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JetBrains has fixed a critical vulnerability that could expose users of its integrated development environments to GitHub access token compromise. CVE-2024-37051 is a vulnerability in the JetBrains GitHub plugin on the IntelliJ open-source platform, and affects all IntelliJ-based IDEs as of 2023.1 onwards that have it enabled and configured/in-use.
In many cases, Ebury operators could gain full access to large servers of ISPs and well-known hosting providers. "We have documented cases where the infrastructure of hosting providers was compromised by Ebury. In these cases, we have seen Ebury being deployed on servers rented out by those providers, with no warning to the lessees. This resulted in cases where the Ebury actors were able to compromise thousands of servers at once," says Marc-Etienne M. Léveillé, the ESET researcher who investigated Ebury for more than a decade.
A malware botnet called Ebury is estimated to have compromised 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, out of which more than 100,000 were still compromised as of late 2023. The findings come from...
How Google plans to make stolen session cookies worthless for attackersGoogle is working on a new security feature for Chrome called Device Bound Session Credentials, meant to prevent attackers from using stolen session cookies to gain access user accounts. A "Cascade" of errors let Chinese hackers into US government inboxesMicrosoft still doesn't known how Storm-0558 attackers managed to steal the Microsoft Services Account cryptographic key they used to forge authentication tokens needed to access email accounts belonging to US government officials.
Attackers are leveraging a vulnerability in Anyscale's Ray AI software to compromise enterprise servers and saddle them with cryptominers and reverse shells."We observed hundreds of compromised clusters in the past three weeks alone. Each cluster uses a public IP address, and most clusters contain hundreds to thousands of servers. There are hundreds of servers that are still vulnerable and exposed."
The future of data privacy is the end of compromise. With the world producing data at astounding rates, we need ways to put data to the best use while protecting against breaches and ensuring privacy, data protection and access control.
OpenSSL, LibreSSL, OpenSSH users, don't worry – you can sit this one out An academic study has shown how it's possible for someone to snoop on certain devices' SSH connections and, with a bit of...
For SOC teams to be able to defend their organization against ransomware attacks, they need to have the right security toolset, but also an understanding of the three primary ransomware attack stages. Instead, there are often many different indicators of compromise at different stages of the attack that seem benign when looked at individually.
Cisco Talos discovered a new critical zero-day vulnerability in the Web User Interface feature of Cisco IOS XE software that's currently being used in the wild. The vulnerability used to access the system and create those accounts is CVE-2023-20198; it received the highest Common Vulnerability Scoring System score of 10.
"The driver for the reduction in median dwell time is likely due to the cybercriminals' desire for a lower chance of detection. The cybersecurity industry has become much more adept at detecting activity that is a precursor to ransomware. As a result, threat actors are focusing on simpler and quicker to implement operations, rather than big, multi-site enterprise-wide encryption events that are significantly more complex. But the risk from those attacks is still high," said Don Smith, VP Threat Intelligence, Secureworks Counter Threat Unit. "While we still see familiar names as the most active threat actors, the emergence of several new and very active threat groups is fuelling a significant rise in victim and data leaks. Despite high-profile takedowns and sanctions, cybercriminals are masters of adaptation, and so the threat continues to gather pace," Smith continued.