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Today's cybersecurity landscape reveals several critical threats and trends. A member of the ShinyHunters hacking group has been detained in Jordan, cooperating with the FBI amid ongoing investigations into a significant data breach involving employee information. Meanwhile, vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler and Rejetto HFS have been actively exploited, with warnings from CISA regarding their severity and potential impact. Additionally, Denmark's population registry suffered a breach affecting 8.8 million individuals, raising concerns about data security in governmental databases. In the healthcare sector, IQVIA faced a hefty fine for inadequate data anonymization, underscoring the ongoing scrutiny over data protection practices. Lastly, Google has paused its open-source bug bounty program due to an influx of invalid AI-generated reports, reflecting challenges in managing AI vulnerabilities.
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It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properly
handle in-place cryptographic operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail.
A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape
a container. (CVE-2026-31431)
It was discovered that the Linux kernel did...
The Windows version of the Hola Browser has been compromised in a supply chain attack that delivered an undeclared executable identified by researchers as a cryptocurrency miner. [...]
It was discovered that the Linux kernel algif_aead module did not properly
handle in-place cryptographic operations. This flaw is known as Copy Fail.
A local attacker could use this to escalate privileges, or possibly escape
a container. (CVE-2026-31431)
It was discovered that the Linux kernel did...
President Trump’s highly politicized appointment of an entirely unqualified acting Director of National Intelligence (DNI) underscores why the government’s warrantless mass spying power must be reformed.Â
Congress now faces a deadline of Friday, June 12 to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Inte...
It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page
fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty
Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the
RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local
attacker could...
It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page
fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty
Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the
RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local
attacker could...
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It was discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly handle shared page
fragments during socket buffer operations, collectively known as Dirty
Frag. A logic flaw existed in the XFRM ESP-in-TCP subsystem and in the
RxRPC networking subsystem when processing paged fragments. A local
attacker could...
Governments must not adopt emerging and powerful AI technologies without also adopting strong and clear safeguards to protect Constitutional rights, EFF Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Matthew Guariglia testified today to the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protect...
A new Magecart campaign is using Stripe's API infrastructure to host the credit card-stealing payload and the data exfiltrated from checkout pages. [...]
Apache HTTP Server could be made to consume excessive resources if it received specially crafted network traffic.
Shyam Sankar, the chief technology officer at Palantir Technologies, has emerged as a lead contender for the long vacant Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) director role, according to the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss the administration’s search.
A House Appropriations subcommittee is set to mark up fiscal 2027 DHS funding legislation Friday.
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Meta has deployed facial recognition code to millions of their always-on surveillance glasses, according to new reporting by Wired. EFF’s Threat Lab was able to confirm that the facial recognition code is present through static analysis of the application.Â
This dangerous new Meta functionality sto...
Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta's AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren't bad enough, the technique required no technical skill whatsoever.
Read more in my article on the Fortra blog.
Twitter, renamed X in 2023, filed a petition saying that the settlement terms are unfair because the order was issued against a company that “no longer exists,” the workers responsible for the scheme no longer work for X and the firm has since established a “world class” privacy and data protection...
Reconstructing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack traffic used to mean combining data from multiple sources after the fact. AWS Shield Advanced attack flow logs change that—they capture traffic metadata during attacks so you can pinpoint sources, verify mitigations, and feed your existing a...
How to turn off unwanted AI systems like Copilot, Gemini, and Apple Intelligence on corporate devices
A surge in real-world attacks against agentic AI systems is reshaping how we think about risk. Based on 12 months of red teaming, this update introduces seven new failure modes, from supply chain compromise to goal hijacking, and the practical mitigations teams need now.
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