CrushFTP warned customers of an unauthenticated HTTP(S) port access vulnerability and urged them to patch their servers immediately. [...]

Cloudflare has announced that its R2 object storage and dependent services experienced an outage lasting 1 hour and 7 minutes, causing 100% write and 35% read failures globally. [...]

Broadcom released security updates today to fix a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in VMware Tools for Windows. [...]

Free unofficial patches are available for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability that can let remote attackers steal NTLM credentials by tricking targets into viewing malicious files in Windows Explorer. [...]

Customers come forward claiming info was swiped from prod Oracle Cloud's denial of a digital break-in is now in clear dispute. A infosec researcher working on validating claims that the cloud provider's login servers were compromised earlier this year says some customers have confirmed data allegedly stolen and leaked …

A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month. [...]

A new phishing campaign targets Counter-Strike 2 players utilizing Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) attacks that display a realistic window that mimics Steam's login page. [...]

New Android malware campaigns use Microsoft's cross-platform framework.NET MAUI while disguising as legitimate services to evade detection. [...]

16,000 stolen records pertain to former and active mail subscribers Infosec veteran Troy Hunt of HaveIBeenPwned fame is notifying thousands of people after phishers scooped up his Mailchimp mailing list.... [...]

Citizen Lab has a new report on Paragon’s spyware: Key Findings: Introducing Paragon Solutions. Paragon Solutions was founded in Israel in 2019 and sells spyware called Graphite. The company differentiates itself by claiming it has safeguards to prevent the kinds of spyware abuses that NSO Group and other …

Just an FYI, like Generative AI assistants packaged up as browser extensions harvest personal data with minimal safeguards, researchers warn.... [...]

There's only one rule – don't attack Russia, duh Check Point has spotted a fresh ransomware-as-a-service crew in town: VanHelsing, touting a cross-platform locker targeting Microsoft Windows, Linux, and VMware ESXi systems, among others. But so far, only Windows machines have fallen victim, we're told.... [...]

Time to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a lot of their customers' gateways going offline.... [...]

How many K8s systems are sat on the internet front porch like that... Oh, thousands, apparently Cloudy infosec outfit Wiz has discovered serious vulnerabilities in the admission controller component of Ingress-Nginx Controller that could allow the total takeover of Kubernetes clusters – and thinks more than 6,000 deployments of …

Kari, OK, we'll see you in court An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access …

Kari, OK, we'll see you in court An organization that bankrolls various internet security projects has asked a Washington DC court to prevent the Trump administration from cancelling its federal funding – and expressed fears that if the cash stops flowing, the tools it supports could become harder to access …

Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss secret government business – including detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen - and accidentally invited a journalist to join the group in which they chatted.... [...]

Massive OPSEC fail from the side who brought you 'lock her up' Updated Senior Trump administration officials used the messaging app Signal to discuss detailed plans to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen – and accidentally added a journalist to the group in which they chatted.... [...]

Be vewy vewy quiet, I'm hunting rackets The FCC is investigating whether Chinese manufacturers black-listed on its so-called Covered List - including Huawei - are still somehow doing business in America, either by misreading the rules or willfully ignoring them.... [...]

Ex-US Air Force officer says companies shouldn't wait for govt mandates Interview Former US Air Force cyber officer Sarah Cleveland worries about the threat of a major supply-chain attack from China or another adversarial nation. So she installed solar panels on her house: "Because what if the electric grid …

​California-based genetic testing provider 23andMe has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and plans to sell its assets following years of financial struggles. [...]

A new multi-platform ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation named VanHelsing has emerged, targeting Windows, Linux, BSD, ARM, and ESXi systems. [...]

Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine's national railway operator, has been hit by a massive cyberattack that disrupted online services for buying tickets both through mobile apps and the website. [...]

Many Internet service providers (ISPs) worldwide are alerting customers of an outage that started Saturday night and triggered DrayTek router connectivity problems. [...]

A China-linked advanced threat group named Weaver Ant spent more than four years in the network of a telecommunications services provider, hiding traffic and infrastructure with the help of compromised Zyxel CPE routers. [...]

African law enforcement authorities have arrested 306 suspects as part of 'Operation Red Card,' an INTERPOL-led international crackdown targeting cross-border cybercriminal networks. [...]

