Month: May 2024

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Researchers have linked a previously unknown advanced persistent threat actor to data exfiltration attacks spanning various sectors in the United States, Europe. Some tactics associated with LilacSquid overlap with those used by Andariel, a North Korean threat actor that acts as a sub-cluster within the Lazarus Group. According to Cisco Talos, the group’s methods for…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: DataBreach Today

OpenAI said it disrupted five covert influence operations including from China and Russia that attempted to use its artificial intelligence services to manipulate public opinion amid elections. The threat actors used AI models to generate short comments and longer articles in multiple languages, made up names and bios for social media accounts, conducted open-source research,…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Affairs

Okta warns of credential stuffing attacks targeting its Customer Identity Cloud (CIC) feature since April. A credential stuffing attack is a type of cyber attack where hackers use large sets of username and password combinations, typically obtained from previous data breaches, phishing campaigns, or info-stealer infections, to gain unauthorized access to user accounts on various…

Cloud Security

Issued by: CSO Online

As the name suggests, a cloud access security broker (CASB) manages access between enterprise endpoints and cloud resources from a security perspective. CASBs can be deployed on-premises or in the cloud; as a hardware appliance or software-only, as a proxy, reverse proxy, or through specific APIs. Enterprises have untold numbers of endpoints, both managed (corporate-owned…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

Researchers at Microsoft have identified a North Korean threat group carrying out espionage and financial cyberattacks concurrently, using a grab bag of different attack techniques against aerospace, education, and software organizations and developers. In the beginning, Microsoft explained in a blog post, Moonstone Sleet heavily overlapped with the known DPRK advanced persistent threat (APT) Diamond…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

Auction house Christie’s disclosed a data breach after the ransomware group RansomHub threatened to leak stolen data. The security breach occurred earlier this month. The website of the auction house was unreachable after the attack. According to BBC, Christie had problems in selling art and other high-value items worth an estimated $840 million due to…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

GitLab fixed a high-severity XSS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4835, that allows attackers to take over user accounts. An attacker can exploit this issue by using a specially crafted page to exfiltrate sensitive user information. The vulnerability impacts versions 15.11 before 16.10.6, 16.11 before 16.11.3, and 17.0 before 17.0.1. The flaw was addressed with the release…

Software Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Microsoft’s plans to introduce a “Recall” feature powered by artificial intelligence in its Copilot+ PCs lineup has evoked considerable privacy concerns. But the extent to which these concerns are fully justified remains a somewhat open question at the moment. Recall is technology that Microsoft has described as enabling users to easily find and remember whatever…

Cloud Security, Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO Online

Security researchers at Tenable have discovered a potentially critical memory corruption vulnerability in Fluent Bit, a core component in the monitoring infrastructure of many cloud services. The vulnerability, dubbed Linguistic Lumberjack and tracked as CVE-2024-4323, stems from coding flaws within Fluent Bit’s built-in HTTP server. Left unresolved the vulnerability could lead to denial of service,…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Security Affairs

The security researcher Eric Daigle discovered a commercial spyware app, called pcTattletale, on the check-in systems of at least three Wyndham hotels across the US, TechCrunch first reported. Parents often use the app to monitor their children’s online activities or by employers to keep track of employee productivity and internet usage. Daigle discovered the commercial…