The world will likely soon witness malware campaigns fully augmented and shaped by artificial intelligence (AI). Citing an arms race logic, cybersecurity luminary Mikko Hypp?nen said in a recent CSO article that the use of AI to enhance all aspects of disruptive cyber operations is virtually inevitable. As attackers have begun to use large language […]
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SonicWall on Wednesday urged customers of Global Management System (GMS) firewall management and Analytics network reporting engine software to apply the latest fixes to secure against a set of 15 security flaws that could be exploited by a threat actor to circumvent authentication and access sensitive information. Of the 15 shortcomings (tracked from CVE-2023-34123 through […]
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An unnamed Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agency in the U.S. detected anomalous email activity in mid-June 2023, leading to Microsoft’s discovery of a new China-linked espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations. The details come from a joint cybersecurity advisory released by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Ransomware attacks on the global finance sector have cost US$32.3 billion in downtime alone since 2018. That’s according to new research from Comparitech, which found that 225 financial organizations are confirmed to have been hit by a ransomware attack in the last five years, exposing at least 32.3 million individual records. Downtime from attacks varied […]
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A loophole in a core Windows security mechanism that requires all kernel drivers to be digitally signed by Microsoft allows attackers to forge signatures on maliciously modified drivers. This technique has been automated and used to defeat anti-cheating and digital rights management (DRM) features in games and more recently to deploy highly persistent malware. “From […]
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Platform’s independent server “instances” may have different security levels, creating potential for supply chain-like vulnerabilities.
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Fixes for more than 100 vulnerabilities affect numerous products, including Windows, Office, .Net, and Azure Active Directory, among others.
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