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Four REvil Ransomware Members Sentenced in Rare Russian Cybercrime Convictions https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/four-revil-ransomware-members-sentenced.html Four members of the now-defunct REvil ransomware operation have been sentenced to several years in prison in Russia, marking one of the rare instances where cybercriminals from the country have been convicted of hacking and money laundering charges. Russian news publication Kommersant reported that a court in St. Petersburg found Artem Zaets, Alexei Malozemov, Daniil Puzyrevsky, and Ruslan

CERT-UA Identifies Malicious RDP Files in Latest Attack on Ukrainian Entities https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/cert-ua-identifies-malicious-rdp-files.html The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has detailed a new malicious email campaign targeting government agencies, enterprises, and military entities. "The messages exploit the appeal of integrating popular services like Amazon or Microsoft and implementing a zero-trust architecture," CERT-UA said. "These emails contain attachments in the form of Remote Desktop Protocol ('.rdp'

Researchers Discover Command Injection Flaw in Wi-Fi Alliance's Test Suite https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/researchers-discover-command-injection.html A security flaw impacting the Wi-Fi Test Suite could enable unauthenticated local attackers to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) said the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-41992, said the susceptible code from the Wi-Fi Alliance has been found deployed on Arcadyan FMIMG51AX000J routers. "This flaw allows an unauthenticated local attacker to

Apple Opens PCC Source Code for Researchers to Identify Bugs in Cloud AI Security https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/apple-opens-pcc-source-code-for.html Apple has publicly made available its Private Cloud Compute (PCC) Virtual Research Environment (VRE), allowing the research community to inspect and verify the privacy and security guarantees of its offering. PCC, which Apple unveiled earlier this June, has been marketed as the "most advanced security architecture ever deployed for cloud AI compute at scale." With the new technology, the idea is

Eliminating AI Deepfake Threats: Is Your Identity Security AI-Proof? https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/eliminating-ai-deepfake-threats-is-your.html Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved from a futuristic concept to a potent weapon in the hands of bad actors. Today, AI-based attacks are not just theoretical threats—they're happening across industries and outpacing traditional defense mechanisms.  The solution, however, is not futuristic. It turns out a properly designed identity security platform is able to deliver defenses

SEC Charges 4 Companies Over Misleading SolarWinds Cyberattack Disclosures https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/sec-charges-4-companies-over-misleading.html The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged four current and former public companies for making "materially misleading disclosures" related to the large-scale cyber attack that stemmed from the hack of SolarWinds in 2020. The SEC said the companies – Avaya, Check Point, Mimecast, and Unisys – are being penalized for how they handled the disclosure process in the aftermath of

Irish Watchdog Imposes Record €310 Million Fine on LinkedIn for GDPR Violations https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/irish-watchdog-imposes-record-310.html The Irish data protection watchdog on Thursday fined LinkedIn €310 million ($335 million) for violating the privacy of its users by conducting behavioral analyses of personal data for targeted advertising. "The inquiry examined LinkedIn's processing of personal data for the purposes of behavioral analysis and targeted advertising of users who have created LinkedIn profiles (members)," the Data

ESET Research Podcast: CosmicBeetle https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/podcasts/eset-research-podcast-cosmicbeetle/ Learn how a rather clumsy cybercrime group wielding buggy malicious tools managed to compromise a number of SMBs in various parts of the world

New Qilin.B Ransomware Variant Emerges with Improved Encryption and Evasion Tactics https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/new-qilinb-ransomware-variant-emerges.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an advanced version of the Qilin ransomware sporting increased sophistication and tactics to evade detection. The new variant is being tracked by cybersecurity firm Halcyon under the moniker Qilin.B. "Notably, Qilin.B now supports AES-256-CTR encryption for systems with AESNI capabilities, while still retaining Chacha20 for systems that lack this support

