Black Hat USA 2024: Key Takeaways and Industry Trends

What a week! As Hacker Summer camp shifts into the rearview, it’s time to take a moment to reflect on the week, what we learned and the people we had the pleasure of meeting while out in Las Vegas. As is always the case at Black Hat 2024, the cybersecurity community was buzzing with the latest...

The vulnerability of software for training employees in information security skills, such as Antiphish, arises from the lack of protection for website structures. This allows attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks (XSS).

The vulnerability of software for training employees in information security skills is related to the lack of measures taken to protect website structures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform cross-site scripting attacks XSS by injecting malicious JavaScript code...

Gh0st RAT Trojan Targets Chinese Windows Users via Fake Chrome Site

The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an "evasive dropper" called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website "chrome-web.com" serving malicious installer packages...

PCI DSS 4.0: Get Audit-Ready for the New Requirements

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard PCI DSS originated in 2004 and is managed by the PCI Security Standards Council to ensure security for the global payment industry. This mandate applies to all entities worldwide that store, process, or transmit payment cardholder data or sensitive...

How to build stronger security teams

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Truesec Chief Chaos...

Phishing scam takes $950k from DoorDash drivers

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. DoorDash drivers are contractors who pick up food deliveries from stores and restaurants and deliver the products to the customer. A 21 year old man...

5 Reasons Why Access Management is the Key to Securing the Modern Workplace

The way we work has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years. We now operate within digital ecosystems, where remote work and the reliance on a multitude of digital tools is the norm rather than the exception. This shift – as you likely know from your own life – has led to superhuman...

How to protect your small business from social engineering

When Alvin Staffin received an email from his boss, he didn't question it. In the email, Gary Bragg, then-president of Pennsylvania law firm O'Neill, Bragg & Staffin, asked Staffin to wire $580,000 to a Bank of China account. Staffin, who was VP and in charge of banking, sent the money through as...

Cybersecurity health and how to stay ahead of attackers with Linda Grasso

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Linda Grasso, the...

vulhub

This is an offensive tool for web application security training and education. It is a collection of vulnerable web applications and tools for testing and training purposes. The repository is a clone of vulhub/vulhub, which is a collection of vulnerable web applications and tools for testing and...

Want More Secure Software? Start Recognizing Security-Skilled Developers

Professional developers want to do the right thing, but in terms of security, they are rarely set up for success. Organizations must support their upskilling with precision training and incentives if they want secure software from the ground up. The cyber threat landscape grows more complex by th...

Cybersecurity awareness tips from Microsoft to empower your team to #BeCyberSmart

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and I’m excited about what Microsoft and our partners in the industry have planned to help everyone stay CyberSmart. 2022 may have offered some respite from the previous year’s rush to enable a remote and hybrid workforce, but the increased use of persona...

vulhub

This repository is an open-source collection of vulnerable web applications and environments for security research and training. It is maintained by phith0n and hosted on GitHub. The repository contains a variety of vulnerable applications, including web servers, databases, and other systems, to...

vulhub

This repository is an offensive tool for web application security training and testing. It is a collection of vulnerable web applications and tools for testing and training purposes. The repository contains a variety of vulnerable applications, including web servers, databases, and other web-base...

vulhub

This is an open-source collection of vulnerable web applications and environments, designed for security training and testing. The repository contains a variety of applications, including web servers, databases, and other services, each with its own set of vulnerabilities. The goal is to provide ...

Phishers Rip Off High-Profile EA Gamers

Electronic Arts EA has attributed a recent series of takeovers of high-profile accounts of FIFA Ultimate Team players to “human error” within its customer experience team, some of whom apparently fell prey to a socially engineered phishing attack. After a number of top traders of FIFA’s Ultimate...

pikachu

It is an offensive tool for web application security training. The primary CVE ID is not explicitly mentioned, but the tool is designed to simulate various web application vulnerabilities, including but not limited to: Burt Force brute force, XSS cross-site scripting, CSRF cross-site request...

What you need to know about how cryptography impacts your security strategy

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest post of our Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Security Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Taurus SA Co-founder...

The Guide to Automating Security Training for Lean Security Teams

Cyber threats used to be less threatening. While nobody wants their customers' credit card numbers stolen in a data breach, or to see a deranged manifesto plastered over their company website, such incidents can almost seem quaint compared to ransomware attacks that bring all of your critical...

pikachu

It is an offensive tool for web application security training. The primary CVE ID is not explicitly mentioned, but the tool is designed to demonstrate various web security vulnerabilities, including Burt Force, XSS, CSRF, SQL-Inject, RCE, Files Inclusion, Unsafe file downloads, Unsafe file upload...