While some SaaS threats are clear and visible, others are hidden in plain sight, both posing significant risks to your organization. Wing’s research indicates that an astounding 99.7% of organizations utilize applications embedded with AI functionalities. These AI-driven tools are…
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How to Use Python to Build Secure Blockchain Applications
Did you know it’s now possible to build blockchain applications, known also as decentralized applications (or “dApps” for short) in native Python? Blockchain development has traditionally required learning specialized languages, creating a barrier for many developers… until now. AlgoKit, an…
Prompt Injection Flaw in Vanna AI Exposes Databases to RCE Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the Vanna.AI library that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution vulnerability via prompt injection techniques. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5565 (CVSS score: 8.1), relates to a case of prompt…
Russian National Indicted for Cyber Attacks on Ukraine Before 2022 Invasion
A 22-year-old Russian national has been indicted in the U.S. for his alleged role in staging destructive cyber attacks against Ukraine and its allies in the days leading to Russia’s full-blown military invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. Amin Timovich…
Critical SQLi Vulnerability Found in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow Application
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow that, if left unpatched, could allow an attacker to tamper with the application database. Tracked as CVE-2024-5276, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8. It impacts FileCatalyst Workflow…
Exploit Attempts Recorded Against New MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability – Patch ASAP!
A newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Software MOVEit Transfer is already seeing exploitation attempts in the wild shortly after details of the bug were publicly disclosed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5806 (CVSS score: 9.1), concerns an authentication bypass…
New MOVEit Transfer Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – Patch ASAP!
A newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Progress Software MOVEit Transfer is already seeing exploitation attempts in the wild shortly after details of the bug were publicly disclosed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5806 (CVSS score: 9.1), concerns an authentication bypass…
Apple Patches AirPods Bluetooth Vulnerability That Could Allow Eavesdropping
Apple has released a firmware update for AirPods that could allow a malicious actor to gain access to the headphones in an unauthorized manner. Tracked as CVE-2024-27867, the authentication issue affects AirPods (2nd generation and later), AirPods Pro (all models),…
Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain
The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last several years, the software supply chain has become an increasingly attractive…
Chinese and N. Korean Hackers Target Global Infrastructure with Ransomware
Threat actors with suspected ties to China and North Korea have been linked to ransomware and data encryption attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure sectors across the world between 2021 and 2023. While one cluster of activity has been associated…
New Credit Card Skimmer Targets WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart Sites
Multiple content management system (CMS) platforms like WordPress, Magento, and OpenCart have been targeted by a new credit card web skimmer called Caesar Cipher Skimmer. A web skimmer refers to malware that is injected into e-commerce sites with the goal…
New Medusa Android Trojan Targets Banking Users Across 7 Countries
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android banking trojan called Medusa that has been used to target users in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. The new fraud campaigns, observed in May 2024…
Over 110,000 Websites Affected by Hijacked Polyfill Supply Chain Attack
Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library (“polyfill.js”) to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. More than 110,000 sites…
New Attack Technique Exploits Microsoft Management Console Files
Threat actors are exploiting a novel attack technique in the wild that leverages specially crafted management saved console (MSC) files to gain full code execution using Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and evade security defenses. Elastic Security Labs has codenamed the…
How to Cut Costs with a Browser Security Platform
Browser security is becoming increasingly popular, as organizations understand the need to protect at the point of risk – the browser. Network and endpoint solutions are limited in their ability to protect from web-borne threats like phishing websites or malicious…
Wikileaks’ Julian Assange Released from U.K. Prison, Heads to Australia
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the U.K. and has departed the country after serving more than five years in a maximum security prison at Belmarsh for what was described by the U.S. government as the “largest compromises…
Multiple WordPress Plugins Compromised: Hackers Create Rogue Admin Accounts
Multiple WordPress plugins have been backdoored to inject malicious code that makes it possible to create rogue administrator accounts with the aim of performing arbitrary actions. “The injected malware attempts to create a new administrative user account and then sends…
4 FIN9-linked Vietnamese Hackers Indicted in $71M U.S. Cybercrime Spree
Four Vietnamese nationals with ties to the FIN9 cybercrime group have been indicted in the U.S. for their involvement in a series of computer intrusions that caused over $71 million in losses to companies. The defendants, Ta Van Tai (aka…
Google Introduces Project Naptime for AI-Powered Vulnerability Research
Google has developed a new framework called Project Naptime that it says enables a large language model (LLM) to carry out vulnerability research with an aim to improve automated discovery approaches. “The Naptime architecture is centered around the interaction between…
Critical RCE Vulnerability Discovered in Ollama AI Infrastructure Tool
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a now-patch security flaw affecting the Ollama open-source artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure platform that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-37032, the vulnerability has been codenamed Probllama by cloud security firm Wiz.…