'GhostRace' Speculative Execution Attack Impacts All CPU, OS Vendors
Like Spectre, the new exploit could give attackers a way to access sensitive information from system memory, and take other malicious actions.
APT28 Hacker Group Targeting Europe, Americas, Asia in Widespread Phishing Scheme
The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT28 has been linked to multiple ongoing phishing campaigns that employ lure documents imitating government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Europe, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and North and South America. "The uncovered lures include a mixture of internal and publicly available documents, as well as possible actor-generated documents associated with finance, critical infrastructure, executive engagements, cyber security, maritime security, healthcare, business, and defense industrial production," IBM X-Force said in a report published last week.
National Vulnerability Database: Opaque changes and unanswered questions
Anchore engineers are investigating why as of February 15, 2024, NIST has almost completely stopped updating NVD with analysis for CVE IDs.
Google Paid Out $10 Million via Bug Bounty Programs in 2023
Google on Tuesday announced that it paid out a total of $10 million through its bug bounty programs in 2023, bringing the total amount awarded by the tech giant for vulnerabilities found in its products since 2010 to $59 million. The total paid out in 2023 is less than the $12 million handed out in 2022, but it’s still a significant amount. The money was earned last year by 632 researchers from 68 countries. The highest single reward was $113,337.
Why hackers are targeting young public school students
Districts store all kinds of sensitive student data, which means the consequences of a school cyberattack can follow pupils well into adulthood. And it's not just their credit that's at risk.
Loi sur l’IA
La loi sur l’IA est le tout premier cadre juridique en matière d’IA, qui traite des risques liés à l’IA et positionne l’Europe pour qu’elle joue un rôle de premier plan à l’échelle mondiale.
Linux Foundation Launches Tazama: A Revolutionary Open Source Solution for Real-Time Fraud Management
Tazama is the first open source platform for financial monitoring and fraud detection.
Microsoft publie son outil interne de test de sécu d'IA générative
PyRIT peut générer des milliers de messages malveillants pour tester un modèle d'IA générative, et même évaluer sa réponse.
France Travail : la CNIL enquête sur la fuite de données et donne des conseils pour se protéger
Quelles données personnelles sont concernées ? Le 8 mars, France Travail (anciennement Pôle emploi) et Cap emploi ont informé la CNIL avoir été victime d’une intrusion dans leurs systèmes d’information. Cette attaque aurait potentiellement permis l’extraction de données de 43 millions d’usagers. Ce nombre, à confirmer, concerne les personnes actuellement inscrites sur la liste des demandeurs d'emploi ou qui l’ont été au cours des 20 dernières années, ainsi que des personnes ayant un espace candidat sur francetravail.fr.
Exclusive: After LockBit’s takedown, its purported leader vows to hack on
This week, the Click Here podcast landed a rare interview with the purported leader of the LockBit ransomware group – he goes by the name LockBitSupp. He’s under pressure because last month an international police operation infiltrated the group and seized not just their platform, but their hacking tools, cryptocurrency accounts and source code ending a four year ransomware rampage.
Google Chrome gets real-time phishing protection later this month
Google will roll out a Safe Browsing update later this month that will provide real-time malware and phishing protection to all Chrome users, without compromising their browsing privacy. The company launched Safe Browsing in 2005 to defend users against web phishing attacks and has since upgraded it to block malicious domains that push malware, unwanted software, and various social engineering schemes.
The Architects of Evasion: a Crypters Threat Landscape
Learn about key concepts and different crypters-related activities as well as the lucrative ecosystem of malicious groups that exploit them.
Kubernetes Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution on Windows Endpoints
The exploitation of a high-severity Kubernetes vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution with System privileges on all Windows endpoints in a cluster, Akamai warns. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-5528 and impacting default Kubernetes installations, exists in the way the open source container orchestration system processes YAML files, which it uses for virtually every function. In some regards, the vulnerability is like CVE-2023-3676, a lack of sanitization in the subPath parameter in YAML files leading to code injection when creating pods with volumes.
DarkGate Opens Organizations for Attack via Skype, Teams
From July to September, we observed the DarkGate campaign (detected by Trend Micro as TrojanSpy.AutoIt.DARKGATE.AA) abusing instant messaging platforms to deliver a VBA loader script to victims. This script downloaded and executed a second-stage payload consisting of a AutoIT scripting containing the DarkGate malware code. It’s unclear how the originating accounts of the instant messaging applications were compromised, however is hypothesized to be either through leaked credentials available through underground forums or the previous compromise of the parent organization.
