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Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library ("polyfill.js") to...

While the healthcare sector gets a "B+" security rating for the first half of 2024, it faces a critical vulnerability: supply chain cyber risk, according to SecurityScorecard. The US healthcare industry's security ratings were better than expected, with an average score of 88.

A threat actor modified the source code of at least five plugins hosted on WordPress.org to include malicious PHP scripts that create new accounts with administrative privileges on websites running them. Although it is possible that the attack impacts a larger number of WordPress plugins, current evidence suggests that the compromise is limited to the aforementioned set of five.

Over 100,000 sites have been impacted in a supply chain attack by the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and the script was modified to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. The polyfill.io service is used by hundreds of thousands of sites to allow all visitors to use the same codebase, even if their browsers do not support the same modern features as newer ones.

A software maker serving more than 10,000 courtrooms throughout the world hosted an application update containing a hidden backdoor that maintained persistent communication with a malicious website, researchers reported Thursday, in the latest episode of a supply-chain attack. The software, known as the JAVS Viewer 8, is a component of the JAVS Suite 8, an application package courtrooms use to record, play back, and manage audio and video from proceedings.

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Attackers have backdoored the installer of widely used Justice AV Solutions courtroom video recording software with malware that lets them take over compromised systems. JAVS has since removed the compromised version from its official website, saying that the trojanized software containing a malicious fffmpeg.

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This highlights how digitally connected organizations are dependent on each other, and when one link in the supply chain is broken it can have a cascading effect on others. As soon as an organization's data moves over to a third party, the risks around it increase.

A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results in...