Friday Squid Blogging: New Extinct Species of Vampire Squid Discovered

Paleontologists have discovered a 183-million-year-old species of vampire squid. Prior research suggests that the vampyromorph lived in the shallows off an island that once existed in what is now the heart of the European mainland. The research team believes that the remarkable degree of...

New Backdoor Targeting European Officials Linked to Indian Diplomatic Events

A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed SPIKEDWINE has been observed targeting officials in European countries with Indian diplomatic missions using a new backdoor called WINELOADER. The adversary, according to a report from Zscaler ThreatLabz, used a PDF file in emails that purported to co...

TikTok’s latest actions to combat misinformation shows it’s not just a U.S. problem

When we talk about the term "fake news," most people likely picture a certain person who made the term infamous. And when we talk about misinformation and disinformation, many will remember the "Russian troll farms" that popped up during the 2016 U.S. presidential election and were unmasked and...

CVE-2023-50923

In QUIC in RFC 9000, the Latency Spin Bit specification section 17.4 does not strictly constrain the bit value when the feature is disabled, which might allow remote attackers to construct a covert channel with data represented as changes to the bit value. NOTE: The "Sheridan, S., Keane, A. 2015...

Russian Hackers Hit Mail Servers in Europe for Political and Military Intel

By Deeba Ahmed Email servers compromised in 80 organizations as Russian-linked TAG-70 group targets European governments. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian Hackers Hit Mail Servers in Europe for Political and Military Intel...

EU Court of Human Rights Rejects Encryption Backdoors

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that breaking end-to-end encryption by adding backdoors violates human rights: Seemingly most critically, the Russian government told the ECHR that any intrusion on private lives resulting from decrypting messages was "necessary" to combat terrorism in...

Google Starts Blocking Sideloading of Potentially Dangerous Android Apps in Singapore

Google has unveiled a new pilot program in Singapore that aims to prevent users from sideloading certain apps that abuse Android app permissions to read one-time passwords and gather sensitive data. "This enhanced fraud protection will analyze and automatically block the installation of apps that...

ChatGPT accused of breaking data protection rules

Italys Data Protection Authority GPDP has uncovered data privacy violations related to collecting personal data and age protections after an inquiry into OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI has 30 days to respond with a defense. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence AI chatbot that can engage in conversatio...

Apple warns of “privacy and security threats” after EU requires it to allow sideloading

Despite several warnings about the risks, Apple will allow European iPhone owners to install apps obtained from outside the official App store sideloading. These drastic changes are brought about to comply with the European Union’s EU Digital Markets Act DMA. The Digital Markets Act DMA establish...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in European Chemicals Agency IUCLID 7.10.3 on Windows. Affected is an unknown function of the file iuclid6.exe of the component Desktop Installer. The manipulation leads to incorrect default permissions. The attack needs to be approache...

CVE-2024-0770

CVE-2024-0770 affects European Chemicals Agency IUCLID on Windows, specifically the Desktop Installer component’s file iuclid6.exe . The vulnerability is described as an unknown function that allows manipulation leading to incorrect default permissions, with local access required to exploit. Docu...

European Chemicals Agency IUCLID Security Breach

IUCLID is a software application organized by the European Chemicals Agency. It is used to capture, store, maintain and exchange data on the intrinsic and hazardous properties of chemical substances. A security vulnerability exists in European Chemicals Agency IUCLID version 7.10.3, which...

JupyterLab vulnerable to potential authentication and CSRF tokens leak

Impact Users of JupyterLab who click on a malicious link may get their Authorization and XSRFToken tokens exposed to a third party when running an older jupyter-server version. Patches JupyterLab 4.1.0b2, 4.0.11, and 3.6.7 were patched. Workarounds No workaround has been identified, however users...

JupyterLab vulnerable to SXSS in Markdown Preview

Impact The vulnerability depends on user interaction by opening a malicious notebook with Markdown cells, or Markdown file using JupyterLab preview feature. A malicious user can access any data that the attacked user has access to as well as perform arbitrary requests acting as the attacked user...

What is NIS2, and how can you best prepare for the new cybersecurity requirements in the EU?

NIS2 is a European directive that includes new measures to ensure that organizations operating in the European Union EU have a high common level of network and infrastructure security. The "directive" outlines the goals all EU member states must achieve. However, each country will implement it in...

Nation State Hackers Exploiting Zero-Day in Roundcube Webmail Software

The threat actor known as Winter Vivern has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Roundcube webmail software on October 11, 2023, to harvest email messages from victims' accounts. "Winter Vivern has stepped up its operations by using a zero-day vulnerability in Roundcube," ESET security...

APT Winter Vivern Exploits New Roundcube 0-Day to Target European Entities

By Waqas ESET Research Uncovers New Targeted Campaign Impacting European Governments and Think Tanks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: APT Winter Vivern Exploits New Roundcube 0-Day to Target European Entities...

MATA Backdoor Targets Eastern European Industrial Companies

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary MATA malware, a sophisticated backdoor framework, updated to target Eastern European industrial companies via spear-phishing, compromising financial software servers, and infiltrating networks, even...

WordPress Plugin WooCommerce EAN Payment Gateway Security Vulnerability

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerability exists in WordPres...

New PEAPOD Cyberattack Campaign Targeting Women Political Leaders

European Union military personnel and political leaders working on gender equality initiatives have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an updated version of RomCom RAT called PEAPOD. Cybersecurity firm Trend Micro attributed the attacks to a threat actor it tracks under the nam...