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πŸ–‹οΈ Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack πŸ–‹οΈ

Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion attacks take place owing to the fact that package managers check the public repositories before private registries, thus allowing a threat actor to publish a malicious package with the same name to a public package repository. This.

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πŸ“” End-to-End Encryption Sparks Concerns Among EU Law Enforcement πŸ“”

The call comes amid the rollout of endtoend encryption on Metas Messenger platform.

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πŸ“” Millions of Americans' Data Potentially Exposed in Change Healthcare Hack πŸ“”

Millions of Americans may be impacted by the Change Healthcare data breach as UnitedHealth confirms exposed data includes personal and health information.

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πŸ“” US Imposes Visa Restrictions on Alleged Spyware Figures πŸ“”

The move is reportedly part of a broader effort to counter the misuse of surveillance technology.

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πŸ›  Nmap Port Scanner 7.95 πŸ› 

Nmap is a utility for port scanning large networks, although it works fine for single hosts. Sometimes you need speed, other times you may need stealth. In some cases, bypassing firewalls may be required. Not to mention the fact that you may want to scan different protocols UDP, TCP, ICMP, etc.. Nmap supports Vanilla TCP connect scanning, TCP SYN half open scanning, TCP FIN, Xmas, or NULL stealth scanning, TCP ftp proxy bounce attack scanning, SYNFIN scanning using IP fragments bypasses some packet filters, TCP ACK and Window scanning, UDP raw ICMP port unreachable scanning, ICMP scanning pingsweep, TCP Ping scanning, Direct non portmapper RPC scanning, Remote OS Identification by TCPIP Fingerprinting, and Reverseident scanning. Nmap also supports a number of performance and reliability...

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πŸ›  Suricata IDPE 7.0.5 πŸ› 

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multithreaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Back from the Brink: UnitedHealth Offers Sobering Post-Attack Update πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

The company reports most systems are functioning again but that analysis of the data affected will take months to complete.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ CompTIA Supports Department of Defense Efforts to Strengthen Cyber Knowledge and Skills πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ



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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ 5 Hard Truths About the State of Cloud Security 2024 πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Dark Reading talks cloud security with John Kindervag, the godfather of zero trust.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Siemens Working on Fix for Device Affected by Palo Alto Firewall Bug πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

Growing attacks targeting the flaw prompted CISA to include it in the known exploited vulnerabilities catalog earlier this month.

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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Hackers Create Legit Phishing Links With Ghost GitHub, GitLab Comments πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ

An utterly innocuous feature in popular Git CDNs allows anyone to conceal malware behind brand names, without those brands being any the wiser.

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πŸ–‹οΈ CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers πŸ–‹οΈ

A new ongoing malware campaign has been observed distributing three different stealers, such as CryptBot, LummaC2, and Rhadamanthys hosted on Content Delivery Network CDN cache domains since at least February 2024. Cisco Talos has attributed the activity with moderate confidence to a threat actor tracked as CoralRaider, a suspected Vietnameseorigin.

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πŸ“’ Microsoft issues warning over β€˜GooseEgg’ tool used in Russian hacking campaigns πŸ“’

Microsoft researchers have observed the tool being used to help install backdoors and move across networks.

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πŸ“’ Euro police chiefs rekindle end-to-end encryption battle amid continued rollouts πŸ“’

Endtoend encryption plans are putting users in danger and making it harder to fight crime, police claim, but tech industry stakeholders disagree.

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πŸ“’ Hackers have found yet another way to trick devs into downloading malware from GitHub πŸ“’

Threat actors have developed a new way to covertly embed malicious files into legitimate repositories on both GitHub and GitLab using the comment section.

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πŸ–‹οΈ eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners πŸ–‹οΈ

A new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a longstanding threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks. Cybersecurity firm Avast said the activity is the work of a threat actor with possible connections to a North Korean hacking group dubbed .

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πŸ“” Fifth of CISOs Admit Staff Leaked Data Via GenAI πŸ“”

One in five UK organizations have had corporate data exposed via generative AI, says RiverSafe.

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πŸ“” North Korean Hackers Target Dozens of Defense Companies πŸ“”

North Korean hackers ran a yearlong cyberespionage campaign against South Korean defense companies.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Major Security Flaws Expose Keystrokes of Over 1 Billion Chinese Keyboard App Users πŸ–‹οΈ

Security vulnerabilities uncovered in cloudbased pinyin keyboard apps could be exploited to reveal users' keystrokes to nefarious actors. The findings come from the Citizen Lab, which discovered weaknesses in eight of nine apps from vendors like Baidu, Honor, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi. The only vendor whose keyboard app did not have any security.

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πŸ–‹οΈ CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations πŸ–‹οΈ

Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance is a timeconsuming, highstakes process that demands strong organizational and.

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πŸ“’ Do you know your data’s worth? πŸ“’

Data underpins our lives, but many businesses do not appreciate the true value of their data and fail to adequately secure it. Heres what needs to change.

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