As a security team lead, your goal is to manage security for your organization at scale and ensure that your team follows AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) security best practices, such as the principle of least privilege. As your developers build on AWS, you need visibility across your …
An X account hacking spree has fueled a successful pump-and-dump scheme for the $HACKED Solana token, with people rushing to buy the coin. [...]
Microsoft says a ransomware affiliate it tracks as Vanilla Tempest now targets U.S. healthcare organizations in INC ransomware attacks. [...]
GitLab has released security updates to address a critical SAML authentication bypass vulnerability impacting self-managed installations of the GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). [...]
Second wave of exploding gear kills at least 14 today First it was pagers, now Lebanon is being rocked by Hezbollah's walkie-talkies detonating across the country, leaving more than a dozen dead.... [...]
Getting sloppy, Xi Exclusive Chinese state-sponsored spies have been spotted inside a global engineering firm's network, having gained initial entry using an admin portal's default credentials on an IBM AIX server.... [...]
Uncovering AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles potentially involved in a security event can be a complex task, requiring security analysts to gather and analyze data from various sources, and determine the full scope of affected resources. Amazon Detective includes Detective Investigation, a feature that you …
The FBI and cybersecurity researchers have disrupted a massive Chinese botnet called "Raptor Train" that infected over 260,000 networking devices to target critical infrastructure in the US and in other countries. [...]
On Tuesday, Russian anti-malware company Doctor Web (Dr.Web) disclosed a security breach after its systems were targeted in a cyberattack over the weekend. [...]
To stay ahead of evolving threats, security leaders and practitioners must tap into a vital but underutilized tool to strengthen their defenses: collaboration. The power of communication and knowledge-sharing among peers can help defenders seize the advantage when fighting threat actors who repeat the same tactics, techniques, and procedures …
Learn about the top 4 security automation use cases that can streamline your cybersecurity efforts. This guide covers reducing enriching indicators of compromise (IoCs), monitoring external attack surface(s), scanning for web application vulnerabilities and monitoring for leaked user credentials - specifically email addresses. [...]
Scammers are flooding Facebook with groups that purport to offer video streaming of funeral services for the recently deceased. Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake …
In this blog post, I take you on a deep dive into Amazon GuardDuty Runtime Monitoring for EC2 instances and key capabilities that are part of the feature. Throughout the post, I provide insights around deployment strategies for Runtime Monitoring and detail how it can deliver security value by …
Italian mafia mobsters and Irish crime families scuppered by international cops Hours after confirming they had pwned the supposedly uncrackable encrypted messaging platform used for all manner of organized crime, Ghost, cops have now named the suspect they cuffed last night, who is charged with being the alleged mastermind …
'Lives will be lost' as Moscow ramps up offensive cyber military units Feature As Russian special forces push more overtly into online operations, network defenders should be on the hunt for digital intruders looking to carry out cyberattacks that end in physical destruction and harm.... [...]
Sting led to cuffing of alleged operator behind Ghost – an app for drug trafficking, money laundering, and violence-as-a-service Australia's Federal Police (AFP) yesterday arrested and charged a man with creating and administering an app named Ghost that was allegedly "a dedicated encrypted communication platform... built solely for the criminal …
View Forever, more like it, as Meta's privacy feature again revealed to be futile with a little light hacking A fix deployed by Meta to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once messages – photos, videos, and voice recordings that disappear from chats after a recipient sees them …
So far it's more like View Forever Updated Meta's efforts to stop people repeatedly viewing WhatsApp’s so-called View Once messages – photos, videos, and voice recordings that disappear from chats after a recipient sees them – so far remain incomplete.... [...]
Temu denies it was hacked or suffered a data breach after a threat actor claimed to be selling a stolen database containing 87 million records of customer information. [...]
Bug reports made in China Broadcom has emitted a pair of patches for vulnerabilities in VMware vCenter Server that a miscreant with network access to the software could exploit to completely commandeer a system. This also affects Cloud Foundation.... [...]
Chocolate Factory downgrades risk, citing the need for attacker access Overly permissive settings in Google Cloud's Document AI service could be abused by data thieves to break into Cloud Storage buckets and steal sensitive information.... [...]
Broadcom has fixed a critical VMware vCenter Server vulnerability that attackers can exploit to gain remote code execution on unpatched servers via a network packet. [...]
Hackers are brute-forcing passwords for highly privileged accounts on exposed Foundation accounting servers, widely used in the construction industry, to breach corporate networks. [...]
Eight-year-old among those slain, Israel blamed, Iran's Lebanese ambassador wounded, it's said Lebanon says at least nine people, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed today after pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across the country. Israel has been blamed.... [...]
