Month: September 2024
‘We sincerely apologize this incident occurred,’ according to a letter to Avis customers. Avis, the car rental company, has disclosed that threat actors accessed one of its business applications and accessed customer personal information. The Parsippany, N.J.-based company has sent letters dated Sept. 4 to customers whose information was accessed in the breach, according to…
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For the week ending Sept. 6, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their ‘A’ game to the channel including Verizon, Amazon Web services, Salesforce, Palo Alto Networks, and Couchbase. The Week Ending Sept. 6 Topping this week’s Came to Win list is Verizon for striking a $20 billion acquisition deal that will…
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Image: MidjourneyAmerican car rental giant Avis notified customers that unknown attackers breached one of its business applications last month and stole some of their personal information. According to data breach notification letters sent to impacted customers on Wednesday and filed with California’s Office of the Attorney General, the company took action to stop the unauthorized…
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Sep 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananNetwork Security / Threat Detection SonicWall has revealed that a recently patched critical security flaw impacting SonicOS may have come under active exploitation, making it essential that users apply the patches as soon as possible. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40766, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10.…
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After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps. ActiveX is a legacy software framework introduced in 1996 that enables developers to create interactive objects that can be embedded in Office documents. Redmond will start by turning off ActiveX controls in documents opened…
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Sep 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Hacking Threat actors have long leveraged typosquatting as a means to trick unsuspecting users into visiting malicious websites or downloading booby-trapped software and packages. These attacks typically involve registering domains or packages with names slightly altered from their legitimate counterparts (e.g., goog1e.com vs. google.com). Adversaries targeting open-source repositories across…
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Sep 06, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / APT Attack A recently disclosed security flaw in OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools has been exploited as part of multiple campaigns to deliver cryptocurrency miners, botnet malware such as Condi and JenX, and a known backdoor called SideWalk. The security vulnerability is a critical remote code execution bug (CVE-2024-36401, CVSS score: 9.8)…
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A new Android malware named SpyAgent uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from screenshots stored on the mobile device. A cryptocurrency recovery phrase, or seed phrase, is a series of 12-24 words that acts as a backup key for a cryptocurrency wallet. These phrases are used to restore access…
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SonicWall is warning that a recently fixed access control flaw tracked as CVE-2024-40766 in SonicOS is now “potentially” exploited in attacks, urging admins to apply patches as soon as possible. “This vulnerability is potentially being exploited in the wild. Please apply the patch as soon as possible for affected products. The latest patch builds are available…
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Enterprise Ransomware Protection: Why It Matters A ransomware attack can be one of the most damaging types of cybercrime any business can face. And this is a threat that every company must be prepared to deal with sooner or later. Data from Statista shows that as of 2023, more than 72 percent of businesses worldwide…
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