October 2024

Cybercriminals Use Unicode to Hide Mongolian Skimmer in E-Commerce Platforms 2024-10-10 at 11:03 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new digital skimmer campaign that leverages Unicode obfuscation techniques to conceal a skimmer dubbed Mongolian Skimmer. “At first glance, the thing that stood out was the script’s obfuscation, which seemed a bit bizarre because

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Hold my Pimms! Wimbledon turns to tech for line-ball calls 2024-10-10 at 10:33 By Simon Sharwood Humans dumped by famously fusty tennis tournament The All England Lawn Tennis Club, organizer of the famed Wimbledon tennis tournament, will make line-ball calls with machines instead of human in 2025.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Dutch cops reveal takedown of ‘world’s largest dark web market’ 2024-10-10 at 09:47 By Iain Thomson Two arrested after allegedly trying to make off with their ill-gotten gains The alleged administrators of the infamous Bohemia and Cannabia dark web marketplaces have been arrested after apparently shuttering the sites and trying to flee with their earnings.…

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CISA Warns of Critical Fortinet Flaw as Palo Alto and Cisco Issue Urgent Security Patches 2024-10-10 at 09:01 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet products to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23113 (CVSS

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You have issues with ‘Issues’ always being called ‘Issues’ in Jira, so Atlassian now allows them to be called ‘tasks’ 2024-10-10 at 08:46 By Simon Sharwood Developers get auto-coding ideas drawn from bug reports, and more AI besides Atlassian has debuted a new cut of its project management and bug-tracking tool Jira, which for the

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Firefox Zero-Day Under Attack: Update Your Browser Immediately 2024-10-10 at 08:01 By Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component. “An attacker

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OpenAI says Chinese gang tried to phish its staff 2024-10-10 at 07:16 By Laura Dobberstein Claims its models aren’t making threat actors more sophisticated – but is helping debug their code OpenAI has alleged the company disrupted a spear-phishing campaign that saw a China-based group target its employees through both their personal and corporate email

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DDoS attacks surge in H2 2023 2024-10-10 at 07:16 By 2023 saw an increase in DDoS attacks. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Active shooter preparedness: Past, present and future 2024-10-10 at 07:15 By Security leader discusses what can be learned from past active shooter incidents. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS 2024-10-10 at 04:51 By Simon Sharwood 31 million users’ usernames, email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords are out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and exposing user data.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

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Moscow-adjacent GoldenJackal gang strikes air-gapped systems with custom malware 2024-10-10 at 02:47 By Jessica Lyons USB sticks help, but it’s unclear how tools that suck malware from them are delivered A cyberespionage APT crew named GoldenJackal hacked air-gapped PCs belonging to government and diplomatic entities at least twice using two sets of custom malware, according

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Deno 2.0 looks to backward compatibility to move forward 2024-10-10 at 01:47 By Thomas Claburn Modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript plays nicer with Node.js Deno, the runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript, reached version 2.0 on Wednesday, bringing with it baggage from the past in the form of broad Node.js compatibility.… This article is an

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Smart TVs are spying on everyone 2024-10-10 at 01:31 By Thomas Claburn Regulators know this is a nightmare and have done little to stop it. Privacy advocacy group wants that to change Smart TVs are watching their viewers and harvesting their data to benefit brokers using the same ad technology that denies privacy on the

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