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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Includes Word, Streaming Service Zero-Days

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Action1 vice president of vulnerability and threat research Mike Walters noted in a blog post that while CVE-2023-38148 seems particularly threatening due to its low attack complexity and since it requires no privileges or user interaction, it can only target systems in the same network segment as the attacker.

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Patch Tuesday Targets 74 Flaws, Including Microsoft Teams, Office

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In a blog post , Ivanti vice president of product management Chris Goettl also highlighted CVE-2023-38180 , a denial of service vulnerability in.NET and Visual Studio that has a lower severity rating but is being actively exploited. The critical Outlook flaw, Barnett added, presents less of a threat. score is 7.5, score is 7.5,

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Menlo Security Finds Cloud Migration and Remote Work Gives Rise to New Era of Malware, Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT)

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.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Menlo Security , a leader in cloud security, today announced it has identified a surge in cyberthreats, termed Highly Evasive Adaptive Threats (HEAT), that bypass traditional security defenses. For more information on HEAT, please visit our blog, “ Too Hot to Handle.”.

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New AI Threats Emerge as FraudGPT Creator Unleashes DarkBERT and DarkBART

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In his blog post , Kelley shared a video from CanadianKingpin12 that suggests DarkBERT will go well beyond the social engineering capabilities of the earlier tools with new “concerning capabilities.” Email Address By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

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Why BYOD Is the Favored Ransomware Backdoor

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Unmanaged endpoints lack installed protections and ransomware file exfiltration and replacement mimics normal data access traffic between the unmanaged endpoint and the network data resource. The Sophos X-Ops team highlighted the issue in a recent blog , which details how remote encryption evades multiple layers of network security.

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Power Management Vulnerabilities Could Shut Down Data Centers: Researchers

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effort to secure critical infrastructure. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a two-year competition to develop AI cybersecurity tools, with nearly $20 million in prizes. The Trellix researchers investigated several data center software platforms and hardware technologies as part of a U.S.

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‘Rapid Reset’ DDoS Attack Hits HTTP/2 Web Servers

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“There are botnets today that are made up of hundreds of thousands or millions of machines,” Cloudflare said in a technical blog post on the vulnerability ( CVE-2023-44487 ). One troubling fact is that the attackers were able to generate the attack with a botnet of just 20,000 machines.

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