> TODAY'S SUMMARY (82 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several significant threats and trends. A Californian individual has been accused of illegally exporting $300 million worth of Nvidia chips to China, potentially aiding advancements in AI technology. The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned members of the Tren de Aragua gang linked to ATM jackpotting attacks, emphasizing ongoing concerns over organized cybercrime. A critical zero-day vulnerability in Fortinet's FortiMail is actively being exploited, prompting urgent patching efforts. Additionally, AI agents are increasingly being used in cyberattacks, including SQL injection attempts against government websites. The rise of AI in both offensive and defensive roles continues to shape the cybersecurity landscape, with Microsoft warning that attackers are gaining significant advantages through AI.
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Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in December:
Articles
Access Point cannot connect to WatchGuard Cloud or does not appear in your WatchGuard Cloud account
AuthPoint User Activity report does not show dat...
Security business closes following legal dispute and error-strewn report
Finalsite said the attack occurred on Tuesday
This past winter, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work for Trail of Bits as a graduate student intern under the supervision of Peter Goodman and Artem Dinaburg. During my internship, I developed Dr. Disassembler, a Datalog-driven framework for transparent and mutable binary disassembly. T...
RCE bug found in popular H2 database console
Parents accidentally receive test results belonging to other people’s children
The last weeks of 2021 got quite interesting for security professionals and software engineers.
Apache’s log4j library and its now prominent Java Naming and Directory Interface support, which enables easy remote code execution, made the news across the industry.
What makes Log4Shell scary is the wid...
PHI of nearly 80,000 current and former FCI patients impacted by cyber-attack
Rhode Island attorney general to probe data breach of the Ocean State’s public transit authority
At Trail of Bits, we pride ourselves on making our best tools open source, such as algo, manticore, and graphtage. But while this post is about open source, it’s not about our tools… In 2021, Trail of Bits employees submitted over 190 pull requests (PRs) that were merged into non-Trail of Bits repos...
The figures highlight how digital currencies are increasingly being used by criminals
Plotters defrauded at least 70 victims over eight-year period
Leverage a default configuration in Terraform Enterprise to steal credentials from the Metadata Service
Arbix Finance developers make off with funds
New York attorney general notifies 17 big-name firms
Trail of Bits is publicly disclosing two bugs that affect Shamir’s Secret Sharing implementation of Binance’s threshold signature scheme library (tss-lib) and most of its active forks. Here is the full list of affected repositories: Binance’s tss-lib Clover Network’s threshold-crypto Keep Network’s...
American hospitality chain tells employees their personal data may have been exposed
Governor’s Cybersecurity Task Force identifies urgent cybersecurity priorities for the Sunflower State
How to start the journey to zero trust architecture once you have decided it meets your business requirements.
American company willing to pay $60m to settle allegations of data safeguarding failures