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WordPress Neon Text 1.1 Cross Site Scripting

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

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GhostSec’s joint ransomware operation and evolution of their arsenal

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.

Heather Couk is here to keep your spirits up during a cyber emergency, even if it takes the “Rocky” music

. 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.

Why Apple added protection against quantum computing when quantum computing doesn’t even exist yet

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

Here Are the Google and Microsoft Security Updates You Need Right Now

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

Faye’s Journey: From Security PM to Diversity Advocate at Microsoft

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.

Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader could lead to remote code execution

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.

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

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.

Stop running security in passive mode

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

TimbreStealer Malware Spreading via Tax-themed Phishing Scam Targets IT Users

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