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  • July 10, 2024

True Protection or False Promise? The Ultimate ITDR Shortlisting Guide

It’s the age of identity security. The explosion of driven ransomware attacks has made CISOs and security teams realize that identity protection lags 20 years behind their endpoints and networks. This realization is mainly due to the transformation of lateral movement from fine art, found in APT and top cybercrime groups only, to a commodity […]

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  • July 10, 2024

Google Adds Passkeys to Advanced Protection Program for High-Risk Users

Google on Wednesday announced that it’s making available passkeys for high-risk users to enroll in its Advanced Protection Program (APP). “Users traditionally needed a physical security key for APP — now they can choose a passkey to secure their account,” Shuvo Chatterjee, product lead of APP, said. Passkeys are considered a more secure and phishing-resistant […]

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  • July 10, 2024

HuiOne Guarantee: The $11 Billion Cybercrime Hub of Southeast Asia

Cryptocurrency analysts have shed light on an online marketplace called HuiOne Guarantee that’s widely used by cybercriminals in Southeast Asia, particularly those linked to pig butchering scams. “Merchants on the platform offer technology, data, and money laundering services, and have engaged in transactions totaling at least $11 billion,” Elliptic said in a report shared with […]

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  • July 10, 2024

ViperSoftX Malware Disguises as eBooks on Torrents to Spread Stealthy Attacks

The sophisticated malware known as ViperSoftX has been observed being distributed as eBooks over torrents. “A notable aspect of the current variant of ViperSoftX is that it uses the Common Language Runtime (CLR) to dynamically load and run PowerShell commands, thereby creating a PowerShell environment within AutoIt for operations,” Trellix security researchers Mathanraj Thangaraju and […]

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  • July 10, 2024

New OpenSSH Vulnerability Discovered: Potential Remote Code Execution Risk

Select versions of the OpenSSH secure networking suite are susceptible to a new vulnerability that can trigger remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-6409 (CVSS score: 7.0), is distinct from CVE-2024-6387 (aka RegreSSHion) and relates to a case of code execution in the privsep child process due to a race condition in signal […]

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  • July 9, 2024

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, July 2024 Edition

Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug at least 139 security holes in various flavors of Windows and other Microsoft products. Redmond says attackers are already exploiting at least two of the vulnerabilities in active attacks against Windows users. The first Microsoft zero-day this month is CVE-2024-38080, a bug in the Windows Hyper-V component […]

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  • July 9, 2024

The AI Fix #6: AI lobotomies, and bots scam scam bots

In episode six of The AI Fix, our hosts discover an unusual place to put a traffic cone, Mark learns why Americans should pretend to be from Brazil, and Graham discovers a way to make any situation much, much worse. Graham inflicts his terrible Australian accent on Mark while explaining bot-on-bot crime, and Mark tells […]

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  • July 9, 2024

Reverse-Engineering Ticketmaster’s Barcode System

Interesting: By reverse-engineering how Ticketmaster and AXS actually make their electronic tickets, scalpers have essentially figured out how to regenerate specific, genuine tickets that they have legally purchased from scratch onto infrastructure that they control. In doing so, they are removing the anti-scalping restrictions put on the tickets by Ticketmaster and AXS. EDITED TO ADD […]

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  • July 9, 2024

Ransomware attack on blood-testing service puts lives in danger in South Africa

Graham CLULEY July 09, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial A ransomware attack against South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) has put lives at risk and created chaos for healthcare services across the country. On June 22, the BlackSuit ransomware group hit NHLS, leaving it unable to […]

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