In January 2024, Microsoft discovered they'd been the victim of a hack orchestrated by Russian-state hackers Midnight Blizzard (sometimes known as Nobelium). The concerning detail about this case is how easy it was to breach the software giant. It wasn't a highly technical hack that exploited a zero-day vulnerability – the hackers used a simple password spray attack to take control of an old, inactive account. This serves as a stark reminder of the importance of password security and why organizations need to protect every user account.

The British Library has shared details on the destructive ransomware attack it experienced in October 2023. Although the attack on the national library of the UK occurred five months ago, the Library’s infrastructure won’t be rebuilt until mid-April 2024, and then the full restoration of systems and data can begin.

This page is short for now but it will get updated as I learn more about the incident. Most likely it will be during the first week of April 2024.

The Git repositories of XZ projects are on git.tukaani.org.

xz.tukaani.org DNS name (CNAME) has been removed. The XZ projects currently don’t have a home page. This will be fixed in a few days.

La semaine dernière, des menaces d'attentats ont été envoyés aux élèves, aux personnels et aux familles suite au piratage de l'environnement numérique de travail de la région Ile de France. Cette fois, c'est l'académie de Lille qui est touchée, et ce dans un contexte sécuritaire inquiétant.

An online tool offers a service to obfuscate PHP code, but it also silently inserts a backdoor into the code that allows any other PHP code to be executed!

CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables on system admins

Red Hat Information Risk and Security and Red Hat Product Security learned that the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries contain malicious code that appears to be intended to allow unauthorized access.

A cybercrime group has published information stolen from NHS Dumfries and Galloway.

Not only that but someone, having spotted this reoccurring hallucination, had turned that made-up dependency into a real one, which was subsequently downloaded and installed thousands of times by developers as a result of the AI's bad advice, we've learned. If the package was laced with actual malware, rather than being a benign test, the results could have been disastrous.

A vulnerability has been discovered in the 'util-linux' library that could allow unprivileged users to put arbitrary text on other users' terminals using the 'wall' command.

Automation is making attacks on open source code repositories harder to fight.

A WIRED investigation uncovered coordinates collected by a controversial data broker that reveal sensitive information about visitors to an island once owned by Epstein, the notorious sex offender.

Lass Security's recent research on AI Package Hallucinations extends the attack technique to GPT-3.5-Turbo, GPT-4, Gemini Pro (Bard), and Coral (Cohere).

Overview This week, the Sonicwall Capture Labs threat research team analyzed a ransomware calling itself Lighter Ransomware. Upon execution, it opens up a window with a countdown timer instructing the victim to reach out immediately […]

The U.S. State Department on Wednesday offered up to $10 million for information on the "Blackcat" ransomware gang who hit the UnitedHealth Group's tech unit and snarled insurance payments across America.
"The ALPHV Blackcat ransomware-as-a-service group compromised computer networks of critical infrastructure sectors in the United States and worldwide," the department said in a statement announcing the reward offer.

The United States and China are locked in a new race, in space and on Earth, over a fundamental resource: time itself.

And the United States is losing.

Global positioning satellites serve as clocks in the sky, and their signals have become fundamental to the global economy — as essential for telecommunications, 911 services and financial exchanges as they are for drivers and lost pedestrians.

Defendants Operated as Part of the APT31 Hacking Group in Support of China’s Ministry of State Security’s Transnational Repression, Economic Espionage and Foreign Intelligence Objectives

Chinese-language Phishing-as-a-Service platform ‘darcula’ targets organizations in 100+ countries with sophisticated techniques using more than 20,000 phish ...

Researchers say it's the first known in-the-wild attack targeting AI workloads.