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Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday. The...
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Baleen whales, including humpbacks, right whales and blue whales, have evolved a unique larynx that allows them to produce super low-frequency sounds which can travel huge distances. Toothed whales which include sperm whales, dolphins, porpoises and orcas, are the among loudest animals on Earth and use ultra-fast clicks for echolocation, to "See" their world, as well as soft burst pulses and whistles to communicate.
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Microsoft has started testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu, a new experiment the company says will help users find new "Great" apps in the Microsoft Store. Microsoft says the app ads will appear only on Windows Insiders systems in the U.S. and not on managed devices in enterprise environments.
Earlier today, Palo Alto Networks revealed that a critical command injection vulnerability in the company's firewalls has been exploited in limited attacks and has urged customers with vulnerable devices to quickly implement mitigations and workarounds. Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 and Volexity have now released threat briefs with more information about the attacks, threat hunting queries, YARA rules, and indicators of compromise.
On Friday, the Federal Bureau of Investigation warned of a massive ongoing wave of SMS phishing attacks targeting Americans with lures regarding unpaid road toll fees. "Since early-March 2024, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center has received over 2,000 complaints reporting smishing texts representing road toll collection service from at least three states," the FBI explained in a public service announcement published today.
Telegram fixed a zero-day vulnerability in its Windows desktop application that could be used to bypass security warnings and automatically launch Python scripts. The next day, a proof of concept exploit was shared on the XSS hacking forum explaining that a typo in the source code for Telegram for Windows could be exploited to send Python.
This caused the file to automatically be executed by Python without a warning from Telegram like it does for other executables, and was supposed to do for this file if it wasn't for a typo. In a statement to BleepingComputer, Telegram rightfully disputes that the bug was a zero-click flaw but confirmed they fixed the "Issue" in Telegram for Windows to prevent Python scripts from automatically launching when clicked.
Former Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed was sentenced to three years in prison for hacking two cryptocurrency exchanges in July 2022 and stealing over $12 million. The breached entities are Nirvana Finance, a decentralized crypto exchange, and an unnamed exchange on the Solana blockchain platform that Ahmed hacked using his smart contract reverse engineering and blockchain audit skills.