Security News

Week in review: 73M customers affected by AT&T data leak, errors led to US govt inboxes compromise
2024-04-07 08:00

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.

Feds probe alleged classified US govt data theft and leak
2024-04-04 18:20

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Shopping platform PandaBuy data leak impacts 1.3 million users
2024-04-01 15:00

Data belonging to more than 1.3 million customers of the PandaBuy online shopping platform has been leaked, allegedly after two threat actors exploited multiple vulnerabilities to breach systems. According to data breach aggregation service Have I Been Pwned, 1,348,407 PandaBuy accounts have been exposed in the breach.

New Linux Bug Could Lead to User Password Leaks and Clipboard Hijacking
2024-03-29 10:49

Details have emerged about a vulnerability impacting the "wall" command of the util-linux package that could be potentially exploited by a bad actor to leak a user's password or alter the...

INC Ransom threatens to leak 3TB of NHS Scotland stolen data
2024-03-27 17:59

The INC Ransom extortion gang is threatening to publish three terabytes of data allegedly stolen after breaching the National Health Service of Scotland. In a post yesterday, the cybercriminals shared multiple images containing medical details and said that they would leak data "Soon," unless the NHS pays a ransom.

New GoFetch Vulnerability in Apple’s M Chips Allows Secret Keys Leak on Compromised Computers
2024-03-26 13:00

The newly exposed GoFetch vulnerability affecting Apple's M1, M2 and M3 chips lets an attacker exfiltrate secret keys from cryptographic applications on a targeted system. DMPs - in contrast to classical prefetchers that only store the memory access pattern - "Also take into account the contents of data memory directly to determine what to prefetch," as written in the publication from Boru Chen, Yingchen Wang, Pradyumna Shome, Christopher W. Fletcher, David Kohlbrenner, Riccardo Paccagnella and Daniel Genkin that reveals all of the details about the GoFetch vulnerability.

New "GoFetch" Vulnerability in Apple M-Series Chips Leaks Secret Encryption Keys
2024-03-25 09:02

A new security shortcoming discovered in Apple M-series chips could be exploited to extract secret keys used during cryptographic operations. Dubbed GoFetch, the vulnerability relates to a...

Microsoft confirms memory leak in March Windows Server security update
2024-03-25 01:15

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Hardware-level Apple Silicon vulnerability can leak cryptographic keys
2024-03-22 15:03

Apple is having its own Meltdown/Spectre moment with a new side-channel vulnerability found in the architecture of Apple Silicon processors that gives malicious apps the ability to extract cryptographic keys. "We reverse-engineered DMPs on Apple m-series CPUs and found that the DMP activates data loaded from memory that 'looks like' a pointer," the team say in the paper.

US task force aims to plug security leaks in water sector
2024-03-20 18:32

US government is urging state officials to band together to improve the cybersecurity of the country's water sector amid growing threats from foreign adversaries. The Environmental Protection Agency announced it is seeking to establish a Water Sector Cybersecurity Task Force to beef up current work to implement "Immediate" solutions to prevent one of the US's most critical services from disruption.