Salt Labs research finds security flaws within ChatGPT Ecosystem (Remediated)
Salt Labs researchers identified generative AI ecosystems as a new interesting attack vector. vulnerabilities found during this research on ChatGPT ecosystem could have granted access to accounts of users, including GitHub repositories, including 0-click attacks.
Researchers found multiple flaws in ChatGPT plugins
Researchers from Salt Security discovered three types of vulnerabilities in ChatGPT plugins that can be could have led to data exposure and account takeovers. ChatGPT plugins are additional tools or extensions that can be integrated with ChatGPT to extend its functionalities or enhance specific aspects of the user experience. These plugins may include new natural language processing features, search capabilities, integrations with other services or platforms, text analysis tools, and more. Essentially, plugins allow users to customize and tailor the ChatGPT experience to their specific needs.
Secret Backdoor Codes in Safe Locks
Senator Ron Wyden has found that the DoD banned the use of such locks for U.S. government systems, but deliberately kept information about the backdoors from the public.
GhostSec’s joint ransomware operation and evolution of their arsenal
Cisco Talos observed a surge in GhostSec, a hacking group’s malicious activities since this past year. GhostSec has evolved with a new GhostLocker 2.0 ransomware, a Golang variant of the GhostLocker ransomware.
World’s first major act to regulate AI passed by European lawmakers
The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.
LockBit ransomware affiliate gets four years in jail, to pay $860k
Russian-Canadian cybercriminal Mikhail Vasiliev has been sentenced to four years in prison by an Ontario court for his involvement in the LockBit ransomware operation. #Canada #Case #Computer #Court #InfoSec #Legal #LockBit #Prison #Ransomware #Security
JetBrains vulnerability exploitation highlights debate over 'silent patching'
Czech software giant JetBrains harshly criticized security company Rapid7 this week following a dispute over two recently-discovered vulnerabilities.
Incognito Darknet Market Mass-Extorts Buyers, Sellers
Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from…
Plusieurs ministères visés par des attaques informatiques depuis dimanche, annonce Matignon
Si ces attaques, qui ont commencé dimanche soir, ont été d’une « intensité inédite », les services du premier ministre ont précisé lundi que leur impact avait été « réduit ». Elles ont été revendiquées par Anonymous Sudan, qui regroupe des militants prorusses.
La Commission se félicite de l'accord politique obtenu sur le règlement relatif à la cybersolidarité
La Commission se félicite de l'accord politique auquel le Parlement européen et le Conseil sont parvenus la nuit dernière concernant le règlement sur la cybersolidarité, proposé par la Commission en avril 2023. Le règlement sur la cybersolidarité renforcera la solidarité au niveau de l'UE afin de mieux détecter les menaces et incidents de cybersécurité, de mieux s'y préparer et de mieux y réagir. Cet accord intervient à un moment crucial pour la cybersécurité de l'UE, étant donné que le paysage des cybermenaces dans l'UE continue d'être affecté par les événements géopolitiques.
Exploiting CVE-2024-21378 – Remote Code Execution in Microsoft Outlook
Learn how NetSPI discovered that Microsoft Outlook was vulnerable to authenticated remote code execution (RCE) via synced form objects.
Magnet Goblin Targets Publicly Facing Servers Using 1-Day Vulnerabilities
- Magnet Goblin is a financially motivated threat actor that quickly adopts and leverages 1-day vulnerabilities in public-facing services as an initial infection vector. At least in one case of Ivanti Connect Secure VPN (CVE-2024-21887), the exploit entered the group’s arsenal as fast as within 1 day after a POC for it was published. Campaigns that we were able to attribute to this actor targeted Ivanti, Magento, Qlink Sense and possibly Apache ActiveMQ. Analysis of the actor’s recent Ivanti Connect Secure VPN campaign revealed a novel Linux version of a malware called NerbianRAT, in addition to WARPWIRE, a JavaScript credential stealer. * The actor’s arsenal also includes MiniNerbian, a small Linux backdoor, and remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools for Windows like ScreenConnect and AnyDesk.
CISA forced to take two systems offline last month after Ivanti compromise
Hackers breached the systems of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in February through vulnerabilities in Ivanti products, officials said.
Russian spies keep hacking into Microsoft in 'ongoing attack,' company says
Microsoft says the ongoing hacking is part of the Russian government's efforts to figure out what information Microsoft has on its hackers.
Update on Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard | MSRC Blog | Microsoft Security Response Center
Update on Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard
Switzerland: Play ransomware leaked 65,000 government documents
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of Switzerland has released a report on its analysis of a data breach following a ransomware attack on Xplain, disclosing that the incident impacted thousands of sensitive Federal government files.