Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

Cybersecurity firm Avast released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can allow victims to recover their data without paying the ransom. This Linux version is 64-bit and also uses the Boost library, it uses the Crypto++ library instead of Windows CryptoAPI. The authors used Microsoft Linker version 14.35.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 4, 2023

Upcoming Events We have two upcoming events planned for May 2023: Webinar: How to Uncover and Address Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Libraries GlueCon Read on to learn more about May’s events. Join the Mayhem team in our upcoming webinar to learn how to identify and address vulnerabilities in open-source libraries. PT / 1 p.m.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

For example, the Blowfish algorithm uses simple XOR functions with four actions in each of the 16 rounds of encryption: XOR the left half of the data with an 18 entry P-array. For example, the earliest government-endorsed encryption algorithm, DES, encrypted using 64-bit blocks, 16 rounds of encryption, and a key of only 56 bits.

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Security Affairs

MAY 5, 2023

Upon executing one of the infected apps, it loads a heavily obfuscated native library containing a dropper that decrypts and runs malicious code from the app assets. Once discovered, the apps have been quickly removed from the Play Store, but the threat actors might have already uploaded other tainted apps that have yet to be discovered.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 11, 2024

Solutions to challenges must be written by using known cryptographic libraries such as openFHE. The developers can also use higher-level libraries such as IBM’s HElayers to speed up their development and easily write robust and generic code. This aligns with IBM’s vision for privacy-preserving computation by using FHE.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The burden is further exacerbated for the many organizations that struggle with overstretched cyberteams, manual processes, and a chronic cybersecurity skills gap. Greater visibility and speed are core requirements for effective cybersecurity. Some examples include AWS IAM Identity Center, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Cloud Trail.

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ForAllSecure

JUNE 7, 2023

We have 4 upcoming events planned for June 2023: Mayhem Unleashed Webinar: Discover our Next Generation Security Testing Solution DevSecOps Roundtable CyberSecurity Summit Hartford ForAllSecure APFT (Adversary, Penetration, and FuzzTesting) Training Read on to learn more about June’s events. We hope to see you there!

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 21, 2022

Hackers could take advantage of the version and list settings to affect all files within a document library on a SharePoint site or OneDrive account. Document libraries used in SharePoint or OneDrive are special lists where you can upload, create, update, and share documents. SharePoint calendars are SharePoint lists.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2019

For example, last year, a vulnerability in the open source jQuery File Upload plugin was discovered. 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

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2022

Monaco said the DOJ “has never been interested in prosecuting good-faith computer security research as a crime,” and that the new guidelines “promote cybersecurity by providing clarity for good-faith security researchers who root out vulnerabilities for the common good.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2022

With the example limit of 1, encrypt the file twice. Every document library in SharePoint Online and OneDrive is characterized with a set of attributes, including the number of saved versions that can be changed by the site owner can change, regardless of their other roles. Encrypt the file more times than the versioning limit.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 15, 2024

Examples include covertly inserting malware or manipulating unprotected code-signing keys. Fortunately, there are several preventive measures organizations can take which are recommended by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). How can organizations protect their data?

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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

JULY 3, 2022

Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices. In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.”. Microsoft announced that the Windows worm Raspberry Robin has already infected the networks of hundreds of organizations.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This typically happens on dynamic web pages, which frequently change or can be actively manipulated by users (for example, a search bar where users can type queries). An example of reflected XSS would be a threat actor intercepting a software engineer’s request parameters to access a popular engineering application.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In the simplest sense, a cybersecurity threat, or cyberthreat, is an indication that a hacker or malicious actor is attempting to gain unauthorized access to a network for the purpose of launching a cyberattack. One of the best-known zero-day vulnerabilities is Log4Shell , a flaw in the widely-used Apache Log4j logging library.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2022

Another gang, Night Sky ransomware operation, started exploiting the Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. The Night Sky ransomware operation started exploiting the Log4Shell flaw (CVE-2021-44228) in the Log4j library to gain access to VMware Horizon systems. trendmrcio[.]com,

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 18, 2022

The Apache Log4j Log4Shell bug is one of the most critical vulnerabilities in the history of cybersecurity. Actually, pretty much all software uses this library written in Java, so it’s a very widespread risk and concern. ” Indeed, lots of corporate systems use outdated libraries, putting whole organizations at high risk.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2020

The discovery urges Apple into implementing additional security measures to protect these components, following the approach already adopted by Google to protect multimedia processing libraries. Multimedia processing libraries are used by the modern mobile OS to automatically manage multimedia files (i.e. images, audio, and videos).