A critical severity vulnerability has been discovered in the Next.js open-source web development framework, potentially allowing attackers to bypass authorization checks. [...]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides service reference information in JSON format to help you automate policy management workflows. With the service reference information, you can access available actions across AWS services from machine-readable files. The service reference information helps to address a key customer need: keeping up with the …

Looking to sort through large volumes of security info? Redmond has your backend Microsoft's Security Copilot is getting some degree of agency, allowing the underlying AI model to interact more broadly with the company's security software to automate various tasks.... [...]

Acronis Threat Research found 2M+ malicious URLs & 5,000+ malware instances in Microsoft 365 backup data—demonstrating how built-in security isn't always enough. Don't let threats persist in your cloud data. Strengthen your defenses. [...]

CEO steps down after multiple failed attempts to take the DNA testing company private Beleaguered DNA testing biz 23andMe – hit by a massive cyber attack in 2023 – is filing for bankruptcy protection in the US following years of financial uncertainty.... [...]

It's been a very busy week for Digicash Donald's administration Analysis Is the US retreating from its hardline stance on crypto? On Friday, the US Treasury Department lifted sanctions imposed on notorious crypto mixer Tornado Cash, once accused of washing billions in illicit crypto for criminals and nation-states alike …

Last month, I wrote about the UK forcing Apple to break its Advanced Data Protection encryption in iCloud. More recently, both Sweden and France are contemplating mandating backdoors. Both initiatives are attempting to scare people into supporting backdoors, which are—of course—are terrible idea. Also: “ A Feminist Argument …

Throw a spanner in the works, best get good at fixing things. Now, where did you put that spanner? Opinion Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. This works well in sane times, less so when "but it's both" is the default. Apply it to …

PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more! Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according to Europol, the European agency that fights international crime on the continent and beyond.... [...]

PLUS: Zoho's Ulaa anointed India’s most patriotic browser; Typhoon-like gang targets Taiwan; Japan debates offensive cyber-ops; and more Asia In Brief China’s Cyberspace Administration and Ministry of Public Security have outlawed the use of facial recognition without consent.... [...]

Despite evidence to the contrary as alleged pilfered info goes on sale Oracle has straight up denied claims by a miscreant that its public cloud offering has been compromised and information stolen.... [...]

The FBI is warning that fake online document converters are being used to steal people's information and, in worst-case scenarios, lead to ransomware attacks. [...]

Plus AI in the infosec world, why CISA should know its place, and more Interview Russia appears to be having second thoughts on how aggressively, or at least how visibly, it attempts to influence American elections, according to a former head of the NSA.... [...]

Cloudflare announced that it closed all HTTP connections and it is now accepting only secure, HTTPS connections for api.cloudflare.com. [...]

Cybercriminals are abusing Microsoft's Trusted Signing platform to code-sign malware executables with short-lived three-day certificates. [...]

Cybercriminals are abusing Microsoft's Trusted Signing platform to code-sign malware executables with short-lived three-day certificates. [...]

Researchers have determined that Coinbase was the primary target in a recent GitHub Actions cascading supply chain attack that compromised secrets in hundreds of repositories. [...]

Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company's Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers [...]

New research : An associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern University, Deravi’s recently published paper in the Journal of Materials Chemistry C sheds new light on how squid use organs that essentially function as organic solar cells to help power their camouflage abilities. As usual, you …

Authorities in at least two U.S. states last week independently announced arrests of Chinese nationals accused of perpetrating a novel form of tap-to-pay fraud using mobile devices. Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through online phishing scams …

The Atlantic has a search tool that allows you to search for specific works in the “LibGen” database of copyrighted works that Meta used to train its AI models. (The rest of the article is behind a paywall, but not the search tool.) It’s impossible to know exactly …

A new phishing campaign is targeting SEO professionals with malicious Semrush Google Ads that aim to steal their Google account credentials. [...]

Microsoft is investigating an Exchange Online bug causing anti-spam systems to mistakenly quarantine some users' emails. [...]

Introduction As we continue to see rapid AI adoption across the industry, organizations still often struggle to implement secure solutions because of the new challenges around data privacy and security. We want customers to be successful as they develop and deploy AI, and that means carefully considering risk mitigation …