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The volume of cybersecurity vulnerabilities is rising, with close to 30% more vulnerabilities found in 2022 vs. 2018. Costs are also rising, with a data breach in 2023 costing $4.45M on average vs. $3.62M in 2017. In Q2 2023, a total of 1386 victims were claimed by ransomware attacks compared with just 831 in Q1 2023. The MOVEit attack has claimed over 600 victims so far and that number is stillThe Hacker Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16801458706306167627noreply@blogger.comAutomated Threat Intelligence37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of California over allegations that the company's location-privacy practices misled consumers and violated consumer protection laws. "Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users one thing – that it would no longer track their location once they opted out – but doing the opposite and continuing to

Google has agreed to pay $93 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the U.S. state of California over allegations that the company's location-privacy practices misled consumers and violated consumer protection laws. "Our investigation revealed that Google was telling its users one thing – that it would no longer track their location once they opted out – but doing the opposite and continuing to THNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09767675513435997467noreply@blogger.comPrivacy / Online Security37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

Multiple severe, remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities have been found in Chromium, including out-of-bounds memory access in V8, CSS, and Fonts ( CVE-2023-4427 , CVE-2023-4428 , and CVE-2023-4431 ), and use after frees in Loader and Vulkan ( CVE-2023-4429 and CVE-2023-4430 ). Because of the serious threat these bugs pose to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of impacted systems and their ease of exploitation, they have all received a National Vulnerability Database severity rating of ''High''.

A critical memory safety bug has been discovered in Thunderbird 115.0 and Thunderbird 102.13 ( CVE-2023-4056 ). Due to the severity of this vulnerability's threat to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of impacted systems, it has received a National Vulnerability Database base score of 9.8 out of 10. Other severe vulnerabilities have also been found in Thunderbird, including improper validation of the Text Direction Override Unicode Character in filenames ( CVE-2023-3417 ) and copying of an untrusted input stream to a stack buffer without checking its size ( CVE-2023-4050 ).

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT (Internet of Things) refers to online, interconnected devices that collect and exchange

The Internet of Things (IoT) is transforming efficiency in various sectors like healthcare and logistics but has also introduced new security risks, particularly IoT-driven DDoS attacks. This article explores how these attacks work, why they’re uniquely problematic, and how to mitigate them. What Is IoT? IoT (Internet of Things) refers to online, interconnected devices that collect and exchange The Hacker Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16801458706306167627noreply@blogger.comIoT Security / Cyber Threat37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims' credentials using a variant of the Python-based NodeStealer and potentially take over their accounts for follow-on malicious activities.  "The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North America across different segments, led by the manufacturing services and technology

An ongoing campaign is targeting Facebook Business accounts with bogus messages to harvest victims' credentials using a variant of the Python-based NodeStealer and potentially take over their accounts for follow-on malicious activities.  "The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North America across different segments, led by the manufacturing services and technology THNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09767675513435997467noreply@blogger.comOnline Security / Malware37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates. "This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by making their techniques multipurpose," Trend Micro researchers said in a new analysis published this

The threat actors behind RedLine and Vidar information stealers have been observed pivoting to ransomware through phishing campaigns that spread initial payloads signed with Extended Validation (EV) code signing certificates. "This suggests that the threat actors are streamlining operations by making their techniques multipurpose," Trend Micro researchers said in a new analysis published this THNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09767675513435997467noreply@blogger.comRansomware / Cyber Threat37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new findings from Microsoft reveal. The tech giant, which is tracking the activity under the name Peach Sandstorm (formerly Holmium), said the adversary pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors to likely facilitate

Iranian nation-state actors have been conducting password spray attacks against thousands of organizations globally between February and July 2023, new findings from Microsoft reveal. The tech giant, which is tracking the activity under the name Peach Sandstorm (formerly Holmium), said the adversary pursued organizations in the satellite, defense, and pharmaceutical sectors to likely facilitate THNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09767675513435997467noreply@blogger.comCyber Attack / Password Security37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

A set of memory corruption flaws have been discovered in the ncurses (short for new curses) programming library that could be exploited by threat actors to run malicious code on vulnerable Linux and macOS systems. "Using environment variable poisoning, attackers could chain these vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and run code in the targeted program's context or perform other malicious

A set of memory corruption flaws have been discovered in the ncurses (short for new curses) programming library that could be exploited by threat actors to run malicious code on vulnerable Linux and macOS systems. "Using environment variable poisoning, attackers could chain these vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and run code in the targeted program's context or perform other malicious THNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09767675513435997467noreply@blogger.comEndpoint Security / Vulnerability37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

A download manager site served Linux users malware that stealthily stole passwords and other sensitive information for more than three years as part of a supply chain attack. The modus operandi entailed establishing a reverse shell to an actor-controlled server and installing a Bash stealer on the compromised system. The campaign, which took place between 2020 and 2022, is no longer active. "

A download manager site served Linux users malware that stealthily stole passwords and other sensitive information for more than three years as part of a supply chain attack. The modus operandi entailed establishing a reverse shell to an actor-controlled server and installing a Bash stealer on the compromised system. The campaign, which took place between 2020 and 2022, is no longer active. "THNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09767675513435997467noreply@blogger.comSupply Chain / Malware37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

Employee offboarding is no one’s favorite task, yet it is a critical IT process that needs to be executed diligently and efficiently. That’s easier said than done, especially considering that IT organizations have less visibility and control over employees’ IT use than ever. Today, employees can easily adopt new cloud and SaaS applications whenever and wherever they want, and the old IT

Employee offboarding is no one’s favorite task, yet it is a critical IT process that needs to be executed diligently and efficiently. That’s easier said than done, especially considering that IT organizations have less visibility and control over employees’ IT use than ever. Today, employees can easily adopt new cloud and SaaS applications whenever and wherever they want, and the old IT The Hacker Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16801458706306167627noreply@blogger.comSaaS Security / Cybersecurity37.09024 -95.7128918.780006163821156 -130.869141 65.400473836178847 -60.556641

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able's Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which, when successfully exploited, could be leveraged to delete arbitrary files on a Windows