Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 24, 2024

See the National Cyber Security Centre's predictions for generative AI for cyber attack and defense through 2025.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2024

Kaspersky researchers are detailing “an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones, many of which belonged to employees of Moscow-based security firm Kaspersky.” It’s a zero-click exploit that makes use of four iPhone zero-days. The most intriguing new detail is the targeting of the heretofore-unknown hardware feature, which proved to be pivotal to the Operation Triangulation campaign.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 22, 2024

Leaked records reveal what appears to be the first known instance of a police department attempting to use facial recognition on a face generated from crime-scene DNA. It likely won’t be the last.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Social Engineering Mobile Cybercrime Passwords 305

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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 21, 2024

Data Privacy: Why It Matters To The Rest Of Us madhav Mon, 01/22/2024 - 04:47 It seems that there are no limits to the number of data breaches. Company size is not a determinant of victimization, nor is industry or sector. All are equally viable targets. Some of the events are newsworthy, while others stay below the public’s awareness or attention. Most companies must grapple with difficult questions of how to recover from a breach; however, when the typical person hears about a data breach, the

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 31, 2024

In the ever-evolving world of technology, security remains a paramount concern, especially in the realm of containerization. Recently, Docker faced a significant challenge as Snyk Labs identified four critical security vulnerabilities affecting its container... The post CVE-2024-21626: Docker Confronts Critical Container Escape Threat appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing Technology 145

Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 30, 2024

​Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). [.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 26, 2024

A California teenager who allegedly used the handle Torswats to carry out a nationwide swatting campaign is being extradited to Florida to face felony charges, WIRED has learned.

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Kali Linux

JANUARY 21, 2024

TL;DR: Dear Kali user, when you have a moment, check your /etc/apt/sources.list , and add non-free-firmware if ever it’s missing. Programmatically speaking: kali@kali:~$ sudo sed -i 's/non-free$/non-free non-free-firmware/' /etc/apt/sources.list Long story now. As you might know already, Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution. As such, it inherits a number of things from Debian, and in particular, the structure of the package repository.

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Firmware 144

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 11, 2024

Hackers have found a way to gain unauthorized access to Google accounts, bypassing any multi-factor authentication (MFA) the user may have set up. To do this they steal authentication cookies and then extend their lifespan. It doesn’t even help if the owner of the account changes their password. Since the discovery of the exploit, numerous white and black hat security researchers have looked into and discussed the issue.

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Advertiser: Revenera

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 14, 2024

Pandora This is a red team tool that assists in gathering credentials from different password managers. They are separated into three categories, Windows 10 desktop applications, browsers, and browser plugins. This may work on... The post pandora: A red team tool to extract credentials from password managers appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Password Management Passwords Penetration Testing 145

Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 31, 2024

Cyber threat hunting is the proactive process of searching for and detecting potential threats or malicious activities within a network or system.

Cyber threats 207

Cyber threats 207

Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 18, 2024

Ransomware actors are again using TeamViewer to gain initial access to organization endpoints and attempt to deploy encryptors based on the leaked LockBit ransomware builder. [.

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Trend Micro

JANUARY 22, 2024

In this blog, we detail our investigation of the Kasseika ransomware and the indicators we found suggesting that the actors behind it have acquired access to the source code of the notorious BlackMatter ransomware.

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Ransomware 143

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The healthcare industry has massively adopted web tracking tools, including pixels and trackers. Tracking tools on user-authenticated and unauthenticated web pages can access personal health information (PHI) such as IP addresses, medical record numbers, home and email addresses, appointment dates, or other info provided by users on pages and thus can violate HIPAA Rules that govern the Use of Online Tracking Technologies by HIPAA Covered Entities and Business Associates.

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We Live Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

ESET has worked with the Federal Police of Brazil on an effor to disrupt the Grandoreiro botnet, providing technical analysis, statistical information and known C&C servers to the authorities.

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Banking 141

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 17, 2024

The San Francisco Chronicle tells a story about a family that almost got scammed when they heard their son’s voice telling them he’d been in a car accident and hurt a pregnant woman. Sadly, this is becoming more common. Scammers want to spread panic among their victims, and to do this, they feign an emergency situation. That may be a car accident, unexpected hospitalization, or any other scenarios which instantly cause concern and cause victims to act quickly.

