Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code ********** vulnerability via prompt injection techniques.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt injection in the "ask" function that could be exploited to trick the library into executing arbitraryView the full article
A 22-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in staging destructive cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies in the days leading to Russia's full-blown military invasion of Ukraine in early 2022.
Amin Timovich Stigal, the defendant in question, is assessed to be affiliated with the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the RussianView the full article
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow that, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to tamper with the application database.
Tracked as CVE-2024-5276, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. It impacts FileCatalyst Workflow versions 5.1.6 Build 135 and earlier. It has been addressed in version 5.1.6 build 139.
"An SQL injection vulnerability inView the full article
A newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Software MOVEit Transfer is already seeing exploitation attempts in the wild shortly after details of the bug were publicly disclosed.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5806 (CVSS score: 9.1), concerns an authentication bypass that impacts the following versions -
From 2023.0.0 before 2023.0.11
From 2023.1.0 before 2023.1.6, and&View the full article
Threat actors with suspected ties to China and North Korea have been linked to ransomware and data encryption attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors across the world between 2021 and 2023.
While one cluster of activity has been associated with the ChamelGang (aka CamoFei), the second cluster overlaps with activity previously attributed to ******** and North KoreanView the full article
The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last several years, the software supply chain has become an increasingly attractive target for attackers who see opportunities to force-multiply their attacks by orders of magnitude. For example, look noView the full article
Apple has released a firmware update for AirPods that could allow a malicious actor to gain access to the headphones in an unauthorized manner.
Tracked as CVE-2024-27867, the authentication issue affects AirPods (2nd generation and later), AirPods Pro (all models), AirPods Max, Powerbeats Pro, and Beats Fit Pro.
"When your headphones are seeking a connection request to one of your previouslyView the full article
Multiple content management system (CMS) platforms like WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart have been targeted by a new credit card web skimmer called Caesar Cipher Skimmer.
A web skimmer refers to malware that is injected into e-commerce sites with the goal of stealing financial and payment information.
According to Sucuri, the latest campaign entails making malicious modifications to theView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android banking ******* called Medusa that has been used to target users in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S.
The new ****** campaigns, observed in May 2024 and active since July 2023, manifested through five different botnets operated by various affiliates, cybersecurity firm Cleafy said in an analysisView the full article
Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a ******** company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library ("polyfill.js") to redirect users to malicious and scam sites.
More than 110,000 sites that embed the library are impacted by the supply chain *******, Sansec said in a Tuesday report.
Polyfill is a popular library thatView the full article
Threat actors are exploiting a novel ******* technique in the wild that leverages specially crafted management saved console (MSC) files to gain full code ********** using Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and evade security defenses.
Elastic Security Labs has codenamed the approach GrimResource after identifying an artifact ("sccm-updater.msc") that was uploaded to the VirusTotal malwareView the full article
Browser security is becoming increasingly popular, as organizations understand the need to protect at the point of risk - the browser. Network and endpoint solutions are limited in their ability to protect from web-borne threats like phishing websites or malicious browser extensions. They also do not protect from internal data exfiltration, like employees pasting sensitive data to ChatGPT. As itView the full article
A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Boolka has been observed compromising websites with malicious scripts to deliver a modular ******* codenamed BMANAGER.
"The threat actor behind this campaign has been carrying out opportunistic SQL injection attacks against websites in various countries since at least 2022," Group-IB researchers Rustam Mirkasymov and Martijn van den Berk said in aView the full article
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the U.K. and has departed the country after serving more than five years in a maximum security prison at Belmarsh for what was described by the U.S. government as the "largest compromises of classified information in the history" of the country.
Capping off a 14-year legal saga, Assange, 52, pleaded guilty to one ********* count of conspiring toView the full article
Four Vietnamese nationals with ties to the FIN9 cybercrime group have been indicted in the U.S. for their involvement in a series of computer intrusions that caused over $71 million in losses to companies.
The defendants, Ta Van **** (aka Quynh Hoa and Bich Thuy), Nguyen Viet Quoc (aka Tien Nguyen), Nguyen Trang Xuyen, and Nguyen Van Truong (aka Chung Nguyen), have been accused of conductingView the full article
Multiple WordPress plugins have been backdoored to inject malicious code that makes it possible to create rogue administrator accounts with the aim of performing arbitrary actions.
"The injected malware attempts to create a new administrative user account and then sends those details back to the attacker-controlled server," Wordfence security researcher Chloe Chamberland said in a Monday alert.View the full article
Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model (LLM) to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches.
"The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between an AI agent and a target codebase," Google Project Zero researchers Sergei Glazunov and Mark Brand said. "The agent is providedView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patch security flaw affecting the Ollama open-source artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform that could be exploited to achieve remote code **********.
Tracked as CVE-2024-37032, the vulnerability has been codenamed Probllama by cloud security firm Wiz. Following responsible disclosure on May 5, 2024, the issue was addressed in versionView the full article
Learn about critical threats that can impact your organization and the bad actors behind them from Cybersixgill’s threat experts. Each story shines a light on underground activities, the threat actors involved, and why you should care, along with what you can do to mitigate risk.
Cybersecurity professionals are facing unprecedented challenges as they strive to manage increasing workloadsView the full article
A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024.
Recorded Future's Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name RedJuliett, describing it as a cluster that operates Fuzhou, China, to support Beijing's intelligenceView the full article
Multiple threat actors, including cyber espionage groups, are employing an open-source Android remote administration tool called Rafel RAT to meet their operational objectives by masquerading it as Instagram, WhatsApp, and various e-commerce and antivirus apps.
"It provides malicious actors with a powerful toolkit for remote administration and control, enabling a range of malicious activitiesView the full article
Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based ********* known as GoRed.
"ExCobalt focuses on cyber espionage and includes several members active since at least 2016 and presumably once part of the notorious Cobalt Gang," Positive Technologies researchers Vladislav Lunin and Alexander Badayev said in a technical reportView the full article
A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest (formerly Oculus) application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust.
"The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes," cybersecurity firm eSentire said in an analysis, adding it identified the activity earlier this month.
"View the full article
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions against a dozen individuals serving executive and senior leadership roles at Kaspersky Lab, a day after the Russian company was banned by the Commerce Department.
The move "underscores our commitment to ensure the integrity of our cyber domain and to protect our citizens against malicious cyberView the full article
A previously undocumented ********-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and *******) with SugarGh0st malware since at least August 2023.
"SneakyChef uses lures that are scanned documents of government agencies, most of which are related to various countries' MinistriesView the full article
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