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By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Public schools in the United States already rely on our teachers for so much — they have to be educators, occasional parental figures, nurses, safety officers, law enforcement and much more. Slowly, they’re having to add “IT admin” to their list of roles.  Educational institutions have increasingly become a target for ransomware attacks, an issue already highlighted this year by a major cyber attack on the combined Los Angeles school district in California that schools are still recovering from.  Teachers there reported that during the week of the attack, they couldn’t enter attendance, lost lesson plans and presentations, and had to scrap homework plans. Technology has become ever-present in classrooms, so any minimal disruption in a school’s network or software can throw pretty much everything off.  The last thing teachers need to worry about now is defending against a well-funded threat act...

Prototype pollution vulnerability in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the optionName variable in main.js.

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the source and sourceWithComments variable in main.js.

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An issue was discovered in CrushFTP 9. The creation of a new user through the /WebInterface/UserManager/ interface allows an attacker, with access to the administration panel, to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). The payload can be executed in multiple scenarios, for example when the user's page appears in the Most Visited section of the page.

Companies are in the midst of an employee "turnover tsunami" with no signs of a slowdown. According to Fortune Magazine, 40% of the U.S. is considering quitting their jobs. This trend – coined the great resignation - creates instability in organizations. High employee turnover increases security risks, and companies are more vulnerable to attacks from human factors worldwide.  At Davos 2022,

Categories: Apple Categories: News iOS 16 has landed and it comes with a lot of features to strengthen a user's account security and privacy. We've taken a look. (Read more...) The post Here are the new security and privacy features of iOS 16 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Wednesday announced sweeping sanctions against ten individuals and two entities backed by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their involvement in ransomware attacks at least since October 2020. The agency said the cyber activity mounted by the individuals is partially attributable to intrusion sets tracked

By Waqas Executives across the globe are already advocating the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle cybersecurity threats. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why Artificial Intelligence is Must for Cybersecurity

Buffer overflow vulnerability in function AP4_MemoryByteStream::WritePartial in mp42aac in Bento4 v1.6.0-639, allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.