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has reached a $13 million settlement with AT&T to resolve a probe into whether the telecom giant failed to protect customer data after a vendor's cloud environment was breached three years ago. [...]
Auction acts as payback after authority publicly refuses to pay up The trend of ransomware crews claiming to sell stolen data privately instead of leaking it online continues with Rhysida marketing the data allegedly belonging to Port of Seattle for 100 Bitcoin (around $5.9 million).... [...]
CISA and the FBI urged tech companies to review their software and eliminate cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities before shipping. [...]
Ransomware gangs like BianLian and Rhysida increasingly use Microsoft's Azure Storage Explorer and AzCopy to steal data from breached networks and store it in Azure Blob storage. [...]
Stolen credentials are one of the top attack vectors used by attackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts and steal information. At Google, we’re continually evolving security capabilities and practices to make our cloud the most trusted cloud. To help protect your organization from stolen credentials, cookie …
Wow. It seems they all exploded simultaneously, which means they were triggered. Were they each tampered with physically, or did someone figure out how to trigger a thermal runaway remotely? Supply chain attack? Malicious code update, or natural vulnerability? I have no idea, but I expect we will all …
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Designations come as new infrastructure spins up in Africa Five individuals and one company with ties to spyware developer Intellexa are the latest to earn sanctions as the US expands efforts to stamp out spyware.... [...]
Roughly nine percent of tested firmware images use non-production cryptographic keys that are publicly known or leaked in data breaches, leaving many Secure Boot devices vulnerable to UEFI bootkit malware attacks. [...]
Alternative relationships site says it has resolved concerns about data security that tech firm claims to have uncovered Business live – latest updates Users of Feeld, a dating app aimed at alternative relationships, could have had sensitive data including messages, private photos and details of their sexuality accessed or even …
Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running …
Over 1,000 misconfigured ServiceNow enterprise instances were found exposing Knowledge Base (KB) articles that contained sensitive corporate information to external users and potential threat actors. [...]
If this really was that useful, they wouldn't be telling us According to a Chinese state-sanctioned study, signals from SpaceX Starlink broadband internet satellites could be used to track US stealth fighters, such as the F-22.... [...]
May have reeled in blueprints related to weapons development A Chinese national has been accused of conducting a years-long spear-phishing campaign that aimed to steal source code from the US Army and NASA, plus other highly sensitive software used in aerospace engineering and military applications.... [...]
The C in these CVEs stands for Confusing Analysis Microsoft, in a low-key update to its September Patch Tuesday disclosures, has confirmed a just-fixed Internet Explorer vulnerability was exploited as a zero-day before it could be patched.... [...]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A supply chain failure that compromises Secure Boot protections on computing devices from across the device-making industry extends to a much larger number of models than previously known, including those used in ATMs, point-of-sale terminals, and voting machines. The debacle was the result of non-production …
You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We'll show you memory safety! We'll borrow that borrow checker After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write less vulnerable code.... [...]
CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against a recently patched Windows MSHTML spoofing zero-day bug exploited by the Void Banshee APT hacking group. [...]
The AWS Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) has developed a methodology that you can use to investigate security incidents involving generative AI-based applications. To respond to security events related to a generative AI workload, you should still follow the guidance and principles outlined in the AWS Security Incident Response …
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for CVE-2024-29847, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Ivanti Endpoint Manager, is now publicly released, making it crucial to update devices. [...]
Now it's the default for all new accounts Snowflake continues to push forward in strengthening its users' cybersecurity posture by making multi-factor authentication the default for all new accounts.... [...]
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned five executives and one entity linked to the Intellexa Consortium for developing and distributing Predator commercial spyware. [...]
Generative artificial intelligence (AI) is now a household topic and popular across various public applications. Users enter prompts to get answers to questions, write code, create images, improve their writing, and synthesize information. As people become familiar with generative AI, businesses are looking for ways to apply these concepts …
Google announced updates in the post-quantum cryptographic key encapsulation mechanism used in the Chrome browser, specifically, the swap of Kyber used in hybrid key exchanges with Module Lattice Key Encapsulation Mechanism (ML-KEM). [...]
Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for September 2024. Today I’m taking a look at how our initiatives to drive cybersecurity collaboration across industries, regulators and governments, IT consortia, and researchers and universities can help make everyone safer online. As with all Cloud CISO Perspectives, the contents …
CISA wants everyone—and government agencies in particular—to remove or upgrade an Ivanti Cloud Service Appliance (CSA) that is no longer being supported. Welcome to the security nightmare that is the Internet of Things. [...]