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Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and vulnerabilities. Notably, the FBI and CISA issued warnings regarding cyberattacks targeting industrial refrigeration systems, which could lead to severe consequences for food and medical supplies. OpenSSH has revealed a significant flaw that allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on certain Linux systems, while a breach at Chainalysis exposed sensitive credentials for all its customers. Additionally, CEO impersonation scams utilizing AI have resulted in over $100 million in losses, emphasizing the growing sophistication of cybercriminal tactics. In response to these threats, organizations are urged to enhance their security measures, particularly around password management and vulnerability patching.
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Man receives fine after refusing to be scanned
When viewed on mobiles, the tactic adds authenticity
Each year, Trail of Bits runs a month-long winter internship “winternship” program. This year we were happy to host 4 winterns who contributed to 3 projects. This is the first in a series of blog posts covering the 2019 Wintern class. Our first report is from Vaibhav Sharma (@vbsharma), a PhD studen...
Experts warn patches could take weeks to issue
Banking trojans significantly overtake ransomware in email-bound threats
Alex Groce, Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University Mutation Testing Introducing one bug by hand (as we did in Part 1) is fine, and we could try it again, but “the plural of anecdote is not data.” However, this is not strictly true. If we...
Comparitech studied 60 nations to gauge their ability to meet key security criteria
Agari warns cyber-criminals are abusing email account registration process
Alex Groce, Associate Professor, School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University Using DeepState, we took a handwritten red-black tree fuzzer and, with minimal effort, turned it into a much more fully featured test generator. The DeepState fuzzer, despite requiring no...
Rapid7 and Recorded Future reveal another major APT10 campaign
Eskom was leaking customer data as employee suffered trojan infection
C++ programs using exceptions are problematic for binary lifters. The non-local control-flow “throw” and “catch” operations that appear in C++ source code do not map neatly to straightforward binary representations. One could allege that the compiler, runtime, and stack unwinding library collude to...
New survey explores ethical data use and consumer perceptions of data privacy
Huaxia Bank employee stole $1m from cashpoints
On December 12, over 150 attendees joined a special, half-day Empire Hacking to learn about pitfalls in smart contract security and how to avoid them. Thank you to everyone who came, to our superb speakers, and to BuzzFeed for hosting this meetup at their office. Watch the presentations again It’s h...
Tory whip tells users to ignore messages
DLA Piper warns fines could reach into the hundreds of millions this year
A lack of resources is keeping cybersecurity out of the driverless car conversation.
IT and OT convergence is not possible without C-level support.
Nation-state attacks could leverage misinformation to damage enterprises.