Check out a CISA-FBI advisory about North Korean cyber espionage on critical infrastructure orgs. Plus, what Europol found about the use of AI for cybercrime. Meanwhile, the risk concerns that healthcare leaders have about generative AI. And a poll on water plant cybersecurity. And much more! Dive into six things that are top of mind…
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Jul 26, 2024The Hacker NewsDigital Warfare / Cybersecurity Training “Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime. Yet it is often in the furnace of war that the sharpest tools of peace are forged.” – Victor Hugo. In 1971, an unsettling message started appearing on several computers that comprised ARPANET, the precursor to…
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Some years ago, my cyber team at my prompting had T-shirts prepared for an offsite meeting. They were bright pink (not black) and said, “Cyber Rock Star.” We wore our T-shirts proudly, and the team was very successful, as a group and individually. To fix issues brought about by the cybersecurity talent gap, we have…
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday unsealed an indictment against a North Korean military intelligence operative for allegedly carrying out ransomware attacks against healthcare facilities in the country and funneling the payments to orchestrate additional intrusions into defense, technology, and government entities across the world. “Rim Jong Hyok and his co-conspirators deployed ransomware…
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Jul 26, 2024Mohit KumarEnterprise Security / Network Security CrowdStrike is alerting about an unfamiliar threat actor attempting to capitalize on the Falcon Sensor update fiasco to distribute dubious installers targeting German customers as part of a highly targeted campaign. The cybersecurity company said it identified what it described as an unattributed spear-phishing attempt on July…
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Jul 26, 2024Newsroom Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm over an ongoing campaign that’s leveraging internet-exposed Selenium Grid services for illicit cryptocurrency mining. Cloud security Wiz is tracking the activity under the name SeleniumGreed. The campaign, which is targeting older versions of Selenium (3.141.59 and prior), is believed to be underway since at least April…
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What is DNSSEC? The Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC) is a set of specifications that extend the Domain Name System (DNS) protocol by adding cryptographic authentication for responses received from authoritative DNS servers. Its goal is to defend against attack techniques such as DNS spoofing and hijacking attacks that direct computers to rogue websites…
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Jul 26, 2024NewsroomSoftware Security / Vulnerability Progress Software is urging users to update their Telerik Report Server instances following the discovery of a critical security flaw that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6327 (CVSS score: 9.9), impacts Report Server version 2024 Q2 (10.1.24.514) and earlier. “In Progress Telerik Report Server…
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Note the large increase in the number of unique source IPs and source ASNs. Between May and June, 38 different source ASNs dropped from the scanning activity, and 179 were added. This is unusual. While scanners will abandon infrastructure as takedowns happen, or access is revoked, they typically do not make such massive changes without…
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Hundreds of UEFI products from 10 vendors are susceptible to compromise due to a critical firmware supply-chain issue known as PKfail, which allows attackers to bypass Secure Boot and install malware. As the Binarly Research Team found, affected devices use a test Secure Boot “master key”—also known as Platform Key (PK)—generated by American Megatrends International…
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