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New EU rules mean WhatsApp and Messenger must be interoperable with other chat apps. Here’s how that will work.
The State of Malware 2024 report covers some topics that are of special interest to home users: privacy, passwords, malvertising, banking Trojans, and Mac malware.
Threat actors are leveraging bogus Facebook job advertisements as a lure to trick prospective targets into installing a new Windows-based stealer malware codenamed Ov3r_Stealer. "This malware is designed to steal credentials and crypto wallets and send those to a Telegram channel that the threat actor monitors," Trustwave SpiderLabs said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Ov3r_Stealer
Three new security vulnerabilities have been discovered in Azure HDInsight's Apache Hadoop, Kafka, and Spark services that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation and a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) condition. "The new vulnerabilities affect any authenticated user of Azure HDInsight services such as Apache Ambari and Apache Oozie," Orca security
A recently disclosed server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability impacting Ivanti Connect Secure and Policy Secure products has come under mass exploitation. The Shadowserver Foundation said it observed exploitation attempts originating from more than 170 unique IP addresses that aim to establish a reverse shell, among others. The attacks exploit CVE-2024-21893 (CVSS
This is the fifth and final part of Vincent Danen’s “Patch management needs a revolution” series.Patch management needs a revolution, part 1: Surveying cybersecurity’s lineagePatch management needs a revolution, part 2: The flood of vulnerabilitiesPatch management needs a revolution, part 3: Vulnerability scores and the concept of trustPatch management needs a revolution, part 4: Sane patching is safe patching is selective patchingThere is an intersection between “compliance” and “security” but it’s wise to realize that compliance does not equal security. Compliance, when don
Google's American Fuzzy Lop is a brute-force fuzzer coupled with an exceedingly simple but rock-solid instrumentation-guided genetic algorithm. afl++ is a superior fork to Google's afl. It has more speed, more and better mutations, more and better instrumentation, custom module support, etc.
Sumatra PDF version 3.5.2 suffers from a DLL hijacking vulnerability.
WordPress Simple URLs plugin versions prior to 115 suffer from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
The threat actor known as Patchwork likely used romance scam lures to trap victims in Pakistan and India, and infect their Android devices with a remote access trojan called VajraSpy. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET said it uncovered 12 espionage apps, six of which were available for download from the official Google Play Store and were collectively downloaded more than 1,400 times between