One of the most effective ways for information technology (IT) professionals to uncover a company’s weaknesses before the bad guys do is ************ testing. By simulating real-world cyberattacks, ************ testing, sometimes called pentests, provides invaluable insights into an organization’s security posture, revealing weaknesses that could potentially lead to data breaches or other securityView the full article
Apple has announced the launch of a "groundbreaking cloud intelligence system" called Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that's designed for processing artificial intelligence (AI) tasks in a privacy-preserving manner in the cloud.
The tech giant described PCC as the "most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale."
PCC coincides with the arrival of new generative AI (View the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an updated version of malware called ValleyRAT that's being distributed as part of a new campaign.
"In the latest version, ValleyRAT introduced new commands, such as capturing screenshots, process filtering, forced shutdown, and clearing Windows event logs," Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Muhammed Irfan V A and Manisha Ramcharan Prajapati said.
ValleyRATView the full article
As many as 165 customers of Snowflake are said to have had their information potentially exposed as part of an ongoing campaign designed to facilitate data theft and extortion, indicating the operation has broader implications than previously thought.
Google-owned Mandiant, which is assisting the cloud data warehousing platform in its incident response efforts, is tracking theView the full article
Arm is warning of a security vulnerability impacting Mali GPU Kernel Driver that it said has been actively exploited in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2024-4610, the use-after-free issue impacts the following products -
Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from r34p0 to r40p0)
Valhall GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from r34p0 to r40p0)
"A local non-privileged user can make improper GPU memoryView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a phishing ******* distributing the More_eggs malware by masquerading it as a resume, a technique originally detected more than two years ago.
The *******, which was unsuccessful, targeted an unnamed company in the industrial services industry in May 2024, ********* cybersecurity firm eSentire disclosed last week.
"Specifically, the targeted individual was aView the full article
Staying Sharp: Cybersecurity CPEs Explained
Perhaps even more so than in other professional domains, cybersecurity professionals constantly face new threats. To ensure you stay on top of your game, many certification programs require earning Continuing Professional Education (CPE) credits. CPEs are essentially units of measurement used to quantify the time and effort professionals spend onView the full article
Microsoft is warning about the potential ****** of Azure Service Tags by malicious actors to forge requests from a trusted service and get around firewall rules, thereby allowing them to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources.
"This case does highlight an inherent risk in using service tags as a single mechanism for vetting incoming network traffic," the Microsoft Security Response Center (View the full article
Google has revealed that it took down 1,320 YouTube channels and 1,177 Blogger blogs as part of a coordinated influence operation connected to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
"The coordinated inauthentic network uploaded content in ******** and English about China and U.S. foreign affairs," Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researcher Billy Leonard said in the company's quarterly bulletinView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus.
The phishing attacks were aimed at a pharmaceutical company, a Russian research institute dealing with microbiology and vaccine development, and the aviation sector, expanding beyond their initial focus of governmentView the full article
Details have emerged about a new critical security flaw impacting PHP that could be exploited to achieve remote code ********** under certain circumstances.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, has been described as a CGI argument injection vulnerability affecting all versions of PHP installed on the Windows operating system.
According to DEVCORE security researcher, the shortcoming makesView the full article
Microsoft on Friday said it will disable its much-criticized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature by default and make it an opt-in.
Recall, currently in preview and coming exclusively to Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, functions as an "explorable visual timeline" by capturing screenshots of what appears on users' screens every five seconds, which are subsequently analyzed andView the full article
2023 was a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. Ransomware crippled businesses, DDoS attacks disrupted critical services, and data breaches exposed millions of sensitive records. The cost of these attacks? Astronomical. The damage to reputations? Irreparable.
But here's the shocking truth: many of these attacks could have been prevented with basic cyber hygiene.
Are you ready to transform yourView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the LightSpy spyware allegedly targeting Apple iOS users is in fact a previously undocumented macOS variant of the implant.
The findings come from both Huntress Labs and ThreatFabric, which separately analyzed the artifacts associated with the cross-platform malware framework that likely possesses capabilities to infect Android, iOS, Windows, macOS,View the full article
Traditional SCAs Are Broken: Did You Know You Are Missing Critical Pieces?
Application Security professionals face enormous challenges securing their software supply chains, racing against time to beat the attacker to the mark.
Software Composition Analysis (SCA) tools have become a basic instrument in the application security arsenal in the last 7 years. Although essential, many platformsView the full article
Google is urging third-party Android app developers to incorporate generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) features in a responsible manner.
The new guidance from the search and advertising giant is an effort to combat problematic content, including ******* content and hate speech, created through such tools.
To that end, apps that generate content using AI must ensure they don't createView the full article
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has disclosed that it's in possession of more than 7,000 decryption keys associated with the LockBit ransomware operation to help victims get their data back at no cost.
"We are reaching out to known LockBit victims and encouraging anyone who suspects they were a victim to visit our Internet ****** Complaint Center at ic3.gov," FBI Cyber DivisionView the full article
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of cyber attacks targeting defense forces in the country with a malware called SPECTR as part of an espionage campaign dubbed SickSync.
The agency attributed the attacks to a threat actor it tracks under the moniker UAC-0020, which is also called Vermin and is assessed to be associated with security agencies of the LuhanskView the full article
The threat actor known as Commando Cat has been linked to an ongoing cryptojacking ******* campaign that leverages poorly secured Docker instances to deploy cryptocurrency miners for financial gain.
"The attackers used the cmd.cat/chattr docker image container that retrieves the payload from their own command-and-control (C&C) infrastructure," Trend Micro researchers Sunil Bharti and ShubhamView the full article
The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Muhstik has been observed leveraging a now-patched security flaw impacting Apache RocketMQ to co-opt susceptible servers and expand its scale.
"Muhstik is a well-known threat targeting IoT devices and Linux-based servers, notorious for its ability to infect devices and utilize them for cryptocurrency mining and launching Distributed DenialView 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.
In an increasingly interconnected world, supply chain attacks have emerged as a formidable threat, compromisingView the full article
Tom works for a reputable financial institution. He has a long, complex password that would be near-impossible to guess. He’s memorized it by heart, so he started using it for his social media accounts and on his personal devices too. Unbeknownst to Tom, one of these sites has had its password database compromised by hackers and put it up for ***** on the dark web. Now threat actors are workingView the full article
Threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate and commercially available packer software such as BoxedApp to evade detection and distribute malware such as remote access trojans and information stealers.
"The majority of the attributed malicious samples targeted financial institutions and government industries," Check Point security researcher Jiri Vinopal said in an analysis.
The volume ofView the full article
Google has announced plans to store Maps Timeline data locally on users' devices instead of their Google account effective December 1, 2024.
The changes were originally announced by the tech giant in December 2023, alongside changes to the auto-delete control when enabling Location History by setting it to three months by default, down from the previous limit of 18 months.
Google Maps Timeline,View the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that's designed to deliver an information stealer called Lumma (aka LummaC2).
The package in question is crytic-compilers, a typosquatted version of a legitimate library named crytic-compile. The rogue package was downloaded 441 times before it was taken down by PyPIView the full article
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