Schneier on Security

APRIL 25, 2024

The web has become so interwoven with everyday life that it is easy to forget what an extraordinary accomplishment and treasure it is. In just a few decades, much of human knowledge has been collectively written up and made available to anyone with an internet connection. But all of this is coming to an end. The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 22, 2024

"More Data Breaches Than You Can Shake a Stick At" That seems like a reasonable summary and I suggest there are two main reasons for this observation. Firstly, there are simply loads of breaches happening and you know this already because, well, you read my stuff! Secondly, There are a couple of Twitter accounts in particular that are taking incidents that appear across a combination of a popular clear web hacking forum and various dark web ransomware websites and "raising them to th

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Lohrman on Security

APRIL 21, 2024

A new book by Alan Shark offers an excellent guide and an AI road map for state and local governments. He answers basic questions that public-sector leaders are asking in 2024.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 25, 2024

Researchers from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 is able to exploit 87% of a list of vulnerabilities when provided with their NIST descriptions.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 22, 2024

Interesting social-engineering attack vector : McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS,” known as vcpkg. The attacker is exploiting a property of GitHub: comments to a particular repo can contain files, and those files will be associated with the project in the URL.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

Google addressed a critical Chrome vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4058, that resides in the ANGLE graphics layer engine. Google addressed four vulnerabilities in the Chrome web browser, including a critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-4058. The vulnerability CVE-2024-4058 is a Type Confusion issue that resides in the ANGLE graphics layer engine.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 24, 2024

A new report by cyber security firm Radware identifies the four main impacts of AI on the threat landscape emerging this year.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 23, 2024

Former senior White House cyber policy director A. J. Grotto talks about the economic incentives for companies to improve their security—in particular, Microsoft: Grotto told us Microsoft had to be “dragged kicking and screaming” to provide logging capabilities to the government by default, and given the fact the mega-corp banked around $20 billion in revenue from security services last year, the concession was minimal at best. […] “The government needs to focus on

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Russia-linked APT28 group used a previously unknown tool, dubbed GooseEgg, to exploit Windows Print Spooler service flaw. Microsoft reported that the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ” used a previously unknown tool, dubbed GooseEgg, to exploit the Windows Print Spooler flaw CVE-2022-38028. Since at least June 2020, and possibly earlier, the cyberespionage group has used the tool GooseEgg to exploit the CVE-2022-38028 vulnerability.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 20, 2024

A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with a Microsoft repository, making the files appear trustworthy.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 24, 2024

GitLab’s recent security release addresses a series of vulnerabilities that could have far-reaching consequences for your code repositories and development workflows. These flaws range from the potential for complete account hijacking to resource-draining denial-of-service... The post Urgent GitLab Update Patches Account Takeover Flaw, Other High-Severity Bugs appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2024

Law professor Dan Solove has a new article on privacy regulation. In his email to me, he writes: “I’ve been pondering privacy consent for more than a decade, and I think I finally made a breakthrough with this article.” His mini-abstract: In this Article I argue that most of the time, privacy consent is fictitious. Instead of futile efforts to try to turn privacy consent from fiction to fact, the better approach is to lean into the fictions.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2024

U.S. CISA added the Windows Print Spooler flaw CVE-2022-38028 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2022-38028 Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Privilege Escalation vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Cisa added the flaw to the KEV catalog after Microsoft reported that the Russia-linked APT28 group (aka “ Forest Blizzard ”, “ Fancybear ” or “ Strontium ” used a previously u

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The Hacker News

APRIL 22, 2024

New research has found that the DOS-to-NT path conversion process could be exploited by threat actors to achieve rootkit-like capabilities to conceal and impersonate files, directories, and processes.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 21, 2024

A recently discovered vulnerability in the popular Laravel web development framework could leave websites and applications built upon it susceptible to severe data breaches. This flaw, designated CVE-2024-29291, affects versions 8.* through 11.* of... The post Laravel Framework Hit by Data Exposure Vulnerability (CVE-2024-29291) – Database Credentials at Risk appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 26, 2024

