Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
Aug 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Malware The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed…
Aug 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform but is…
Aug 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Mobile Security As many as 10 security flaws have been uncovered in Google’s Quick Share data transfer utility for Android and Windows that could be assembled to trigger remote code…
Aug 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Online Fraud An ongoing, widespread malware campaign has been observed installing rogue Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions via a trojan distributed via fake websites masquerading as popular software.…
Aug 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Security Microsoft has disclosed an unpatched zero-day in Office that, if successfully exploited, could result in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to malicious actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38200…
Aug 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple critical flaws in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings that, if successfully exploited, could result in serious consequences. “The impact of these vulnerabilities…
Aug 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Microsoft on Thursday disclosed four medium-severity security flaws in the open-source OpenVPN software that could be chained to achieve remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE).…
Aug 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananIoT Security / Wireless Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users. The vulnerabilities “led to an entire…
Aug 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananNational Security / Identity Theft The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday charged a 38-year-old individual from Nashville, Tennessee, for allegedly running a “laptop farm” to help get North Koreans remote…
Aug 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that threat actors are abusing the legacy Cisco Smart Install (SMI) feature with the aim of accessing sensitive…