9.9-rated flaw on the loose, so patch now A critical code-injection bug in SAP S/4HANA that allows low-privileged attackers to take over your SAP system is being actively exploited, according to security researchers.… This article has been indexed from The…
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Knock-on effects of software dev break-in hit schools trust
Affinity Learning Partnership warns staff after Intradev breach A major UK education trust has warned staff that their personal information may have been compromised following a cyberattack on software developer Intradev in August.… This article has been indexed from The…
Attackers snooping around Sitecore, dropping malware via public sample keys
You cut and pasted the machine key from the official documentation? Ouch Unknown miscreants are exploiting a configuration vulnerability in multiple Sitecore products to achieve remote code execution via a publicly exposed key and deploy snooping malware on infected machines.……
Boffins build automated Android bug hunting system
AI agent system said to have found more than 100 zero-day flaws in production apps AI models get slammed for producing sloppy bug reports and burdening open source maintainers with hallucinated issues, but they also have the potential to transform…
China-aligned crew poisons Windows servers to manipulate Google results
Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits A new China-aligned cybercrime crew named GhostRedirector has compromised at least 65 Windows servers worldwide – spotted in a June internet scan – using previously undocumented malware to juice gambling sites’ rankings in…
Enterprises sticking with Windows 10 could shell out billions for continued support
Nexthink estimates ESU bills could top $7.3B as millions of devices set to miss upgrade deadline Free support is ending for many editions of Windows 10 on October 14, and enterprises unable to make the jump are on the hook…
France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies that led to crummy privacy
Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission France’s data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also whacked Google for showing ads in email…
Sainsbury’s eyes up shoplifters with live facial recognition
Privacy campaigners cry foul as grocer joins Asda, Iceland, and others in retail surveillance boom Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket chain, has caught the attention of privacy campaigners by launching an eight-week trial of live facial recognition (LFR) tech in two…
France fines Google, SHEIN, for undercooked Cookie policies that led to crummy privacy
Web giant and Chinese e-tailer whacked for dropping trackers without permission France’s data protection authority levied massive fines against Google and SHEIN for dropping cookies on customers without securing their permission, and also whacked Google for showing ads in email…
US puts $10M bounty on three Russians accused of attacking critical infrastructure
Seven-year-old Cisco vuln that remains inexplicably unpatched is their way in The US State Department has put a $10 million bounty on the heads of three Russians accused of being intelligence agents hacking America’s critical infrastructure – primarily via old…
Congressional panel throws cyber threat intel-sharing, funding a lifeline
Clock is ticking US security leaders have urged lawmakers to reauthorize two key pieces of cyber legislation, including one that facilitates threat-intel sharing between the private sector and federal government, before they expire at the end of the month.… This…
Android drops mega patch bomb – 120 fixes, two already exploited
September bundle the largest this year, and possibly the most serious Patch Tuesday is next week, but Android is ahead of the game, dropping its biggest patch bundle this year while attackers actively exploit two of the now-fixed flaws.… This…
Crims claim HexStrike AI penetration tool makes quick work of Citrix bugs
LLMs and 0-days – what could possibly go wrong? Attackers on underground forums claimed they were using HexStrike AI, an open-source red-teaming tool, against Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, according to Check Point cybersecurity evangelist Amit Weigman.… This…
It looks like you’re ransoming data. Would you like some help?
AI-powered ransomware, extortion chatbots, vibe hacking … just wait until agents replace affiliates It’s no secret that AI tools make it easier for cybercriminals to steal sensitive data and then extort victim organizations. But two recent developments illustrate exactly how…
Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown
Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up A RAID failure has taken the Matrix.org homeserver offline, leaving users of the decentralized messaging service unable to send or receive messages while engineers attempt a…
Internet mapping and research outfit Censys reveals state-based abuse, harassment
‘Universities are being used to proxy offensive government operations, turning research access decisions political’ Censys Inc, vendor of the popular Censys internet-mapping tool, has revealed that state-based actors are trying to abuse its services by hiding behind academic researchers.… This…
How big will this Drift get? Cloudflare cops to Salesloft Drift breach
Show of hands: who WASN’T targeted? The list of victims keeps growing, as yet another company — Cloudflare — today disclosed that some of its customers’ data was also compromised in the Salesloft Drift breach.… This article has been indexed from…
Who watches the watchmen? Surveillanceware firms make bank, avoid oversight
Enough governments love it and it’s highly lucrative Governments can’t get enough of hacking services to use against their citizens, despite their protestations that elements of the trade need sanctioning.… This article has been indexed from The Register – Security…
Zscaler latest victim of Salesloft Drift attacks, customer data exposed
Joins Google, Palo Alto Networks in the ever-growing supply chain compromise Zscaler is the latest company to disclose some of its customers’ data was exposed in the recent spate of Salesloft Drift attacks affecting Salesforce databases.… This article has been…
Stolen OAuth tokens expose Palo Alto customer data
Security firm’s Salesforce instance accessed using credentials stolen from Salesloft’s Drift platform breach Palo Alto Networks is writing to customers that may have had commercially sensitive data exposed after criminals used stolen OAuth credentials lifted from the Salesloft Drift break-in…