December 2024

Hackers Exploit Webview2 to Deploy CoinLurker Malware and Evade Security Detection 2024-12-17 at 12:15 By Bogus software update lures are being used by threat actors to deliver a new stealer malware called CoinLurker. “Written in Go, CoinLurker employs cutting-edge obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques, making it a highly effective tool in modern cyber attacks,” Morphisec researcher […]

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London’s Met Police seeks business services, ERP refresh in £370M deal 2024-12-17 at 11:37 By Lindsay Clark Contract could be worth a cool £1 billion if associated organizations join The UK’s largest police force is scoping the market for business outsourcing, an ERP upgrade and support in a tender that could be worth £1 billion

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AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB 2024-12-17 at 09:50 By Simon Sharwood Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them Amazon Web Services usually stays schtum about the exact disposition of the servers it rents in its Elastic Compute

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The Mask APT Resurfaces with Sophisticated Multi-Platform Malware Arsenal 2024-12-17 at 09:19 By A little-known cyber espionage actor known as The Mask has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting an unnamed organization in Latin America twice in 2019 and 2022. “The Mask APT is a legendary threat actor that has been performing

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CISA and FBI Raise Alerts on Exploited Flaws and Expanding HiatusRAT Campaign 2024-12-17 at 09:19 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The list of flaws is below – CVE-2024-20767 (CVSS score:

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BlackBerry offloads Cylance’s endpoint security products to Arctic Wolf 2024-12-17 at 08:15 By Simon Sharwood Fresh attempt to mix the perfect cocktail of IoT and Infosec BlackBerry’s ambition to mix infosec and the Internet of Things has been squeezed, after the Canadian firm announced it is offloading Cylance’s endpoint security products.… This article is an

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Best practices for risk mitigation and mail threat detection 2024-12-17 at 08:03 By Ongoing geopolitical issues provide increasing motivation for all security professionals to adopt safeguards against mail-based threats  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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27 DDoS-for-hire operations shut down by law enforcement 2024-12-17 at 07:18 By Law enforcement agencies across 15 countries have shut down 27 DDoS-for-hire operations.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Australia moves to drop some cryptography by 2030 – before quantum carves it up 2024-12-17 at 06:06 By Thomas Claburn The likes of SHA-256, RSA, ECDSA and ECDH won’t be welcome in just five years Australia’s chief cyber security agency has decided local orgs should stop using the tech that forms the current cryptographic foundation

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SoftBank pledges to pour $100B into US, create 100,000 jobs in Trump’s second term 2024-12-17 at 04:19 By Tobias Mann Details? Who needs ’em! But AI seems a likely focus SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son revealed plans to invest $100 billion in the US and create a minimum of 100,000 jobs in the next four years.…

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Ransomware scum blow holes in Cleo software patches, Cl0p (sort of ) claims responsibility 2024-12-17 at 01:48 By Jessica Lyons But can you really take crims at their word? Supply chain integration vendor Cleo has urged its customers to upgrade three of its products after an October patch was circumvented, leading to widespread ransomware attacks

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TikTok turns to US Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to avert ban 2024-12-16 at 23:34 By Reuters TokTok and ByteDance sought an injunction to halt the looming ban on the social media app used by about 170 million Americans while they appeal a lower court’s ruling that upheld the law. This article is an excerpt from Latest

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Computer Users Once Again Insist ‘123456’ and ‘password’ are the Pinnacle of Cybersecurity 2024-12-16 at 23:34 By … At least according to a recent report posted by the password manager firm NordPass. This article is an excerpt from Trustwave Blog View Original Source React to this headline:

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