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Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends. A significant data breach at DigiCert has exposed sensitive business customer information due to an improperly secured system. Meanwhile, fake security tools on GitHub are targeting cybersecurity professionals, deploying backdoors and infostealers. Authorities are also raising alarms about AI-assisted fraud, with three individuals accused of using deepfakes to impersonate CEOs and defraud businesses of over $129 million. In Japan, an emergency cybersecurity package was announced following a wave of attacks on corporations and government agencies. Additionally, vulnerabilities in OpenSSH are being actively exploited, allowing attackers to bypass authentication on certain Linux systems. Finally, there is growing concern over attacks targeting industrial refrigeration systems, which could have serious implications for food safety and supply chains.
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RandomX is a new ASIC and GPU-resistant proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm originally developed for Monero, but potentially useful in any blockchain using PoW that wants to bias towards general purpose CPUs. Trail of Bits was contracted by Arweave to review this novel algorithm in a two person-week engag...
BlueKeep has sparked concern across industries as it allows access to devices via RDP
Security pros concerned about privacy, identity and the 2020 election, survey says.
Today we released a tool, siderophile, that helps Rust developers find fuzzing targets in their codebases. Siderophile trawls your crate’s dependencies and attempts to finds every unsafe function, expression, trait method, etc. It then traces these up the callgraph until it finds the function in you...
Medtronic makes wearable medical devices for a wide range of medical conditions.
"TORUK - The First Flight" mobile app left mobile phones vulnerable.
With the release of C++14, the standards committee strengthened one of the coolest modern features of C++: constexpr. Now, C++ developers can write constant expressions and force their evaluation at compile-time, rather than at every invocation by users. This results in faster execution, smaller exe...
Retail banks were hit the hardest
Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me" parody warns users not to click on that 'dubious link.'
A common Go idiom is to (1) panic, (2) recover from the panic in a deferred function, and (3) continue on. In general, this is okay, so long there are no global state changes between the entry point to the function calling defer, and the point at which the panic occurs. Such global state changes […]
There has been a year-on-year increase in the numbers and rates of police-recorded online child sexual offences in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Banks in Europe and North America use some form of SSL but are still vulnerable to phishing, says Sectigo
Each year, Trail of Bits runs a month-long winter internship aka “winternship” program. This year we were happy to host 4 winterns who contributed to 3 projects. This project comes from Carson Harmon, a new graduate from Purdue interested in compilers and systems engineering, and a new full-time mem...
Dridex malware, delivered via email, targets banking information.
Researchers say Amazon S3 buckets at Attunity have now been secured.
Interacting with Active Directory on the Mac Did you ever have to interact with Active Directory on a MAC?
If yes, this post might be interesting for you. I am pretty new to the Mac and basic things I know how to do on Windows need some research to figure out. This time around I explore Active Direc...
PCM Inc. suffers a "digital intrusion."
Data mapping and discovery tools top privacy purchase plans
Since March, Trail of Bits has been working with the Python Software Foundation to add two-factor authentication (2FA) to Warehouse, the codebase that powers PyPI. As of today, PyPI members can enable time-based OTP (TOTP) and WebAuthn (currently in beta). If you have an account on PyPI, go enable y...
IP surveillance devices facing high numbers of cyber-attacks