🛡 Cybersecurity & Privacy 🛡 - News
26K subscribers
89.2K links
🗞 The finest daily news on cybersecurity and privacy.

🔔 Daily releases.

💻 Is your online life secure?

📩 lalilolalo.dev@gmail.com
Download Telegram
📔 Fraud Repayment Rules Could Leave Victims Struggling, CTSI Claims 📔

The Chartered Trading Standards Institute is concerned a new cap on fraud reimbursement is too low.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🌊 Project Coordinator 🌊

The post Project Coordinator appeared first on UnderDefense.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "UnderDefense"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📔 Board-CISO Mismatch on Cyber Responsibility, NCSC Research Finds 📔

The UK NCSC found that there is a lot of confusion between board members and security leaders of who is responsible for cybersecurity within their organizations.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📔 Universal Music Group Admits Data Breach 📔

UMG, a major music corporation, reported a July 2024 data breach affecting 680 US residents.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📔 Advanced Threat Group GoldenJackal Exploits Air-Gapped Systems 📔

GoldenJackal targeted airgapped government systems from May 2022 to March 2024, ESET found.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📢 Modern enterprise cybersecurity 📢

Cultivating resilience with reduced detection and response times.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "ITPro"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🕵️‍♂️ Mideast, Turkey Cyber Threats Spike, Prompting Defense Changes 🕵️‍♂️

The vast majority of organizations in the region saw more attacks in the past year, but most don't feel prepared for future incidents.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🕵️‍♂️ GorillaBot Goes Ape With 300K Cyberattacks Worldwide 🕵️‍♂️

Among those affected by all this monkeying around with DDoS in September were some 4,000 organizations in the US.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🕵️‍♂️ Salt Typhoon APT Subverts Law Enforcement Wiretapping: Report 🕵️‍♂️

The Chinese statesponsored cyberattack threat managed to infiltrate the "lawful intercept" network connections that police use in criminal investigations.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🕵️‍♂️ CISO Paychecks: Worth the Growing Security Headaches? 🕵️‍♂️

CISOs' cash compensation tops 400,000 now, but with the high pay comes struggles, rapidly changing responsibilities, and tight budgets.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🕵️‍♂️ Malicious Chrome Extensions Skate Past Google's Updated Security 🕵️‍♂️

Google's Manifest V3 offers better privacy and security controls for browser extensions than the previous M2, but too many lax permissions and gaps remain.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Dark Reading"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🦿 Timeline: 15 Notable Cyberattacks and Data Breaches 🦿

These 15 cyber attacks or data breaches impacted large swaths of users across the United States and changed what was possible in cybersecurity.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Tech Republic"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🖋️ Pro-Ukrainian Hackers Strike Russian State TV on Putin's Birthday 🖋️

Ukraine has claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that targeted Russia state media company VGTRK and disrupted its operations, according to reports from Bloomberg and Reuters. The incident took place on the night of October 7, VGTRK confirmed, describing it as an "unprecedented hacker attack." However, it said "no significant damage" was caused and that everything was working normally.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🖋️ Qualcomm Urges OEMs to Patch Critical DSP and WLAN Flaws Amid Active Exploits 🖋️

Qualcomm has rolled out security updates to address nearly two dozen flaws spanning proprietary and opensource components, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The highseverity vulnerability, tracked as CVE202443047 CVSS score 7.8, has been described as a userafterfree bug in the Digital Signal Processor DSP Service that could lead to "memory corruption.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📔 MoneyGram Reveals Data Breach After Incident Downed Services 📔

MoneyGram has issued a data breach notification to customers following a security incident.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🦅 CISA Flags Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities Exposed Across Major Platforms 🦅

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added multiple vulnerabilities to its known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog. A total of six vulnerabilities have been identified across various products, including Zimbra Collaboration, Ivanti, DLink, DrayTek, GPAC, and SAP. Notably, these vulnerabilities span a range of severity levels, from critical to medium, demanding immediate attention. One of the most interesting entries is CVE202445519, associated with Zimbra Collaboration. This critical vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating its severe nature. The issue arises from the postjournal service in specific versions of Zimbra, which may permit unauthenticated users to execute commands.  This vulnerability was first analyzed by researche...

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "CYBLE"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📔 Global Police Track Human Traffickers in Online Crackdown 📔

Europol claims its EMPACT operation has revealed dozens of human trafficking victims and suspects.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🖋️ GoldenJackal Target Embassies and Air-Gapped Systems Using Malware Toolsets 🖋️

A littleknown threat actor tracked as GoldenJackal has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting embassies and governmental organizations with an aim to infiltrate airgapped systems using two disparate bespoke toolsets. Victims included a South Asian embassy in Belarus and a European Union government E.U. organization, Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said. "The ultimate goal of.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
📔 Cyber Fraud Cost up to $37bn in Southeast Asia Last Year 📔

A UN report found that organized crime groups in the region have rapidly integrated malware, generative AI and deepfakes to enhance their fraud activities.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🖋️ Cyberattack Group 'Awaken Likho' Targets Russian Government with Advanced Tools 🖋️

Russian government agencies and industrial entities are the target of an ongoing activity cluster dubbed Awaken Likho. "The attackers now prefer using the agent for the legitimate MeshCentral platform instead of the UltraVNC module, which they had previously used to gain remote access to systems," Kaspersky said, detailing a new campaign that began in June 2024 and continued at least until.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity
🖋️ New Case Study: The Evil Twin Checkout Page 🖋️

Is your store at risk? Discover how an innovative web security solution saved one global online retailer and its unsuspecting customers from an evil twin disaster. Read the full reallife case study here. The Invisible Threat in Online Shopping When is a checkout page, not a checkout page? When it's an evil twin! Malicious redirects can send unsuspecting shoppers to these perfectlooking.

📖 Read more.

🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

----------
👁️ Seen on @cibsecurity