The Hidden Risks of Legacy MFA
Sometimes, it turns out that the answers we struggled so hard to find were sitting right in front of us for so long that we somehow overlooked them. When the Department of Homeland Security, through…
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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
Oct 24, 2024Ravie 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 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…
A Shake-up in Identity Security Is Looming Large
Oct 23, 2024The Hacker NewsIdentity Security / Data Protection Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches that include Microsoft, Okta, Cloudflare and Snowflake to name a few. Organizations are starting to…
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094)
Oct 23, 2024Ravie 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
Oct 23, 2024Ravie 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…
Think You’re Secure? 49% of Enterprises Underestimate SaaS Risks
It may come as a surprise to learn that 34% of security practitioners are in the dark about how many SaaS applications are deployed in their organizations. And it’s no wonder—the recent AppOmni 2024 State…
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
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…