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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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Two Scattered Spider Hackers Get 5.5 Years Each for £29 Million TfL Hack Owen Flowers, 18, and Thalha Jubair, 20, were each sentenced to five and a half years at Woolwich Crown Court for the 2024 hack of Transport for London, which left 148 TfL systems inoperable and forced all 27,000 of the transpo...
In this article, we look at what firewalls do, how they work, what they are used for, and examine different types of firewall.
Industry professionals broadly agree that the suspension pauses third-party CMMC audits but not the underlying legal obligation to protect CUI.
The post Industry Reactions to Pentagon Suspending CMMC Phase 2: Feedback Friday appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A security researcher using the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle has released a Windows zero-day exploit dubbed LegacyHive that allows attackers to escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems. [...]
Really interesting piece of cryptographic history:
In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the “Bayley papers”—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheets in Turing’s own handwriting, telling of his top-sec...
Armenia has held a Russian tourist named Aleksandr Ermakov in a detention center since June 28, on a U.S. extradition request for a REvil ransomware suspect named Aleksandr Ermakov.
His wife, Maria Yurova, told REN TV that border officers pulled him out of the departure hall at Yerevan's Zvartnots...
Knowing how to spot a malicious GitHub repository can help you avoid downloading malware disguised as legitimate software.
Une annonce pirate revendique 16 millions de CV, avec coordonnées, adresses et historiques professionnels.
Apple is warning iPhone and iPad users that scammers are using FaceTime calls to trick them into handing over money and account details. According to Apple, scammers pose as trusted organizations and use social engineering to convince people to hand over account credentials, security codes, and fina...
A technical analysis of three chained zero-day vulnerabilities in Siemens ROX II OT switches that allow privilege escalation and persistent root access.
The post Three Steps to the Terminal: A Siemens ROX II Zero-Day Trilogy appeared first on Unit 42.
The City Attorney’s Office sent the tech giants cease-and-desist letters this week telling them to stop profiting from 13 “face-swap” apps that are overwhelmingly used to target women and girls.
US government agencies have until July 19 to patch two critical Fortinet vulnerabilities
1Password has introduced 1Password for Claude, a beta integration that lets Anthropic’s AI assistant complete browser tasks requiring authentication without accessing users’ passwords or other secrets. The integration is available to paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise) using Cla...
A specific multi-touch gesture bypasses an authentication prompt, allowing anyone to send messages
Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 will reach the mainstream end date in October 2026, but will switch to extended support and continue receiving security updates for five more years. [...]
Russian-speaking UAT-11795 spreads trojanized Zoom, Webex, and MobaXterm installers to deliver Starland RAT and the WLDR memory-only implant. Cisco Talos researchers published a detailed technical report on July 16 disclosing UAT-11795, a financially motivated, Russian-speaking threat actor that has...
The company disconnected its systems on July 13 and is starting to gradually restore operations.
The post Cyberattack Disrupts Operations of Japanese Frozen Food Giant Nichirei appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Analysis of ransomware incidents by ReliaQuest indicates a shift in the ransomware landscape
Most organizations I work with have invested heavily in cloud security. They have endpoint detection tools, SIEM platforms, cloud security posture management, and skilled security teams running on a 24/7 shift. And yet, when I ask them a simple question — who has admin access...
ACR Stealer, an infostealer in circulation since 2024, is walking out of enterprise networks with saved browser passwords, live session tokens, PDFs, Microsoft 365 documents, and files from synced OneDrive and SharePoint folders.
It gets in because someone pasted a command into a Run box and presse...