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New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics

New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics

Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananRansomware / Cybercrime Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an advanced version of the Qilin ransomware sporting increased sophistication and tactics to evade detection. The new variant is being tracked by cybersecurity firm Halcyon… 

AWS Cloud Development Kit Vulnerability Exposes Users to Potential Account Takeover Risks

AWS Cloud Development Kit Vulnerability Exposes Users to Potential Account Takeover Risks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that could have resulted in an account takeover under specific circumstances. “The impact of this issue could, in certain… 

Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack

Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack

Oct 24, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Cisco on Wednesday said it has released updates to address an actively exploited security flaw in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS)… 

Lazarus Group Exploits Google Chrome Vulnerability to Control Infected Devices

Lazarus Group Exploits Google Chrome Vulnerability to Control Infected Devices

The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome to seize control of infected devices. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it… 

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…