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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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European Commission issues RAPEX alert
UK's Metro Bank falls victim to SS7 attack.
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...
New malware injects backdoor Trojan by exploiting known vulnerabilities.
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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...
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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...
Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance broke data protection laws
Top executives believe security policies and cyber-threats don't apply to them.
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A midterm assessment of Trump's cyber policies finds administration is making effective changes.
Change Your Password Day is a good time to switch to a password manager.
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...
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We open-sourced a fault injection tool, KRF, that uses kernel-space syscall interception. You can use it today to find faulty assumptions (and resultant bugs) in your programs. Check it out! This post covers intercepting system calls from within the Linux kernel, via a plain old kernel module. We’ll...
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