Gaming-related cyberthreats in 2023: Minecrafters targeted the most

Introduction and trends The gaming industry continues growing. The Newzoo report for 2023 reveals that two in five — more than three billion — across the globe are gamers, which is 6.3 percent more than last year. Globally, gaming revenue amounts to an estimated US$242.39 billion, with almost hal...

FIRST Announces CVSS 4.0 - New Vulnerability Scoring System

The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams FIRST has officially announced CVSS v4.0, the next generation of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System standard, more than eight years after the release of CVSS v3.0 in June 2015. "This latest version of CVSS 4.0 seeks to provide the highest...

Hitachi eSOMS Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Hitachi eSOMS is an application software from Hitachi, Ltd. a shift operations management system for the power generation industry. A security vulnerability exists in Hitachi eSOMS, which stems from the presence of an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker could exploit the vulnerabili...

PCI DSS 4.0: How to Ensure Full Compliance with New Requirements

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS is one of the oldest mainstream requirements for compliance, originating in 2004. The PCI Security Standards Council manages the standard to ensure security for the global payment system. It globally applies to all entities that store,...

Record-Breaking 100 Million RPS DDoS Attack Exploits HTTP/2 Rapid Reset Flaw

Cloudflare on Thursday said it mitigated thousands of hyper-volumetric HTTP distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks that exploited a recently disclosed flaw called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset, 89 of which exceeded 100 million requests per second RPS. "The campaign contributed to an overall increase of...

crypto-es PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard

Impact Summary Crypto-js PBKDF2 is 1,000 times weaker than originally specified in 1993, and at least 1,300,000 times weaker than current industry standardOWASP PBKDF2 Cheatsheet. This is because it both 1 defaults to SHA1SHA1 wiki, a cryptographic hash algorithm considered insecure since at leas...

GHSA-MPJ8-Q39X-WQ5H crypto-es PBKDF2 1,000 times weaker than specified in 1993 and 1.3M times weaker than current standard

Impact Summary Crypto-js PBKDF2 is 1,000 times weaker than originally specified in 1993, and at least 1,300,000 times weaker than current industry standardOWASP PBKDF2 Cheatsheet. This is because it both 1 defaults to SHA1SHA1 wiki, a cryptographic hash algorithm considered insecure since at leas...

Lazarus Group Targeting Defense Experts with Fake Interviews via Trojanized VNC Apps

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group aka Hidden Cobra or TEMP.Hermit has been observed using trojanized versions of Virtual Network Computing VNC apps as lures to target the defense industry and nuclear engineers as part of a long-running campaign known as Operation Dream Job. "The threat actor...

Multi-vendor BIOS Security Vulnerabilities (October 2023) - Lenovo Support US

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October 10, 2023—KB5031419 (Monthly Rollup)

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Microsoft Response to Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks against HTTP/2

Summary Beginning in September 2023, Microsoft was notified by industry partners about a newly identified Distributed Denial-of-Service DDoS attack technique being used in the wild targeting HTTP/2 protocol. This vulnerability CVE-2023-44487 impacts any internet exposed HTTP/2 endpoints. As an...

AI Risks

There is no shortage of researchers and industry titans willing to warn us about the potential destructive power of artificial intelligence. Reading the headlines, one would hope that the rapid gains in AI technology have also brought forth a unifying realization of the risks--and the steps we ne...

Electric Power System Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities

Digitalization has changed the business environment of the electric power industry, exposing it to various threats. This webinar will help you uncover previously unnoticed threats and develop countermeasures and solutions...

Guardians of IoT: Safeguarding connectivity of input and output channels

Ensuring the security of the Internet of Things IoT demands a meticulous examination of industry-specific vulnerabilities and a profound comprehension of data handling. Have you taken the necessary steps to confirm that your chosen third-party security vendor possesses a comprehensive understandi...

New Survey Uncovers How Companies Are Confronting Data Security Challenges Head-On

Data security is in the headlines often, and it's almost never for a positive reason. Major breaches, new ways to hack into an organization's supposedly secure data, and other threats make the news because well, it's scary — and expensive. Data breaches, ransomware and malware attacks, and other...

Threat Report: High Tech Industry targeted the most with 46% of attack traffic tagged by NLX

How To Use This Report Enhance situational awareness of techniques used by threat actors Identify potential attacks targeting your industry Gain insights to help improve and accelerate your organization's threat response Summary of Findings The Network Effect Threat Report offers insights based o...

How Account Opening Abuse Affects 6 Industries

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The vulnerability of the software for quality management systems in the automotive industry, related to the transmission of data in an open format, allows a attacker to perform a “Man-in-the-Middle” attack.

The vulnerability of quality management software for automobile manufacturers is related to the transmission of data in an open manner. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to carry out a Middleware-In-The-Middle MITM attack...

Retool Falls Victim to SMS-Based Phishing Attack Affecting 27 Cloud Clients

Software development company Retool has disclosed that the accounts of 27 of its cloud customers were compromised following a targeted and SMS-based social engineering attack. The San Francisco-based firm blamed a Google Account cloud synchronization feature recently introduced in April 2023 for...

Siemens QMS Automotive Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2023-71222)

Siemens QMS Automotive is a quality management system for the automotive industry from Siemens, Germany. Siemens QMS Automotive has an information disclosure hole that can be exploited by an attacker to gain direct access to the database...