USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : ca-certificates-mozilla (SUSE-SU-2024:2767-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 / SLESSAP12 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:2767-1 advisory. - Updated to 2.68 state of Mozilla SSL root CAs bsc1227525 - Added: FIRMAPROFESIONAL CA ROOT-A WEB - Distrust: GLOBALTRUST 2020 - Updated to...

USN-6928-1 python3.10, python3.8 vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the Python ssl module contained a memory race condition when handling the APIs to obtain the CA certificates and certificate store statistics. This could possibly result in applications obtaining wrong results, leading to various SSL issues. CVE-2024-0397 It was discovered...

Paris Olympics 2024: Securing The Games

The Rising Cyber Threats In recent years, the threat of cyberattacks has grown exponentially, affecting the sports sector as well. Major international events like the Olympics are prime targets for cybercriminals, hacktivists, and even nation-states. The reasons are clear: these events attract...

Spyware Users Exposed in Major Data Breach

Plus: The Heritage Foundation gets hacked over Project 2025, a car dealership software provider seems to have paid $25 million to a ransomware gang, and authorities disrupt a Russian bot farm...

UBUNTU-CVE-2024-0397

A defect was discovered in the Python “ssl” module where there is a memory race condition with the ssl.SSLContext methods “certstorestats” and “getcacerts”. The race condition can be triggered if the methods are called at the same time as certificates are loaded into the SSLContext, such as durin...

Ukraine Police Arrest Suspect Linked to LockBit and Conti Ransomware Groups

The Cyber Police of Ukraine has announced the arrest of a local man who is suspected to have offered their services to LockBit and Conti ransomware groups. The unnamed 28-year-old native of the Kharkiv region allegedly specialized in the development of crypters to encrypt and obfuscate malicious...

23andMe data breach under joint investigation in two countries

The British and Canadian privacy authorities have announced they will undertake a joint investigation into the data breach at global genetic testing company 23andMe that was discovered in October 2023. On Friday October 6, 2023, 23andMe confirmed via a somewhat opaque blog post that cybercriminal...

Ticketmaster confirms customer data breach

Live Nation Entertainment has confirmed what everyone has been speculating on for the last week: Ticketmaster has suffered a data breach. In a filing with the SEC, Live Nation said on May 20th it identified "unauthorized activity within a third-party cloud database environment containing Company...

Grandoreiro Banking Trojan Resurfaces, Targeting Over 1,500 Banks Worldwide

The threat actors behind the Windows-based Grandoreiro banking trojan have returned in a global campaign since March 2024 following a law enforcement takedown in January. The large-scale phishing attacks, likely facilitated by other cybercriminals via a malware-as-a-service MaaS model, target ove...

Dropbox Discloses Breach of Digital Signature Service Affecting All Users

Cloud storage services provider Dropbox on Wednesday disclosed that Dropbox Sign formerly HelloSign was breached by unidentified threat actors, who accessed emails, usernames, and general account settings associated with all users of the digital signature product. The company, in a filing with th...

German Authorities Issue Arrest Warrants for Three Suspected Chinese Spies

German authorities said they have issued arrest warrants against three citizens on suspicion of spying for China. The full names of the defendants were not disclosed by the Office of the Federal Prosecutor aka Generalbundesanwalt, but it includes Herwig F., Ina F., and Thomas R. "The suspects are...

YouTube ordered to reveal the identities of video viewers

Federal US authorities have asked Google for the names, addresses, telephone numbers, and user activity of accounts that watched certain YouTube videos, according to unsealed court documents Forbes has seen. Of those users that weren’t logged in when they watched those videos between January 1 an...

BIT-MYSQL-CLIENT-2022-0778 Infinite loop in BN_mod_sqrt() reachable when parsing certificates

The BNmodsqrt function, which computes a modular square root, contains a bug that can cause it to loop forever for non-prime moduli. Internally this function is used when parsing certificates that contain elliptic curve public keys in compressed form or explicit elliptic curve parameters with a...

CLSA-2024-1707379599 Update of alt-php

Update ca-certificates database to 20231207: - mozilla/certdata.txt,nssckbi.h: Update Mozilla certificate authority bundle of the version 2.64. - The following certificates authorities were added: Certificate "Atos TrustedRoot Root CA ECC G2 2020" Certificate "Atos TrustedRoot Root CA ECC TLS 202...

CLSA-2024-1707379486 Update of alt-php

Update ca-certificates database to 20231207: - mozilla/certdata.txt,nssckbi.h: Update Mozilla certificate authority bundle of the version 2.64. - The following certificates authorities were added: Certificate "Atos TrustedRoot Root CA ECC G2 2020" Certificate "Atos TrustedRoot Root CA ECC TLS 202...

CVE-2024-25140

A default installation of RustDesk 1.2.3 on Windows places a WDKTestCert certificate under Trusted Root Certification Authorities with Enhanced Key Usage of Code Signing 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3, valid from 2023 until 2033. This is potentially unwanted, e.g., because there is no public documentation of...

CVE-2024-25140

A default installation of RustDesk 1.2.3 on Windows places a WDKTestCert certificate under Trusted Root Certification Authorities with Enhanced Key Usage of Code Signing 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3, valid from 2023 until 2033. This is potentially unwanted, e.g., because there is no public documentation of...

CVE-2024-25140

CVE-2024-25140 affects RustDesk 1.2.3 on Windows. A default install places a WDKTestCert in Trusted Root Certification Authorities with EKU Code Signing (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3), valid 2023–2033. This was intended behavior per vendor note, using a test certificate due to lack of EV cert, raising conce...

CVE-2024-25140

A default installation of RustDesk 1.2.3 on Windows places a WDKTestCert certificate under Trusted Root Certification Authorities with Enhanced Key Usage of Code Signing 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.3, valid from 2023 until 2033. This is potentially unwanted, e.g., because there is no public documentation of...