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How Hybrid Password Attacks Work and How to Defend Against Them

How Hybrid Password Attacks Work and How to Defend Against Them

Threat actors constantly change tactics to bypass cybersecurity measures, developing innovative methods to steal user credentials. Hybrid password attacks merge multiple cracking techniques to amplify their effectiveness. These combined approaches exploit the strengths of various… 

CISA Warns of Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Cookies for Network Reconnaissance

CISA Warns of Threat Actors Exploiting F5 BIG-IP Cookies for Network Reconnaissance

Oct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that it has observed threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager… 

New Critical GitLab Vulnerability Could Allow Arbitrary CI/CD Pipeline Execution

New Critical GitLab Vulnerability Could Allow Arbitrary CI/CD Pipeline Execution

Oct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananDevOps / Vulnerability GitLab has released security updates for Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) to address eight security flaws, including a critical bug that could allow running Continuous Integration and… 

Bohemia and Cannabia Dark Web Markets Taken Down After Joint Police Operation

Bohemia and Cannabia Dark Web Markets Taken Down After Joint Police Operation

Oct 11, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web The Dutch police have announced the takedown of Bohemia and Cannabia, which has been described as the world’s largest and longest-running dark web market for illegal goods, drugs,… 

OpenAI Blocks 20 Global Malicious Campaigns Using AI for Cybercrime and Disinformation

OpenAI Blocks 20 Global Malicious Campaigns Using AI for Cybercrime and Disinformation

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Disinformation OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start… 

Experts Warn of Critical Unpatched Vulnerability in Linear eMerge E3 Systems

Experts Warn of Critical Unpatched Vulnerability in Linear eMerge E3 Systems

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Enterprise Security Cybersecurity security researchers are warning about an unpatched vulnerability in Nice Linear eMerge E3 access controller systems that could allow for the execution of arbitrary operating system (OS)… 

Cybercriminals Use Unicode to Hide Mongolian Skimmer in E-Commerce Platforms

Cybercriminals Use Unicode to Hide Mongolian Skimmer in E-Commerce Platforms

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. “At first glance, the thing that… 

CISA Warns of Critical Fortinet Flaw as Palo Alto and Cisco Issue Urgent Security Patches

CISA Warns of Critical Fortinet Flaw as Palo Alto and Cisco Issue Urgent Security Patches

Oct 10, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of…