Kashmir Hill has a really good article on how GM tricked its drivers into letting it spy on them—and then sold that data to insurance companies.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2024

Government agencies revealed that Akira ransomware has breached over 250 entities worldwide and received over $42 million in ransom payments. A joint advisory published by CISA, the FBI, Europol, and the Netherlands’ National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) revealed that since early 2023, Akira ransomware operators received $42 million in ransom payments from more than 250 victims worldwide.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 26, 2024

Refreshed software and collaboration with the security researcher community may have contributed to the 5% drop.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 26, 2024

pphack pphack is a CLI tool for scanning websites for client-side prototype pollution vulnerabilities. Feature Fast (concurrent workers) Default payload covers a lot of cases Payload and Javascript customization Proxy-friendly Support output in a... The post pphack: The Most Advanced Client-Side Prototype Pollution Scanner appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 25, 2024

Amazon’s Ring has settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over charges that the company allowed employees and contractors to access customers’ private videos , and failed to implement security protections which enabled hackers to take control of customers’ accounts, cameras, and videos. The FTC is now sending refunds totaling more than $5.6 million to US consumers as a result of the settlement.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

Healthcare service provider Kaiser Permanente disclosed a security breach that may impact 13.4 million individuals in the United States. Kaiser Permanente is an American integrated managed care consortium, it is made up of three distinct but interdependent groups of entities: the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (KFHP) and its regional operating subsidiaries; Kaiser Foundation Hospitals; and the regional Permanente Medical Groups.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 26, 2024

A new campaign tracked as "Dev Popper" is targeting software developers with fake job interviews in an attempt to trick them into installing a Python remote access trojan (RAT). [.

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Penetration Testing

APRIL 22, 2024

A new critical vulnerability has emerged, targeting users of the popular enterprise file transfer software, CrushFTP. This zero-day flaw, identified as CVE-2024-4040 with a CVSS score of 7.7, poses a severe risk to organizations... The post CVE-2024-4040: CrushFTP Users Targeted in Zero-Day Attack Campaign appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 22, 2024

These women are innovating in the cybersecurity field. How many of them do you know? The post The 10 Women in Cybersecurity You Need to Follow appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2024

Threat actors exploited a critical zero-day vulnerability in the CrushFTP enterprise in targeted attacks, Crowdstrike experts warn. CrushFTP is a file transfer server software that enables secure and efficient file transfer capabilities. It supports various features such as FTP, SFTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, WebDAV, and WebDAV SSL protocols, allowing users to transfer files securely over different networks.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 25, 2024

Hackers have started to target a critical severity vulnerability in the WP Automatic plugin for WordPress to create user accounts with administrative privileges and to plant backdoors for long-term access. [.

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SecureList

APRIL 22, 2024

We continue covering the activities of the APT group ToddyCat. In our previous article , we described tools for collecting and exfiltrating files ( LoFiSe and PcExter ). This time, we have investigated how attackers obtain constant access to compromised infrastructure, what information on the hosts they are interested in, and what tools they use to extract it.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2024

Developers in North America are more likely than their counterparts in other regions to see generative AI as a tool that can improve the security of the code they’re writing, according to a report by market research firm Evans Data Corp. The company’s most recent Global Development Survey found that 37.6% of programmers from North. The post N.A. Developers Optimistic About Generative AI and Code Security appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2024

Researcher demonstrated how to exploit vulnerabilities in the Windows DOS-to-NT path conversion process to achieve rootkit-like capabilities. SafeBreach researcher Or Yair devised a technique, exploiting vulnerabilities in the DOS-to-NT path conversion process, to achieve rootkit-like capabilities on Windows. When a user executes a function with a path argument in Windows, the DOS path of the file or folder is converted to an NT path.

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 25, 2024

Security researchers have discovered a new Android banking trojan they named Brokewell that can capture every event on the device, from touches and information displayed to text input and the applications the user launches. [.

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