A ******** national has been indicted in the U.S. on charges of conducting a "multi-year" spear-phishing campaign to obtain unauthorized access to computer software and source code created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), research universities, and private companies.
Song Wu, 39, has been charged with 14 counts of wire ****** and 14 counts of aggravated identity theft.View the full article
The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember ******** against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to today, would we have imagined just three years ago that a chatbot could write essays, handle customer support calls, and even craft commercialView the full article
A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented ********* dubbed MISTPEN.
The activity cluster is being tracked by Google-owned Mandiant under the moniker UNC2970, which it said overlaps with a threat group known as TEMP.Hermit, which isView the full article
Google has announced that it's rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats.
"With the newest version of Chrome, you can take advantage of our upgraded Safety Check, opt out of unwanted website notifications more easily and grant select permissions to a site for one time only,"View the full article
The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it's working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems.
"The next major milestone is for the RCS Universal Profile to add important user protections such as interoperable end-to-endView the full article
Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code **********.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a heap-overflow vulnerability in the DCE/RPC protocol.
"A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this vulnerability by sending aView the full article
Google has announced that it will be switching from KYBER to ML-KEM in its Chrome web browser as part of its ongoing efforts to defend against the risk posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs).
"Chrome will offer a key share prediction for hybrid ML-KEM (codepoint 0x11EC)," David Adrian, David Benjamin, Bob Beck, and Devon O'Brien of the Chrome Team said. "TheView the full article
The U.S. Department of Treasury has imposed fresh sanctions against five executives and one entity with ties to the Intellexa Consortium for their role in the development, operation, and distribution of a commercial spyware called Predator.
"The ******* States will not tolerate the reckless propagation of disruptive technologies that threatens our national security and undermines the privacy andView the full article
Meta has announced that it will begin training its artificial intelligence (AI) systems using public content shared by ****** users across Facebook and Instagram in the U.K. in the coming months.
"This means that our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history, and idiom, and that *** companies and institutions will be able to utilize the latest technology," the social mediaView the full article
Since launching ChatGPT in 2022, OpenAI has defied expectations with a steady stream of product announcements and enhancements. One such announcement came on May 16, 2024, and for most consumers, it probably felt innocuous. Titled “Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT,” the post outlines how users can add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. It’s worth mentioningView the full article
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is warning of an "ongoing" global threat that's targeting cryptocurrency users with clipper malware with the goal of facilitating financial ******.
Clipper malware, also called ClipBankers, is a type of malware that Microsoft calls cryware, which comes with capabilities to monitor a victim's clipboard activity and steal sensitive data a user copies, includingView the full article
SolarWinds has released fixes to address two security flaws in its Access Rights Manager (ARM) software, including a critical vulnerability that could result in remote code **********.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28991, is rated 9.0 out of a maximum of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It has been described as an instance of deserialization of untrusted data.
"SolarWinds Access RightsView the full article
A now-patched critical security flaw impacting Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Composer could have been exploited to achieve remote code ********** on cloud servers by means of a supply chain ******* technique called dependency confusion.
The vulnerability has been codenamed CloudImposer by Tenable Research.
"The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to ******* an internal software dependencyView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers are continuing to warn about North Korean threat actors' attempts to target prospective victims on LinkedIn to deliver malware called RustDoor.
The latest advisory comes from Jamf Threat Labs, which said it spotted an ******* attempt in which a user was contacted on the professional social network by claiming to be a recruiter for a legitimate decentralizedView the full article
Imagine this... You arrive at work to a chaotic scene. Systems are down, panic is in the air. The culprit? Not a rogue virus, but a compromised identity. The attacker is inside your walls, masquerading as a trusted user. This isn't a horror movie, it's the new reality of cybercrime. The question is, are you prepared?
Traditional incident response plans are like old maps in a new world. TheyView the full article
The PCI DSS landscape is evolving rapidly. With the Q1 2025 deadline looming ever larger, businesses are scrambling to meet the stringent new requirements of PCI DSS v4.0. Two sections in particular, 6.4.3 and 11.6.1, are troublesome as they demand that organizations rigorously monitor and manage payment page scripts and use a robust change detection mechanism. With the deadline fast approachingView the full article
Apple has filed a motion to "voluntarily" dismiss its lawsuit against commercial spyware vendor NSO Group, citing a shifting risk landscape that could lead to exposure of critical "threat intelligence" information.
The development was first reported by The Washington Post on Friday.
The iPhone maker said its efforts, coupled with those of others in the industry and national governments to tackleView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of ongoing phishing campaigns that ****** refresh entries in HTTP headers to deliver spoofed email login pages that are designed to harvest users' credentials.
"Unlike other phishing webpage distribution behavior through HTML content, these attacks use the response header sent by a server, which occurs before the processing of the HTML content," Palo AltoView the full article
Ivanti has revealed that a newly patched security flaw in its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The high-severity vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-8190 (CVSS score: 7.2), which allows remote code ********** under certain circumstances.
"An OS command injection vulnerability in Ivanti Cloud Services Appliance versions 4.6 Patch 518 and before allowsView the full article
Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw impacting Apple's Vision Pro mixed reality headset that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious attackers to infer data entered on the device's virtual keyboard.
The *******, dubbed GAZEploit, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-40865.
"A novel ******* that can infer eye-related biometrics from the avatar image toView the full article
British authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old male in connection with a cyber ******* affecting Transport for London (TfL).
"The 17-year-old male was detained on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offenses in relation to the *******, which was launched on TfL on 1 September," the U.K. National ****** Agency (NCA) said.
The teenager, who's from Walsall, is said to have beenView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new variant of an Android banking ******* called TrickMo that comes packed with new capabilities to evade analysis and display fake login screens to capture victims' banking credentials.
"The mechanisms include using malformed ZIP files in combination with JSONPacker," Cleafy security researchers Michele Roviello and Alessandro Strino said. "In addition,View the full article
Even as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, the number one ******* vector for unauthorized access ******** phished credentials (Verizon DBIR, 2024). Solving this problem resolves over 80% of your corporate risk, and a solution is possible.
However, most tools available on the market today cannot offer a complete defense against this ******* vector because they were architected toView the full article
Malicious actors are likely leveraging publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for recently disclosed security flaws in Progress Software WhatsUp Gold to conduct opportunistic attacks.
The activity is said to have commenced on August 30, 2024, a mere five hours after a PoC was released for CVE-2024-6670 (CVSS score: 9.8) by security researcher Sina Kheirkhah of the Summoning Team, whoView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining.
The activity, which specifically singles out the Oracle Weblogic server, is designed to deliver malware dubbed Hadooken, according to cloud security firm Aqua.
"When Hadooken is *********, it drops a Tsunami malware and deploys a crypto miner," security researcherView the full article
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