BRB, pausing for a "Sanctuary Moon" marathon

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Yesterday, Cisco Talos debuted the first Humans of Talos episode, where I interviewed Hazel Burton, a face and voice you're probably familiar with. In our conversation, Hazel shared not just the story of how she found her way onto th...

Microsoft at Black Hat USA 2025: A unified approach to modern cyber defense

Microsoft will be at Black Hat USA 2025, August 5–7 in Las Vegas, and we’re bringing you a unified, practitioner-driven experience built around real-world insights, threat intelligence, incident response, and hands-on AI expertise. We believe security teams are strongest when intelligence, tools,...

Drug cartel hacked cameras and phones to spy on FBI and identify witnesses

The "El Chapo" Mexican drug cartel snooped on FBI personnel through hacked cameras, and listened in on their phone calls to identify and kill potential witnesses, the US Department of Justice has said. And seven years on, the Bureau's defenses against this kind of surveillance are still inadequat...

m.bpt.me Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-4040460

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...

brownpapertickets.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-4040086

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...

Threats in space (or rather, on Earth): internet-exposed GNSS receivers

What is GNSS? Global Navigation Satellite Systems GNSS are collections, or constellations of satellite positioning systems. There are several GNSSs launched by different countries currently in operation: GPS US, GLONASS Russia, Galileo EU, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System BDS, China, Navigation...

DragonRank Black Hat SEO Campaign Targeting IIS Servers Across Asia and Europe

A "simplified Chinese-speaking actor" has been linked to a new campaign that has targeted multiple countries in Asia and Europe with the end goal of performing search engine optimization SEO rank manipulation. The black hat SEO cluster has been codenamed DragonRank by Cisco Talos, with victimolog...

Exploit for Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output in Apache Http_Server

CVE-2024-38473 Nuclei Template !imagehttps://github.com/us...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/09/2024

Black Hat & DEF CON Hopefully folks were able to catch our Rapid7 researchers @zeroSteiner & Jack Heysel show off the Metasploit 6.4's features, focusing on combinations that allow for new, streamlined attack workflows at Black Hat. If not they will also be demoing at DEF CON tomorrow in room W30...

Sonos Speaker Flaws Could Have Let Remote Hackers Eavesdrop on Users

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users. The vulnerabilities "led to an entire break in the security of Sonos's secure boot process across a wide range of devices and remotely being...

The top stories coming out of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference

Over the next two weeks, two of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world will take place in Las Vegas: Black Hat and DEF CON. That means product announcements, buzzwords and stories about "X smart appliance could burn your house down!" or something like that. Over the next two weeks, Il...

Black Hat USA 2024: Chip Flaw ‘GhostWrite’ Steals Data from CPU Memory

Black Hat USA 2024: Critical RISC-V CPU vulnerability discovered. Dubbed GhostWrite; attackers can exploit this flaw to steal…...

Black Hat USA 2024: AWS ‘Bucket Monopoly’ Flaw Led to Account Takeover

Black Hat USA 2024 is up and running at full pace as critical AWS vulnerabilities are exposed! Learn…...

Windows Downgrade Attack Risks Exposing Patched Systems to Old Vulnerabilities

Microsoft said it is developing security updates to address two loopholes that it said could be abused to stage downgrade attacks against the Windows update architecture and replace current versions of the operating system files with older versions. The vulnerabilities are listed below -...

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...

Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up 08/02/2024

Metasploit goes to Hacker Summer Camp Next week, Metasploit will have demos at both Black Hat and DEF CON where the latest functionality from this year will be presented. The Black Hat demo will be on Thursday the 8th from 10:10 to 11:25 and the DEF CON demo will be on Saturday the 10th from 12:0...

New Cloud Risk Dashboard: Identifying Toxic Combinations to Drive Faster Remediation

Co-authored by Andrea Ruddy Risks identified within a cloud environment compound to represent a real threat of exploitation. Our cloud risk scoring, introduced recently to insightCloudSec, focuses on these toxic combinations. Toxic combinations are attractive for bad actors who can target multipl...

Where to find Talos at BlackHat 2024

With Black Hat just a week away, Cisco Talos is gearing up for another year of heading to Las Vegas to share in some of the latest major cybersecurity announcements, research and news. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Cisco Talos, as the Talos brand was officially launched in August 2014 a...

Adaptive Shield Showcases New ITDR Platform for SaaS at Black Hat USA

Amid rising breaches including Snowflake, the platform helps security teams proactively detect and respond to identity-centric threats in business-critical SaaS applications...

Two of Wallarm’s Open-source Tools Have Been Accepted into Black Hat Arsenal 2024

We're gearing up with some seriously cool stuff for Black Hat! But first, a little sneak peek - not just one, but TWO of Wallarm's open-source tools will be featured in the Arsenal showcase at Black Hat USA this year. Black Hat Arsenal unites researchers and the open-source community to display...