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2023

“They deliver important security improvements between software updates — for example, improvements to the Safari web browser, the WebKit framework stack, or other critical system libraries. The feature could be very useful to quickly address actively exploited vulnerabilities impacting the company’s products.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 14, 2023

Starting from this foundation model, you can start solving automation problems easily with AI and using very little data—in some cases, called few-shot learning, just a few examples. That’s an example of negative curation—removing things. We also do positive curation—adding things we know our clients care about.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, for example, governments have recently implemented QR codes to create Digital COVID Certificates for vaccination, tests status and other reasons. For example, in Python, you can use the QRcode package to make custom QR codes: Image: pip install qrcode && qr “Hello, esecurityPlanet”.

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2022

“In places like a cafe, library, meeting room, or conference lobbies, people might place their smartphone face-down on the table2. For example, an attacker may impersonate the victim to answer a phone call which would eavesdrop the private conversation, or visit a malicious website.” ” concludes the paper.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

” Also read: Cybersecurity Analysts Using ChatGPT for Malicious Code Analysis, Threat Prediction Understanding AI Auto Coding Systems For some time, IDEs or Integrated Development Environments, have had smart systems to improve coding. For example, one concern is that there could be potential intellectual property violations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 22, 2022

net/static/counter.js [link] #infosec #cybersecurity #malware pic.twitter.com/F6LJ6CBCCA — Luke Leal (@rootprivilege) June 13, 2022. Malwarebytes researchers observed the use of 3 different themes by the threat actor to hide their skimmer, named after JavaScript libraries: hal-data[.]org/gre/code.js staticounter[.]net

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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. One rudimentary example is the kid who figures how to carry out a Dynamic Link Library, or DLL, hack of his favorite video game. percent from 2018.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2021

In a recent example, SolarWinds Orion Software, a network monitoring tool used by many U.S. government agencies and commercial organizations, was severely compromised when attackers introduced a malicious dynamic linking library (DLL) into the software build process.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 31, 2023

Log4Shell persists because the Apache Log4j 2 software package it affects is one of the world’s most widely used logging libraries. Within Java apps, libraries like Log4j are often packaged in Java Archive files, or “JAR files.” In fact, it is still among the most exploited security vulnerabilities.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Cybersecurity is a complex subject matter for most people, and the levels of sophistication and ingenuity being applied in some cyberattacks, shows that there is an ever-increasing level of co-operation and exchange of information by the criminal underworld.

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Security Affairs

JULY 9, 2022

Raspberry Robin is a Windows worm discovered by cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary, the malware propagates through removable USB devices. In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.”. Cybereason researchers are warning of a wave of attacks spreading the wormable Windows malware Raspberry Robin.

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Security Affairs

MAY 7, 2022

Cybersecurity researchers from Red Canary have spotted a new Windows malware, dubbed Raspberry Robin, with worm-like capabilities that propagates through removable USB devices. In the example below, q:erpbirel.yax deciphers to d:recovery.lnk.” ” reads the advisory published by Red Canary. exe to execute a malicious command.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Kirkus reviews A Hacker’s Mind : A cybersecurity expert examines how the powerful game whatever system is put before them, leaving it to others to cover the cost. For example, Schneier cites “the Pudding Guy,” who hacked an airline miles program by buying low-cost pudding cups in a promotion that, for $3,150, netted him 1.2

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Images, especially those that come from unreliable and/or unvetted third-party image libraries, may be outdated and riddled with malicious code without user knowledge. However, most organizations will benefit from using patch management software or a cybersecurity platform that includes this functionality.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 11, 2021

As the presidential election unfolded in the fall, for example, there were revelations about how mobile apps used by political candidates were rife with security flaws that played right into the hands of propagandists and conspiracy theorists. For example, SSL certificate pinning was not implemented by either app.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 24, 2023

As Apple explained in a recent support document describing the updates, “They deliver important security improvements between software updates – for example, improvements to the Safari web browser, the WebKit framework stack, or other critical system libraries.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 17, 2021

In Russia, for example, authorities there generally will not initiate a cybercrime investigation against one of their own unless a company or individual within the country’s borders files an official complaint as a victim. ” Select Language, and then scroll down and you should see an option to install another character set.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 9, 2023

We continue to gather high-quality data to help tackle some of the most pressing business challenges across a range of domains like finance, law, cybersecurity, and sustainability. that provide customers with a user-friendly user interface and developer-friendly libraries for building foundation model-based solutions.

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