Threat actors are taking advantage of Microsoft OneNote's ability to embed files and use social engineering techniques, such as phishing emails and lures inside the OneNote document, to get unsuspecting users to download and open malicious files.
Vulnerability CVE-2023-27532 in a Veeam Backup & Replication component allows an unauthenticated user operating within the backup infrastructure network perimeter to obtain encrypted credentials stored in the configuration database. This may lead to an attacker gaining access to the backup infrastructure hosts.
The hacker claims the stolen data includes confidential presentations from Acer, along with software files for the company's PC products. Acer says consumer data was not breached.
A potentially precedent-setting legal case involving Sony Music and Quad9 may endanger internet freedom of speech and allow unchecked content censorship.
LLaMA, Meta’s latest family of large language models, has been leaked along with its weights and is now available to download through torrents
A flaw in exists in sudo’s -e option (aka sudoedit) that allows a malicious user with sudoedit privileges to edit arbitrary files.
Sudo versions affected: Sudo versions 1.8.0 through 1.9.12p1 inclusive are affected. Versions of sudo prior to 1.8.0 construct the argument vector differently and are not affected.
CVE ID: This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2023-22809 in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures database.
Details: When invoked as sudo -e or sudoedit, sudo can be used to edit privileged files while running the editor as an unprivileged user.
A PoC exploit for CVE-2023-21716, a critical RCE vulnerability in Microsoft Word that can be exploited when the user previews a specially crafted RTF document, is now publicly available.
This ransomware appeared in 2019, when cybercriminals started using it to launch attacks against organisations and critical infrastructure and industries. Based on the BitPaymer ransomware and part of the Dridex malware family, DoppelPaymer used a unique tool capable of compromising defence mechanisms by terminating the security-related process of the attacked systems. The DoppelPaymer attacks were enabled by the prolific EMOTET...
TikTok’s software development kits could undermine Joe Biden's order to stop internet traffic flowing from federal employees' phones to TikTok within 30 days.
While researching initial attack vectors, the Kroll Cyber Threat Intelligence team identified a fully featured information stealer and remote access tool in the python package index that could lead to an intensified threat landscape. Read more.
Credit Suisse is telling its clients that sensitive personal information including social security identification and contact details has been compromised.
Markets have imposed “inadequate costs” on companies that build vulnerable technology, it says.
Read the full strategy here Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the full benefits of a safe and secure digital ecosystem for all Americans. In this decisive decade, the United States will reimagine cyberspace as a tool to achieve our goals in a way that reflects our values: economic security…
What cyberthreats target young gamers? An overview of the most well-spread child threats in virtual gaming worlds.
ESET researchers are the first to publish an analysis of BlackLotus, the first in-the-wild UEFI bootkit capable of bypassing UEFI Secure Boot.
Hacking and disinformation operation has continued to expand its activity, despite separate interventions in several European countries
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Two buffer overflow vulnerabilities were discovered in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification, currently at Level 00, Revision 01.59 November 2019. An attacker who has access to a TPM-command interface can send maliciously-crafted commands to the module and trigger these vulnerabilities. This allows either read-only access to sensitive data or overwriting of normally protected data that is only available to the TPM (e.g., cryptographic keys).
We detail the update that advanced persistent threat (APT) group Iron Tiger made on the custom malware family SysUpdate. In this version, we also found components that enable the malware to compromise Linux systems.
A cryptominer that uses the Invisible Internet protocol, Honkbox variants could still be evading some detection solutions.
Lumma Stealer sellers use the name “LummaC” on an underground forum called XSS, which is based in Russia. The seller has been actively promoting the malware since April 2022. In August of that year…
