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"The volume of malicious users and malicious projects being created on the index in the past week has outpaced our ability to respond to it in a timely fashion, especially with multiple PyPI administrators on leave," the admins said in a notice published on May 20, 2023. No additional details about the nature of the malware and threat actors involved in publishing those rogue packages to PyPI were disclosed.
APC's Easy UPS Online Monitoring Software is vulnerable to unauthenticated arbitrary remote code execution, allowing hackers to take over devices and, in a worst-case scenario, disabling its functionality altogether.While denial-of-service flaws are generally not considered very dangerous, as many UPS devices are located in data centers, the consequences of such an outage are magnified as it could block the remote management of devices.
DuckDuckGo apps and extensions are now blocking Google Sign-in pop-ups on all its apps and browser extensions, removing what it perceives as an annoyance and a privacy risk for its users. A standalone web browser is also in the works, currently in beta and only available for macOS. The company announced today that all its Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Microsoft Edge apps and browser extensions will now actively block Google sign-in prompts displayed on sites.
Intel has disclosed how it may be able to protect systems against some physical threats by repurposing circuitry originally designed to counter variations in voltage and timing that may occur as silicon circuits age. According to Intel, adding the TRC brings fault injection detection technology to the Converged Security and Management Engine, a part of the Platform Controller Hub chipset in Alder Lake.
Amazon's cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service. Amazon GuardDuty is described as a threat detection service that can continuously monitor AWS accounts and workloads for malicious activity, and can initiate automated responses.
Microsoft will pay more - up to $26,000 more - for "High-impact" bugs in its Office 365 products via its bug bounty program. The new "Scenario-based" payouts to the Dynamics 365 and Power Platform Bounty Program and M365 Bounty Program aim to incentivize bug hunters to focus on finding vulnerabilities with "The highest potential impact on customer privacy and security," Microsoft said late last week.
In this video for Help Net Security, Chris Westphal, Cybersecurity Evangelist at Ordr, talks about an alert that came out recently from CISA and the Department of Energy, about potential threats to uninterruptible power supply devices that are connected to the internet. UPS devices are used to provide emergency power, they're usually connected to critical infrastructure.
Cyberattackers are targeting uninterruptible power supply devices, which provide battery backup power during power surges and outages. UPS devices are usually used in mission-critical environments, safeguarding critical infrastructure installations and important computer systems and IT equipment, so the stakes are high.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Energy are jointly warning of attacks against internet-connected uninterruptible power supply devices by means of default usernames and passwords. "Organizations can mitigate attacks against their UPS devices, which provide emergency power in a variety of applications when normal power sources are lost, by removing management interfaces from the internet," the agencies said in a bulletin published Tuesday.
In a joint advisory with the Department of Energy, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned U.S. organizations today to secure Internet-connected UPS devices from ongoing attacks. UPS devices are regularly used as emergency power backup solutions in mission-critical environments, including data centers, industrial facilities, server rooms, and hospitals.