Month: April 2024
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-3400 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Command Injection Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 22-01: Reducing the Significant Risk of…
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Registration required to access results of analysis While the service has been made publicly available, CISA is enforcing account registration in order to be able to access the analysis. Any user (and organizations) can submit a threat sample for analysis, but will need to register to see the analytical results from submissions. “Please note, the…
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Apr 12, 2024The Hacker NewsDevSecOps / Identity Management Identities now transcend human boundaries. Within each line of code and every API call lies a non-human identity. These entities act as programmatic access keys, enabling authentication and facilitating interactions among systems and services, which are essential for every API call, database query, or storage account access.…
Read MoreSmuggling Gold by Disguising it as Machine Parts Someone got caught trying to smuggle 322 pounds of gold (that’s about 1/4 of a cubic foot) out of Hong Kong. It was disguised as machine parts: On March 27, customs officials x-rayed two air compressors and discovered that they contained gold that had been “concealed in…
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Apr 12, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Zero-Day Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical flaw impacting its PAN-OS software used in its GlobalProtect gateways is being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-3400, the issue has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. “A command injection vulnerability in the GlobalProtect feature of Palo Alto…
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The Iranian threat actor known as MuddyWater has been attributed to a new command-and-control (C2) infrastructure called DarkBeatC2, becoming the latest such tool in its arsenal after SimpleHarm, MuddyC3, PhonyC2, and MuddyC2Go. “While occasionally switching to a new remote administration tool or changing their C2 framework, MuddyWater’s methods remain constant,” Deep Instinct security researcher Simon…
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This article discusses Google Cloud and Bayer partnering to create a platform that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze medical images. The platform can flag anomalies for radiologists to review and summarize patient medical history. Radiologists are facing a labor shortage and burnout, and this technology is meant to improve efficiency. Google emphasizes that the…
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“High stress, the necessity for ongoing training, and the substantial responsibility of protecting digital assets all play a significant role in the persistent shortage of cybersecurity professionals,” Linder said. Transparency lacking around salary ranges for cyber roles Gender salary discrepancies identified in the ISC2 survey were a mixed bag. Women in non-managerial and middle-manager positions…
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Apr 12, 2024NewsroomWeb Security / WordPress Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a credit card skimmer that’s concealed within a fake Meta Pixel tracker script in an attempt to evade detection. Sucuri said that the malware is injected into websites through tools that allow for custom code, such as WordPress plugins like Simple Custom CSS and JS…
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Apr 11, 2024The Hacker NewsSoftware Security / Programming GitGuardian is famous for its annual State of Secrets Sprawl report. In their 2023 report, they found over 10 million exposed passwords, API keys, and other credentials exposed in public GitHub commits. The takeaways in their 2024 report did not just highlight 12.8 million new exposed secrets…
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