Category: Viral
Video, Kids Online “Hey, wanna chat?” This innocent phrase can take on a sinister meaning when it comes from an adult to a child online and even be the start of a predatory relationship 16 Oct 2024 “Hey, wanna chat?” What sounds like a casual and innocent phrase between adults can take a sinister turn…
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An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor with suspected ties to India has sprung forth with a flurry of attacks against high-profile entities and strategic infrastructures in the Middle East and Africa. The activity has been attributed to a group tracked as SideWinder, which is also known as APT-C-17, Baby Elephant, Hardcore Nationalist, Leafperforator, Rattlesnake, Razor…
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As technology adoption has shifted to be employee-led, just in time, and from any location or device, IT and security teams have found themselves contending with an ever-sprawling SaaS attack surface, much of which is often unknown or unmanaged. This greatly increases the risk of identity-based threats, and according to a recent report from CrowdStrike,…
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Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have charged two Sudanese brothers with running a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet for hire that conducted a record 35,000 DDoS attacks in a single year, including those that targeted Microsoft’s services in June 2023. The attacks, which were facilitated by Anonymous Sudan’s “powerful DDoS tool,” singled out critical infrastructure, corporate…
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Oct 17, 2024Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Kubernetes A critical security flaw has been disclosed in the Kubernetes Image Builder that, if successfully exploited, could be abused to gain root access under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9486 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been addressed in version 0.1.38. The project maintainers acknowledged Nicolai Rybnikar for discovering and…
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Oct 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Malware Threat actors are attempting to abuse the open-source EDRSilencer tool as part of efforts to tamper endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions and hide malicious activity. Trend Micro said it detected “threat actors attempting to integrate EDRSilencer in their attacks, repurposing it as a means of evading detection.”…
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‘AI is by far the channel’s biggest opportunity yet,’ says Google Cloud’s Erin Rifkin. Google Cloud has added four new learning paths to help developers with generative artificial intelligence skills for building applications, managing and securing machine learning models, generating content and analyzing data–especially important for the vendor’s solution providers bringing AI products and services…
Read MoreSummary The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSE), the Australian Federal Police (AFP), and Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD’s ACSC) are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn network defenders of Iranian cyber actors’ use…
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Oct 16, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Privacy / Passwordless The FIDO Alliance said it’s working to make passkeys and other credentials more easier to export across different providers and improve credential provider interoperability, as more than 12 billion online accounts become accessible with the passwordless sign-in method. To that end, the alliance said it has published a…
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‘They have vulnerabilities that have been announced with security notices and patches that have been released, but customers haven’t updated. And the adversaries around the world are taking advantage of it—whether it’s critical infrastructure or the carrier networks or whatever,’ says Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins. Cisco Systems Chair and CEO Chuck Robbins says there is…
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