“Certain events must be tapped into at the kernel level and responded to accordingly, but the whole signature matching process doesn’t need to happen there,” Florian Roth, head of research at Nextron Systems, wrote in an X post. “It could reside in another component, limiting the kernel module to essential tasks only.” Ideally, such privileged…
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This ‘separates us a little bit also from the competition,’ Shawn Ahmed, CloudBees’ chief product officer, tells CRN in an interview. Cloud-native developer security operations platform provider CloudBees is boosting its quality assurance and generative artificial intelligence capabilities with the acquisition of Launchable – potentially bringing more QA work to its channel partners. As part…
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BBC News cybersecurity journalist Joe Tidy has found himself in the unusual position of being targeted by a scammer calling herself “Jessica”, he revealed in a report this week. According to Tidy, someone posing as an attractive, 36-year-old woman claiming to be based in Chicago contacted him via Instagram. For weeks, “Jessica” would contact Tidy…
Read MoreProblems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registration: On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts… …the portal suffered…
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Aug 07, 2024Ravie 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, 2024Ravie 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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Read MoreMultiple 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, 2024Ravie 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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