Month: January 2024

News

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The operation, announced just before FBI Director Chris Wray addressed House lawmakers, disrupted a botnet of hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home routers owned by private citizens and companies that had been hijacked by the Chinese hackers to cover their tracks as they sowed the malware. Their ultimate targets included water treatment plants, the…

Application Security

Issued by: Naked Security

Organizations with distributed workforces are increasingly reliant on cloud-based productivity platforms like Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace for email, file sharing, and collaboration. Read on to learn how Sophos’ new integration with Google Workspace can help defend against advanced attacks against your business-critical productivity tools. Detect and respond to threats targeting your Google Workspace environments…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Dark Reading

Some 45,000 Internet-exposed Jenkins servers remain unpatched against a critical, recently disclosed arbitrary file-read vulnerability for which proof-of-exploit code is now publicly available. CVE-2024-23897 affects the built-in Jenkins command line interface (CLI) and can lead to remote code execution on affected systems. The Jenkins infrastructure team disclosed the vulnerability, and released updated version software, on…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Thousands of students in New Jersey were unable to attend school Monday after a cybersecurity incident caused technical difficulties across the Freehold Township School District, administrators said. Superintendent of Schools Neal Dickstein sent an email to families late Sunday night announcing that classes were canceled for the entire district, which includes an early childhood learning…

News

Issued by: Security Affairs

The Russian national Vladimir Dunaev (40) has been sentenced in the US to 64 months in prison for his role in the development and distribution of the TrickBot malware. Vladimir Dunaev was extradited to the U.S. in October 2021. Dunaev, also known as FFX, was involved in the development of a browser injection module for…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Black Kite, the leader in third-party cyber risk intelligence, today unveiled the industry’s first monthly ransomware dashboard, featuring crucial insights for security teams, media, analysts, and other industry leaders. The resource provides data, graphs, trends, and key insights from Black Kite’s threat intelligence team about the top ransomware groups, their victims, and attack patterns. Black…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

A U.S. federal judge sentenced a Russian national to five years and four months in prison for his role in developing TrickBot malware, which is used to target businesses, schools and hospitals across the country. Vladimir Dunaev in the U.S. District Court for the District of Northern Ohio in December pleaded guilty to one count…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

GitLab has recently released security updates to address two critical vulnerabilities impacting both the Community and Enterprise Edition. The most critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-7028 (CVSS score 10), is an account takeover via Password Reset. The flaw can be exploited to hijack an account without any interaction. “An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE…