“One of the things with batteries is they catch on fire,” Patrick Miller, CEO of Ampere Industrial Security, tells CSO. “So, if I had the ability to put the battery into a physical state or make it more prone to catch on fire, that’s a problem because in some cases, depending upon the size of…
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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomRansomware / Vulnerability The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it’s being likely exploited in Akira ransomware attacks. The vulnerability in question is…
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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomEndpoint Security / Cryptocurrency Several companies operating in the cryptocurrency sector are the target of a newly discovered Apple macOS backdoor codenamed RustDoor. RustDoor was first documented by Bitdefender last week, describing it as a Rust-based malware capable of harvesting and uploading files, as well as gathering information about the infected machines. It’s…
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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomCyber Threat / Cloud Security A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to send bulk smishing messages by abusing Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Notification Service (SNS). The SMS phishing messages are designed to propagate malicious links that are designed to capture victims’…
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With breaches making the headlines on an almost weekly basis, the cybersecurity challenges we face are becoming visible not only to large enterprises, who have built security capabilities over the years, but also to small to medium businesses and the broader public. While this is creating greater awareness among smaller businesses of the need to…
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Tech giant Google launched the AI Cyber Defense Initiative to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost cybersecurity and to reverse the “Defender’s Dilemma,” the company said in a blog post. A key initiative in this is the open-sourcing of Magika, an AI-powered tool for file type identification to detect malware. It is already being…
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Here at AT&T Cybersecurity, we know that the technology powering our managed detection and response services is solid—and we’ve got documentation to prove it. But we also know you’ve probably read your share of marketing materials making claims with nothing to back them up, so when we get the opportunity to share third-party metrics that support…
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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomCybersecurity / Data Breach The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has revealed that an unnamed state government organization’s network environment was compromised via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. “This allowed the threat actor to successfully authenticate to an internal virtual private network (VPN) access point,” the agency said…
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Feb 16, 2024NewsroomBotnet / Network Security The U.S. government on Thursday said it disrupted a botnet comprising hundreds of small office and home office (SOHO) routers in the country that was put to use by the Russia-linked APT28 actor to conceal its malicious activities. “These crimes included vast spear-phishing and similar credential harvesting campaigns against…
Read MoreCISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-21412 Microsoft Windows Internet Shortcut Files Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability CVE-2024-21351 Microsoft Windows SmartScreen Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. …
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