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Signal Foundation Warns Against EU's Plan to Scan Private Messages for CSAM

A controversial proposal put forth by the European Union to scan users' private messages for detection of child sexual abuse material CSAM poses severe risks to end-to-end encryption E2EE, warned Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, which maintains the privacy-focused messaging...

Meta Pauses AI Training on EU User Data Amid Privacy Concerns

Meta on Friday said it's delaying its efforts to train the company's large language models LLMs using public content shared by adult users on Facebook and Instagram in the European Union following a request from the Irish Data Protection Commission DPC. The company expressed disappointment at...

A European Summer of Sports is Upon Us – What Does it Mean for Security?

The recent Champions League final in London congratulations, Real Madrid! marked the opening shot to a hot European summer of major sporting events. We now approach the highly anticipated UEFA EURO 2024 football tournament in Germany and the Olympic Games in Paris 2024. And as we do, bad actors a...

Authorities Ramp Up Efforts to Capture the Mastermind Behind Emotet

Law enforcement authorities behind Operation Endgame are seeking information related to an individual who goes by the name Odd and is allegedly the mastermind behind the Emotet malware. Odd is also said to go by the nicknames Aron, C700, Cbd748, Ivanov Odd, Mors, Morse, and Veron over the past fe...

PT-2024-14445 · Mercusys · Mercusys Mw325R

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mercusys MW325R EU V3 version 1.11.0 Description: The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. Exploiting the issue requires authentication. Recommendations: For Mercusys MW325R EU V3...

The vulnerability of TP-Link Archer C5400X(EU) Wi-Fi routers’ microprogramming software lies in the lack of measures taken to clean data at the control level. This allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.

The vulnerability of TP-Link Archer C5400XEU Wi-Fi routers’ microprogramming software is related to the lack of measures taken to clean data at the management level. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges...

Message board scams

Marketplace fraud is nothing new. Cybercriminals swindle money out of buyers and sellers alike. Lately, weve seen a proliferation of cybergangs operating under the Fraud-as-a-Service model and specializing in tricking users of online marketplaces, in particular, message boards. Criminals are...

WordPress plugin EAN for WooCommerce 安全漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a set of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plug-in. A security...

Turla Group Deploys LunarWeb and LunarMail Backdoors in Diplomatic Missions

An unnamed European Ministry of Foreign Affairs MFA and its three diplomatic missions in the Middle East were targeted by two previously undocumented backdoors tracked as LunarWeb and LunarMail. ESET, which identified the activity, attributed it with medium confidence to the Russia-aligned...

U.S. Treasury Hamas Spokesperson for Cyber Influence Operations

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC on Friday announced sanctions against an official associated with Hamas for his involvement in cyber influence operations. Hudhayfa Samir 'Abdallah al-Kahlut, 39, also known as Abu Ubaida, has served as the public spokesperson o...

Cookie consent choices are just being ignored by some websites

In news that is, sadly, unlikely to shock you, new research indicates that many websites ignore visitors choices to refuse cookies and collect their data anyway. Researchers at the University of Amsterdam UvA analyzed 85,000 European websites and came to the conclusion that 90% of them violated a...

Attacks, Vulnerabilities and Actors 25 to 31 March 2024

For a detailed threat digest, download the pdf file here Summary HiveForce Labs recently made several significant discoveries in the realm of cybersecurity threats. In the past week alone, a total of twelve attacks were executed, ten vulnerabilities were uncovered, and two active adversaries were...

APT29 Targets German Political Parties with New WINELOADER

Summary: APT29, linked to Russias SVR, targeted German political parties in late February 2024 using a new backdoor variant named WINELOADER, signaling a shift in operational focus beyond diplomatic missions. This marks a broader threat to European and Western political entities, driven by the SV...

TacJS - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2024-016

This module enables sites to comply with the European cookie law using tarteaucitron.js. The module doesn't sufficiently filter user-supplied markup inside of content leading to a persistent Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability. More details are available in CVE-2023-3620. This vulnerability is...

Russia Hackers Using TinyTurla-NG to Breach European NGO's Systems

The Russia-linked threat actor known as Turla infected several systems belonging to an unnamed European non-governmental organization NGO in order to deploy a backdoor called TinyTurla-NG TTNG. "The attackers compromised the first system, established persistence and added exclusions to antivirus...

New details on TinyTurla’s post-compromise activity reveal full kill chain

Cisco Talos is providing an update on its two recent reports on a new and ongoing campaign where Turla, a Russian espionage group, deployed their TinyTurla-NG TTNG implant. We now have new information on the entire kill chain this actor uses, including the tactics, techniques and procedures TTPs...

europeanarts.cz Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3879931

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Siemens Sinteso EN and Cerberus PRO EN Fire Protection Systems Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability

Cerberus PRO EN is a fire protection system consisting of fire panels, detection and management stations. It is available to Siemens partners and complies with the European standard EN 54 for fire detection and alarm systems. Sinteso EN is a fire protection system consisting of fire panels,...

Cybercriminals Using Novel DNS Hijacking Technique for Investment Scams

A new DNS threat actor dubbed Savvy Seahorse is leveraging sophisticated techniques to entice targets into fake investment platforms and steal funds. "Savvy Seahorse is a DNS threat actor who convinces victims to create accounts on fake investment platforms, make deposits to a personal account, a...