Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Software Security Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its next-generation macOS version that makes it a little more difficult for users to override Gatekeeper protections. Gatekeeper is a crucial…
Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Financial Fraud INTERPOL said it devised a “global stop-payment mechanism” that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The development comes…
Aug 06, 2024The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / Threat Detection Everyone loves the double-agent plot twist in a spy movie, but it’s a different story when it comes to securing company data. Whether intentional or unintentional,…
Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Windows Security The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Moonstone Sleet has continued to push malicious npm packages to the JavaScript package registry with the aim of infecting Windows systems,…
Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananAndroid / Malware Users in Russia have been the target of a previously undocumented Android post-compromise spyware called LianSpy since at least 2021. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, which discovered the malware in March…
Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Vulnerability Google has addressed a high-severity security flaw impacting the Android kernel that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-36971, has been…
Aug 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability A new zero-day pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability has been disclosed in the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that could allow threat actors to achieve…
Aug 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananThreat Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered design weaknesses in Microsoft’s Windows Smart App Control and SmartScreen that could enable threat actors to gain initial access to target environments without raising…
Aug 05, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Threat Intelligence Organizations in Kazakhstan are the target of a threat activity cluster dubbed Bloody Wolf that delivers a commodity malware called STRRAT (aka Strigoi Master). “The program selling…
Aug 05, 2024The Hacker NewsCybersecurity Law / Data Privacy The Loper Bright decision has yielded impactful results: the Supreme Court has overturned forty years of administrative law, leading to potential litigation over the interpretation of…