Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 112 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 112.0.5615.49 Linux and Mac, 112.0.5615.49/50 Windows contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is...

Western Digital Hit by Network Security Breach - Critical Services Disrupted!

Data storage devices maker Western Digital on Monday disclosed a "network security incident" that involved unauthorized access to its systems. The breach is said to have occurred on March 26, 2023, enabling an unnamed third party to gain access to a "number of the company's systems." Following th...

Western Digital Hit by Network Security Breach - Critical Services Disrupted!

Data storage devices maker Western Digital on Monday disclosed a "network security incident" that involved unauthorized access to its systems. The breach is said to have occurred on March 26, 2023, enabling an unnamed third party to gain access to a "number of the company's systems." Following th...

UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites

Brian Krebs is reporting that the UKs National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation: The NCA says all of its fake so-called "booter" or "stresser" sites -­ which have so far been accessed by several thousand people--have been created to look like they...

German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host ‘FlyHosting’

Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. FlyHosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based...

Cyber Police of Ukraine Busted Phishing Gang Responsible for $4.33 Million Scam

The Cyber Police of Ukraine, in collaboration with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal gang that set up phishing sites to target European users. Two of the apprehended affiliates are believed to be organizers, with 10 others detained in other...

Threat Source newsletter (March 30, 2023) — It’s impossible to tell if your home security camera or doorbell is truly safe

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Everyone loves a good video of someone slipping on their icy steps in the winter, captured thanks to their home security camera or smart doorbell. But what about when that camera is just kind of chilling out and not catching the momen...

New Wi-Fi Protocol Security Flaw Affecting Linux, Android and iOS Devices

A group of academics from Northeastern University and KU Leuven has disclosed a fundamental design flaw in the IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi protocol standard, impacting a wide range of devices running Linux, FreeBSD, Android, and iOS. Successful exploitation of the shortcoming could be abused to hijack TCP...

UK Sets Up Fake Booter Sites To Muddy DDoS Market

The United Kingdoms National Crime Agency NCA has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services. The warning...

ChatGPT helps both criminals and law enforcement, says Europol report

In a report, Europol says that ChatGPT and other large language models LLMs can help criminals with little technical knowledge to perpetrate criminal activities, but it can also assist law enforcement with investigating and anticipating criminal activities. The report aims to provide an overview ...

20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison

Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to...

U.K. National Crime Agency Sets Up Fake DDoS-For-Hire Sites to Catch Cybercriminals

In what's a case of setting a thief to catch a thief, the U.K. National Crime Agency NCA revealed that it has created a network of fake DDoS-for-hire websites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. "All of the NCA-run sites, which have so far been accessed by around several thousand peopl...

BreachForums to be shut down after all for fear of law enforcement infiltration

On March 15, 2023 US law enforcement arrested a man from New York who was accused of being the administrator of BreachForums, a well-known and probably the largest Dark Web marketplace for stolen data to be leaked and sold. At first, a new administrator rose to the occasion and said they were...

Google Chrome Security Update (stable-channel-update-for-desktop_20-2021-07) - Windows

Google Chrome is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:google:chrome"; ifdescription...

CVE-2023-28114

"cilium-cli" is the command line interface to install, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium. Prior to version 0.13.2,"cilium-cli", when used to configure cluster mesh functionality, can remove the enforcement of user permissions on the "etcd" store used to mirror local...

BreachForums Administrator Baphomet Shuts Down Infamous Hacking Forum

In a sudden turn of events, Baphomet, the current administrator of BreachForums, said in an update on March 21, 2023, that the hacking forum has been officially taken down but emphasized that "it's not the end." "You are allowed to hate me, and disagree with my decision but I promise what is to...

BreachForums Administrator Baphomet Shuts Down Infamous Hacking Forum

In a sudden turn of events, Baphomet, the current administrator of BreachForums, said in an update on March 21, 2023, that the hacking forum has been officially taken down but emphasized that "it's not the end." "You are allowed to hate me, and disagree with my decision but I promise what is to...

SUSE-SU-2023:0844-1 Security update for openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-nova, python-oslo.utils

This update for openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, openstack-neutron-gbp, openstack-nova, python-oslo.utils contains the following fixes: Security fixes included on this update: openstack-cinder, openstack-glance, openstack-nova: - CVE-2022-47951: Fixed file access control through custom VMDK fl...

Authentication Bypass

Google Chrome is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. The vulnerability exists due to the insufficient policy enforcement in Navigation, which allows an attacker bypass same origin policy via a crafted HTML page...

Authentication Bypass

Google Chrome is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass. The vulnerability exists due to the insufficient policy enforcement in Extensions API, which allows an attacker to bypass navigation restrictions via a crafted Chrome Extension...