TeamViewer has confirmed that the cyberattack on its systems was orchestrated by Russian threat actors, specifically the APT29 or Midnight Blizzard group. The attack, detected on June 26, 2024, was contained in TeamViewer’s internal corporate IT environment. Importantly, the company…
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AuthZed Raises $12 Million to Accelerate Permissions Systems in Series A Funding
The new funding will accelerate a strategic expansion for small–to mid-market-sized organizations, providing a fully managed and easy-to-deploy permissions system that is simple to maintain for their current and future authorization needs. This article has been indexed from Cyware News…
Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware
A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection…
Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny
Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying…
Australia looses $3 billion every year to Cyber Crime
Australia’s leading financial institutions are bracing for what could be the most significant cyber attack in the history of the banking sector, with warnings issued by the top four banks. Over the past three years, these institutions have faced relentless…
Baddies hijack Korean ERP vendor’s update systems to spew malware
Notorious ‘Andariel’ crew takes a bite of HotCroissant backdoor for fresh attack A South Korean ERP vendor’s product update server has been attacked and used to deliver malware instead of product updates, according to local infosec outfit AhnLab.… This article…
OpenSSH Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-6387) Notification
Overview Recently, NSFOCUS CERT detected that OpenSSH issued a security announcement and fixed the remote code execution vulnerability of OpenSSH (CVE-2024-6387). Due to a signal handler race condition issue in OpenSSH Server (sshd) under the default configuration, if the client…
Leveraging no-code automation for efficient network operations
In this Help Net Security interview, Lingping Gao, CEO at NetBrain, discusses the challenges NetOps teams face in maintaining production services due to outdated processes and growing infrastructures. No-code automation has the potential to address these challenges by allowing engineers…
Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights
An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks,…
An Identity Love Story: Hardware vs Software Security Tokens
Identity Security Cybersecurity has been growing since the first computer was created. And it is… The post An Identity Love Story: Hardware vs Software Security Tokens appeared first on Axiad. The post An Identity Love Story: Hardware vs Software Security…
The impossibility of “getting ahead” in cyber defense
As a security professional, it can be tempting to believe that with sufficient resources we can achieve of state of parity, or even relative dominance, over cyber attackers. After all, if we got to an ideal state – fully staffed…
Deepfakes and voice clones are undermining election integrity
As the volume of digital business rises year over year, the potential for AI-enhanced digital fraud increases with it, according to TeleSign. A new TeleSign report highlights consumer concerns and uncertainty about how AI is being deployed, particularly regarding digital…
Inside the minds of CISOs
In this Help Net Security video, Nick McKenzie, CISO of Bugcrowd, discusses the key findings from their recent report, which comes at a crucial time as security leaders’ roles are being discussed more with the current risk landscape and the…
Imperva Client-Side Protection Mitigates the Polyfill Supply Chain Attack
The recent discovery of a website supply chain attack using the cdn.polyfill.io domain has left many websites vulnerable to malicious code injection. Once a trusted resource for adding JavaScript polyfills to websites, the domain has recently become the epicenter of…
Infostealers on the Rise: A New Wave of Major Data Breaches?
This blog continues our previous article, The Resurgence of Major Data Breaches, where we discussed the alarming increase infostealers in data breaches orchestrated by the notorious ShinyHunters group. In this part, we delve into the role of infostealers in these…
Deepfakes will cost $40 billion by 2027 as adversarial AI gains momentum
Now one of the fastest-growing forms of adversarial AI, deepfakes-related losses are expected to soar from $12.3 billion in 2023. This article has been indexed from Security News | VentureBeat Read the original article: Deepfakes will cost $40 billion by…
The Evolution of Phishing Attacks: Beyond Email and How to Protect Your Organization
The Evolution of Phishing Attacks: Beyond Email Phishing attacks have long been synonymous with email, but the landscape of cyberthreats has evolved dramatically. Today, phishing is not confined to email inboxes; it has permeated various communication channels, including SMS, WhatsApp,…
A Playbook for Detecting the OpenSSH Vulnerability – CVE-2024-6387 – regreSSHion
The Qualys Threat Research Unit has discovered a new “high” severity signal handler race condition vulnerability in OpenSSH’s server software (sshd). According to the research, this vulnerability has the potential to allow remote unauthenticated code execution (RCE) for glibc-based Linux…
CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code
Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++. This article has been indexed from Security | TechRepublic Read the original article: CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code
Nasty regreSSHion bug in OpenSSH puts roughly 700K Linux boxes at risk
Full system takeovers on the cards, for those with enough patience to pull it off Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in OpenSSH’s server (sshd) and should upgrade to the latest version.… This article has been…