SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

As ChatGPT went viral, other chatbots powered by generative AI appeared, and these technologies were quickly adopted as assistants in diverse areas including education. As we look to 2024, we believe that the consumer threat landscape will be heavily influenced by political, cultural, and technological events and trends.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

New AI Scams to Look Out For in 2024 IdentityIQ Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly reshaped many aspects of everyday life. Here are three new AI scams to look out for in 2024 as well as some tips to help protect yourself and stay prepared for the explosive development of AI.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2024

The March 2024 Patch Tuesday update includes patches for 61 Microsoft vulnerabilities. The Hyper-V CVEs patched in this round of updates are: CVE-2024-21407 is a Windows Hyper-V Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1 Another vulnerability worth mentioning is CVE-2024-21334 , which has a CVSS score of 9.8

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

2024 Tech and Cybersecurity Forecast: Navigating New Frontiers in Business madhav Thu, 12/21/2023 - 05:15 People always want to comprehend what the future brings. In an era where technology evolves at a blistering pace, business leaders must stay ahead of the curve. The same is true for today’s business leaders.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 9, 2024

Ben McCarthy , lead cyber security engineer at Immersive Labs called attention to CVE-2024-20670 , an Outlook for Windows spoofing vulnerability described as being easy to exploit. ” For links to individual security advisories indexed by severity, check out ZDI’s blog and the Patch Tuesday post from the SANS Internet Storm Center.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 9, 2024

SAP Patch Day: January 2024 ltabo Tue, 01/09/2024 - 12:44 Highlights of January SAP Security Notes analysis include: January Summary —12 new and updated SAP security patches released, including three HotNews Notes and four High Priority Notes SAP HotNews Notes —Additional SAP solution and existing custom applications based on node.js

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 16, 2024

Related: World’s largest bank hit by ransomware attack While software solutions dominated RSA Conference 2024 and are essential for multi-layered defense of an expanding network attack surface, hardware security solutions can serve as a last line of defense against unauthorized access to sensitive data and tampering with systems.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 10, 2024

Related: Next-level browser security That’s a question that spilled out of a thought-provoking conversation I had with Pedro Fortuna , co-founder and CTO of Jscrambler , at RSAC 2024. Jscrambler can at least provide technology to monitor and control how third-party JavaScript components handle private data.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 11, 2024

The rapid proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT) represents vast opportunities for the public sector. Today’s Internet of Things might as well be called the Internet of Threats. The post Securing Public Sector Against IoT Malware in 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 2, 2024

It’s a digital swindle as old as the internet itself, and yet, as the data tells us, the vast majority of security incidents are still rooted in the low-tech art of social engineering. Related: AI makes scam email look real Fresh evidence comes from Mimecast’s “The State of Email and Collaboration Security” 2024 report.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 26, 2023

Singapore, June 26, 2023 – Hardware cybersecurity solutions pioneer Flexxon today announced the appointment of Erik Nilsen, PhD, as its Chief Technology Strategist. As we move ahead with our plans to expand into the US market, Erik’s knowledge will also play an integral part in helping us hit the ground running.” About Flexxon.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2024

Researchers recently uncovered a DarkGate campaign in mid-January 2024, which exploited Microsoft zero-day vulnerability. Researchers at the Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) recently uncovered a DarkGate campaign in mid-January 2024, which exploited the Windows zero-day flaw CVE-2024-21412 using fake software installers.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Attack surface management (ASM) is a relatively new cybersecurity technology that combines elements of vulnerability management and asset discovery with the automation capabilities of breach and attack simulation (BAS) and applies them to an organization’s entire IT environment, from networks to the cloud.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 21, 2024

And to complicate things, emerging technology is challenging organisations’ ability to stay resilient. MORE The FBI’s internet crime report shows email scams making way for crypto fraud. Sign up here The post Security Roundup March 2024 appeared first on BH Consulting. MORE Old tech never dies. It just accumulates into a US$1.5

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Microsoft has issued patches for 73 security vulnerabilities in its February 2024 Patch Tuesday. This means that Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies need to remediate these vulnerabilities by March 5, 2024, in order to protect their devices. CVE-2024-21412 (CVSS score 8.1

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 28, 2024

Spread spectrum technology helped prevent the jamming of WWII radio-controlled torpedoes and subsequently became a cornerstone of modern-day telecom infrastructure. I had an evocative discussion about this at RSAC 2024 with Dispersive CEO Rajiv Plimplaskar. For its next act, could spread spectrum undergird digital resiliency?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2024

May 8, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Security Risk Advisors (SRA) announces the launch of their OT/XIoT Detection Selection Workshop, a complimentary offering designed to assist organizations in selecting the most suitable operational technology (OT) and Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) security tools for their unique environments.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 8, 2024

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 8th, 2024, CyberNewsWire Security Risk Advisors (SRA) announces the launch of their OT/XIoT Detection Selection Workshop, a complimentary offering designed to assist organizations in selecting the most suitable operational technology (OT) and Extended Internet of Things (XIoT) security tools for their unique environments. (..)

