Even as cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, the number one attack vector for unauthorized access remains phished credentials (Verizon DBIR, 2024). Solving this problem resolves over 80% of your corporate risk, and a solution is…
Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Threat Intelligence Malicious actors are likely leveraging publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for recently disclosed security flaws in Progress Software WhatsUp Gold to conduct opportunistic attacks. The activity is…
Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining. The activity, which specifically singles out the Oracle Weblogic server, is designed…
Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud Bank customers in the Central Asia region have been targeted by a new strain of Android malware codenamed Ajina.Banker since at least November 2024 with the goal…
Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Vulnerability GitLab on Wednesday released security updates to address 17 security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that allows an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user. The issue,…
Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / IoT Security Nearly 1.3 million Android-based TV boxes running outdated versions of the operating system and belonging to users spanning 197 countries have been infected by a new malware dubbed…
Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Network Security Internet-exposed Selenium Grid instances are being targeted by bad actors for illicit cryptocurrency mining and proxyjacking campaigns. “Selenium Grid is a server that facilitates running test cases in…
Sep 12, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Intelligence / Cybercrime Cato CTRL (Cyber Threats Research Lab) has released its Q2 2024 Cato CTRL SASE Threat Report. The report highlights critical findings based on the analysis of a…
Iraqi government networks have emerged as the target of an “elaborate” cyber attack campaign orchestrated by an Iran state-sponsored threat actor called OilRig. The attacks singled out Iraqi organizations such as the Prime Minister’s Office…
Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananRegulatory Compliance / Data Protection The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has announced that it has commenced a “Cross-Border statutory inquiry” into Google’s foundational artificial intelligence (AI) model to determine whether the…