Month: May 2024
May 13, 2024The Hacker NewsBrowser Security / Data Protection With the browser becoming the most prevalent workspace in the enterprise, it is also turning into a popular attack vector for cyber attackers. From account takeovers to malicious extensions to phishing attacks, the browser is a means for stealing sensitive data and accessing organizational systems. Security…
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Last week, the United States joined the U.K. and Australia in sanctioning and charging a Russian man named Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev as the leader of the infamous LockBit ransomware group. LockBit’s leader “LockBitSupp” claims the feds named the wrong guy, saying the charges don’t explain how they connected him to Khoroshev. This post examines the…
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The breach has brought back into focus an earlier Europol security incident reported in March which involved the disappearance of physical personal records belonging to Catherine De Bolle, Europol’s executive director, and other senior officials before September 2023. Despite the agency’s assurances of minimal impact, questions are being raised about the security of data even…
Read MoreLLMs’ Data-Control Path Insecurity Back in the 1960s, if you played a 2,600Hz tone into an AT&T pay phone, you could make calls without paying. A phone hacker named John Draper noticed that the plastic whistle that came free in a box of Captain Crunch cereal worked to make the right sound. That became his…
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The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation has targeted more than 500 private industry and critical infrastructure entities in North America, Europe, and Australia since its emergence in April 2022. In a joint advisory published by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Health and Human Services…
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May 13, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / IoT Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaws in Cinterion cellular modems that could be potentially exploited by threat actors to access sensitive information and achieve code execution. “These vulnerabilities include critical flaws that permit remote code execution and unauthorized privilege escalation, posing substantial risks to integral communication networks and…
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May 13, 2024The Hacker NewsThreat Detection / SoC / SIEM In the last decade, there has been a growing disconnect between front-line analysts and senior management in IT and Cybersecurity. Well-documented challenges facing modern analysts revolve around a high volume of alerts, false positives, poor visibility of technical environments, and analysts spending too much time…
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The 2024 RSA Conference has officially wrapped, and this year’s event served as the perfect backdrop for us to make our re-introduction to the industry. Introducing LevelBlue, the Trusted Cybersecurity Advisors On day one of RSA, we officially announced the launch of LevelBlue, formerly known as AT&T Cybersecurity. Signifying an exciting new start for the…
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May 13, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have identified a malicious Python package that purports to be an offshoot of the popular requests library and has been found concealing a Golang-version of the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework within a PNG image of the project’s logo. The package employing this steganographic trickery is requests-darwin-lite, which…
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Aside from the lack of password security, NTLM has several other behaviors that make it a hacker’s paradise. First, it doesn’t require any local connection to a Windows Domain. Also, it is needed when using a local account and when you don’t know who the intended target server is. On top of these weaknesses, it…
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