Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2019

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 3, 2020

I could name a dozen open source security libraries that no one has ever heard of, and no one has ever evaluated. On average, vulnerabilities in their libraries go four years before being detected. In comparison to 2019, GitHub found that 94% of projects now rely on open source components, with close to 700 dependencies on average.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

I spoke with WhiteHat Security researchers Bryan Becker and Mark Rogan at RSA 2019. Your software library might not depend on this (jQuery) library, but you might use some other third-party library, and that library depends on the vulnerable library,” Becker explained. “So Baking-in security.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There have been numerous Section 5 enforcement actions related to privacy and data security that have resulted in settlements that imposed civil penalties and continuing obligations to safeguard the privacy and security of personal information and enjoined future misconduct.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2022

These shortcomings included exposure to one or more of some 40 known cybersecurity vulnerabilities and/or alerts that they had one or more of some 70 other types of known security shortcomings for IoT devices.” CVE Severity (Score) % of analyzed pumps with CVEs 1 CVE-2019-12255 9.8 Critical) 52.11% 2 CVE-2019-12264 7.1

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2023

The three-year-old vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-18935 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a.NET deserialization issue that resides in the Progress Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX. “Actors were then able to upload malicious dynamic-link library (DLL) files (some masqueraded as portable network graphics [PNG] files) to the C:WindowsTemp directory.”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added 13 new vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog , including recently disclosed Apache Log4Shell Log4j and Fortinet FortiOS flaws.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

These happen to represent two prime examples of cyber attack vectors that continue to get largely overlooked by traditional cybersecurity defenses. Tech consultancy IDC tells us that global spending on security hardware, software and services is on course to top $103 billion in 2019, up 9.4 percent from 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Most recent versions of EventBot also include a ChaCha20 library that can improve performance, but it is not currently being used, a circumstance that suggests authors are actively working to optimize EventBot. ” Please give me your vote for European Cybersecurity Blogger Awards – VOTE FOR YOUR WINNERS [link].

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2020

Crooks exploit CVE-2019-18935 deserialization vulnerability to achieve remote code execution in Blue Mockingbird Monero-Mining campaign. “Blue Mockingbird is the name we’ve given to a cluster of similar activity we’ve observed involving Monero cryptocurrency-mining payloads in dynamic-link library (DLL) form on Windows systems.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Emotet is a modular malware, its operators could develop new Dynamic Link Libraries to update its capabilities. Recently, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert to warn of a surge of Emotet attacks that have targeted multiple state and local governments in the U.S. since August.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 24, 2021

Cybersecurity vendors have stepped up, developing strong and efficient ways to encrypt data both while it’s at rest and when it’s in transit. Microsoft’s SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) is another such effort, an open-source software library created by researchers at the company that uses multiple forms of homomorphic encryption.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The author of the post claims that the data was acquired from US insurance giant Humana and includes detailed medical records of the company’s health plan members dating back to 2019. One of the forum members who downloaded the database claims that the archive contains information from 2020, and not 2019, as suggested by the leaker.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2021

Since 2019 experts found many Joker apps on Google Play store, in September 2019 security experts at Google removed from the store 24 apps. The spyware is able to steal SMS messages, contact lists, and device information and to sign victims up for premium service subscriptions.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Related: Ground zero for cybersecurity research Having covered the cybersecurity industry for the past 15 years, it’s clear to me that there are two primary reasons. We spoke at Black Hat USA 2019. Threat intelligence sharing is such a simple concept that holds so much promise for stopping threat actors in their tracks.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

Security teams educate Dev teams with lists of approved and disallowed encryption algorithms or libraries to reduce weak encryption risk. For example, the bcrypt encryption library built into UNIX uses the Blowfish cipher (good encryption) and the Password-Based Key Derivation Function 2 (PBKDF2) uses RSA key standards (better encryption).

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2020

Dacls was first spotted by researchers at Qihoo 360 Netlab in December 2019 when it was used to target both Windows and Linux devices. “Both Mac and Linux variants use the WolfSSL library for SSL communications. This library has been used by several threat actors.” ” continues the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 3, 2019

The attacker needs to have root access to the container, then when the user runs the ‘rkt enter’ command, he can overwrite binaries and libraries in the container to run his malicious code. Using the gcc constructor attribute the code is run whenever the modified libc library is loaded by a process.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 15, 2020

Yesterday's Microsoft Windows patches included a fix for a critical vulnerability in the system's crypto library. Early yesterday morning, NSA's Cybersecurity Directorate head Anne Neuberger hosted a media call where she talked about the vulnerability and -- to my shock -- took questions from the attendees. So, good for it.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 4, 2019

That’s Gartner’s estimate of global spending on cybersecurity in 2017 and 2018. For instance, major vulnerability was discovered lurking in the GNU C Library, or GLIBC, an open source component that runs deep inside of Linux operating systems used widely in enterprise settings. Instead, memory attacks are transient.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2019

In April 2019, China-linked cyber-espionage group tracked as APT10 has added two new loaders to its arsenal and used it against government and private organizations in Southeast Asia. “Towards the end of April 2019, we tracked down what we believe to be new activity by APT10 , a Chinese cyber espionage group.”

