Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybersecurity / Incident Response Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has published its root cause analysis detailing the Falcon Sensor software update crash that crippled millions of Windows devices globally. The “Channel File 291” incident, as originally highlighted in its Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR), has been traced back to a content validation issue that…

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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Espionage An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra. “GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control (C&C) server hosted on Microsoft mail services,” Symantec, part of Broadcom,…

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Details of these vulnerabilities are as follows: Tactic: Initial Access (TA0001): Technique: Drive-By Compromise (T1189): Out of bounds memory access in ANGLE (CVE-2024-7532) Use after free in Sharing (CVE-2024-7533) Type Confusion in V8 (CVE-2024-7550) Heap buffer…

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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananAndroid / Mobile Security, Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the lid on a new technique adopted by threat actors behind the Chameleon Android banking trojan targeting users in Canada by masquerading as a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) app. “Chameleon was seen masquerading as a CRM app, targeting a Canadian restaurant chain operating internationally,”…

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Indeed, during the most recent RSA Conference I had executives remark on more than one occasion how marketing plans were being revealed through AI engine queries such as “how does Xyz Inc. plan to go to market?” The engine had been schooled on the content previously and presented it in the response — someone somewhere…

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Aug 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Software Security Apple on Tuesday announced an update to its next-generation macOS version that makes it a little more difficult for users to override Gatekeeper protections. Gatekeeper is a crucial line of defense built into macOS designed to ensure that only trusted apps run on the operating system. When an…

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For example, instead of reporting figures relating to the applications connected to active directory, which Ballarin says doesn’t speak to security’s impact on business success, the security leaders share how investments in incident response and recovery have shortened the downtime that could be expected in the case of an event and — more to the…

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Several events have particularly contributed to this, not least threat incidents like NotPetya and regulatory developments like the passage of the European Union’s GDPR, with the result that cyber insurance premiums have grown by almost 25 times since just 2015.  One size doesn’t fit all: the insurance view of cyber risk Most major healthcare network…

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In a letter sent to Delta, Microsoft echoes claims by CrowdStrike that Delta ignored offers to help with recovery from the July 19 outage. Microsoft has accused Delta of ignoring offers to help with recovery from the massive Windows outage last month in part because its IT systems were allegedly outdated. The criticism of Delta…

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