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Today’s cybersecurity landscape reveals several critical threats and trends. A 25-year-old crypto thief was sentenced for a SIM-swapping scheme that stole nearly $260,000. Cisco and Splunk have patched multiple vulnerabilities that could allow unauthorized access or remote code execution. Meanwhile, attackers targeted a critical flaw in Atlassian products, exploiting it within hours of public disclosure. Notably, a Russian-aligned group, UAC-0099, utilized a new infostealer and RAT against Ukrainian personnel. Additionally, reports indicate that thousands of Android devices shipped with pre-installed ad-fraud malware. Finally, the FBI warns of ongoing FortiBleed attacks that lock victims out of their Fortinet devices, emphasizing the evolving nature of cyber threats.
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Anthropic’s AI found five vulnerabilities in curl, but only one low-severity issue proved to be a real vulnerability. In April, Anthropic made considerable noise announcing Mythos, a new artificial intelligence model described as so effective at identifying vulnerabilities in code as to be, in the c...
RubyGems, the standard package manager for the Ruby programming language, has temporarily paused account sign ups following what has been described as a "major malicious attack."
"We're dealing with a major malicious attack on Ruby Gems right now," Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for softwar...
Mini Shai-Hulud compromises TanStack npm packages and spreads across PyPI
Threat actors obtained names and contact information for an unspecified number of BWH Hotels guests.
The post BWH Hotels Says Hackers Had Access to Reservation Data for 6 Months appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the Exim mail transport agent, which may result in remote code execution, denial of service or an information leak. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), these problems have been fixed in version 4.96-15+deb12u9.
Now that the dust has settled on Mythos dropping, there is space for more considered reflection on the direction of travel. Mythos wasn't a surprise; it's another data point on a trajectory that's bee
Instructure, the company behind the online learning platform Canvas, said it reached an agreement with the extortion group ShinyHunters to prevent data stolen in a recent breach from being leaked online. According to the company’s website, Canvas has more than 30 million active users worldwide and s...
New expat packages are available for Slackware 15.0 and -current to fix a security issue.
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Native WiFi Miniport Driver allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over an adjacent network.
External control of file name or path in Azure Monitor Agent allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Heap-based buffer overflow in .NET allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Double free in Windows Rich Text Edit allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Improper authentication in Azure SDK allows an unauthorized attacker to bypass a security feature over a network.
Improper access control in Windows Event Logging Service allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Concurrent execution using shared resource with improper synchronization ('race condition') in Windows Win32K - GRFX allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Use after free in Windows Win32K - ICOMP allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Kernel allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.
Heap-based buffer overflow in Windows Message Queuing allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over an adjacent network.
Integer overflow or wraparound in Windows Win32K - GRFX allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges locally.