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Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation

Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation

Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Fortinet has confirmed details of a critical security flaw impacting FortiManager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-47575 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability… 

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection

New variants of a banking malware called Grandoreiro have been found to adopt new tactics in an effort to bypass anti-fraud measures, indicating that the malicious software is continuing to be actively developed despite law… 

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)

Oct 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Threat Intelligence A high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday, citing… 

Researchers Reveal ‘Deceptive Delight’ Method to Jailbreak AI Models

Researchers Reveal ‘Deceptive Delight’ Method to Jailbreak AI Models

Oct 23, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new adversarial technique that could be used to jailbreak large language models (LLMs) during the course of an interactive conversation by… 

Ransomware Gangs Use LockBit’s Fame to Intimidate Victims in Latest Attacks

Ransomware Gangs Use LockBit’s Fame to Intimidate Victims in Latest Attacks

Threat actors have been observed abusing Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) Transfer Acceleration feature as part of ransomware attacks designed to exfiltrate victim data and upload them to S3 buckets under their control. “Attempts were… 

Gophish Framework Used in Phishing Campaigns to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

Gophish Framework Used in Phishing Campaigns to Deploy Remote Access Trojans

Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new phishing campaign that leverages an open-source phishing toolkit called Gophish to deliver DarkCrystal RAT (aka DCRat) and a previously undocumented remote access trojan dubbed PowerRAT. “The… 

Security Flaw in Styra’s OPA Exposes NTLM Hashes to Remote Attackers

Security Flaw in Styra’s OPA Exposes NTLM Hashes to Remote Attackers

Oct 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Software Security Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in Styra’s Open Policy Agent (OPA) that, if successfully exploited, could have led to leakage of New Technology LAN Manager… 

Cybercriminals Exploiting Docker API Servers for SRBMiner Crypto Mining Attacks

Cybercriminals Exploiting Docker API Servers for SRBMiner Crypto Mining Attacks

Oct 22, 2024Ravie LakshmananDocker Security / Cloud Security Bad actors have been observed targeting Docker remote API servers to deploy the SRBMiner crypto miner on compromised instances, according to new findings from Trend Micro. “In…