Shalev Hulio is remaking his image but is still involved in a web of cybersecurity ventures with his old colleagues from NSO Group.
I wrote a piece recently about Copilot+ Recall, a new Microsoft Windows 11 feature which — in the words of Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella- takes “screenshots” of your PC constantly, and makes it into an…
NIST announced on Wednesday that it will be receiving outside help to get the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) back on track within the next few months.
The organization informed the cybersecurity community in February that it should expect delays in the analysis of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) identifiers in the NVD, saying that it was working to establish a consortium to improve the program.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to predict that artificial intelligence will affect every aspect of our society. Not by doing new things. But mostly by doing things that are already being done by humans, perfectly competently.
Replacing humans with AIs isn’t necessarily interesting. But when an AI takes over a human task, the task changes.
Hackers are utilizing code from a Python clone of Microsoft's venerable Minesweeper game to hide malicious scripts in attacks on European and US financial organizations.
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
Live Nation Entertainment, also known as Ticketmaster, has submitted an official Form 8-K with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),
A hacker has released a jailbroken version of ChatGPT called "GODMODE GPT."
Earlier today, a self-avowed white hat operator and AI red teamer who goes by the name Pliny the Prompter took to X-formerly-Twitter to announce the creation of the jailbroken chatbot, proudly declaring that GPT-4o, OpenAI's latest large language model, is now free from its guardrail shackles.
Yes, the title is right. This blog covers an XML eXternal Entity (XXE) injection vulnerability that I found in SharePoint. The bug was recently patched by Microsoft. In general, XXE vulnerabilities are not very exciting in terms of discovery and related technical aspects. They may sometimes be fun t
The spyware maker's founder, Bryan Fleming, said pcTattletale is "out of business and completely done," following a data breach.
At least seven more Russian, Belarusian, Latvian, and Israeli journalists and activists have been targeted with Pegasus within the EU.
Law enforcement agencies in the United States and Europe today announced Operation Endgame, a coordinated action against some of the most popular cybercrime platforms for delivering ransomware and data-stealing malware. Dubbed "the largest ever operation against botnets," the international effort…
We have observed active exploitation attempts targeting three high-severity CVEs: CVE-2024-2194, CVE-2023-6961, and CVE-2023-40000.
Après avoir été rejetée aux urnes le 7 mars 2021, la réglementation sur l’identité électronique renaît de ses cendres avec une nouvelle approche qui donne le rôle principal à l’État comme exploitant d’une infrastructure de confiance et comme émetteur de l’e-ID. La nouvelle infrastructure permet également aux acteurs publics et privé d'émettre d'autres justificatifs électroniques. Le nouveau projet de loi est actuellement entre les mains du Parlement fédéral.
Covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.
Another day, another accidental exploit 🥳. This time abusing Parallels Desktop’s trust in macOS installers, gaining local privilege escalation!
Executive Summary Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs identified a destructive event, as over 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers were taken offline belonging to a single internet service provider (ISP). The incident took place over a 72-hour period between October 25-27, rendered the infected devices permanently inoperable, and required a hardware-based replacement. Public scan data Lumen Technologies’ Black Lotus Labs identified a destructive event, as over 600,000 small office/home office (SOHO) routers were taken offline belonging to a single internet service provider (ISP).
Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities in popular WordPress plugins that allow attackers to create rogue admin accounts.
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Multiple TTPs utilized in this campaign bear some overlap with North Korean APT groups.
Data breach at pension scheme being taken ‘extremely seriously’, but broadcaster says there is no evidence of a ransomware attack
Gather round, gather round - it’s time for another blogpost tearing open an SSLVPN appliance and laying bare a recent in-the-wild exploited bug. This time, it is Check Point who is the focus of our penetrative gaze.
Check Point, for those unaware, is the vendor responsible for the 'CloudGuard Network Security' appliance, yet another device claiming to be secure and hardened. Their slogan - "you deserve the best security" - implies they are a company you can trust with the security of your network. A bold claim.
On Sunday, May 5th, I received an email from a person claiming to have access to a massive leak of API documentation from inside Google’s Search division.
A macOS version of the LightSpy surveillance framework has been discovered, confirming the extensive reach of a tool only previously known for targeting Android and iOS devices.
Chinese nationals Yunhe Wang, Jingping Liu, and Yanni Zheng have been sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for operating the residential proxy service 911 S5, which was a botnet comprised of over 19 million residential IP addresses that had been used to support various cybercrime groups' COVID-19 relief scams and bomb threats, Ars Technica reports.
