> TODAY'S SUMMARY (18 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights various significant threats and trends:
1. **AI-Generated Code Concerns**: Proton's CEO downplays security testing for AI-written code, raising concerns about potential vulnerabilities in software development.
2. **Data Breach at DHS**: A hacker leaked personal data of over 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, underscoring the ongoing risks of data breaches in government sectors.
3. **Fake IT Scams**: Attackers impersonating IT support managed to manipulate employees into granting remote access, revealing the effectiveness of social engineering tactics.
4. **Cryptocurrency Exchange Breach**: Binance experienced a significant security incident affecting $6.3 billion in assets, highlighting vulnerabilities in cryptocurrency platforms amid increasing cyber threats.
5. **Scammers Adapt Quickly**: Fraudulent online shopping sites are being rapidly re-established after takedowns, indicating persistent challenges in combating e-commerce scams.
6. **IoT Device Risks**: A recent report identifies smart TVs as major targets for cyber vulnerabilities, emphasizing the need for security measures in household IoT devices.
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Prosecutors unsealed a 2021 indictment accusing the five men of conducting lucrative romance scams that stole thousands of dollars from more than 100 people.
A browser extension called Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot, available in the official Chrome and Firefox stores, sends users' Twitch OAuth session tokens to a commercial bot service. [...]
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5 PM ET.
I’m speaking at CanSecWest 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. The conference runs September 30–October 1, 2026; the time of my talk i...
On February 20th, 2026, a critical Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload vulnerability was publicly disclosed in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture, a premium WordPress plugin with an estimated 6,000 active installations. This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to upload arb...
Andres Berbescu discovered two vulnerabilities in the L2TP connection plugin for Network Manager which allowed a local user with permissions to create/activate personal VPN connections to escalate their privileges to root. For the stable distribution (trixie), these problems have been fixed in
Officials said the five individuals concocted various long-running romance scams to trick U.S.-based victims into sending them money.
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Hackers compromised HBO Max's official Reddit account and used it to push malicious ads that launched ClickFix attacks to infect Windows and macOS devices with information-stealing malware. [...]
Today, Apple released its annual update across all its operating systems. With that, Apple not only released new features but also patched 261 different vulnerabilities. This is the most vulnerabilities Apple has ever patched, but the increase is not as significant as other vendors&#;x26;#;39; "...
Attackers would need physical access to the server to pull off the DDR5 trick
USN-8739-1 fixed vulnerabilities in ImageMagick. This update provides the
corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain images. An
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This
issu...
China rejects Amodei’s AI slowdown proposal, calling it fearmongering and a US attempt to contain China’s technology sector. The debate over whether the world should slow down the development of advanced AI has quickly turned into something bigger than a technology argument. Dario Amodei, CEO of Ant...
If you clicked on a fake HBO Max ad on Reddit in the past week, you might have fallen victim to a rising "ClickFix" security threat.
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An attacker was operating inside the network of 3BB, one of Thailand's largest broadband providers, and maintained remote control of internal machines using a legitimate management tool called MeshCentral, threat intelligence firm Hunt.io said.
The company uncovered the intrusion by examining a ser...
A flaw in Telegram Desktop let a bot's message plant hidden JavaScript inside chats that users exported to HTML files, security researchers at ExPatch said in a writeup published on September 12.
In Telegram, the message looked ordinary, with a link button, and the script ran only when someone open...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to announce the publication of the AWS Security Reference Architecture (AWS SRA) Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) Deep Dive. This new guide extends the core AWS SRA to provide prescriptive, architecture-level guidance for organizations tha...
Konsole could be made to run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted URL.
Freeciv could be made to crash if it received specially crafted network traffic.
L'autorité espagnole de protection des données (AEPD) a sanctionné une personne physique pour avoir publié sur un réseau social des données personnelles (image, nom, prénom, âge) d'un tiers sans base légale. La décision analyse en détail la mise en balance entre le droit à la protection des données...
libvips could be made to crash if it opened a specially crafted file.