Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles
21 August 2023
Suspected North Korean hackers have attempted an attack targeting a major joint military exercise between Seoul and Washington that starts on Monday, South Korean police said.
21 August 2023
ProjectDiscovery today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series A funding round led by CRV with participation from Point72, SignalFire, Rain Capital, Mango Capital, Accel, and Lightspeed.
21 August 2023
From a user’s perspective, OAuth works like magic. In just a few keystrokes, you can whisk through the account creation process and gain immediate access to whatever new app or integration you’re seeking. Unfortunately, few users understand the implications of the permissions they allow when they create a new OAuth grant, making it easy for malicious actors to manipulate employees into giving
21 August 2023
The U.S. intelligence agencies are warning about unnamed foreign intelligence entities targeting the private space sector to steal sensitive data related to satellite payloads and disrupting and degrading US satellite capabilities.
21 August 2023
A recent cybersecurity study has brought to light a concerning vulnerability crisis affecting web applications. A substantial 74% of assets housing personally identifiable information (PII) as susceptible to well-known significant exploits.
21 August 2023
Threat actors are leveraging access to malware-infected Windows and macOS machines to deliver a proxy server application and use them as exit nodes to reroute proxy requests.
According to AT&T Alien Labs, the unnamed company that offers the proxy service operates more than 400,000 proxy exit nodes, although it's not immediately clear how many of them were co-opted by malware installed on
21 August 2023
Requiring companies to report unpatched vulnerabilities before adequate fixes could potentially lead to information misuse and make organizations and EU citizens less secure.
21 August 2023
Recent research from Trend Micro and Google's Mandiant indicates that while criminals show interest in using generative AI models for malicious purposes, the actual usage remains limited.
21 August 2023
Government agencies in Israel and the US have announced plans to invest $3.85 million in projects meant to improve the security of critical infrastructure in both countries.
21 August 2023
The patches address three high-severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site scripting (XSS) issues in the Folders, Flaky Test Handler, and Shortcut Job plugins.
21 August 2023
Juniper Networks has released an “out-of-cycle” security update to address four vulnerabilities in the J-Web component of Junos OS. The vulnerabilities could be chained to achieve remote code execution on vulnerable appliances.
21 August 2023
Last week, Cisco announced security updates for several enterprise applications to patch high-severity vulnerabilities leading to privilege escalation, SQL injection, directory traversal, and denial-of-service (DoS).
21 August 2023
The threat actors behind the HiatusRAT malware have returned from their hiatus with a new wave of reconnaissance and targeting activity aimed at Taiwan-based organizations and a U.S. military procurement system.
Besides recompiling malware samples for different architectures, the artifacts are said to have been hosted on new virtual private servers (VPSs), Lumen Black Lotus Labs said in a report
19 August 2023
The German Federal Bar (BRAK) Association discovered the attack on August 2. The group is an umbrella organization overseeing 28 regional bars across Germany and representing about 166,000 lawyers nationally and internationally.
19 August 2023
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that's engineered to conduct tech support scams.
The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging JavaScript embedded in compromised websites to perform anti-bot and web traffic filtering checks to serve
19 August 2023
The group's toolkit includes custom and off-the-shelf parts, such as the BUGHATCH downloader and the Metasploit framework. The attacks often start with the compromise of valid credentials through a credentials reuse scheme or vulnerability exploits.
19 August 2023
Networking hardware company Juniper Networks has released an "out-of-cycle" security update to address multiple flaws in the J-Web component of Junos OS that could be combined to achieve remote code execution on susceptible installations.
The four vulnerabilities have a cumulative CVSS rating of 9.8, making them Critical in severity. They affect all versions of Junos OS on SRX and EX Series.
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19 August 2023
In late May, reports said the Royal ransomware gang had posted data from the organization on its leak site. As of May 23, the hospital had said it was still investigating the incident.
19 August 2023
AWS said its customers’ data and cloud instances are not affected by Downfall and no action is required. The cloud giant did note that it has “designed and implemented its infrastructure with protections against this class of issues”.
19 August 2023
A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive.