– [[{“value”:”Join us as we delve into the world of unexpected security breaches and legal loopholes, where your robot vacuum cleaner might be spying on you, and ordering a pizza could cost you your right to sue. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.”}]] ...
– [[{“value”:” OpenAI said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and networks over the past year from foreign actors attempting to use the company’s generative AI technologies to influence political sentiments around the world and meddle in elections, including the United States. In some cases, the actors attempted to use ChatGPT and other OpenAI tools to analyze and generate...
– Zug, Switzerland, October 8, 2024 // Supra, the 500k TPS Layer-1 blockchain with MultiVM compatibility for MoveVM and… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:” National Cyber Directory Harry Coker said that the White House is focused on securing two foundational aspects of the tech landscape: how information packets are routed across the internet and computer programming languages that can be susceptible to memory-related errors. Speaking at a Recorded Future event Wednesday in Washington, D.C., Coker said the White House is looking at...
– Trojan.AutoIt.1443 targets 28,000 users, spreading via game cheats and office tools. This cryptomining and cryptostealing malware bypasses antivirus… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:”Google on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and DNS Research Federation (DNS RF) to combat online scams. The initiative, which has been codenamed the Global Signal Exchange (GSE), is designed to create real-time insights into scams, fraud, and other forms of cybercrime pooling together threat signals from different data sources in order to...
– [[{“value”:” The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later — while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to...
– [[{“value”:” Microsoft on Tuesday shared security updates on 117 common vulnerabilities and exposures, including two that are being actively exploited, according to the company. The actively exploited vulnerabilities relate to the Microsoft Management Console (CVE-2024-43572) and the Windows MSHTML Platform (CVE-2024-43573), the company said. The list includes five publicly disclosed zero-days in total, as part of 28 elevation-of-privilege vulnerabilities,...
– [[{“value”:”Details have emerged about multiple security vulnerabilities in two implementations of the Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS) protocol that, if successfully exploited, could have severe impacts in industrial environments. “The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash an industrial device or in some cases, enable remote code execution,” Claroty researchers Mashav Sapir and Vera”}]] – Read More – The Hacker...
– [[{“value”:”Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting job seekers in the tech industry to deliver updated versions of known malware families tracked as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity cluster, tracked as CL-STA-0240, is part of a campaign dubbed Contagious Interview that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 first disclosed in November 2023. “The threat actor behind...
– The Sui Foundation supports native USDC on the Sui network with $120M in liquidity, marking the 3rd largest… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– Abu Dhabi, UAE, October 9, 2024 – Dragonz Lab, a Web3 gaming studio originating from the UK, today… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– Social media accounts help shape a brand’s identity and reputation. These public forums engage directly with customers as they are a hub to connect, share content and answer questions. However, despite the high profile role these accounts have, many organizations overlook social media account security. Many lack the safeguards to prevent unauthorized access — a situation no organization wants...
– Cybercriminals exploit disaster relief efforts to target vulnerable individuals and organizations in Florida, compromising the integrity of relief… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:” 2024 Cyber Resilience Research Unveils Financial Services Industry Challenges New data illuminates how financial services leaders can prioritize resilience. Financial services institutions find themselves at the intersection of progress and peril in the rapidly evolving digital landscape. The latest data underscores that the trade-offs are significant and pose substantial risks to financial institutions. Get your complimentary copy of...
– [[{“value”:”Microsoft has released security updates to fix a total of 118 vulnerabilities across its software portfolio, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 118 flaws, three are rated Critical, 113 are rated Important, and two are rated Moderate in severity. The Patch Tuesday update doesn’t include the 25 additional flaws that the tech...
– Bumper crop of Windows vulns leads the way; 15 product groups represented – Read More – Sophos News
– [[{“value”:”Microsoft is warning of cyber attack campaigns that abuse legitimate file hosting services such as SharePoint, OneDrive, and Dropbox that are widely used in enterprise environments as a defense evasion tactic. The end goal of the campaigns are broad and varied, allowing threat actors to compromise identities and devices and conduct business email compromise (BEC) attacks, which ultimately result”}]] ...
– Pro-Ukrainian hacktivists from DumpForums claim to have breached Russian cybersecurity giant Dr.Web, stealing over 10 TB of sensitive… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:” Microsoft today released security updates to fix at least 117 security holes in Windows computers and other software, including two vulnerabilities that are already seeing active attacks. Also, Adobe plugged 52 security holes across a range of products, and Apple has addressed a bug in its new macOS 15 “Sequoia” update that broke many cybersecurity tools. One of...
– [[{“value”:”Users searching for game cheats are being tricked into downloading a Lua-based malware that is capable of establishing persistence on infected systems and delivering additional payloads. “These attacks capitalize on the popularity of Lua gaming engine supplements within the student gamer community,” Morphisec researcher Shmuel Uzan said in a new report published today, adding “this malware”}]] – Read More ...
– [[{“value”:”Ivanti has warned that three new security vulnerabilities impacting its Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) have come under active exploitation in the wild. The zero-day flaws are being weaponized in conjunction with another flaw in CSA that the company patched last month, the Utah-based software services provider said. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an authenticated”}]] – Read More ...
– [[{“value”:” It’s the spooky season, and there’s nothing spookier than security patches – at least in my world. Microsoft and Adobe have released their latest patches, and no bones about it, there are some skeletons in those closets. Take a break from your regular activities and join us as we review the details of their latest security alerts. If...
– Morphisec Threat Labs uncovers sophisticated Lua malware targeting student gamers and educational institutions. Learn how these attacks work… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:” Hackers stole sensitive employee data from a software-as-a-service company that advises consumers on trade credit and provides supply chain risk monitoring, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. CreditRiskMonitor.com said on Tuesday that hackers got away with an unspecified amount of data between July 9 and July 17. The pilfered files included personally identifiable information of employees...
– [[{“value”:” An unauthorized party stole encrypted internal data related to employee user accounts from home and small business security provider ADT, the company said Monday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company detected the unauthorized access Oct. 2, according to the filing, and said the “unauthorized actor had illegally accessed ADT’s network using compromised credentials...
– [[{“value”:”In episode 19 of “The AI Fix” podcast, Graham and Mark discover some AI podcast hosts having an existential crisis, a robot dog climbs another step towards world domination, Mark makes a gift for anyone working in tech support, and William Shatner chews through Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Things can take a terrible turn when a pair...
– San Francisco, CA, 8th October 2024, CyberNewsWire – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– The Storm-1575 group is known for frequently rebranding its phishing infrastructure. Recently, ANY.RUN analysts identified the deployment of… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:”Introduction Artificial intelligence (AI) deepfakes and misinformation may cause worry in the world of technology and investment, but this powerful, foundational technology has the potential to benefit organizations of all kinds when harnessed appropriately. In the world of cybersecurity, one of the most important areas of application of AI is augmenting and enhancing identity management”}]] – Read More –...
– [[{“value”:”Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an “evil twin” disaster. Read the full real-life case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout page, not a checkout page? When it’s an “evil twin”! Malicious redirects can send unsuspecting shoppers...
– [[{“value”:”Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. “The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain remote access to systems,” Kaspersky said, detailing a new campaign that began in June 2024 and continued at...
– Best-in-class price-performance, excellent power efficiency, bolstered threat protection. – Read More – Sophos News
– [[{“value”:”A little-known threat actor tracked as GoldenJackal has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting embassies and governmental organizations with an aim to infiltrate air-gapped systems using two disparate bespoke toolsets. Victims included a South Asian embassy in Belarus and a European Union government (E.U.) organization, Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said. “The ultimate goal of”}]] – Read...
– [[{“value”:”Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that targeted Russia state media company VGTRK and disrupted its operations, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The incident took place on the night of October 7, VGTRK confirmed, describing it as an “unprecedented hacker attack.” However, it said “no significant damage” was caused and that everything was working normally”}]] ...
– [[{“value”:”Qualcomm has rolled out security updates to address nearly two dozen flaws spanning proprietary and open-source components, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43047 (CVSS score: 7.8), has been described as a user-after-free bug in the Digital Signal Processor (DSP) Service that could lead to “memory corruption”}]] – Read...
– American Water faces a cyberattack, disrupting its customer portal and billing operations. The company assures that water services… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– Okta fixed a vulnerability in its Classic product that allowed attackers to bypass sign-on policies. Exploitation required valid… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– [[{“value”:” A pair of hacking operations seemingly tied to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s birthday targeted the country’s top state media provider and the websites associated with its court and judicial system. VGTRK, the provider of top Russian state media outlets, suffered the attack late Sunday into Monday, according to Gazeta, a Russian news outlet. The attack was first announced...
– [[{“value”:” A New Jersey-based company responsible for providing water to more than 14 million people was hit by a cyberattack which appears to only resulted in the loss of billing systems, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Monday. American Water Works Company, which first learned of the attack on Oct. 3, said there does not appear to...
– [[{“value”:”When Sean Kelly bought a top-of-the-line vacuum cleaner, he imagined he was making a safe purchase. Little did he know that the cleaning machine scuttling about his family’s feet contained a security flaw that could let anyone see and hear their every move. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.”}]] – Read More – Graham...
– Torrance, United States / California, 7th October 2024, CyberNewsWire – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– China’s Salt Typhoon hacked AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen, compromising wiretap systems used in criminal investigations. The breach, linked… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– Critical security vulnerabilities exposed in DrayTek Vigor routers: Discover how to protect your network from these serious flaws.… – Read More – Hackread – Latest Cybersecurity, Tech, Crypto & Hacking News
– Organizations are losing between $94 – $186 billion annually to vulnerable or insecure APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and automated abuse by bots. That’s according to The Economic Impact of API and Bot Attacks report from Imperva, a Thales company. The report highlights that these security threats account for up to 11.8% of global cyber events and losses, emphasizing the...
– [[{“value”:”Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new botnet malware family called Gorilla (aka GorillaBot) that is a variant of the leaked Mirai botnet source code. Cybersecurity firm NSFOCUS, which identified the activity last month, said the botnet “issued over 300,000 attack commands, with a shocking attack density” between September 4 and September 27, 2024. No less than 20,000 commands designed”}]] ...
– [[{“value”:” The content of this post is solely the responsibility of the author. LevelBlue does not adopt or endorse any of the views, positions, or information provided by the author in this article. We wanted to know what was going on within our vast networks; modern tools have made it possible for us to know too much. Some data...
– [[{“value”:”The interest in passwordless authentication has increased due to the rise of hybrid work environments and widespread digitization. This has led to a greater need for reliable data security and user-friendly interfaces. Without these measures, organizations are at risk of experiencing data breaches, leaks, and significant financial losses. While traditional password-based systems offer”}]] – Read More – The Hacker...
– [[{“value”:”Google has announced that it’s piloting a new security initiative that automatically blocks sideloading of potentially unsafe Android apps in India, after similar tests in Singapore, Thailand, and Brazil. The enhanced fraud protection feature aims to keep users safe when they attempt to install malicious apps from sources other than the Google Play Store, such as web browsers, messaging...
– [[{“value”:”Ever heard of a “pig butchering” scam? Or a DDoS attack so big it could melt your brain? This week’s cybersecurity recap has it all – government showdowns, sneaky malware, and even a dash of app store shenanigans. Get the scoop before it’s too late! ⚡ Threat of the Week Double Trouble: Evil Corp & LockBit Fall: A consortium...
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