Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Lawmaker Quizzes Google on 'Guardrails' for AI in Healthcare

Sen. Mark Warner sent a letter quizzing Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the tech giant is applying privacy, trust, and ethical "guardrails" around the development and use of its generative AI product, Med-PaLM 2, in healthcare settings.

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UK Voters’ Data Exposed in Electoral Commission Cyberattack

The malicious actors accessed “reference copies” of the electoral registers, held by the Commission for research purposes and to enable permissibility checks on political donations.

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Organizations concerned about enterprise security from unsafe VPNs

A recent report reveals that organizations have concerns about their network security due to the risks from VPNs.

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Tesla Infotainment Jailbreak Unlocks Paid Features, Extracts Secrets

Researchers from the Technical University of Berlin have developed a method to jailbreak the AMD-based infotainment systems used in all recent Tesla car models and make it run any software they choose.

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Police officers in Northern Ireland may leave force or move after data breach

Serving PSNI members and staff fear that they could be attacked or intimidated after their personal information was posted online in errorPolice officers in Northern Ireland may consider leaving the force or moving home after an unprecedented data breach disclosed details of more than 10,000 officers and staff, it has been claimed.Political leaders and police representatives on Wednesday grappled with the security and financial implications of an error that could expose officers, including those who work undercover, to terrorist intimidation and attack. Continue reading...

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QakBot Malware Operators Expand C2 Network with 15 New Servers

A majority of the bot C2 servers, which communicate with the victim hosts, are located in India and the U.S. Destination IP addresses identified from outbound T2 connections are primarily based in the U.S., India, Mexico, and Venezuela.

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Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today's modern security operations center (SOC), it's a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both are using tools and expertise – however, the cybercriminals have the element of surprise on their side, and a host of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that have evolved. These external

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As Cars Hoover up More and More Drivers’ Data, is it Time to Regulate the Industry?

According to the California Privacy Protection Agency, cars are “connected computers on wheels” and should be treated as such. It recently announced its enforcement division will review the data privacy practices of connected vehicle manufacturers.

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‘Downfall’ Vulnerability Leaves Billions of Intel CPUs at Risk

The vulnerability, known as Downfall, exploits a technique used to increase performance in the x86 architecture. By sharing a small register buffer, different applications can inadvertently leave data that can be accessed by an attacker.

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Managing Human Cyber Risks Matters Now More Than Ever

As artificial intelligence amplifies the sophistication and reach of phishing, vishing, and smishing attacks, understanding and managing human cyber risks has become increasingly vital, according to the SANS Institute.

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U.K. Electoral Commission Breach Exposes Voter Data of 40 Million Britons

The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a "complex" cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year, allowing the threat actors to access years worth of voter data belonging to 40 million people. "The incident was identified in October 2022 after suspicious activity was detected on our systems," the regulator said. "It became clear that hostile actors had first

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Interpol Takes Down 16shop Phishing-as-a-Service Platform

These platforms are a significant risk as they lower the bar of entry for inexperienced cybercriminals, offering them a simple and cost-effective way to launch phishing attacks with only a few clicks.

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Electoral Commission and PSNI data breaches: what we know so far

Russia named as likely culprit in cyber-attack on election watchdog, while police service accidentally publishes staff detailsThe UK election watchdog and Northern Ireland’s police service both announced serious data breaches on Tuesday, in the latest example of the vulnerability of personal details to hacks and human error.The UK data regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), is looking at the incidents, which have raised immediate safety concerns over the consequences of leaking personal data. Here is what has happened and what we know so far. Continue reading...

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Seasoned Cyber Pros are More Complacent in Their Skills Than Junior Staff

Average response time accelerated from 29 to 19 days, from 2021 to 2022, with lessons from Log4j and other high-profile vulnerabilities having a significant impact on urgency levels, according to Immersive Labs.

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Yashma Ransomware Evolves with Multilingual Attack

A newly identified strain of Yashma ransomware has raised concerns as it was found targeting organizations across Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, and English-speaking countries since June 4. The Yashma ransomware, a rebranding of the Chaos strain, fetches ransom notes from a controlled GitHub repository through an embedded batch file. The ransom note's eerie resemblance to WannaCry adds to the intrigue, suggesting an effort to cloud attribution.

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Microsoft Releases Patches for 74 New Vulnerabilities in August Update

This comprises six Critical and 67 Important security vulnerabilities. Also released by the tech giant are two defense-in-depth updates for Microsoft Office (ADV230003) and the Memory Integrity System Readiness Scan Tool (ADV230004).

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Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining

Exposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller subset tied to bigger companies, spanning financial, aerospace, automotive, industrial, and security sectors

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Morgan & Morgan Sues Tampa General Hospital Over Data Breach

The exposed information encompasses sensitive details like names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and select Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-protected medical records.

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New Inception Attack Leaks Sensitive Data From All AMD Zen CPUs

Researchers at ETH Zurich have now combined an older technique named 'Phantom speculation' (CVE-2022-23825) with a new transient execution attack called 'Training in Transient Execution' (TTE) to create an even more powerful 'Inception' attack.

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Norway Threatens Meta With Fines for Ad Violations

The Norwegian data regulator says it will start fining Facebook parent company Meta nearly $100,000 daily starting on Monday unless the social media giant stops showing users behavioral ads without their explicit consent.