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  • November 20, 2024

Microsoft Launches Windows Resiliency Initiative to Boost Security and System Integrity

Microsoft has announced a new Windows Resiliency Initiative as a way to improve security and reliability, as well as ensure that system integrity is not compromised. The idea, the tech giant said, is to avoid incidents like that of CrowdStrike’s earlier this July, enable more apps and users to be run without admin privileges, add […]

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  • November 20, 2024

China-Backed Hackers Leverage SIGTRAN, GSM Protocols to Infiltrate Telecom Networks

A new China-linked cyber espionage group has been attributed as behind a series of targeted cyber attacks targeting telecommunications entities in South Asia and Africa since at least 2020 with the goal of enabling intelligence collection. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the adversary under the name Liminal Panda, describing it as possessing deep knowledge about […]

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  • November 20, 2024

Apple Releases Urgent Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two zero-day flaws that have come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaws are listed below – CVE-2024-44308 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A vulnerability in JavaScriptCore that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing malicious web content […]

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  • November 20, 2024

Oracle Warns of Agile PLM Vulnerability Currently Under Active Exploitation

Oracle is warning that a high-severity security flaw impacting the Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-21287 (CVSS score: 7.5), could be exploited sans authentication to leak sensitive information. “This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication, i.e., it may be exploited over a network 

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  • November 20, 2024

Fintech Giant Finastra Investigating Data Breach

The financial technology firm Finastra is investigating the alleged large-scale theft of information from its internal file transfer platform, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Finastra, which provides software and services to 45 of the world’s top 50 banks, notified customers of the security incident after a cybercriminal began selling more than 400 gigabytes of data purportedly stolen […]

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Black Friday Warning: Cybercriminals Are Fixing Their Sights on You Like Never Before

Black Friday Warning: Cybercriminals Are Fixing Their Sights on You Like Never Before And they aren’t just after your money—they’re after your entire identity. Black Friday isn’t just a shopping bonanza anymore—it’s a cybercriminal’s Super Bowl. It has evolved into the ultimate shopping spectacle, with billions of dollars flying across the internet as fast as […]

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  • November 19, 2024

The AI Fix #25: Beware of the superintelligence, and a spam-eating AI super gran

In episode 25 of The AI Fix, humanity creates a satellite called Skynet and then loses it, Graham folds proteins in the comfort of his living room, a Florida man gets a robot dog, Grok rats on its own boss, and a podcast host discovers Brazil nuts. Graham meets an elderly grandmother who’s taking on […]

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  • November 19, 2024

Ngioweb Botnet Fuels NSOCKS Residential Proxy Network Exploiting IoT Devices

The malware known as Ngioweb has been used to fuel a notorious residential proxy service called NSOCKS, as well as by other services such as VN5Socks and Shopsocks5, new findings from Lumen Technologies reveal. “At least 80% of NSOCKS bots in our telemetry originate from the Ngioweb botnet, mainly utilizing small office/home office (SOHO) routers […]

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  • November 19, 2024

Hackers Hijack Unsecured Jupyter Notebooks to Stream Illegal Sports Broadcasts

Malicious actors are exploiting misconfigured JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebooks to conduct stream ripping and enable sports piracy using live streaming capture tools. The attacks involve the hijack of unauthenticated Jupyter Notebooks to establish initial access, and perform a series of actions designed to facilitate illegal live streaming of sports events, Aqua said in a report […]

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