Cybersecurity
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A plea for network defenders and software manufacturers to fix common problems. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The National Security Agency (NSA) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are releasing this joint cybersecurity advisory (CSA) to highlight the most common cybersecurity misconfigurations in large organizations, and detail the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) actors use to exploit […]
The British data privacy authority on Friday announced a preliminary enforcement notice against the American camera and social media company Snap Inc. for potentially failing to adequately assess the privacy threat posed by “My AI,” a generative AI chatbot embedded in its app. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which also helps enforce the European Union’s […]
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Oct 09, 2023NewsroomCyber War / Cyber Threat A Gaza-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks aimed at Israeli private-sector energy, defense, and telecommunications organizations. Microsoft, which revealed details of the activity in its fourth annual Digital Defense Report, is tracking the campaign under the name Storm-1133. “We assess this group […]
A notorious ransomware gang has claimed attacks against two government institutions this week, both of which confirmed they faced a range of issues due to the incidents. The city of Gondomar – a suburb about 20 minutes away from the Portuguese city of Porto – said on September 27 that it was the target of […]
The stolen voter records include personal details such as names, registration IDs, partial Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, and contact information, raising concerns about potential identity theft and privacy risks.
In the middle of September 2023, vulnerability advisory resources disclosed the details of an Unauthenticated Stored XSS vulnerability in the tagDiv Composer (the companion plugin for the popular tagDiv premium themes Newspaper and Newsmag). Shortly after that, we started noticing new waves of Balada malware injections on websites that were actively using tagDiv themes. This […]
The US cybersecurity agency CISA has removed several Owl Labs product flaws from its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog after SecurityWeek privately called into question its decision. In mid-September, CISA added to its KEV catalog four vulnerabilities affecting Owl Labs’ Meeting Owl smart video conferencing product, a device shaped like an owl that features a […]
Cybercriminals are now deploying ransomware within the first day of initially compromising their targets, a dramatic drop on the 4.5 days that the task had been taking last year, according to a new threat report. Cybersecurity company Secureworks warns that “2023 may be the most prolific year for ransomware attacks to date” with three times […]