Malware & Threats

Issued by: The Hacker News

The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. It said “new project creation and new user registration” was temporarily halted to mitigate what it said was a “malware upload campaign.” The incident was resolved 10 hours…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Globally, cybersecurity threats continue to accelerate in pace and scale with rising malware and deepfake attacks. Over a third of organizations worldwide suffered a material cyber incident from malicious actors in the past year, while 73% were affected by ransomware attacks in 2023. With these cyberattacks come serious financial costs — global damages total an…

Network Security

Issued by: The Hacker News

One of the most common misconceptions in file upload cybersecurity is that certain tools are “enough” on their own—this is simply not the case. In our latest whitepaper OPSWAT CEO and Founder, Benny Czarny, takes a comprehensive look at what it takes to prevent malware threats in today’s ever-evolving file upload security landscape, and a…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Ensuring the enterprise is protected from vulnerabilities is a required function of security teams. It’s also a best practice for cyber insurance vendors and meeting compliance requirements. A popular evaluation test, the tabletop exercise, permits security teams and corporate management to select a threat and then run through the process of containing and remediating the…

Mobile Security, Vulnerabilities

Issued by: The Hacker News

Apple has released security updates to address several security flaws, including two vulnerabilities that it said have been actively exploited in the wild. The shortcomings are listed below – CVE-2024-23225 – A memory corruption issue in Kernel that an attacker with arbitrary kernel read and write capability can exploit to bypass kernel memory protections CVE-2024-23296…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The first of the high-severity bugs, CVE-2024-20321, exists because External Border Gateway Protocol (eBGP) traffic “is mapped to a shared hardware rate-limiter queue”, allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send large amounts of traffic and cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. According to Cisco, under certain conditions, the security defect impacts Nexus 3600 series switches and…