Security News > 2024 > August

A stealthy Linux malware named 'sedexp' has been evading detection since 2022 by using a persistence technique not yet included in the MITRE ATT&CK framework. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has placed a security flaw impacting Versa Director to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of...

Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who it said used a set of WhatsApp...

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The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) paid a $1 million ransom for a decryptor that helped restore systems encrypted in a May ransomware attack [...]

A new malware called NGate allows cybercriminals to steal near field communication data from Android phones via sophisticated social engineering. The data is relayed to the fraudsters before being...

Microsoft shared a workaround for Linux boot issues triggered by August security updates on dual-boot systems with Secure Boot enabled [...]

Microsoft has released a new Windows 10 22H2 beta (KB5041582) with memory leak and crash fixes for Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels. [...]

A wave of attacks that started in July 2024 rely on a less common technique called AppDomain Manager Injection, which can weaponize any Microsoft .NET application on Windows. [...]

Halliburton, one of the world's largest providers of services to the energy industry, has confirmed a cyberattack that forced it to shut down some of its systems earlier this week. [...]