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A lot of time and effort is put into writing security-focused software. Hardware vendors routinely add new features that help software developers increase the security of their software. Memory safe languages like Rust that help developers write safer code are becoming more and more popular. However, advancements in software security can be rendered useless if the supply chain for delivering software is compromised. As we’ve seen with the recent xz incident, a supply chain vulnerability can be exploited with malicious intent. In the LLVM project, we've been working to secure our own sof

The CRON#TRAP campaign involves a novel technique for executing malicious commands on a compromised system.

Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has sought assistance from the public in connection with an investigation involving the breach of edge devices and computer networks belonging to companies and government entities. "An Advanced Persistent Threat group allegedly created and deployed malware (CVE-2020-12271) as part of a widespread series of indiscriminate computer intrusions designed

A 26-year-old man in Ontario, Canada has been arrested for allegedly stealing data from and extorting more than 160 companies that used the cloud data service Snowflake. On October 30, Canadian authorities arrested Alexander Moucka, a.k.a. Connor Riley Moucka of Kitchener, Ontario, on a provisional arrest warrant from the United States. Bloomberg first reported Moucka's alleged ties to the Snowflake hacks on Monday. At the end of 2023, malicious hackers learned that many large companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with little more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). After scouring darknet markets for stolen Snowflake account credentials, the hackers began raiding the data storage repositories used by some of the world’s largest corporations.

A bug that WIRED discovered in True the Vote’s VoteAlert app revealed user information—and an election worker who wrote about carrying out an illegal voter-suppression scheme.

Attackers are exploiting the "Envelopes: create API" of the enormously popular document-signing service to flood corporate inboxes with convincing phishing emails aimed at defrauding organizations. It's an unusual attack vector with a high success rate.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7089-2 - Chenyuan Yang discovered that the USB Gadget subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly check for the device to be enabled before writing. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.

Ubuntu Security Notice 7088-2 - Ziming Zhang discovered that the VMware Virtual GPU DRM driver in the Linux kernel contained an integer overflow vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.

The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are taking over email accounts via stolen session cookies, whether or not someone has set up MFA.