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2024

From 2015 to July 2022, 911 S5 sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, as “proxies” that allowed customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. That’s according to spur.us , a U.S.-based

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IT Security Guru

JANUARY 31, 2024

Nick Graham, Chief Technology Officer at information security software business Hicomply discusses the recent surge in interest around artificial intelligence. The post Introducing meaningful AI features for information security in 2024 first appeared on IT Security Guru.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 2, 2023

Christopher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, on April 27th requested an additional $64 million in funding to fight cyber threats in 2024. As an organization, we must be able to stay current with constantly evolving technologies. The request was made to the U.S. RELATED: Col. Cedric Leighton, USAF (Ret.),

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Security Affairs

APRIL 16, 2024

It is a subsidiary of the partially state-owned Chinese company Wingtech Technology. The chipmaker has 14,000 employees as of 2024. The chipmaker confirmed it became aware of the unauthorized access to certain Nexperia IT servers in March 2024. It has front-end factories in Hamburg, Germany, and Greater Manchester, England.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) technologies provide intriguing opportunities for immersive and interactive experiences in cybersecurity training. Related: GenAI’ impact on DevSecOps Here’s how these technologies can bridge learning gaps in cybersecurity awareness and enhance the overall training experience.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

According to DigiCert’s 2024 State of Digital Trust Survey results, released today , companies proactively pursuing digital trust are seeing boosts in revenue, innovation and productivity. Emerging standards Indeed, advanced technologies, new protocols and emerging best practices are at hand to help companies build and sustain trust.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 22, 2024

The Rise of the Bad Bots madhav Tue, 04/23/2024 - 05:13 Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report is always a fascinating – albeit alarming – insight into the nature of non-human internet traffic. The 2024 Imperva Bad Bot Report is no different, revealing that bots made up nearly half (49.6%) of all internet traffic last year.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Google has announced that it will start rolling its Chrome web browser’s new Tracking Protection feature from January of 2024. The Tracking Protection feature aims to disable third-party cookies completely in the second half of 2024. An IP address is the next best thing for tracking users across the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 13, 2024

From the other end of the supply chain, many vendors build Cinterion Cellular Modems into their internet-of-things (IoT) or operations technology (OT) equipment such as sensors, meters, or even medical devices. May 5, 2024 Tinyproxy Vulnerability Potentially Exposes 50,000+ Hosts Type of vulnerability: Use after free.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 13, 2024

May 13, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Criminal IP, a renowned Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine developed by AI SPERA, has recently signed a technology partnership to exchange threat intelligence data based on domains and potentially on the IP address to protect users by blocking threats to end users. Torrance, Calif.,

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Security Affairs

MARCH 26, 2024

The Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies uncovered an updated version of “ TheMoon ” bot targeting end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices. TheMoon variant discovered by the Black Lotus Labs team was observed targeting over 40,000 bots from 88 countries in January and February of 2024.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

The attacks focus on industrial control systems (ICS) and other operational technology (OT) systems in the target infrastructure. They aim to exploit modular, internet-exposed Industrial Control Systems (ICS), targeting software components like human machine interfaces (HMIs). In early 2024, several U.S.-based

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

Launched in 2008, privnote.com employs technology that encrypts each message so that even Privnote itself cannot read its contents. Other Privnote phishing domains that also phoned home to the same Internet address as pirwnote[.]com The real Privnote, at privnote.com. And it doesn’t send or receive messages. com include privnode[.]com

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

and allied cybersecurity agencies are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign by pro-Russia hacktivist groups to target and compromise operational technology (OT) systems across critical infrastructure sectors in North America and Europe. Multiple U.S.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 2, 2024

Host Paul Roberts speaks with Jim Broome, the CTO and President of MSSP DirectDefense about the evolution of cybersecurity threats and how technologies like AI are reshaping the cybersecurity landscape and the work of defenders and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP). Read the whole entry. » » Click the icon below to listen.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology. The four new security standards selected by NIST will become part of a quantum-safe cryptography standard released as soon as 2024. Quantum technology is accelerating—and with it, the quantum threat. But these new standards can’t come soon enough.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Defending against sophisticated, multifaceted attacks takes resources, technologies, and human expertise. Today on the Lock and Code podcast … If your IT and security teams think malware is bad, wait until they learn about everything else. Understandably, security teams are outflanked. But not every organization has that at hand.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 16, 2024

For example, in March 2024, Tennessee enacted the Ensuring Likeness, Voice, and Image Security (ELVIS) Act of 2024 (effective July 1, 2024), becoming one of the first states to enact legislation that directly regulates the misappropriation of an individual's identity through use of generative AI (e.g.,

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