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🖋️ LDAPNightmare PoC Exploit Crashes LSASS and Reboots Windows Domain Controllers 🖋️

A proofofconcept PoC exploit has been released for a nowpatched security flaw impacting Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol LDAP that could trigger a denialofservice DoS condition. The outofbounds reads vulnerability is tracked as CVE202449113 CVSS score 7.5. It was addressed by Microsoft as part of Patch Tuesday updates for December 2024, alongside CVE202449112 .

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🖋️ Critical Deadline: Update Old .NET Domains Before January 7, 2025 to Avoid Service Disruption 🖋️

Microsoft has announced that it's making an "unexpected change" to the way .NET installers and archives are distributed, requiring developers to update their production and DevOps infrastructure. "We expect that most users will not be directly affected, however, it is critical that you validate if you are affected and to watch for downtime or other kinds of breakage," Richard Lander, a program.

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📔 US Confirms Russian GenAI Disinformation Op Targeted Election 📔

The US government has sanctioned Russian stateaffiliated entity CGE, which used a vast GenAI infrastructure to spread disinformation during the US Presidential election.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🌊 SentinelOne Pricing 2025: Core, Control, Complete, & Commercial Packages Comparison 🌊

SentinelOne is a wellknown player in the cybersecurity market offering a cuttingedge cybersecurity platform developed to safeguard endpoints, cloud environments, and workloads from various cyber threats. Using the capabilities of artificial intelligence AI and automation, the solution offers an integrated approach to endpoint security to prevent, detect, and respond to known and unknown threats.  Here The post SentinelOne Pricing 2025 Core, Control, Complete, Commercial Packages Comparison appeared first on UnderDefense.

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📔 Apple Agrees $95M Settlement Over Siri Privacy Violations 📔

Apple has agreed to a 95m settlement in a class action lawsuit alleging Siri privacy violations, with eligible users receiving up to 20 per Sirienabled device.

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🦅 CERT-In Issues Alert on WPForms Vulnerability That Can Disrupt Payment and Subscription Services 🦅

Overview  The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERTIn has issued an alert regarding a critical security vulnerability in the WPForms plugin for WordPress. The flaw, identified as CVE202411205, could allow attackers to bypass authorization controls and perform payment refunds and subscription cancellations on Stripepowered websites.   This WPForms plugin vulnerability, affecting WPForms versions 1.8.4 through 1.9.2.1, leaves WordPress sites vulnerable to exploitation by authenticated users with lowerlevel permissions. The vulnerability was disclosed publicly on December 9, 2024, by Wordfence researchers, and a patch was made available in WPForms version 1.9.2.2.  The flaw stems from the absence of a capability check in the wpformsisadminpage function. This function is resp...

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📢 Four years on, how's UK GDPR holding up? 📢

While some SMBs are struggling, most have stepped up to the mark in terms of data governance policies.

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📢 Healthcare data breaches are out of control – here's how the US plans to beef up security standards 📢

Changes to HIPAA security rules will require organizations to implement MFA, network segmentation, and more.

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🕵️‍♂️ Why Small Businesses Can't Rely Solely on AI to Combat Threats 🕵️‍♂️

The growing complexity of cyber threats, paired with limited resources, makes it essential for companies to adopt a more comprehensive approach that combines human vigilance with AI's capabilities.

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🕵️‍♂️ Chrome Extension Compromises Highlight Software Supply Challenges 🕵️‍♂️

The Christmas Eve compromise of datasecurity firm Cyberhaven's Chrome extension spotlights the challenges in shoring up thirdparty software supply chains.

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🦿 This Trusted App Helps Sluggish PCs Work Faster 🦿

CCleaner speeds up sluggish PCs by clearing junk files, fixing registry issues, and optimizing performance.

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🧠 Router reality check: 86% of default passwords have never been changed 🧠

Misconfigurations remain a popular compromise point and routers are leading the way. According to recent survey data, 86 of respondents have never changed their router admin password, and 52 have never adjusted any factory settings. This puts attackers in the perfect position to compromise enterprise networks. Why put the time and effort into creating phishing The post Router reality check 86 of default passwords have never been changed appeared first on Security Intelligence.

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🖋️ New AI Jailbreak Method 'Bad Likert Judge' Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60% 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model's LLM safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multiturn aka manyshot attack strategy has been codenamed Bad Likert Judge by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Yongzhe Huang, Yang Ji, Wenjun Hu, Jay Chen, Akshata Rao, and.

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📔 Atos Group Denies Space Bears' Ransomware Attack Claims 📔

Atos Group has denied the ransomware group Space Bears' claims of compromising its database, calling the allegations unfounded.

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📔 Crypto Boss Extradited to Face $40bn Fraud Charges 📔

Former Terraform CEO Do Hyeong Kwon is now in the US facing federal fraud charges.

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📔 DDoS Disrupts Japanese Mobile Giant Docomo 📔

Docomo has revealed a DDoS attack on Thursday took down key services.

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📔 Web3 Attacks Result in $2.3Bn in Cryptocurrency Losses 📔

The amount of crypto stolen in the Web3 ecosystem rose by 31.6 compared to 2023, with phishing the most costly attack vector.

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🦅 Cyble Research Reports Critical Vulnerabilities Exposing Routers, Firewalls, and Web Servers 🦅

Overview  Cyble Research Intelligence Labs CRIL has released its latest Weekly Vulnerability Insights report, offering a detailed overview of the critical vulnerabilities discovered between December 25, 2024, and December 31, 2024. The report highlights key security threats and vulnerabilities, including the addition of a major exploit to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog.  The identified vulnerabilities have exposed a range of systems to active exploitation, with attackers leveraging flaws to compromise routers, firewalls, and web servers. During the reporting period, CISA incorporated CVE20243393, a highseverity vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks PANOS, into its KEV catalog. This flaw, which affects the PANOS ...

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📔 US Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for Global Botnet Attacks 📔

The US government said that China based firm Integrity Technology Group provided infrastructure for Flax Typhoon to attack multiple US targets.

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🦿 How To Use SCP (Secure Copy) With SSH Key Authentication 🦿

Here's how to use the secure copy command, in conjunction with ssh key authentication, for an even more secure means of copying files to your remote Linux servers.

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🕵️‍♂️ Apple Offers $95M to Settle Siri Privacy Lawsuit 🕵️‍♂️

The proposed settlement would amount to roughly 20 per Apple product that has Siri enabled, for each plaintiff.

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