Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Multiple WordPress Plugins Compromised: Hackers Create Rogue Admin Accounts

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.

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5 underappreciated benefits of AI in cyber security

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The benefits of AI in cyber security are phenomenal, yet not sufficiently well-known. In this article, get insights that cut through the noise; that show you how to put AI to work in ways that will yield worthwhile results. AI-powered cyber security solutions drive proactive threat prevention, accelerated response times, reduced false positives, […] The post 5 underappreciated benefits of AI in cyber security appeared first on CyberTalk.

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'Mirai-Like' Botnet Observed Attacking EOL Zyxel NAS devices

The Shadowserver Foundation, in collaboration with top security agencies and vendors, detected multiple remote command execution attempts by a Mirai-like botnet. It advised Zyxel NAS owners to actively search for signs of compromise.

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Coinstats Says North Korean Hackers Breached 1,590 Crypto Wallets

CoinStats, a crypto portfolio app with 1.5 million users, experienced a significant security breach affecting 1,590 cryptocurrency wallets. North Korean threat actors are suspected to be behind the attack.

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Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Ollama AI Infrastructure Tool

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-37032 and dubbed Probllama, was patched in version 0.1.34 released on May 7, 2024. Ollama is a service used for running large language models locally on Windows, Linux, and macOS devices.

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Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research

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 provided

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Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Ollama AI Infrastructure Tool

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 execution. 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 version

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Researchers Say Microsoft Power BI Reports Expose Sensitive Data on the Web

The vulnerability in Power BI reports allows access to underlying raw data when shared with others. This includes detailed records, hidden tables, non-displayed columns, and filtered-out data.

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Google's Zero-Day Hunters Test AI for Security Research

Google's Project Zero team of zero-day hunters believes that artificial intelligence (AI) can enhance automated threat identification and analysis by detecting vulnerabilities that are often missed by current tools.

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Meta, MS SQL Make Strange Bedfellows on Couch of Cyber-Pain

The article discusses how Meta and Microsoft SQL Server, two very different parts of the tech industry, are both facing issues related to software and services supply chain.

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RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations

The primary objective appears to be gathering intelligence on Taiwan's economic policy, trade, and diplomatic relations. The group focuses on targeting vulnerabilities in internet-facing devices due to their limited security solutions.

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Ease the Burden with AI-Driven Threat Intelligence Reporting

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 workloads

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RedJuliett Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits 75 Taiwanese Organizations

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 intelligence

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Multiple Threat Actors Deploying Open-Source Rafel RAT to Target Android Devices

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 activities

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ExCobalt Cyber Gang Targets Russian Sectors with New GoRed Backdoor

Russian organizations have been targeted by a cybercrime gang called ExCobalt using a previously unknown Golang-based backdoor 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 report

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Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers

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. "

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U.S. Treasury Sanctions 12 Kaspersky Executives Amid Software Ban

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 cyber

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How will ChatGPT-5 change your cyber security strategy?

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Yesterday, OpenAI’s Chief Technology Officer, Mira Murati, described the level of intelligence that will be packed into the forthcoming ChatGPT model. ChatGPT-5 is expected to have ‘Ph.D-level’ smarts. “If you look at the trajectory of improvement, systems like GPT-3 were maybe toddler-level intelligence,” said Murati. “And then systems like GPT-4 are more like […] The post How will ChatGPT-5 change your cyber security strategy? appeared first on CyberTalk.

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NCSC statement following reports of a Synnovis data breach

The NCSC has published advice on protecting yourself against the impact of data breaches.

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Chinese Hackers Deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in Global Espionage Campaign

A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) 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' Ministries