Security News > 2024 > November

Week in review: Microsoft patches actively exploited 0-days, Amazon and HSBC employee data leaked
2024-11-17 09:00

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039) November 2024 Patch...

Fake AI video generators infect Windows, macOS with infostealers
2024-11-16 20:14

Fake AI image and video generators infect Windows and macOS with the Lumma Stealer and AMOS information-stealing malware, used to steal credentials and cryptocurrency wallets from infected devices. [...]

T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in recent wave of telecom breaches
2024-11-16 17:47

T-Mobile confirms it was hacked in the wave of recently reported telecom breaches conducted by Chinese threat actors to gain access to private communications, call records, and law enforcement...

GitHub projects targeted with malicious commits to frame researcher
2024-11-16 15:30

GitHub projects have been targeted with malicious commits and pull requests, in an attempt to inject backdoors into these projects. Most recently, the GitHub repository of Exo Labs, an AI and...

Rust haters, unite! Fil-C aims to Make C Great Again
2024-11-16 10:12

It's memory-safe, with a few caveats Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option...

PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs and Patch Released
2024-11-16 08:21

Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management...

Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware
2024-11-16 07:07

QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system Switzerland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about malware being spread via the country's postal service.…

Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials
2024-11-16 06:25

A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet's FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework called DEEPDATA....

Bloke behind Helix Bitcoin launderette jailed for three years, hands over $400M
2024-11-16 00:58

Digital money laundering pays, until it doesn't An Ohio man, who operated the Grams dark-web search engine and the Helix cryptocurrency money-laundering service associated with it, has been...

Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect
2024-11-16 00:03

LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you'd never know it from the behavior of...