Recent Security News

  • Hacker Conversations: Stephanie ‘Snow’ Carruthers, Chief People Hacker at IBM X-Force Red

    March 18, 2024 at 09:15AM Social engineering is the manipulation of human thought processes and is a major aspect of hacking, though not directly involved in repurposing electronic systems. Social engineers manipulate the human subconscious for financial gain and require different skills than computer hackers. Stephanie Carruthers, Chief People Hacker at IBM Security, discusses her…

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  • New Attack Shows Risks of Browsers Giving Websites Access to GPU 

    March 18, 2024 at 09:15AM Researchers from Graz University of Technology in Austria and the University of Rennes in France discovered a new graphics processing unit (GPU) attack on popular browsers and graphics cards. By using the WebGPU API, they demonstrated an attack from within a web browser using JavaScript, showing potential risks and implications…

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  • Hackers Using Sneaky HTML Smuggling to Deliver Malware via Fake Google Sites

    March 18, 2024 at 08:45AM A new malware campaign using bogus Google Sites and HTML smuggling to distribute the AZORult malware for information theft has been discovered by cybersecurity researchers. The campaign employs stealthy tactics to bypass security controls, with findings revealing similar techniques used in recent phishing campaigns to disseminate other malware like Agent…

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  • Moldovan Operator of Credential Marketplace Sentenced to US Prison

    March 18, 2024 at 06:45AM Moldovan national Sandu Boris Diaconu, 31, has been sentenced to 42 months in prison in the US for operating the illicit E-Root Marketplace, selling more than 350,000 compromised credentials. The marketplace facilitated the sale of stolen information, offering buyers access to victim computers and facilitating ransomware attacks and stolen identity…

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  • PoC Published for Critical Fortra Code Execution Vulnerability

    March 18, 2024 at 06:45AM The PoC code is available for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-25153, CVSS score 9.8) in Fortra FileCatalyst Workflow. Attackers can execute arbitrary code through a directory traversal bug in the ‘ftpservlet’ component, potentially leading to web shell execution. SOCRadar warns of threat actor exploitation and advises prompt system updates. Additional details…

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