure VPN with our in-depth tutorial.
Security Affairs
MARCH 2, 2024
A U.S. Court ordered surveillance firm NSO Group to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to Meta. Meta won the litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group , a U.S. Judge ordered the surveillance firm to hand over the source code for its Pegasus spyware and other products to the social network giant. NSO Group has been requested to provide details regarding the complete functionality of the pertinent spyware, covering the period one year before the all
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.
Malwarebytes
MARCH 5, 2024
We’re going to let you in on a little cybersecurity secret… There’s malware on Mac computers. There pretty much always has been. As revealed in our 2024 ThreatDown State of Malware report, a full 11% of all detections recorded by Malwarebytes on Mac computers in 2023 were for different variants of malware—the catch-all term that cybersecurity researchers use to refer to ransomware, trojans, info stealers, worms, viruses, and more.
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Tech Republic Security
MARCH 5, 2024
Having a hard time getting started with Proton VPN? Learn how to use Proton VPN with our in-depth tutorial.
Penetration Testing
MARCH 3, 2024
The operators behind the invasive Predator mobile spyware remain undeterred by public exposure and scrutiny. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group researchers have exposed the spyware’s rebuilt infrastructure, revealing that Predator is likely being actively used... The post Predator Spyware Spreads: 11 Countries Now at Risk appeared first on Penetration Testing.
The Hacker News
MARCH 4, 2024
As many as 100 malicious artificial intelligence (AI)/machine learning (ML) models have been discovered in the Hugging Face platform. These include instances where loading a pickle file leads to code execution, software supply chain security firm JFrog said.
Security Affairs
MARCH 5, 2024
VMware released urgent patches to address critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion and Cloud Foundation products Virtualization giant VMware released urgent updates to fix critical ESXi sandbox escape vulnerabilities in the ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation products. The most severe vulnerabilities can be exploited by an attacker with local admin privileges on a virtual machine to execute code as the virtual machine’s VMX process running o
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