Malicious Campaigns Exploit Weak Kubernetes Clusters for Crypto Mining

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Exposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority

Microsoft Releases Patches for 74 New Vulnerabilities in August Update

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Microsoft has patched a total of 74 flaws in its software as part of the company’s Patch Tuesday updates for August 2023, down from the voluminous 132 vulnerabilities the company fixed last

U.K. Electoral Commission Breach Exposes Voter Data of 40 Million Britons

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The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a “complex” cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year, allowing the threat actors to access years worth of

New Android 14 Security Feature: IT Admins Can Now Disable 2G Networks

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Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said

Continuous Security Validation with Penetration Testing as a Service (PTaaS)

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Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today’s modern security operations center (SOC), it’s a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both

China-Linked Hackers Strike Worldwide: 17 Nations Hit in 3-Year Cyber Campaign

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Hackers associated with China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from 2021 to 2023. Cybersecurity firm

Collide+Power, Downfall, and Inception: New Side-Channel Attacks Affecting Modern CPUs

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a trio of side-channel attacks that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from modern CPUs. Called Collide+Power (CVE-2023-20583), Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), and Inception (CVE-2023-20569), the novel methods follow the disclosure

LOLBAS in the Wild: 11 Living-Off-The-Land Binaries That Could Be Used for Malicious Purposes

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of 11 living-off-the-land binaries-and-scripts (LOLBAS) that could be maliciously abused by threat actors to conduct post-exploitation activities.  “LOLBAS is an attack method that uses

New Yashma Ransomware Variant Targets Multiple English-Speaking Countries

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An unknown threat actor is using a variant of the Yashma ransomware to target various entities in English-speaking countries, Bulgaria, China, and Vietnam at least since June 4, 2023. Cisco

Understanding Active Directory Attack Paths to Improve Security

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Introduced in 1999, Microsoft Active Directory is the default identity and access management service in Windows networks, responsible for assigning and enforcing security policies for all network endpoints. With it,