A court-authorized international law enforcement operation led by the U.S. Justice Department disrupted a botnet used to commit cyber attacks, large-scale fraud, child exploitation, harassment, bomb threats, and export violations.
A new vulnerability has been discovered in macOS Sonoma that is associated with privilege escalation. This vulnerability has been assigned
Today we loaded 16.5M email addresses and 13.5M unique passwords provided by law enforcement agencies into Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) following botnet takedowns in a campaign they've coined Operation Endgame. That link provides an excellent overview so start there then come back to this blog post which
Between 27 and 29 May 2024 Operation Endgame, coordinated from Europol’s headquarters, targeted droppers including, IcedID, SystemBC, Pikabot, Smokeloader, Bumblebee and Trickbot. The actions focused on disrupting criminal services through arresting High Value Targets, taking down the criminal infrastructures and freezing illegal proceeds. This approach had a global impact on the dropper ecosystem. The malware, whose infrastructure was taken down...
Continuing a string of successful botnet takedowns, on Thursday, May 30th 2024, a coalition of international law enforcement agencies announced "Operation Endgame". This effort targeted multiple botnets such as IcedID, Smokeloader, SystemBC, Pikabot and Bumblebee, as well as some of the operators of these botnets. These botnets played a key part in enabling ransomware, thereby causing damages to society estimated to be over a hundred million euros. This coordinated effort is the largest operation ever against botnets involved with ransomware.
Cybercriminals are abusing Stack Overflow in an interesting approach to spreading malware—answering users' questions by promoting a malicious PyPi package that installs Windows information-stealing malware.
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
Our customers’ safety is our utmost priority. In order to protect our customers from any potential security threats, we’ve rolled out major bug-fix releases for several older versions of TeamCity (versions 2022.04 through 2023.11).
A couple months ago, my colleague Winston Ho and I chained a series of unfortunate bugs into a zero-interaction local privilege escalation in Zscaler Client Connector. This was an interesting journey into Windows RPC caller validation and bypassing several checks, including Authenticode verification. Check out the original Medium blogpost for Winston’s own ZSATrayManager Arbitrary File Deletion (CVE-2023-41969)!
Cooler Master, a popular computer hardware maker, has allegedly suffered from a data breach, exposing the company’s corporate data as well as the personal details of members from its fan-based members program.
The attackers claim to have stolen 103GB of data from the company’s servers on May 18th. According to the attacks’ perpetrators, the allegedly stolen information carries a trove of sensitive data, including Cooler Master’s Fanzone members’ payment card details.
Explore the rise of Black Basta as a top ransomware threat, their sophisticated tactics, notable attacks, and future implications for cybersecurity.
The online criminal bazaar BreachForums has been resurrected merely two weeks after a U.S.-led coordinated law enforcement action dismantled and seized control of its infrastructure.
Cybersecurity researchers and dark web trackers Brett Callow, Dark Web Informer, and FalconFeeds revealed the site's online return at breachforums[.]st – one of the dismantled sites – by a user named ShinyHunters, who has since offered for sale a 1.3 TB database containing details of allegedly 560 million Ticketmaster customers for $500,000.
CVE-2024-23108 Fortinet FortiSIEM Command Injection Deep-Dive and Indicators of Compromise. This blog details a command injection vulnerability which allows an unauthenticated attacker to access the FortiSIEM server as root to execute arbitrary commands.
A leaked list of phone numbers reveals how Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s regime used Pegasus spyware sought to track political opponents and members of his own party.
PCTattletale is a simple stalkerware app. Rather than the sophisticated monitoring of many similarly insecure competitors it simply asks for permission to record the targeted device (Android and Windows are supported) on infection. Afterward the observer can log in to an online portal and activate recording, at which point a screen capture is taken on the device and played on the target's browser.
Over the past few months, we have observed increased interest of malicious groups in leveraging remote-access VPN environments as an entry point and
The hacking group RansomHub is threatening to release “sensitive personal information” about the auction house’s clients.
Netskope Threat Labs is tracking multiple phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers. The campaigns are likely the work of different
In the ever-evolving landscape of cyberthreats, staying ahead of malicious actors is a constant challenge. The latest edition of Cyber Signals dives deep into the world of Storm-0539, also known as Atlas Lion, shedding light on their sophisticated methods of gift and payment card theft.
DEVCORE research team found a 9-year-old WAN bug on RouterOS, the product of MikroTik. Combined with another bug of the Canon printer, DEVCORE becomes the first team ever to successfully complete an attack chain in the brand new SOHO Smashup category of Pwn2Own. And DEVCORE also won the title of Master of Pwn in Pwn2Own Toronto 2022.
