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WordPress Neon Text plugin versions 1.1 and below suffer from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.

Cisco Talos observed a surge in GhostSec, a hacking group’s malicious activities since this past year. GhostSec has evolved with a new GhostLocker 2.0 ransomware, a Golang variant of the GhostLocker ransomware.

. The bulk of her career was with a manufacturing company working as a security and email administrator, but she uses her criminal justice degree daily now with Talos IR helping to track down bad actors or helping customers understand adversaries’ motivation and tactics.

Apple’s newest encryption technology, called PQ3, now secures iMessages with end-to-end encryption that is quantum-resistant.

Plus: Mozilla patches 12 flaws in Firefox, Zoom fixes seven vulnerabilities, and more critical updates from February.

Faye, a veteran at Microsoft for 22 years, has had a career as varied as it is long. Her journey began in 2002 as the first desktop security Project Manager (PM) in Microsoft IT. From there, she transitioned into owning a deployment team that deployed to desktops and handled operations for Office’s first few customers.

Other potential code execution vulnerabilities are also present in Weston Embedded µC/HTTP-server, a web server component in Weston Embedded's in-house operating system and an open-source library that processes several types of potentially sensitive medical tests.

Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms.

As we begin a new year, we wanted to address one of the biggest issues we consistently see in our investigations: passive security.  Incident response engagements are an important part of our work and the intelligence-gathering process and their associated reports can be a treasure trove of tactics, techniques

Mexican users have been targeted with tax-themed phishing lures at least since November 2023 to distribute a previously undocumented Windows malware called TimbreStealer. Cisco Talos, which discovered the activity, described the authors as skilled and that the "threat actor has previously used similar tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) to distribute a banking trojan known