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Cybersecurity threats are evolving beyond traditional attack surfaces, with attackers increasingly targeting hardware and supply chain vulnerabilities. Recent incidents highlight a shift towards exploiting IoT devices and cloud infrastructure, emphasizing the need for robust security measures in these areas. Moreover, ransomware attacks continue to rise, with cybercriminals employing more sophisticated tactics to extort organizations. Phishing remains a prevalent threat, often serving as the initial vector for larger attacks. Organizations are urged to enhance their security posture by adopting comprehensive risk management strategies and prioritizing employee training to mitigate these emerging threats.
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US government still working out what went wrong
It would allow police to search billions of mobile device-based records, including GPS data
Background If you haven’t done so yet, read my first Zix exploitation article: Spear Phishing with Zix: An Undisclosed Red Team Method for the Hungry APT, which established baselines to abuse the native organizational trust that Zix provides to perform spear phishing on the affected company. Shortly...
The bug was discovered by developer Jeff Johnson, who detailed his findings in a blog post
JuiceLedger started poisoning open-source packages as a way to target a wider audience in August
Background If you haven’t done so yet, read my first Zix exploitation article: Spear Phishing with Zix: An Undisclosed Red Team Method for the Hungry APT, which established baselines to abuse the native organizational trust that Zix provides to perform spear phishing on the affected company. Shortly...
The threat actor using the common Go programming language and a custom toolkit claims twenty victims
Best practices are designed to help developers bolster security
2.5 million people were affected, in a breach that could spell more trouble down the line.
New principles set to take on adversarial machine learning
Governments reveal system compromise in separate incidents
Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool.
Roughly 50% of all the apps analyzed were seen using the same AWS tokens found in other apps
The malware can also check if specific products are installed, particularly security software
Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system.
The flaw would allow the processing of maliciously crafted web content and arbitrary code execution
Document will help testers create benchmarks for security products
Recently I read this excellent post by Evan Sultanik about exploiting pickle files on Trail of Bits. There was also a DefCon30 talk about backdooring pickle files by ColdwaterQ.
This got me curious to try out backdooring a pickle file myself.
Pickle files - the surprises Surprisingly Python pickle f...
Trend Micro warns of Linux-based ransomware
Vulnerability impacted social media firm’s Android app