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Third Ivanti Bug Comes Under Active Exploit, CISA Warns

Though the critical vulnerability was patched in August, Ivanti is reminding customers to update as soon as possible as attacks from unauthenticated threat actors start circulating.

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Google's Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage of memory-safe vulnerabilities discovered in Android dropping from 76% to 24% over a period of six years. The tech giant said focusing on Safe Coding for new features not only reduces the overall security risk of a codebase, but also makes the switch

DragonForce Ransomware Expands RaaS, Targets Firms Worldwide

DragonForce ransomware is expanding its RaaS operation and becoming a global cybersecurity threat against businesses. Companies must implement…

Romance scams costlier than ever: 10 percent of victims lose $10,000 or more

A Malwarebytes survey has found 66 percent of people were targeted by a romance scam, with 10 percent of victims losing $10,000 or more.

Keep Tier-One Applications Out of Virtual Environments

Crafty bad actors can infect all of an organization's virtual machines at once, rendering tier-one applications useless.

ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could've Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function

A now-patched security vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT app for macOS could have made it possible for attackers to plant long-term persistent spyware into the artificial intelligence (AI) tool's memory. The technique, dubbed SpAIware, could be abused to facilitate "continuous data exfiltration of any information the user typed or responses received by ChatGPT, including any future chat sessions

GHSA-f5fw-25gw-5m92: Apache Hadoop: Temporary File Local Information Disclosure

Apache Hadoop’s `RunJar.run()` does not set permissions for temporary directory by default. If sensitive data will be present in this file, all the other local users may be able to view the content. This is because, on unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all local users. As such, files written in this directory, without setting the correct posix permissions explicitly, may be viewable by all other local users.

GHSA-48cr-j2cx-mcr8: Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses

Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.

CISA Flags Critical Ivanti vTM Vulnerability Amid Active Exploitation Concerns

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS score: 9.8), which could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the