> TODAY'S SUMMARY (10 articles)
Key cybersecurity updates today include the sentencing of Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad cyberattacks, highlighting ongoing threats from state-sponsored hacking. A critical vulnerability in Drupal Commerce Core is being actively exploited, urging affected online stores to patch immediately. In another alarming trend, researchers have identified a malicious ChatGPT link that can execute code in users' sessions, potentially compromising private conversations. Additionally, Cloudflare reported a significant increase in DDoS attacks, with 18.2 million recorded in Q3, reflecting a 38% rise. On the software front, major releases of Wireshark and YARA-X have been announced, addressing various bug fixes and improvements.
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A new distributed denial of service (DDoS) trojan, which attacks blogs and forums that criticize the Vietnamese Communist Party, is part of an increasing trend of politically motivated cyber attacks, according to Joe Stewart, director of malware analysis at SecureWorks’ Counter Threat Unit.
Internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby, UK-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.
US internet security firm Webroot has acquired Derby-based anti-malware cloud provider Prevx.
Google is expanding its reward program to compensate security researchers who find flaws in Google’s web applications, such as YouTube, Blogger, and Orkut.
Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
The Identify Theft Council, a recently launched consortium of businesses, community groups, and law enforcement based in San Francisco, is proposing a “Neighborhood Watch” program for identity theft modeled on the programs designed to reduce neighborhood crime.
Black Hat Abu Dhabi takes place at the Emirates Palace on November 8/11.
A man arrested in Armenia last week in connection with the operation of the BredoLab botnet - which the Dutch authorities recently shut down - has been revealed to be a major affiliate of the Spamit.com group.
Most organisations acknowledge they are part of the critical national infrastructure (CNI) and believe a cyber attack could disrupt their country's mission-critical systems in the next two years, but are not well prepared for it, a study has revealed.
The overall risk on the web is rising, with 6.2% of the 27 million websites surveyed by McAfee posing a security risk in 2010, up from 5.8% of the websites surveyed last year, according to the security firm’s Mapping the Mal Web report.
Last month's spam attack on the LinkedIn business social networking site's members was one of the largest attacks of its type in history, according to the latest monthly spam report from Kaspersky Lab.
Reports that the Avalanche gang, now the world's most prolific phishing group, have diversified their operations over from conventional phishing emails to distributing the ZeuS Trojan, is another sign that hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated, says Imperva, the data security specialist.
Targeted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.
Targetted cyber attacks have increased significantly in the past five years, Symantec's latest MessageLabs Intelligence report has revealed.
Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison has challenged former SAP chief executive Leo Apotheker to testify in court over an IP theft suit brought by Oracle against SAP.
While Forrester Research predicts the cloud security market will grow to $1.5bn by 2015, cloud adoption is outpacing security controls, a global survey has revealed.
The Dutch National Crime Squad's High Tech Crime Team has taken down the Bredolab botnet that had infected at least 30 million computers worldwide.
In what prosecutors are claiming is a precedent-setting case, a pair of pay-TV pirates have been given lengthy prison sentences and ordered to pay approaching two million euro to Sky TV's German operation.
The Mozilla Foundation has made much in recent months about its Firefox bug-spotting programme, which rewards spotters with cash when they report security flaws on the popular web browser software. But now it appears that a 12-year-old has scooped an amazing $3000 for doing just this.