AWS Cloud Development Kit Vulnerability Exposes Users to Potential Account Takeover Risks https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/aws-cloud-development-kit-vulnerability.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw impacting Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that could have resulted in an account takeover under specific circumstances. "The impact of this issue could, in certain scenarios, allow an attacker to gain administrative access to a target AWS account, resulting in a full account takeover," Aqua said in a report shared

Cisco Issues Urgent Fix for ASA and FTD Software Vulnerability Under Active Attack https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/cisco-issues-urgent-fix-for-asa-and-ftd.html Cisco on Wednesday said it has released updates to address an actively exploited security flaw in its Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) that could lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20481 (CVSS score: 5.8), affects the Remote Access VPN (RAVPN) service of Cisco ASA and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software. Arising due to resource

Why Phishing-Resistant MFA Is No Longer Optional: The Hidden Risks of Legacy MFA https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/why-phishing-resistant-mfa-is-no-longer.html Sometimes, it turns out that the answers we struggled so hard to find were sitting right in front of us for so long that we somehow overlooked them. When the Department of Homeland Security, through the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in coordination with the FBI, issues a cybersecurity warning and prescribes specific action, it’s a pretty good idea to at least read the

Lazarus Group Exploits Google Chrome Vulnerability to Control Infected Devices https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/lazarus-group-exploits-google-chrome.html The North Korean threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been attributed to the zero-day exploitation of a now-patched security flaw in Google Chrome to seize control of infected devices. Cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it discovered a novel attack chain in May 2024 that targeted the personal computer of an unnamed Russian national with the Manuscrypt backdoor. This entails triggering the

Fortinet Warns of Critical Vulnerability in FortiManager Under Active Exploitation https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/fortinet-warns-of-critical.html Fortinet has confirmed details of a critical security flaw impacting FortiManager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-47575 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability is also known as FortiJump and is rooted in the FortiGate to FortiManager (FGFM) protocol. "A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability [CWE-306] in FortiManager fgfmd daemon may

Embargo ransomware: Rock’n’Rust https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/embargo-ransomware-rocknrust/ Novice ransomware group Embargo is testing and deploying a new Rust-based toolkit

New Grandoreiro Banking Malware Variants Emerge with Advanced Tactics to Evade Detection https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/new-grandoreiro-banking-malware.html New variants of a banking malware called Grandoreiro have been found to adopt new tactics in an effort to bypass anti-fraud measures, indicating that the malicious software is continuing to be actively developed despite law enforcement efforts to crack down on the operation. "Only part of this gang was arrested: the remaining operators behind Grandoreiro continue attacking users all over the

Permiso State of Identity Security 2024: A Shake-up in Identity Security Is Looming Large https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/permiso-state-of-identity-security-2024.html Identity security is front, and center given all the recent breaches that include Microsoft, Okta, Cloudflare and Snowflake to name a few. Organizations are starting to realize that a shake-up is needed in terms of the way we approach identity security both from a strategic but also a technology vantage point.  Identity security is more than just provisioning access  The conventional view

CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Vulnerability (CVE-2024-38094) https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/cisa-warns-of-active-exploitation-of.html A high-severity flaw impacting Microsoft SharePoint has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38094 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as a deserialization vulnerability impacting SharePoint that could result

Researchers Reveal 'Deceptive Delight' Method to Jailbreak AI Models https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/researchers-reveal-deceptive-delight.html Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new adversarial technique that could be used to jailbreak large language models (LLMs) during the course of an interactive conversation by sneaking in an undesirable instruction between benign ones. The approach has been codenamed Deceptive Delight by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, which described it as both simple and effective, achieving an average

Think You’re Secure? 49% of Enterprises Underestimate SaaS Risks https://thehackernews.com/2024/10/think-youre-secure-49-of-enterprises.html It may come as a surprise to learn that 34% of security practitioners are in the dark about how many SaaS applications are deployed in their organizations. And it’s no wonder—the recent AppOmni 2024 State of SaaS Security Report reveals that only 15% of organizations centralize SaaS security within their cybersecurity teams. These statistics not only highlight a critical security blind spot,