Category: AI in news
Jul 03, 2024The Hacker NewsOSINT / Artificial Intelligence Recently the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) unveiled a new strategy for open-source intelligence (OSINT) and referred to OSINT as the “INT of first resort”. Public and private sector organizations are realizing the value that the discipline can provide but are also finding that…
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“We used the standard GitHub phishlet that can be found in various user repositories on GitHub itself,” Stewart said. “When the targeted user visits the lure URL, other than the hostname in the URL bar, what they will see looks just like the normal GitHub login page, because it is the actual GitHub login page,…
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Jul 03, 2024NewsroomSpyware / Vulnerability Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched security flaw in Microsoft MSHTML to deliver a surveillance tool called MerkSpy as part of a campaign primarily targeting users in Canada, India, Poland, and the U.S. “MerkSpy is designed to clandestinely monitor user activities, capture sensitive information, and establish persistence…
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Jul 03, 2024NewsroomMalware / SEO Poisoning The loader-as-a-service (LaaS) known as FakeBat has become one of the most widespread loader malware families distributed using the drive-by download technique this year, findings from Sekoia reveal. “FakeBat primarily aims to download and execute the next-stage payload, such as IcedID, Lumma, RedLine, SmokeLoader, SectopRAT, and Ursnif,” the company…
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Court cases against CISOs that threaten jail time and expensive penalties such as those against former Uber CISO Joe Sullivan and SolarWinds’ Timothy G. Brown, have kept CISOs wake at night. The pressure is on for CISOs to figure out how to minimize not only professional but personal risk from the important work they do…
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Jul 03, 2024NewsroomCyber Attack / Malware Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an attack campaign that targets various Israeli entities with publicly-available frameworks like Donut and Sliver. The campaign, believed to be highly targeted in nature, “leverage target-specific infrastructure and custom WordPress websites as a payload delivery mechanism, but affect a variety of entities across unrelated verticals,…
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Cisco has released patches for several series of Nexus switches to fix a vulnerability that could allow attackers to hide the execution of bash commands on the underlying operating system. Although the flaw is rated with moderate severity because it requires administrative credentials to exploit, it has been exploited in the wild since April, showing…
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‘The technical side is easy, it’s the business side that gets complicated. It’s managing employees that gets complicated, so it’s taking that as seriously as they take their technology stack,’ Strety CEO Brian Dosal tells CRN about the goal of the company’s new platform. BrightGauge founders Larry Garcia and Brian Dosal have partnered again to…
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SEC cyber incident reporting requirements: In 2023, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) adopted rules requiring registrants to disclose material cybersecurity incidents they experience within four days of determining their materiality and to disclose material information regarding their cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance every year. However, as the Center for Cybersecurity Law and…
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Recently patched vulnerabilities in a software dependency management tool used by developers of applications for Apple’s iOS and MacOS platforms, could have opened the door for attackers to insert malicious code into many of the most popular apps on those platforms. One particular security weakness in the CocoaPods dependency manager created a mechanism for hackers…
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