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Penetration Testing

JANUARY 16, 2024

A new threat looms large for users of Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server, marked by the alarming designation CVE-2023-22527. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 10, signifies the highest level of severity... The post CVE-2023-22527 (CVSS 10): Critical RCE Flaw in Confluence Data Center and Server appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing 145

Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 18, 2024

The Androxgh0st malware botnet is used for victim identification and exploitation in targeted networks, as well as credentials collection. Read the FBI/CISA's tips for protecting against this malware threat.

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 24, 2024

Security researchers hacked a Tesla Modem and collected awards of $722,500 on the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2024 for three bug collisions and 24 unique zero-day exploits.

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WIRED Threat Level

JANUARY 17, 2024

Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown.

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Cryptocurrency 141

Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2024

CloudSEK researchers analyzed a zero-day exploit that can allow the generation of persistent Google cookies through token manipulation. In October 2023, a developer known as PRISMA first uncovered an exploit that allows the generation of persistent Google cookies through token manipulation. An attacker can use the exploit to access Google services, even after a user’s password reset.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 4, 2024

In what seems like yet another attempt to adapt its platform to prepare for new regulations, Facebook has started rolling out a new feature called Link History. Link History allows users to view and re-visit links they have visited with their Facebook browsing activity. Obviously Facebook will tell us that the new feature is for its users’ benefit, but we can see several ways in which this benefits Meta even more.

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Speaker: Erika R. Bales, Esq.

When we talk about “compliance and security," most companies want to ensure that steps are being taken to protect what they value most – people, data, real or personal property, intellectual property, digital assets, or any other number of other things - and it’s more important than ever that safeguards are in place. Let’s step back and focus on the idea that no matter how complicated the compliance and security regime, it should be able to be distilled down to a checklist.

Penetration Testing

JANUARY 29, 2024

FFmpeg, a widely used open-source project for handling multimedia files, has recently been spotlighted for its vulnerabilities. Discovered through Google’s OSS-Fuzz service, three security vulnerabilities have been identified in its systems, two of which... The post CVE-2024-22860 & CVE-2024-22862: Critical FFmpeg Remote Code Execution Flaws appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Penetration Testing 143

Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 23, 2024

The Midnight Blizzard gang appears to have been looking for information about itself. See how organizations can protect their accounts from password spray attacks.

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Passwords Accountability Authentication Software 177

Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 12, 2024

CISA warns that attackers are now exploiting a critical Microsoft SharePoint privilege escalation vulnerability that can be chained with another critical bug for remote code execution. [.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2024

Targeted ads target targets: Patternz and Nuviad enable potentially hostile governments to track individuals by misusing ad bidding. The post Malicious AdTech Spies on People as NatSec Targets appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Your ERM program generally assesses and maintains detailed information related to strategy, operations, and the remediation plans needed to mitigate the impact on the organization.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 27, 2024

The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense states that pro-Ukraine hackers wiped 2 petabytes of data from a Russian research center. The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine revealed that pro-Ukraine hackers group “BO Team” wiped the database of the Far Eastern Scientific Research Center of Space Hydrometeorology “Planet.” The Russian center processes data received from satellites and also provides relevant p

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We Live Security

JANUARY 16, 2024

By eliminating these mistakes and blind spots, your organization can take massive strides towards optimizing its use of cloud without exposing itself to cyber-risk

Cyber Risk 142

Cyber Risk Risk 142

Penetration Testing

JANUARY 30, 2024

The GNU C Library (glibc), a fundamental component in major Linux distributions, has a critical vulnerability, CVE-2023-6246. This local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability has sent ripples through the Linux community. The core of this... The post Root Access Risk: CVE-2023-6246 Exposes Critical Flaw in Linux’s glibc appeared first on Penetration Testing.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 29, 2024

The EU says the DMA keeps markets fair and open; Apple says the DMA introduces security problems. Apple is leveling fees against independent app stores.

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Within the past few years, ransomware attacks have turned to critical infrastructure, healthcare, and government entities. Attackers have taken advantage of the rapid shift to remote work and new technologies. Add to that hacktivism due to global conflicts and U.S. elections, and an increased focus on AI, and you have the perfect recipe for a knotty and turbulent 2024.

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