23% of Americans said they recently came across a political deepfake they later discovered to be fake, according to McAfee. The actual number of people exposed to political and other deepfakes is expected to be much higher given many Americans are not able to decipher what is real versus fake, thanks to the sophistication of […]
Similar to a recently reported issue in GitHub, users can abuse the “comments” feature in GitLab to upload malware to any repository without the repository owner’s knowledge.
Researchers at US-Israeli infosec outfit SafeBreach recently discussed flaws in Microsoft and Kaspersky endpoint security products that can potentially allow the remote deletion of files.
Recently, the Debian security team fixed several issues in GTKWave, an open-source waveform viewer for VCD (Value Change Dump) files. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could result in the execution of arbitrary code, posing a significant risk to users. The security updates address a total of 82 identified vulnerabilities. This article details some of the patched […]
Recently, FortiGuard Labs observed multiple attacks focusing on this year-old vulnerability, spotlighting botnets like Moobot, Miori, the Golang-based agent “AGoent,” and the Gafgyt Variant.
ARC Labs recently analyzed a phishing email used in a credential harvesting campaign that leveraged a lure notifying the target they received a voice message and needed to visit a link to access it. Analysis of the payload revealed heavily obfuscated HTML data which executed JavaScript code embedded within an SVG image when the page […]
Recently, we observed a phishing campaign targeting the Latin American region. The phishing email contained a ZIP file attachment that when extracted reveals an HTML file that leads to a malicious file download posing as an invoice. Figure 1. Phishing email sample with zip file attachment Upon checking the email header, we see that […]
Last updated 3 April, 2024 On our podcast recently, one of our students, Sam, asked about the sync button in DJing. He said: “Please help me to understand something. I started DJing in later life, now aged 52. I love the technology. I rip samples, I use stems, I loop on three decks, and so […]
An Iranian state-backed hacking group recently infiltrated a company that makes academic administration software and used that access to intimidate other Israeli organizations, analysts said on Thursday. The overall goal of the operation appeared to be hacktivism and not necessarily financial gain, according to OP Innovate, the Israeli company that investigated the incident. In November, […]