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Beware of phishing emails delivering backdoored Linux VMs!
2024-11-05 13:54

Unknown attackers are trying to trick Windows users into spinning up a custom Linux virtual machine (VM) with a pre-configured backdoor, Securonix researchers have discovered. The campaign The...

New Android Banking Malware 'ToxicPanda' Targets Users with Fraudulent Money Transfers
2024-11-05 12:16

Over 1,500 Android devices have been infected by a new strain of Android banking malware called ToxicPanda that allows threat actors to conduct fraudulent banking transactions. "ToxicPanda's main...

AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
2024-11-05 12:08

I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding...

Google patches actively exploited Android vulnerability (CVE-2024-43093)
2024-11-05 11:18

Google has delivered fixes for two vulnerabilities endangering Android users that “may be under limited, targeted exploitation”: CVE-2024-43047, a flaw affecting Qualcomm chipsets, and...

Leveraging Wazuh for Zero Trust security
2024-11-05 11:00

Zero Trust security changes how organizations handle security by doing away with implicit trust while continuously analyzing and validating access requests. Contrary to perimeter-based security,...

Report: Voice of Practitioners 2024 – The True State of Secrets Security
2024-11-05 10:30

In this study, GitGuardian and CyberArk reveal the stark reality of secrets management across 1,000 organizations. With 79% experiencing secrets leaks and an average remediation time of 27 days,...

Synology Urges Patch for Critical Zero-Click RCE Flaw Affecting Millions of NAS Devices
2024-11-05 09:34

Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker Synology has addressed a critical security flaw impacting DiskStation and BeePhotos that could lead to remote code execution. Tracked as...

Google claims Big Sleep 'first' AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed
2024-11-05 06:38

You snooze, you lose, er, win Google claims one of its AI models is the first of its kind to spot a memory safety vulnerability in the wild – specifically an exploitable stack buffer underflow in...

Open-source software: A first attempt at organization after CRA
2024-11-05 06:00

The open-source software (OSS) industry is developing the core software for the global infrastructure, to the point that even some proprietary software giants adopt Linux servers for their cloud...

Malware Campaign Uses Ethereum Smart Contracts to Control npm Typosquat Packages
2024-11-05 05:33

An ongoing campaign is targeting npm developers with hundreds of typosquat versions of their legitimate counterparts in an attempt to trick them into running cross-platform malware. The attack is...