Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

In summary, Trend Micro has found only one criminal LLM: WormGPT. Instead, there is a growing incidence, and therefore potential use, of jailbreaking services: EscapeGPT, BlackHatGPT, and LoopGPT. (The RSA presentation is supported by a separate Trend Micro blog.) There is also an increasing number of ‘services’ whose purpose is unclear. These provide no demo…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Since the pandemic forced unprecedented adoption of remote access and delivery of government services, telehealth, and education, cybersecurity has rapidly shot to the top of priority lists for IT leaders. What was once a shiny object that agencies didn’t have the resources to implement is now mission critical. However, governments are grappling with several challenges…

Network Security

Issued by: CSO Online

Amid serious cyberattacks by Russian and Chinese threat actors, the Biden administration issued a new National Security Memorandum (NSM-22) to update Presidential Policy Director 21 (PPD-21) from the Obama administration to secure and enhance the resilience of US critical infrastructure in “a comprehensive effort to protect US infrastructure against all threats and hazards, current and…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The case is yet another reason why everyone — not just politicians and celebrities — should be concerned about this increasingly powerful deep-fake technology, experts say. “Everybody is vulnerable to attack, and anyone can do the attacking,” said Hany Farid, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who focuses on digital forensics and misinformation….

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: The Hacker News

A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributing it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks under the name UAT4356 (aka Storm-1849 by Microsoft). “UAT4356 deployed…

News

Issued by: The Hacker News

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday sanctioned two firms and four individuals for their involvement in malicious cyber activities on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cyber Electronic Command (IRGC-CEC) from at least 2016 to April 2021. This includes the front companies Mehrsam Andisheh Saz Nik (MASN)…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Affairs

Blackberry researchers discovered a renewed cyber espionage campaign targeting South Asia with an Apple iOS spyware called LightSpy. The sophisticated mobile spyware has resurfaced after several months of inactivity, the new version of LightSpy, dubbed “F_Warehouse”, supports a modular framework with extensive spying capabilities.

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: The Hacker News

Threat actors have been exploiting the newly disclosed zero-day flaw in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software dating back to March 26, 2024, nearly three weeks before it came to light yesterday. The network security company’s Unit 42 division is tracking the activity under the name Operation MidnightEclipse, attributing it as the work of a single…