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WhatsApp Files on Dark Web Show Millions of Records For Sale

The list went on sale for four days and is now being distributed for free among dark web users

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Spyware Vendor Variston Exploited N-Days in Chrome, Firefox, Windows

The claims come from Google’s Threat Analysis Group, which published an advisory about the threat

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  • December 1, 2022

Google Accuses Spanish Spyware Vendor of Exploiting Chrome, Firefox, and Windows Zero-Days

A Barcelona-based surveillanceware vendor named Variston IT is said to have surreptitiously planted spyware on targeted devices by exploiting several zero-day flaws in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Windows, some of which date back to December 2018. “Their Heliconia framework exploits n-day vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Defender, and provides all the tools necessary […]

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Sirius XM Software Vulnerability

This is new: Newly revealed research shows that a number of major car brands, including Honda, Nissan, Infiniti, and Acura, were affected by a previously undisclosed security bug that would have allowed a savvy hacker to hijack vehicles and steal user data. According to researchers, the bug was in the car’s Sirius XM telematics infrastructure […]

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  • December 1, 2022

Software projects face supply chain security risk due to insecure artifact downloads via GitHub Actions

The way build artifacts are stored by the GitHub Actions platform could enable attackers to inject malicious code into software projects with CI/CD (continuous integration and continuous delivery) workflows that don’t perform sufficient filtering when downloading artifacts. Cybersecurity researchers have identified several popular artifacts download scripts used by thousands of repositories that are vulnerable to […]

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  • December 1, 2022

Scheduling Meetings with Amazon Chime

Getting started with Amazon Chime In my last post I wrote a summary of my posts on AWS Security. In this post I’ll explain how to use Amazon Chime, which I was using to host an online class recently. I’ve been using Chime successfully for a long time but this post might help people understand a […]

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  • December 1, 2022

What Developers Need to Fight the Battle Against Common Vulnerabilities

Today’s threat landscape is constantly evolving, and now more than ever, organizations and businesses in every sector have a critical need to consistently produce and maintain secure software. While some verticals – like the finance industry, for example – have been subject to regulatory and compliance requirements for some time, we are seeing a steady […]

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  • December 1, 2022

Researchers Disclose Critical RCE Vulnerability Affecting Quarkus Java Framework

A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Quarkus Java framework that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-4116 (CVSS score: 9.8), the shortcoming could be trivially abused by a malicious actor without any privileges. “The vulnerability is found in the Dev UI Config Editor, which is vulnerable […]

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  • December 1, 2022

Hackers Leak Another Set of Medibank Customer Data on the Dark Web

Medibank on Thursday confirmed that the threat actors behind the devastating cyber attack have posted another dump of data stolen from its systems on the dark web after its refusal to pay a ransom. “We are in the process of analyzing the data, but the data released appears to be the data we believed the criminal stole,” […]

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