The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched critical flaw impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and MobileIron Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it’s being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in…
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New Docker Malware Steals CPU for Crypto & Drives Fake Website Traffic
Vulnerable Docker services are being targeted by a novel campaign in which the threat actors are deploying XMRig cryptocurrency miner as well as the 9Hits Viewer software as part of a multi-pronged monetization strategy. “This is the first documented case…
Russian COLDRIVER Hackers Expand Beyond Phishing with Custom Malware
The Russia-linked threat actor known as COLDRIVER has been observed evolving its tradecraft to go beyond credential harvesting to deliver its first-ever custom malware written in the Rust programming language. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which shared details of the…
MFA Spamming and Fatigue: When Security Measures Go Wrong
In today’s digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a more robust security measure. MFA requires…
TensorFlow CI/CD Flaw Exposed Supply Chain to Poisoning Attacks
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) misconfigurations discovered in the open-source TensorFlow machine learning framework could have been exploited to orchestrate supply chain attacks. The misconfigurations could be abused by an attacker to “conduct a supply chain compromise of TensorFlow releases on GitHub…
PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification used widely in modern computers. Collectively dubbed PixieFail by Quarkslab, the nine issues reside in the TianoCore EFI Development…
Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts
High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mind Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor “used bespoke…
Combating IP Leaks into AI Applications with Free Discovery and Risk Reduction Automation
Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better protect their intellectual property (IP) and data against the growing and…
PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions
The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the…
Webinar: The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins
In the digital age, the battleground for security professionals is not only evolving, it’s expanding at an alarming rate. The upcoming webinar, “The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins,” offers an unmissable opportunity for IT security experts…