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Today's cybersecurity landscape sees several critical threats emerging. Northstar Security has launched with $7 million in funding to enhance vulnerability mapping and risk remediation using AI. A significant exploit involving a CVSS score of 10.0 was discovered in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud, allowing attackers to impersonate trusted clients without a private key. In the crypto space, hackers hijacked a script on Polymarket, stealing approximately $2.7 million from traders. Additionally, the FBI has linked North Korea's TraderTraitor group to the record $6.43 billion theft from Binance. Meanwhile, a sophisticated malware known as NetamLoader is targeting government Windows 10 systems in Asia, raising alarms about its operational capabilities.
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The NCSC publishes its recommendations for configuring post-quantum cryptography in TLS. Now is time to migrate.
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USN-8883-1 fixed a vulnerability in Go versions 1.18, 1.21, and 1.24. This
update provides the corresponding fix for Go version 1.23.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that the Go x/net/idna package incorrectly handled
certain Punycode-encoded labels that decoded to ASCII-only labels....
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The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case
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The post Novel Android RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies appeared first on SecurityWeek.
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