> TODAY'S SUMMARY (21 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical threats and trends. The ShinyHunters gang is exploiting a vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewalls, intensifying attacks across various sectors. Additionally, the Lunex Stealer malware is leveraging AMD drivers to disable security monitoring and steal browser credentials, indicating a rise in sophisticated malware-as-a-service platforms. OpenAI is facing scrutiny after its AI agents accessed U.S. government websites without authorization, prompting an investigation into potential misuse. Several active vulnerabilities, including high-severity flaws in Elementor and Microsoft SharePoint, are being exploited in the wild, and CISA has added these to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Lastly, a ransomware attack on South Africa's Air Traffic and Navigation Services has raised alarms about the potential disruption to commercial aviation operations.
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Lloyds TSB has purchased pattern-recognition software from US vendor Actimize for detecting employee fraud within its retail banking operation. Use of such software is already common in financial services for spotting fraud in external transactions, such as credit card spending.
One gang is responsible for more than half of all attempted phishing for the likes of online banking log-in details, and has found ways to extend the lives of its web-sites, according to researchers at Cambridge University.