> TODAY'S SUMMARY (15 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. South Africa leads a 13.4% growth in Sub-Saharan Africa's crypto economy, indicating increasing financial reliance on cryptocurrencies. A new zero-day vulnerability in VMware ESX, exploited by China-linked hackers, has been added to the U.S. CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. WordPress released a critical update addressing 22 vulnerabilities, including one allowing remote code execution. Additionally, threat actors are exploiting PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in publicly accessible Palo Alto Networks management interfaces. Meanwhile, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center reported credential theft affecting K-12 school districts, highlighting ongoing challenges in credential security.
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The European Commission opened an investigation into Snapchat and warned four pornographic platforms they could face penalties for failing to follow child safety laws.
Databricks has previewed a new open agentic Security Information and Event Management software (SIEM) named Lakewatch that signals its first deliberate step beyond data warehousing into security analytics.
The data warehouse-provider is pitching Lakewatch as a lower-cost al...
The high- and medium-severity flaws could lead to denial-of-service, secure boot bypass, information disclosure, and privilege escalation.
The post Cisco Patches Multiple Vulnerabilities in IOS Software appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Russian authorities have detained a suspected administrator of LeakBase, a major online marketplace for stolen data, weeks after U.S. and European law enforcement agencies carried out a global crackdown on the platform.
GitHub updated how it uses data to improve AI-powered coding assistance. Starting April 24, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users may be used to train and improve GitHub’s models unless users opt out. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users are not included in this change. Us...
Discover 7 enterprise infrastructure tools that reduce engineering workload, speed deployment, and eliminate months of manual setup
The post 7 Enterprise Infrastructure Tools That Eliminate Months of Engineering Work appeared first on Security Boulevard.
OpenAI’s Safety Bug Bounty program seeks to address AI safety vulnerabilities beyond traditional security flaws
Le fisc russe limite l’accès depuis l’étranger à ses services en ligne pour contenir les attaques DDoS contre l’État.
Technology has transformed modern classrooms, opening the door to more interactive and collaborative learning experiences. However, it has also introduced new challenges for teachers. Student devices are essential for digital learning, but can quickly become sources of distraction during instruction...
Three individuals, Stanley Yi Zheng, Matthew Kelly, and Tommy Shad English, have been charged with conspiracy to commit smuggling and export control violations after allegedly attempting to procure millions of dollars’ worth of restricted computer chips from a California-based hardware company. In O...
The British government sanctioned Xinbi, a Chinese-language cryptocurrency marketplace accused of enabling large-scale online fraud and human exploitation, in a move targeting the financial infrastructure behind global scam networks.
Unmasking impostors is something the art world has faced for decades, and there are valuable lessons from the works of Elmyr de Hory that can apply to the world of defensive cybersecurity. During the 1960s, de Hory gained infamy as a premier forger, passing off counterfeit masterworks of Picasso, Ma...
An Armenian suspect was extradited to the United States to face criminal charges for allegedly helping manage RedLine, one of the most prolific infostealer malware operations in recent years. [...]
Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their ans...
Some weeks in security feel loud. This one feels sneaky. Less big dramatic fireworks, more of that slow creeping sense that too many people are getting way too comfortable abusing things they probably shouldn’t even be touching.
There’s a little bit of everything in this one, too. Weird delivery tri...
Threat actors are actively exploiting OpenClaw’s viral popularity to run a phishing campaign that targets developers on GitHub with lures of free crypto tokens.
According to a disclosure by OX Security, the campaign involves fake “CLAW” token airdrops that promise thousands...
Researchers found a new skimmer using WebRTC to steal and send payment data, bypassing traditional security controls. Sansec researchers discovered a new payment skimmer that uses WebRTC data channels instead of typical web requests to load malicious code and exfiltrate stolen payment data. “What se...
A disgruntled data analyst decides that the best response to losing his contract is to steal the entire company payroll database and demand $2.5 million in Bitcoin - signing his extortion emails from a company called "Loot."
Meanwhile, two people drive up to the entrance of the UK's nuclear subma...
GitHub vient d'annoncer que les interactions avec l'IA Copilot seront utilisées pour entraîner les modèles IA. Voici comment désactiver la collecte de données.
Le post GitHub va activer par défaut la collecte de données Copilot pour entraîner l’IA a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Most teams have security tools in place. Alerts are firing, dashboards look clean, threat intel is flowing in. On the surface, everything feels under control.
But one question usually stays unanswered: Would your defenses actually stop a real attack?
That’s where things get shaky. A control exists,...