Category: Viral
Feb 14, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have found that it’s possible for threat actors to exploit a well-known utility called command-not-found to recommend their own rogue packages and compromise systems running Ubuntu operating system. “While ‘command-not-found’ serves as a convenient tool for suggesting installations for uninstalled commands, it can be inadvertently manipulated by…
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The landscape of cybersecurity in financial services is undergoing a rapid transformation. Cybercriminals are exploiting advanced technologies and methodologies, making traditional security measures obsolete. The challenges are compounded for community banks that must safeguard sensitive financial data against the same level of sophisticated threats as larger institutions, but often with more limited resources. The FinServ…
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Digital Security As fabricated images, videos and audio clips of real people go mainstream, the prospect of a firehose of AI-powered disinformation is a cause for mounting concern 13 Feb 2024 • , 5 min. read Fake news has dominated election headlines ever since it became a big story during the race for the White…
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Microsoft Corp. today pushed software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited in active attacks. Top of the heap on this Fat Patch Tuesday is CVE-2024-21412, a “security feature bypass” in the way Windows handles Internet Shortcut…
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Feb 13, 2024NewsroomCyber Threat / Malware The threat actors behind the PikaBot malware have made significant changes to the malware in what has been described as a case of “devolution.” “Although it appears to be in a new development cycle and testing phase, the developers have reduced the complexity of the code by removing advanced…
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Feb 12, 2024The Hacker NewsInfrastructure Security / Software Supply Chain The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that it’s partnering with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Securing Software Repositories Working Group to publish a new framework to secure package repositories. Called the Principles for Package Repository Security, the framework aims to establish…
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Incident response (IR) is a race against time. You engage your internal or external team because there’s enough evidence that something bad is happening, but you’re still blind to the scope, the impact, and the root cause. The common set of IR tools and practices provides IR teams with the ability to discover malicious files…
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The U.S. Department of State has announced monetary rewards of up to $10 million for information about individuals holding key positions within the Hive ransomware operation. It is also giving away an additional $5 million for specifics that could lead to the arrest and/or conviction of any person “conspiring to participate in or attempting to…
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Video, Ransomware Called a “watershed year for ransomware”, 2023 marked a reversal from the decline in ransomware payments observed in the previous year 09 Feb 2024 Ransomware payments in 2023 reached a record-breaking $1.1 billion in 2023, according to an analysis by Chainalysis, a blockchain research firm. Calling 2023 a “watershed year for ransomware”, Chainalysis…
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Business Security Heavy workloads and the specter of personal liability for incidents take a toll on security leaders, so much so that many of them look for the exits. What does this mean for corporate cyber-defenses? 08 Feb 2024 • , 5 min. read Cybersecurity is finally becoming a board-level issue. That’s as it should…
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