Month: August 2024
New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability The press is reporting a critical Windows vulnerability affecting IPv6. As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw remotely in low-complexity attacks by repeatedly sending IPv6 packets that include specially crafted packets. Microsoft also shared its exploitability assessment for this critical vulnerability, tagging it with…
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Aug 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Browser Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered new stealer malware that’s designed to specifically target Apple macOS systems. Dubbed Banshee Stealer, it’s offered for sale in the cybercrime underground for a steep price of $3,000 a month and works across both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. “Banshee Stealer targets a wide range…
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Aug 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Software Security A large percentage of Google’s own Pixel devices shipped globally since September 2017 included dormant software that could be used to stage nefarious attacks and deliver various kinds of malware. The issue manifests in the form of a pre-installed Android app called “Showcase.apk” that comes with excessive…
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AI start-up Anthropic launches bug reporting scheme Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic launched a vulnerability disclosure program (VDP), managed by HackerOne, in August with bounty rewards up to $15,000 for novel, universal jailbreak attacks that could expose vulnerabilities in critical, high-risk domains such as CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) and cybersecurity. A jailbreak attack in…
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An analysis of build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions workflows inside open-source repositories belonging to major companies revealed sensitive access tokens to third-party cloud services, as well as GitHub itself. In addition, a change made this year in the GitHub artifacts feature has introduced a race condition that attackers can exploit to abuse previously unusable…
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A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also…
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‘Now more clearly than ever, we are seeing that public AI alone cannot address the increasing needs of either individuals or enterprises,’ Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang said in announcing first quarter earnings on Thursday. ‘Hybrid AI, which is formed by personal AI, enterprise AI, together with public AI, is indeed the way forward.’ Lenovo said…
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Microsoft removed today an arbitrary 32GB size limit for FAT32 partitions in the latest Windows 11 Canary build, now allowing for a maximum size of 2TB. “When formatting disks from the command line using the format command, we’ve increased the FAT32 size limit from 32GB to 2TB,” the Windows Insider team said today. Previously, despite…
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How does this lead to misconfigurations? Let’s assume an administrator creates a CRT with “No Permissions Required.” In adding custom fields, he wants some fields to be readable by unauthenticated users, so he sets their Default Access Level to View; other fields that should not be readable, he sets Default Access Level to None, assuming…
Read MoreCISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-28986 SolarWinds Web Help Desk Deserialization of Untrusted Data 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…
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