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

The attack should serve as a wake-up call for organizations in critical infrastructure that have failed to take ransomware protection steps and implement advanced cybersecurity defenses that limit the potential attack surface, like microsegmentation and zero trust. Also Read: Microsegmentation: The Next Evolution in Cybersecurity.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Jeff Bezos of Amazon, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google did more than anyone else to actualize digital commerce as we’re experiencing it today – including its dark underbelly of ever-rising threats to privacy and cybersecurity. Blockchain technology in 2019 may prove to be what the internet was in 1999. There’s no turning back.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Also, many open source packages and libraries can generate malformed QR codes and encode common exploits, such as cross-site scripting (XSS) , local file inclusion (LFI), directory traversal , or SQL injection. Read next: Best Cybersecurity Awareness Training for Employees in 2022. Some experts say QR codes are flawed by nature.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The group was also observed using modified versions of common malware such as PlugX RAT , Trochilus RAT, keyloggers using the Microsoft Foundation Class (MFC) library, the custom in-memory HyperBro backdoor, and a Cobalt Strike sample. is dated October, 2019. ” concludes TrendMicro.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The exploit – labeled CVE-2021-30860 – targets an integer overflow vulnerability in Apple’s CoreGraphics image rendering library, they wrote. However, cybersecurity professionals see the company’s arguments as ways to deflect criticism. The researchers suspect ForcedEntry has been in use since at least February.

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 28, 2020

I’m not often surprised by cybersecurity news developments these days. Spending on digital ads by political candidates shattered records topping $7 billion for the 2019-2020 election cycle, according to Advertising Analytics. Yet, one recent disclosure floored me. Harvesting profiles. The past two U.S.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2018

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2019

CVE-2019-12735 – opening a specially crafted file in Vim or Neovim Editor could compromise your Linux system. CVE-2019-2725 Oracle WebLogic flaw exploited in cryptojacking campaign. Google expert disclosed details of an unpatched flaw in SymCrypt library. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 fix 88 flaws.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Over the weekend, users have been complaining on Nook’s Facebook page and Twitter that they were not able to access their library of purchased eBooks and magazine subscriptions. The bookseller also operated the Nook Digital, which is a spin-off division that sells eBook and e-Reader platform.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2019

VMware addressed vulnerabilities disclosed at Pwn2Own 2019. Closure JavaScript Library introduced XSS issue in Google Search and potentially other services. Closure JavaScript Library introduced XSS issue in Google Search and potentially other services. CVE-2019-0211 Apache flaw allows getting root access via script.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2021

According to the experts, the first infections were observed in late 2019, victims reported their files were encrypted by a strain of malware. CERT-FR’s alert states that the Pysa ransomware code is based on public Python libraries. The malicious code appended the extension. locked to the filename of the encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to the many analyses made by Unit42 (available HERE ), FireEye ( HERE , HERE ) and TALOS ( HERE , HERE ) we might agree that APT28 has been very active (or at least very “spotted”) during the time frame between 2012 to 2019. However most of the new attacks, qualitative speaking, happened during the time frame between 2018 to 2019.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 9, 2020

The operation was launched in June 2019, the experts first identified the compromised devices then alerted victims to install security patches that lock out the malicious code. ” reads the press release published by the Interpol. ” reads the press release published by the Interpol.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2019

This time is the APT34 Jason – Exchange Mail BF project to be leaked by Lab Dookhtegan on June 3 2019. Although there was information about APT34 prior to 2019, a series of leaks on the website Telegram by an individual named “ Lab Dookhtegan ”, including Jason project, exposed many names and activities of the organization.

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Security Affairs

MAY 20, 2019

“In April 2019, reports emerged of an intrusion involving Winnti malware at a German Pharmaceutical company.” ” The technical analysis of the Linux version of Winnti backdoor revealed the presence of two files, the main backdoor (libxselinux) and a library (libxselinux.so) used to avoid the detection.

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