Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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China-Linked 'Muddling Meerkat' Hijacks DNS to Map Internet on Global Scale

A previously undocumented cyber threat dubbed Muddling Meerkat has been observed undertaking sophisticated domain name system (DNS) activities in a likely effort to evade security measures and conduct reconnaissance of networks across the world since October 2019. Cloud security firm Infoblox described the threat actor as likely affiliated with the

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DDoS Attacks Continue, Post-Election, Against Russian Independent Media Site Meduza

In April, Meduza faced two large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, prompting it to reach out to Qurium to investigate their origin and composition, the researchers said.

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More Than 800 Vulnerabilities Resolved Through CISA Ransomware Notification Pilot

The Ransomware Vulnerability Warning Pilot was unveiled in January 2023 as a program designed to “identify organizations with internet-accessible vulnerabilities commonly associated with known ransomware actors.”

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British Intelligence Moves to Protect Research Universities From Espionage

The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency warned the country’s leading research universities on Thursday that foreign states are targeting their institutions and imperiling national security.

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Experts weigh in on Omni Hotel ransomware incident

Omni Hotels & Resorts was the recent target of a ransomware attack by the Daixin Team ransomware group.

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Report: 73% of SME Security Professionals Missed or Ignored Critical Alerts

IT staff at SMEs is overwhelmed by the complexity and demands of managing multiple tools in their security stack, leading them to miss critical severity events and weaken their company’s security posture, according to Coro.

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Security leaders respond to disruption of LabHost, a fraud website

LabHost, a notable phishing-as-a-service platform, was disrupted by international investigations. Security leaders respond. 

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72% of CISOs believe AI solutions may lead to security breaches

A new report surveyed more than 400 CISOs from the United States and the United Kingdom to gauge their challenges, priorities and initiatives. 

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DHS Announces AI Safety Board with OpenAI Founder, CEOs of Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM

Members will include representatives of tech companies, critical infrastructure entities, academia, and government agencies, as well as “leaders in the civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy communities,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said.

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Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding Exposure Management, Pentesting, Red Teaming and RBVM

It comes as no surprise that today's cyber threats are orders of magnitude more complex than those of the past. And the ever-evolving tactics that attackers use demand the adoption of better, more holistic and consolidated ways to meet this non-stop challenge. Security teams constantly look for ways to reduce risk while improving security posture, but many

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New R Programming Vulnerability Exposes Projects to Supply Chain Attacks

A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results in code execution when loaded and referenced. The flaw, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-27322, "involves the use of promise objects and lazy evaluation in R," AI application security

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Know-Your-Customer Executive Order Facing Stiff Opposition From Cloud Industry

A controversial executive order that would require U.S. cloud companies to closely monitor the identities of their customers will move one step closer to the finish line next week amid opposition from the industry.

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LSA Whisperer: Open-source tools for interacting with authentication packages

The tool allows users to directly recover multiple types of credentials from the LSASS without accessing its memory. This includes recovering Kerberos tickets, SSO cookies, DPAPI credential keys, and NTLMv1 responses.

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Sandbox Escape Vulnerabilities in Judge0 Expose Systems to Complete Takeover

Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in the Judge0 open-source online code execution system that could be exploited to obtain code execution on the target system. The three flaws, all critical in nature, allow an "adversary with sufficient access to perform a sandbox escape and obtain root permissions on the host machine," Australian

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Okta Warns of Unprecedented Scale in Credential Stuffing Attacks on Online Services

The attacks recently observed by Okta route requests through anonymizing services like TOR and residential proxies such as NSOCKS, Luminati, and DataImpulse. The experts noticed that millions of requests have been routed through these services.

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Most People Still Rely on Memory or Pen and Paper for Password Management

A Bitwarden survey showed that 25% of respondents globally reuse passwords across 11-20+ accounts, and 36% admit to using personal information in their credentials publicly accessible on social media (60%) platforms and online forums (30%).

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Japanese police create fake support scam payment cards to warn victims

The cards are labeled "Virus Trojan Horse Removal Payment Card" and "Unpaid Bill Late Fee Payment Card," and were created by the Echizen Police in the Fukui prefecture in Japan as an alert mechanism.

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Palo Alto Updates Remediation for Max-Critical Firewall Bug

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400, has a CVSS score of 10 out of 10, and can allow an unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall device, according to the update.

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US Post Office Phishing Sites Get as Much Traffic as the Real One

Security researchers analyzing phishing campaigns that target United States Postal Service (USPS) saw that the traffic to the fake domains is typically similar to what the legitimate site records and it is even higher during holidays.

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Analysis of Native Process CLR Hosting Used by AgentTesla

The initial infection vector is a Word document that downloads and executes a 64-bit Rust-compiled binary. This binary then downloads an encoded shellcode containing the AgentTesla payload.