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Introducing Jon Ericson
From the very beginning of the project, OpenSSL has depended on a community of experts to enable secure and private communication. It’s safe to say that without volunteers contributing code, tests and documentation, we wouldn’t have the modern internet. In…
Open Banking Shortcomings Threaten UK Global Leadership Position Research Finds
APIContext has released its UK Open Banking API Performance 2023-2024 Report, the annual analysis of the performance of the open banking APIs exposed by the large CMA9 UK banks (the nine largest banks required by UK law to provide open banking…
WhatsApp spear phishing campaign uses QR codes to add device
A cybercriminal campaign linked to Russia is deploying QR codes to access the WhatsApp accounts of high-profile targets like journalists, members… This article has been indexed from Malwarebytes Read the original article: WhatsApp spear phishing campaign uses QR codes to…
Wolf Haldenstein Data Breach Impacts 3.4 Million People
Law firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP says more than 3.4 million people were impacted by a December 2023 data breach. The post Wolf Haldenstein Data Breach Impacts 3.4 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article has…
US Supreme Court Gives Green Light to TikTok Ban
The Supreme Court has upheld a law that could potentially ban TikTok in the US This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: US Supreme Court Gives Green Light to TikTok Ban
Microsoft exposes WhatsApp Spear Phishing Campaign of Star Blizzard
Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence teams have uncovered and exposed a spear phishing campaign targeting WhatsApp accounts, attributed to the Russian-linked hacker group Star Blizzard. The campaign began in October 2023 and continued through August 2024. Following extensive analysis, Microsoft’s experts revealed…
Supreme Court Rules TikTok Can Be Banned in US
Ruling from Supreme Court upholds nationwide ban on TikTok unless ByteDance sells, but official says Biden won’t enforce it This article has been indexed from Silicon UK Read the original article: Supreme Court Rules TikTok Can Be Banned in US
EFF Statement on U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision to Uphold TikTok Ban
We are deeply disappointed that the Court failed to require the strict First Amendment scrutiny required in a case like this, which would’ve led to the inescapable conclusion that the government’s desire to prevent potential future harm had to be…
Mad at Meta? Don’t Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
< div class=”field field–name-body field–type-text-with-summary field–label-hidden”> < div class=”field__items”> < div class=”field__item even”> If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Google searches for deleting Facebook and Instagram spiked last week after Meta announced its latest policy…
Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day
Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don’t panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users found in rsync in early December – and made public on Tuesday –…
Tarbomb Denial of Service via Path Traversal
As software applications are built and developed over the years, engineering teams continuously shift perspective on what features to prioritize or de-prioritize. A feature developed five years ago may have no significance today. However, features deemed low priority may still…
Check Point Heads to Davos 2025 to Discuss Advancing Cyber Security and Digital Trust in an Era of GenAI and Disinformation
Check Point’s Rupal Hollenbeck, President, and Dorit Dor, CTO, will be attending the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025 next week from January 20-23. Rupal will speak at WEF Agenda sessions including “Democratizing Cybersecurity,” where she will discuss securing the…
U.S. CISA adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Aviatrix Controllers vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical Aviatrix Controllers OS Command Injection vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50603 (CVSS score of 10)…
Global Apps Exploited to Harvest Sensitive Location Data
Rogue actors within the advertising industry are reportedly exploiting major global apps to collect sensitive user location data on a massive scale. This data is then funneled to a location data firm whose subsidiary has previously sold global tracking…
Three Russian Nationals Charged with Money Laundering via Crypto-Mixing Services
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged three Russian nationals with money laundering for operating two sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing services, Blender.io and Sinbad.io. A federal grand jury in Georgia indicted Roman Vitalyevich Ostapenko, Alexander Evgenievich Oleynik, and Anton…
Play Ransomware Threat Intensifies with State-Sponsored Links and Advanced Tactics
Play ransomware continues to be a formidable cybersecurity threat, with over 300 successful attacks reported globally since its first detection in 2022. Named for the “.PLAY” extension it appends to encrypted files, this ransomware has been linked to Andariel,…
Malicious GitHub PoC Exploit Spreads Infostealer Malware
A malicious GitHub repository disguises a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-49113, also known as “LDAPNightmare,” delivering infostealer malware that sends sensitive data to an external FTP server. Disguised as a legitimate PoC, the exploit tricks users into executing malware.…
How Russian hackers went after NGOs’ WhatsApp accounts
Star Blizzard, a threat actor tied to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), was spotted attempting to compromise targets’ WhatsApp accounts through a clever phishing campaign. The campaign The campaign started with a spear-phishing email that was made to look…
Lazarus Group Targets Developers in New Data Theft Campaign
SecurityScorecard identified a new campaign in which the North Korean Lazarus group aims to steal source code, secrets and cryptocurrency wallet keys from developer environments This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the original article: Lazarus Group Targets Developers…