China-linked Hackers Exploit Cisco NX-OS as Zero-Day

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Affirm says Evolve Bank data breach also compromised some of its customers

Buy now, pay later payment specialist Affirm has warned that holders of its payment cards had their personal information exposed after a ransomware attack and data breach at Evolve Bank & Trust. In a form 8-K, submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC, Affirm states: “Because the...

Israeli Entities Targeted by Cyberattack Using Donut and Sliver Frameworks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an attack campaign that targets various Israeli entities with publicly-available frameworks like Donut and Sliver. The campaign, believed to be highly targeted in nature, "leverage target-specific infrastructure and custom WordPress websites as a payload...

South Korean ERP Vendor's Server Hacked to Spread Xctdoor Malware

An unnamed South Korean enterprise resource planning ERP vendor's product update server has been found to be compromised to deliver a Go-based backdoor dubbed Xctdoor. The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center ASEC, which identified the attack in May 2024, did not attribute it to a known threat act...

Cracking Cobalt Strike: Taking Down Malicious Cybercriminal Infrastructure with Threat Intelligence

Cracking Cobalt Strike Taking Down Malicious Cybercriminal Infrastructure with Threat Intelligence By Joao Marques, John Fokker and Leandro Velasco · July 3, 2024 Introduction In a significant global effort to combat cybercrime, law enforcement agencies from around the world have joined forces to...

How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses

The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual "State of Ransomware 2024" report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the...

The Tech Crash Course That Trains US Diplomats to Spot Threats

The US State Department is training diplomats in cybersecurity, privacy, telecommunications, and other technology issues, allowing them to advance US policy abroad...

New Intel CPU Vulnerability 'Indirector' Exposes Sensitive Data

Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen,...

Johnson Controls Kantech Door Controllers

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 3.1 ATTENTION : Exploitable via adjacent network Vendor : Johnson Controls, Inc. Equipment : Kantech KT1, KT2, KT400 Door Controllers Vulnerability : Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of...

mySCADA myPRO

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 9.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor : mySCADA Equipment : myPRO Vulnerability : Use of Hard-coded Password 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on the...

Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware

A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 CVSS score: 6.0, concerns a case of command injection that allows an authenticated, local...

Indian Software Firm's Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware

Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to distribute information-stealing malware. The installers correspond to Notezilla, RecentX, and Copywhiz, according to cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which discovered the supply...

ppt.cc Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3939623

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...

Researchers Warn of Flaws in Widely Used Industrial Gas Analysis Equipment

Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in Emerson Rosemount gas chromatographs that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information, induce a denial-of-service DoS condition, and even execute arbitrary commands. The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and resid...

AI Pulse: Siri Says Hi to OpenAI, Deepfake Olympics & more

AI Pulse is a new blog series from Trend Micro on the latest cybersecurity AI news. In this edition: Siri says hi to OpenAI, fraud hogs the AI cybercrime spotlight, and why the Paris Olympics could be a hotbed of deepfakery...

We’re not talking about cryptocurrency as much as we used to, but there are still plenty of scammers out there

AI has since replaced "cryptocurrency" and "blockchain" as the cybersecurity buzzwords everyone wants to hear. Were not getting as many headlines about cryptocurrency miners, the security risks or promises of the blockchain, or non-fungible tokens being referenced on "Saturday Night Live." A repo...

Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 CVSS score: 8.1, relates to a case of prompt injection...

Russian National Indicted for Cyber Attacks on Ukraine Before 2022 Invasion

A 22-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in staging destructive cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies in the days leading to Russia's full-blown military invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Amin Timovich Stigal, the defendant in question, is assessed...

Johnson Controls Illustra Essentials Gen 4 (Update A)

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.8 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor : Johnson Controls, Inc. Equipment : Illustra Essentials Gen 4 Vulnerability : Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability...

Malwarebytes Premium Security stops 100% of malware during AV Lab test

Malwarebytes Premium Security has maintained its long-running, perfect record in protecting users against online threats by blocking 100% of the malware samples deployed in the AV Lab Cybersecurity Foundation’s “Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test.” For its performance in the May 2024 evaluation,...