Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Atlassian Products and ISC BIND Server

Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The Australian software services provider said that the four high-severity flaws were fixed in new versions shipped last month. This includes - CVE-2022-25647 (CVSS score: 7.5) - A deserialization

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Space and Defense Tech Maker Exail Technologies Exposes Database Access

The exposure of the company's web server version and operating system flavor poses a risk as attackers could target specific vulnerabilities associated with the operating system.

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Apple Rushes to Patch 3 New Zero-Day Flaws: iOS, macOS, Safari, and More Vulnerable

Apple has released yet another round of security patches to address three actively exploited zero-day flaws impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari, taking the total tally of zero-day bugs discovered in its software this year to 16. The list of security vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-41991 - A certificate validation issue in the Security framework that could allow a

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97% of organizations take over a month to respond to bot attacks

A recent report by Netacea analyzed the affect of bot attacks and found that the average business loses 4.3%, of online revenues every year to bots.

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Mysterious 'Sandman' Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunic koation providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent. Notably, the intrusions leverage a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for the Lua programming language known as LuaJIT as a vehicle to deploy a novel implant called LuaDream. "The activities we

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19% of organizations are prioritizing data visibility and remediation

According to a SpyCloud ransomware report, infostealer infections were 22% of ransomware attacks for North American and European companies.

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Singapore Police Warn of New Scam Campaign Spreading Android Malware

The Singapore police, on Wednesday, issued an advisory about a new variant of Android malware scams, where scammers would initiate a factory reset on infected devices after the malware executes unauthorized transactions on the phone’s i-banking app.

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CISA holds cybersecurity exercise in preparation for Super Bowl LVIII

CISA, NFL, Allegiant Stadium and Super Bowl LVIII partners held a tabletop exercise this week to enhance cybersecurity response capabilities, plans and procedures.

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Cisco Acquiring Cybersecurity Company Splunk in Cash Deal Worth $28 Billion

The acquisition is one of Cisco’s largest, and continues an acquisition streak that has built out the company’s cybersecurity offerings. The company will finance the deal with a combination of cash and debt, Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins said.

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Canada Blames Border Airport Check-in and Electronic Gate Outages on DDoS Attack

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed to Recorded Future News that the connectivity issues that affected check-in kiosks and electronic gates at airports last week are the result of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.

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Balancing Budget and System Security: Approaches to Risk Tolerance

Organizations should prioritize revisiting their security readiness and up-leveling their cyber vulnerability and risk management programs by learning from data breaches and understanding the potential impact of compromised data.

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China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers

China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei's servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions between the two countries.

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Never Use Your Master Password as a Password on Other Accounts

One in three Americans now use password managers, up from one in five in 2022, according to an online poll by Security.org that quizzed 1,051 American adults on how they use passwords and password managers.

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Ukrainian Hacker Suspected to be Behind "Free Download Manager" Malware Attack

FDM said its investigation uncovered a vulnerability in a script on its site that the hackers exploited to tamper with the download page and lead the site visitors to the fake domain deb.fdmpkg[.]org hosting the malicious .deb file.

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Cloud adoption is driving up IT budgets

The impact of cloud adoption on IT teams was analyzed in a report, finding that cloud platforms took up significant portions of IT budgets.

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Cyber Experts Urge House Committee to Avoid Federal Shutdown

Cybersecurity experts urged Congress to avoid a government shutdown on October 1 - the start of the new federal fiscal year - telling a House panel that a lapse would damage efforts to keep the nation secure.

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Omron Patches PLC, Engineering Software Flaws Discovered During ICS Malware Analysis

Japanese electronics giant Omron recently patched programmable logic controller (PLC) and engineering software vulnerabilities that were discovered by industrial cybersecurity firm Dragos during the analysis of a sophisticated piece of malware.

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Companies Still Don’t Know How to Handle Generative AI Risks

Energized by the hype around generative AI, enterprises are aggressively pursuing practical applications of this new technology while remaining cautious about the risks, according to ISG.

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Researchers Witness 600X Increase in P2Pinfect Botnet Traffic

The developers of P2Pinfect are actively iterating on the malware's capabilities and expanding the botnet, as seen through frequent updates and a substantial increase in activity.

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DHS Council Seeks to Simplify Cyber Incident Reporting Rules

The Department of Homeland Security delivered a 100-page report on Tuesday with recommendations on how to revamp the thicket of cyber incident reporting requirements faced by U.S. critical infrastructure operators.