Month: February 2024
This confirms that sophisticated malign influence activities rely on developments in a target nation to generate initial interest without compromising the identity of the attacker. Perhaps most interestingly, our research also unexpectedly uncovered evidence of malware being leveraged against Facebook users. While it may seem counterintuitive that the IRA would hack users that they are…
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Feb 28, 2024NewsroomFirmware Security / Vulnerability In a new joint advisory, cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from the U.S. and other countries are urging users of Ubiquiti EdgeRouter to take protective measures, weeks after a botnet comprising infected routers was felled by law enforcement as part of an operation codenamed Dying Ember. The botnet, named MooBot,…
Read MoreToday, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an update to the joint advisory #StopRansomware: ALPHV Blackcat to provide new indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) associated with the ALPHV Blackcat ransomware as a service (RaaS). ALPHV Blackcat affiliates have been…
Read Morelinux — linux In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix a race condition between btf_put() and map_free() When running `./test_progs -j` in my local vm with latest kernel, I once hit a kasan error like below: [ 1887.184724] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bpf_rb_root_free+0x1f8/0x2b0 [ 1887.185599] Read of size 4 at…
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Social Media Do you often take to social media to broadcast details from your life? Here’s why this habit may put your privacy and security at risk. 26 Feb 2024 • , 5 min. read Hundreds of millions of us log on to our favorite social media sites every day. We shop, share photos and…
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Advisory ID: VMSA-2024-0005 CVSSv3 Range: 5.9 Issue Date: 2024-02-27 Updated On: 2024-02-27 (Initial Advisory) CVE(s): CVE-2024-22251 Synopsis: VMware Workstation and Fusion updates address an out-of-bounds read vulnerability (CVE-2024-22251) Source link ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde…
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A potentially $1 billion deal by semiconductor manufacturer Broadcom to sell a security software business it acquired with its $61 billion purchase of VMware last year has reportedly been put on hold, if not abandoned. Investment firm KKR had agreed to buy Carbon Black along with VMware’s entire end-user computing (EUC) business, including VMware’s Workspace…
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As organizations grow and more endpoints are added across the enterprise, they create an increasingly broad attack surface sophisticated attackers are looking to compromise. According to the 2019 Endpoint Security Trends Report 70% of breaches originate at the endpoint¹. That is likely because endpoints typically represent the Intersection between humans and machines creating vulnerable points…
Read MoreCISA released two Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on February 27, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisories for technical details and mitigations. Source link ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde ddde…
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Cyberattacks are scaling up. That means security operations center (SOC) teams are overwhelmed by the volume of alerts they must analyze and how to sort out real threats vs. system noise. The good news? Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to supercharge SOC modernization efforts with unprecedented automation, proactive threat detection, and relief for overstressed security…
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