Hundreds of companies and organizations showcased their products and services last week at the 2024 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.
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How Phishing Attacks Adapt Quickly to Capitalize on Current Events
In 2023, no fewer than 94 percent of businesses were impacted by phishing attacks, a 40 percent increase compared to the previous year, according to research from Egress.
What’s behind the surge in phishing? One popular answer is AI – particularly generative AI, which has made it trivially easier for threat actors to craft content that they can use in phishing campaigns, like malicious emails
What’s behind the surge in phishing? One popular answer is AI – particularly generative AI, which has made it trivially easier for threat actors to craft content that they can use in phishing campaigns, like malicious emails
Bipartisan Bill to Tighten Vulnerability Disclosure Rules for Federal Contractors
The Federal Contractor Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2024 would require federal contractors to adhere to NIST’s vulnerability disclosure guidelines.
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Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Solarman and Deye Solar Systems
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a number of security shortcomings in photovoltaic system management platforms operated by Chinese companies Solarman and Deye that could enable malicious actors to cause disruption and power blackouts.
“If exploited, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to control inverter settings that could take parts of the grid down, potentially causing
“If exploited, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to control inverter settings that could take parts of the grid down, potentially causing
The AI Hangover is Here – The End of the Beginning
After a good year of sustained exuberance, the hangover is finally here. It’s a gentle one (for now), as the market corrects the share price of the major players (like Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google), while other players reassess the market and adjust priorities. Gartner calls it the trough of disillusionment, when interest wanes and implementations fail to deliver the promised breakthroughs.
FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability
The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating high severity.
“A signal handler in sshd(8) may call a logging function
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating high severity.
“A signal handler in sshd(8) may call a logging function
The UN Is Moving to Fight Cybercrime but Privacy Groups Say Human Rights Will Be Violated
A global deal on the criminal use of computer technology is moving ahead despite worries it will let governments around the world violate human rights.
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Industrial Remote Access Tool Ewon Cosy+ Vulnerable to Root Access Attacks
Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the industrial remote access solution Ewon Cosy+ that could be abused to gain root privileges to the devices and stage follow-on attacks.
The elevated access could then be weaponized to decrypt encrypted firmware files and encrypted data such as passwords in configuration files, and even get correctly signed X.509 VPN certificates for foreign
The elevated access could then be weaponized to decrypt encrypted firmware files and encrypted data such as passwords in configuration files, and even get correctly signed X.509 VPN certificates for foreign
EastWind Attack Deploys PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors Using Booby-Trapped LNK Files
The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed EastWind.
The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that, upon opening, activates the infection sequence, culminating in the deployment of malware such
The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that, upon opening, activates the infection sequence, culminating in the deployment of malware such
Chinese hacking groups target Russian government, IT firms
A series of targeted cyberattacks that started at the end of July 2024, targeting dozens of systems used in Russian government organizations and IT companies, are linked to Chinese hackers of the APT31 and APT 27 groups. […]