Security researchers announced on Monday that there had been a supply chain attack on up to 36,000 WordPress plugins running on a wide range of websites that had been backdoored by unknown hackers. Currently, researchers from security firm Wordfence…
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Chinese Hacker Groups Using Off-The-Shelf Tools To Deploy Ransomware
Cyberespionage actors are increasingly using ransomware as a final attack stage for financial gain, disruption, or to cover their tracks, as the report details previously undisclosed attacks by a suspected Chinese APT group, ChamelGang, who used CatB ransomware against a…
No Patches for Hospital Temperature Monitors’ Critical Flaws
Researchers at Nozomi Networks uncovered four vulnerabilities in Sensor Net Connect and three flaws in the Thermoscan IP desktop application, both made by a division of French firm Proges Plus. This article has been indexed from Cyware News – Latest…
Vanna AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability Enables RCE
The Vanna AI library has been found to have a vulnerability (CVE-2024-5565) that could allow for remote code execution (RCE) due to a prompt injection issue related to the Plotly script. This article has been indexed from Cyware News –…
Former IT Employee Stolen 1 Million Geisinger Patient’s Personal Data
Geisinger Health System discovered a data breach involving the personal information of over one million patients. The breach was traced back to a former employee of Nuance Communications Inc., an external vendor providing IT services to Geisinger. The ex-employee accessed…
US announces a $10M reward for Russia’s GRU hacker behind attacks on Ukraine
The US DoJ announced charges against a member of Russia’s military intelligence service GRU for conducting wiper attacks on Ukraine in 2022. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) announced charges against Russian national Amin Timovich Stigal, who is a member…
‘Skeleton Key’ attack unlocks the worst of AI, says Microsoft
Simple jailbreak prompt can bypass safety guardrails on major models Microsoft on Thursday published details about Skeleton Key – a technique that bypasses the guardrails used by makers of AI models to prevent their generative chatbots from creating harmful content.……
TeamViewer Detects Security Breach in Corporate IT Environment
TeamViewer on Thursday disclosed it detected an “irregularity” in its internal corporate IT environment on June 26, 2024. “We immediately activated our response team and procedures, started investigations together with a team of globally renowned cyber security experts and implemented…
Apple Safari Browser Data Security ad against Google Chrome
Recently, commuters in California, Paris, Singapore, Queensland, and London have been encountering Apple Inc.’s Safari Browser ads on billboards and public buildings. These ads cleverly promote Safari as the browser of choice for iPhone users while taking a swipe at…
How Sanctions Can Help in Fighting State-Sponsored Ransomware Actors
In recent years, the threat posed by state-sponsored ransomware actors has become increasingly pronounced, with malicious cyber activities orchestrated by governments or their proxies posing significant risks to global cybersecurity. As these actors continue to exploit vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure…
Examining Water Sigbin’s Infection Routine Leading to an XMRig Cryptominer
We analyze the multi-stage loading technique used by Water Sigbin to deliver the PureCrypter loader and XMRIG crypto miner. This article has been indexed from Trend Micro Research, News and Perspectives Read the original article: Examining Water Sigbin’s Infection Routine…
Web3 in Healthcare: Privacy, Consent, and Equity
The convergence of Web3 technologies and the healthcare industry has sparked significant interest and investment. As blockchain, decentralized applications (dApps), and smart contracts gain traction, the potential benefits for healthcare are immense. However, this rapid adoption also brings cybersecurity challenges…
CISOs becoming more comfortable with risk levels
Shifts in the cyber threats landscape have changed the way today’s CISOs evaluate their business’s risk appetite, according to Netskope. CISO risk appetite levels Specifically, 92% of CISOs report that these changes are creating tensions with their CEO and other…
Leveraging AI and automation for enhanced security operations
In this Help Net Security interview, Michelle Weston, VP of Security & Resiliency at Kyndryl, discusses the key challenges in security operations and how to address them. The top issues are increasing cyber resilience risks, changing regulatory conditions, and implementing…
Polyfill.io owner punches back at ‘malicious defamation’ amid domain shutdown
No supply-chain attacks to see over here! After having its website shut down, the polyfill.io owner is fighting back against claims it smuggled suspicious code onto websites all across the internet.… This article has been indexed from The Register –…
News Alert: Infinidat introduces advanced cyber resiliency and recovery solution for enterprises
Waltham, Mass., June 27, 2024, CyberNewsWire — Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise storage solutions, has introduced a new automated cyber resiliency and recovery solution that will revolutionize how enterprises can minimize the impact of ransomware and malware attacks.… (more…)…
Web scraping is not just a security or fraud problem
Bots compose 42% of overall web traffic, and 65% of these bots are malicious, according to Akamai. Negative effects of scraper bots on business operations Web scraping is not just a fraud or security problem, it is also a business…
New infosec products of the week: June 28, 2024
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from ARMO, Cofense, Datadog, and eSentire. Datadog LLM Observability secures generative AI applications Datadog’s LLM Observability offers prompt and response clustering, seamless integration with Datadog Application…
ISC Stormcast For Friday, June 28th, 2024 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9040, (Fri, Jun 28th)
This post doesn’t have text content, please click on the link below to view the original article. This article has been indexed from SANS Internet Storm Center, InfoCON: green Read the original article: ISC Stormcast For Friday, June 28th, 2024…
GitHub Artifact Attestations now generally available
GitHub’s Artfact Attestations, for guaranteeing the integrity of artifacts built inside the GitHub Actions CI/CD platform, is now generally available. General availability was announced June 25. By using Artifact Attestations in GitHub Actions workflows, developers can improve security and protect…