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America's War on Drugs and Crime will be AI powered, says Homeland Security boss
2024-05-07 23:47

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DocGo discloses cyberattack after hackers steal patient health data
2024-05-07 22:20

Mobile medical care firm DocGo confirmed it suffered a cyberattack after threat actors breached its systems and stole patient health data. DocGo is a healthcare provider that offers mobile health services, ambulance services, and remote monitoring for patients in thirty US states and across the United Kingdom.

Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections
2024-05-07 21:50

"TunnelVision's effect is independent of the underlying VPN protocol because it reconfigures the operating system network stack the VPN relies on." Anyone who is able to operate a DHCP server on the same network as someone using a VPN, and get that VPN client's machine to use that DHCP server, can decloak their traffic because of a particular feature in the configuration protocol: option 121, which allows administrators to add classless static routes to client routing tables.

Hackers exploit LiteSpeed Cache flaw to create WordPress admins
2024-05-07 21:42

Hackers have been targeting WordPress sites with an outdated version of the LiteSpeed Cache plugin to create administrator users and gain control of the websites. LiteSpeed Cache is advertised as a caching plugin used in over five million WordPress sites that helps speed up page loads, improve visitor experience, and boost Google Search ranking.

CISA's early-warning system helped critical orgs close 852 ransomware holes
2024-05-07 19:58

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UK confirms Ministry of Defence payroll data exposed in data breach
2024-05-07 19:41

The UK Government confirmed today that a threat actor recently breached the country's Ministry of Defence and gained access to part of the Armed Forces payment network.The attacked system contained personal data belonging to active and reserve personnel as well as some recently retired veterans.

TikTok sues America to undo divest-or-die law
2024-05-07 19:02

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New attack leaks VPN traffic using rogue DHCP servers
2024-05-07 18:46

A new attack dubbed "TunnelVision" can route traffic outside a VPN's encryption tunnel, allowing attackers to snoop on unencrypted traffic while maintaining the appearance of a secure VPN connection. The attackers set up a rogue DHCP server that alters the routing tables so that all VPN traffic is sent straight to the local network or a malicious gateway, never entering the encrypted VPN tunnel.

Over 50,000 Tinyproxy servers vulnerable to critical RCE flaw
2024-05-07 17:07

Nearly 52,000 internet-exposed Tinyproxy instances are vulnerable to CVE-2023-49606, a recently disclosed critical remote code execution flaw. Cisco warned at the time that despite its efforts to alert Tinyproxy's developers of the critical flaw, it received no response, and no patch was available for users to download. On Saturday, Censys reported seeing 90,000 internet-exposed Tinyproxy services online, of which about 57% were vulnerable to CVE-2023-49606.

BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million to 800,000 in health data sharing settlement
2024-05-07 16:44

BetterHelp has agreed to pay $7.8 million in a settlement agreement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission over allegations of misusing and sharing consumer health data for advertising purposes. The data included included email addresses, IP addresses, answers from preliminary health questionnaire during sign-up process, which came with a promise of not disclosing personal health info outside limited purposes, like counseling services.