Sep 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Weekly Recap Hold onto your hats, folks, because the cybersecurity world is anything but quiet! Last week, we dodged a bullet when we discovered vulnerabilities in CUPS that could’ve opened…
Critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in six different Automatic Tank Gauge (ATG) systems from five manufacturers that could expose them to remote attacks. “These vulnerabilities pose significant real-world risks, as they could be exploited…
Attackers are increasingly turning to session hijacking to get around widespread MFA adoption. The data supports this, as: 147,000 token replay attacks were detected by Microsoft in 2023, a 111% increase year-over-year (Microsoft). Attacks on…
Imagine a sophisticated cyberattack cripples your organization’s most critical productivity and collaboration tool — the platform you rely on for daily operations. In the blink of an eye, hackers encrypt your emails, files, and crucial…
Sep 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananGDPR / Data Privacy The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company…
Sep 28, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims…
U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their targeting of current and former officials to steal sensitive data.…
Sep 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability Progress Software has released another round of updates to address six security flaws in WhatsUp Gold, including two critical vulnerabilities. The issues, the company said, have been resolved…
Sep 27, 2024Ravie LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that could permit remote command execution under certain conditions.…
As security technology and threat awareness among organizations improves so do the adversaries who are adopting and relying on new techniques to maximize speed and impact while evading detection. Ransomware and malware continue to be…