Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: November 2024

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  • November 5, 2024

Leveraging Wazuh for Zero Trust security

Zero Trust security changes how organizations handle security by doing away with implicit trust while continuously analyzing and validating access requests. Contrary to perimeter-based security, users within an environment are not automatically trusted upon gaining access. Zero Trust security encourages continuous monitoring of every device and user, which ensures sustained protection after successful user authentication. […]

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  • November 5, 2024

Synology Urges Patch for Critical Zero-Click RCE Flaw Affecting Millions of NAS Devices

Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) appliance maker Synology has addressed a critical security flaw impacting DiskStation and BeePhotos that could lead to remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2024-10443 and dubbed RISK:STATION by Midnight Blue, the zero-day flaw was demonstrated at the Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 hacking contest by security researcher Rick de Jager. RISK:STATION is an “unauthenticated […]

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  • November 5, 2024

Malware Campaign Uses Ethereum Smart Contracts to Control npm Typosquat Packages

An ongoing campaign is targeting npm developers with hundreds of typosquat versions of their legitimate counterparts in an attempt to trick them into running cross-platform malware. The attack is notable for utilizing Ethereum smart contracts for command-and-control (C2) server address distribution, according to independent findings from Checkmarx, Phylum, and Socket published over the past few […]

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  • November 5, 2024

Canadian Suspect Arrested Over Snowflake Customer Breach and Extortion Attacks

Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year. The individual in question, Alexander “Connor” Moucka (aka Judische and Waifu), was apprehended on October 30, 2024, on the basis of a provisional arrest […]

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This Election Day, Survey Reveals Cyber Experts Across the Aisle Believe In Paper Ballots, Same-Day Voting

This Election Day, Survey Reveals Cyber Experts Across the Aisle Believe In Paper Ballots, Same-Day Counting As Americans cast their votes in one of the most closely watched elections yet, cybersecurity experts across party lines are coming together to suggest a solution that may surprise you. The Consensus? It might be time to ditch the […]

Cyber Thoughts
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  • November 5, 2024

Google Warns of Actively Exploited CVE-2024-43093 Vulnerability in Android System

Google has warned that a security flaw impacting its Android operating system has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-43093, has been described as a privilege escalation flaw in the Android Framework component that could result in unauthorized access to “Android/data,” “Android/obb,” and “Android/sandbox” directories, and their respective sub-directories, according […]

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  • November 4, 2024

Critical Flaws in Ollama AI Framework Could Enable DoS, Model Theft, and Poisoning

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed six security flaws in the Ollama artificial intelligence (AI) framework that could be exploited by a malicious actor to perform various actions, including denial-of-service, model poisoning, and model theft. “Collectively, the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to carry out a wide-range of malicious actions with a single HTTP request, including denial-of-service […]

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  • November 4, 2024

Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers

Really interesting story of Sophos’s five-year war against Chinese hackers. The post Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers appeared first on Schneier on Security.  

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  • November 4, 2024

German Police Disrupt DDoS-for-Hire Platform dstat[.]cc; Suspects Arrested

German law enforcement authorities have announced the disruption of a criminal service called dstat[.]cc that made it possible for other threat actors to easily mount distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “The platform made such DDoS attacks accessible to a wide range of users, even those without any in-depth technical skills of their own,” the Federal Criminal […]

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