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Critical Solar Power Grid Vulnerabilities Risk Global Blackouts
Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender reveals critical vulnerabilities in solar power management platforms, putting 20% of global solar production at…...
New Linux Kernel Exploit Technique 'SLUBStick' Discovered by Researchers
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. "Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a...
CrowdStrike Reveals Root Cause of Global System Outages
Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has published its root cause analysis detailing the Falcon Sensor software update crash that crippled millions of Windows devices globally. The "Channel File 291" incident, as originally highlighted in its Preliminary Post Incident Review PIR, has been traced bac...
Chameleon Android Banking Trojan Targets Users Through Fake CRM App
Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a new technique adopted by threat actors behind the Chameleon Android banking trojan targeting users in Canada by masquerading as a Customer Relationship Management CRM app. "Chameleon was seen masquerading as a CRM app, targeting a Canadian...
A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks
As digital threats against US water, food, health care, and other vital sectors loom large, a new project called UnDisruptable27 aims to help fix cybersecurity weaknesses where other efforts have failed...
Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report Shows Threat Actors are Evolving …Fast.
Few issues keep cybersecurity professionals up at night more than the threat of ransomware. The ubiquity of targets, the relative organization of threat actors, and their multiple paths of entry make combating ransomware particularly formidable. But there is one more facet to this threat that mak...
2024 Midyear Threat Landscape Review
As we navigate the complexities of 2024, its crucial to pause and reflect on the evolving threat landscape that surrounds us. This moment offers a unique opportunity to scrutinize our triumphs and missteps, understand the events that have decisively shaped our environment, and consider those that...
CISA Releases Secure by Demand Guidance
Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released Secure by Demand Guide: How Software Customers Can Drive a Secure Technology Ecosystem to help organizations drive a secure technology ecosystem by ensuring their software manufacturers prioritize secure technology from the...
Widespread IT Outage Due to CrowdStrike Update
Note: CISA will update this Alert with more information as it becomes available. Update 4:30 p.m., EDT, August 6, 2024: CrowdStrike has published its Root Cause Analysis RCA reportlink is external. According to CrowdStrike, “the full report elaborates on the information previously shared in our...
On the Cyber Safety Review Board
When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrikes faulty update that recently unfolded, ensnarling banks, airlines, and emergency services to t...
New Android Spyware LianSpy Evades Detection Using Yandex Cloud
Users in Russia have been the target of a previously undocumented Android post-compromise spyware called LianSpy since at least 2021. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, which discovered the malware in March 2024, noted its use of Yandex Cloud, a Russian cloud service, for command-and-control C2...
Google Patches New Android Kernel Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Google has addressed a high-severity security flaw impacting the Android kernel that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-36971, has been described as a case of remote code execution impacting the kernel. "There are indications that CVE-2024-3697...
CVE-2024-23355
CVE-2024-23355 describes memory corruption in the keymaster subsystem when a shared key is imported. Public references point to Qualcomm/Android ecosystems (Keymaster) with a local attack vector, low privileges required and no user interaction, but no concrete fix version is specified in the prov...
De-risk Generative AI: Enterprise TruRisk Platform Advances to Secure AI and LLM Workloads
As we stand at the frontier of technological innovation, artificial intelligence AI and large language models LLMs are reshaping industries, driving automation, enhancing customer experiences, optimizing processes, and unlocking business opportunities for modern enterprises. However, this rapid...
The Loper Bright Decision: How it Impacts Cybersecurity Law
The Loper Bright decision has yielded impactful results: the Supreme Court has overturned forty years of administrative law, leading to potential litigation over the interpretation of ambiguous laws previously decided by federal agencies. This article explores key questions for cybersecurity...
Critical Flaw in Rockwell Automation Devices Allows Unauthorized Access
A high-severity security bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in Rockwell Automation ControlLogix 1756 devices that could be exploited to execute common industrial protocol CIP programming and configuration commands. The flaw, which is assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6242, carries a CVSS...
Bringing Security Back into Balance
This article by Trend Micro CEO Eva Chen brings focus back to striking the cybersecurity strategies balance between business C-suite and information technology IT departments...
Hackers Exploit Misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks with Repurposed Minecraft DDoS Tool
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack campaign targeting misconfigured Jupyter Notebooks. The activity, codenamed Panamorfi by cloud security firm Aqua, utilizes a Java-based tool called mineping to launch a TCP flood DDoS attack...