Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: May 2024

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  • May 25, 2024

Experts Find Flaw in Replicate AI Service Exposing Customers’ Models and Data

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in an artificial intelligence (AI)-as-a-service provider Replicate that could have allowed threat actors to gain access to proprietary AI models and sensitive information. “Exploitation of this vulnerability would have allowed unauthorized access to the AI prompts and results of all Replicate’s platform customers,” cloud security firm Wiz […]

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  • May 24, 2024

Friday Squid Blogging: Dana Squid Attacking Camera

Fantastic footage of a Dana squid attacking a camera at a depth of about a kilometer. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: squid, video Sidebar photo of Bruce Schneier by Joe MacInnis. […]

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  • May 24, 2024

Hackers Created Rogue VMs to Evade Detection in Recent MITRE Cyber Attack

The MITRE Corporation has revealed that the cyber attack targeting the not-for-profit company towards late December 2023 by exploiting zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) involved the threat actor creating rogue virtual machines (VMs) within its VMware environment. “The adversary created their own rogue VMs within the VMware environment, leveraging compromised vCenter Server access,” […]

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  • May 24, 2024

Almost all citizens of city of Eindhoven have their personal data exposed

Graham CLULEY May 24, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial A data breach involving the Dutch city of Eindhoven left the personal information related to almost all of its citizens exposed. As Eindhovens Dagblad reports, two files containing the personal data of 221,511 inhabitants of Eindhoven were accessible […]

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  • May 24, 2024

Beware: These Fake Antivirus Sites Spreading Android and Windows Malware

Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices. “Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices from […]

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  • May 24, 2024

How Do Hackers Blend In So Well? Learn Their Tricks in This Expert Webinar

Don’t be fooled into thinking that cyber threats are only a problem for large organizations. The truth is that cybercriminals are increasingly targeting smaller businesses, and they’re getting smarter every day. Join our FREE webinar “Navigating the SMB Threat Landscape: Key Insights from Huntress’ Threat Report,” in which Jamie Levy — Director of Adversary Tactics […]

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  • May 24, 2024

On the Zero-Day Market

New paper: “Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market“: Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike and to do so more easily than when such work […]

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  • May 24, 2024

DevOps Dilemma: How Can CISOs Regain Control in the Age of Speed?

Introduction The infamous Colonial pipeline ransomware attack (2021) and SolarWinds supply chain attack (2020) were more than data leaks; they were seismic shifts in cybersecurity. These attacks exposed a critical challenge for Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs): holding their ground while maintaining control over cloud security in the accelerating world of DevOps. The problem was […]

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  • May 24, 2024

Update Chrome Browser Now: 4th Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in May 2024

Google on Thursday rolled out fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported by Clément Lecigne of Google’s Threat Analysis […]

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