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By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  We took a week off for summer vacation but are back in the thick of security things now.  My first exposure to deepfake videos was when Jordan Peele worked with BuzzFeed News to produce this video of... [[ This is only the beginning! Please visit the blog for the complete entry ]]

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) on Thursday disclosed it had acted to block as many as 36 malicious domains operated by hack-for-hire groups from India, Russia, and the U.A.E. In a manner analogous to the surveillanceware ecosystem, hack-for-hire firms equip their clients with capabilities to enable targeted attacks aimed at corporates as well as activists, journalists, politicians, and

Blue Team Training Toolkit (BT3) is an attempt to introduce improvements in current computer network defense analysis training. Based on adversary replication techniques, and with reusability in mind, BT3 allows individuals and organizations to create realistic computer attack scenarios, while reducing infrastructure costs, implementation time and risk. The Blue Team Training Toolkit is written in Python, and it includes the latest versions of Encripto's Maligno and Pcapteller.

One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to boot the popular video-sharing platform TikTok from their app stores citing "its pattern of surreptitious data practices." "It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing's apparently

Oliver Tavakoli, CTO at Vectra AI, gives us hope that surviving a ransomware attack is possible, so long as we apply preparation and intentionality to our defense posture.

By Deeba Ahmed In the fourth wave of Operation 404, the Brazilian law enforcement agencies blocked/shut down around 226 websites and… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hundreds of Websites and Piracy Apps Seized in US-Brazil’s Operation 404.4

Results from phishing simulation campaigns highlight the five most effective types of phishing email.

A new commercial spyware for governments, called Hermit, has spotted in the wild. It affects iOS and all Android versions. The post Hermit spyware is deployed with the help of a victim’s ISP appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week moved to add a Linux vulnerability dubbed PwnKit to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The issue, tracked as CVE-2021-4034 (CVSS score: 7.8), came to light in January 2022 and concerns a case of local privilege escalation in polkit's pkexec utility, which allows an

In Nagios XI through 5.8.5, an open redirect vulnerability exists in the login function that could lead to spoofing.