Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Large-user applications vulnerable to dependency confusion attacks

A OX Security report found applications with more than 1 billion users are using dependencies which are vulnerable to dependency confusion attacks.

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Hackers Prepare to Take on a Satellite at DEF CON

The annual Hack-A-Sat CTF competition held at Aerospace Village at the DEF CON in Las Vegas is the first time an on-orbit satellite will test contestants' mettle while bringing together hackers who don’t typically work on space systems.

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Social media for research and threat intelligence

Learn about threat intelligence on this episode of The Security Podcasts with Igal Lytzki, Incident Response team leader at Perception Point.

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The Ransomware Rollercoaster Continues as Criminals Advance Their Business Models

Ransomware shows no signs of slowing, with ransomware activity ending 13 times higher than at the start of 2023 as a proportion of all malware detections, according to Fortinet.

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Collide+Power, Downfall, and Inception: New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Modern CPUs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a trio of side-channel attacks that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from modern CPUs. Called Collide+Power (CVE-2023-20583), Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), and Inception (CVE-2023-20569), the novel methods follow the disclosure of another newly discovered security vulnerability affecting AMD's Zen 2 architecture-based processors known as 

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Microsoft Office Update Breaks Actively Exploited RCE Attack Chain

Microsoft today released a defense-in-depth update for Microsoft Office that prevents exploitation of a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36884 that threat actors have already leveraged in attacks.

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Rubrik Buys Startup Laminar to Unify Cyber Posture, Recovery

Rubrik purchased a data security posture management startup backed by Salesforce and SentinelOne to provide visibility into where a company's data lives and who has access.

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Big Cyberespionage Attack Against Japan Attributed to China

Classified military networks run by Japan reportedly suffered a massive breach in 2020 at the hands of a Chinese cyberespionage group that proved tough to eject even after being discovered.

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Android 14 Introduces First-Of-Its-Kind Cellular Connectivity Security Features

Android 14 introduces new security measures to mitigate the risks associated with 2G networks, allowing users and enterprises to disable 2G connectivity and protect against potential attacks.

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Lockbit Threatens to Leak Medical Data of Cancer Patients Stolen From Varian Medical Systems

Lockbit has fixed the deadline for the ransom payment on August 17, 2023. If confirmed the incident could have a dramatic impact on the privacy of cancer patients. The company has yet to disclose the security incident.

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China-Linked Hackers Strike Worldwide: 17 Nations Hit in 3-Year Cyber Campaign

Hackers associated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from 2021 to 2023. Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future attributed the intrusion set to a nation-state group it tracks under the name RedHotel (previously Threat Activity Group-22 or TAG-222), which overlaps with a cluster of activity broadly

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For TSA’s Updated Pipeline Security Directive, Consistency and Collaboration are Key

This most recent update does not vacate previously established requirements in the simple pursuit of change. Instead, the new directive pursues incremental change that builds on but does not abandon previous requirements.

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SESARAM Confirms Cyberattack and Suspends Non-Urgent Activity

SESARAM issued a statement confirming the occurrence of a “deliberate and malicious cyberattack with the sole objective of causing damage and disrupting the normal functioning of the Regional Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira”.

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Lawmaker Quizzes Google on 'Guardrails' for AI in Healthcare

Sen. Mark Warner sent a letter quizzing Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the tech giant is applying privacy, trust, and ethical "guardrails" around the development and use of its generative AI product, Med-PaLM 2, in healthcare settings.

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UK Voters’ Data Exposed in Electoral Commission Cyberattack

The malicious actors accessed “reference copies” of the electoral registers, held by the Commission for research purposes and to enable permissibility checks on political donations.

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Organizations concerned about enterprise security from unsafe VPNs

A recent report reveals that organizations have concerns about their network security due to the risks from VPNs.

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Tesla Infotainment Jailbreak Unlocks Paid Features, Extracts Secrets

Researchers from the Technical University of Berlin have developed a method to jailbreak the AMD-based infotainment systems used in all recent Tesla car models and make it run any software they choose.

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Police officers in Northern Ireland may leave force or move after data breach

Serving PSNI members and staff fear that they could be attacked or intimidated after their personal information was posted online in errorPolice officers in Northern Ireland may consider leaving the force or moving home after an unprecedented data breach disclosed details of more than 10,000 officers and staff, it has been claimed.Political leaders and police representatives on Wednesday grappled with the security and financial implications of an error that could expose officers, including those who work undercover, to terrorist intimidation and attack. Continue reading...

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QakBot Malware Operators Expand C2 Network with 15 New Servers

A majority of the bot C2 servers, which communicate with the victim hosts, are located in India and the U.S. Destination IP addresses identified from outbound T2 connections are primarily based in the U.S., India, Mexico, and Venezuela.

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Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today's modern security operations center (SOC), it's a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both are using tools and expertise – however, the cybercriminals have the element of surprise on their side, and a host of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that have evolved. These external