DOJ Charges Nashville Man for Helping North Koreans Get U.S. Tech Jobs

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Thursday charged a 38-year-old individual from Nashville, Tennessee, for allegedly running a "laptop farm" to help get North Koreans remote jobs with American and British companies. Matthew Isaac Knoot is charged with conspiracy to cause damage to protected...

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...

0.0.0.0 Day: 18-Year-Old Browser Vulnerability Impacts MacOS and Linux Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new "0.0.0.0 Day" impacting all major web browsers that malicious websites could take advantage of to breach local networks. The critical vulnerability "exposes a fundamental flaw in how browsers handle network requests, potentially granting malicious...

Automated Security Validation: One (Very Important) Part of a Complete CTEM Framework

The last few years have seen more than a few new categories of security solutions arise in hopes of stemming a never-ending tidal wave of risks. One of these categories is Automated Security Validation ASV, which provides the attacker's perspective of exposures and equips security teams to...

New Phishing Scam Uses Google Drawings and WhatsApp Shortened Links

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel phishing campaign that leverages Google Drawings and shortened links generated via WhatsApp to evade detection and trick users into clicking on bogus links designed to steal sensitive information. "The attackers chose a group of the best-known...

Unlock the Future of Cybersecurity: Exclusive, Next Era AI Insights and Cutting-Edge Training at SANS Network Security 2024

The Immersive Experience Happening This September in Las Vegas! In an era of relentless cybersecurity threats and rapid technological advancement, staying ahead of the curve is not just a necessity, but critical. SANS Institute, the premier global authority in cybersecurity training, is thrilled ...

Critical Solar Power Grid Vulnerabilities Risk Global Blackouts

Cybersecurity firm Bitdefender reveals critical vulnerabilities in solar power management platforms, putting 20% of global solar production at…...

New Linux Kernel Exploit Technique 'SLUBStick' Discovered by Researchers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. "Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a...

CrowdStrike Reveals Root Cause of Global System Outages

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has published its root cause analysis detailing the Falcon Sensor software update crash that crippled millions of Windows devices globally. The "Channel File 291" incident, as originally highlighted in its Preliminary Post Incident Review PIR, has been traced bac...

Chameleon Android Banking Trojan Targets Users Through Fake CRM App

Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a new technique adopted by threat actors behind the Chameleon Android banking trojan targeting users in Canada by masquerading as a Customer Relationship Management CRM app. "Chameleon was seen masquerading as a CRM app, targeting a Canadian...

A New Plan to Break the Cycle of Destructive Critical Infrastructure Hacks

As digital threats against US water, food, health care, and other vital sectors loom large, a new project called UnDisruptable27 aims to help fix cybersecurity weaknesses where other efforts have failed...

Rapid7’s Ransomware Radar Report Shows Threat Actors are Evolving …Fast.

Few issues keep cybersecurity professionals up at night more than the threat of ransomware. The ubiquity of targets, the relative organization of threat actors, and their multiple paths of entry make combating ransomware particularly formidable. But there is one more facet to this threat that mak...

2024 Midyear Threat Landscape Review

As we navigate the complexities of 2024, its crucial to pause and reflect on the evolving threat landscape that surrounds us. This moment offers a unique opportunity to scrutinize our triumphs and missteps, understand the events that have decisively shaped our environment, and consider those that...

Widespread IT Outage Due to CrowdStrike Update

Note: CISA will update this Alert with more information as it becomes available. Update 4:30 p.m., EDT, August 6, 2024: CrowdStrike has published its Root Cause Analysis RCA reportlink is external. According to CrowdStrike, “the full report elaborates on the information previously shared in our...

CISA Releases Secure by Demand Guidance

Today, CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have released Secure by Demand Guide: How Software Customers Can Drive a Secure Technology Ecosystem to help organizations drive a secure technology ecosystem by ensuring their software manufacturers prioritize secure technology from the...

On the Cyber Safety Review Board

When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrikes faulty update that recently unfolded, ensnarling banks, airlines, and emergency services to t...

New Android Spyware LianSpy Evades Detection Using Yandex Cloud

Users in Russia have been the target of a previously undocumented Android post-compromise spyware called LianSpy since at least 2021. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, which discovered the malware in March 2024, noted its use of Yandex Cloud, a Russian cloud service, for command-and-control C2...

Google Patches New Android Kernel Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Google has addressed a high-severity security flaw impacting the Android kernel that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-36971, has been described as a case of remote code execution impacting the kernel. "There are indications that CVE-2024-3697...

CVE-2024-23355

CVE-2024-23355 describes memory corruption in the keymaster subsystem when a shared key is imported. Public references point to Qualcomm/Android ecosystems (Keymaster) with a local attack vector, low privileges required and no user interaction, but no concrete fix version is specified in the prov...

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...