Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, Exploits & Government Alerts
Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananMalware / VPN Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file…
Jan 04, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / IoT Botnet The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday issued sanctions against a Beijing-based cybersecurity company known as Integrity Technology Group, Incorporated for orchestrating…
Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful…
Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananWindows Server / Threat Mitigation A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for a now-patched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) that could trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The…
Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Software Development Microsoft has announced that it’s making an “unexpected change” to the way .NET installers and archives are distributed, requiring developers to update their production and DevOps infrastructure. “We…
Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananTechnology / Data Privacy Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that accused the iPhone maker of invading users’ privacy using its voice-activated Siri assistant.…
Jan 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Data Protection Details have emerged about three now-patched security vulnerabilities in Dynamics 365 and Power Apps Web API that could result in data exposure. The flaws, discovered by Melbourne-based cybersecurity…
Jan 02, 2025The Hacker NewsCloud Security / Threat Intelligence In the past year, cross-domain attacks have gained prominence as an emerging tactic among adversaries. These operations exploit weak points across multiple domains – including endpoints,…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious package on the npm package registry that masquerades as a library for detecting vulnerabilities in Ethereum smart contracts but, in reality, drops an open-source remote access trojan called Quasar…
Jan 02, 2025Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Hacking German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused…