Two men have been charged with hacking into computer networks in the United States, UK, other NATO countries, and Ukraine, on behalf of the Russian government.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
UK privacy regulator, the information commissioner, says illegal use of AI will be punished with fines
European security agency claims “novel and massive” DDoS threat is driven by political motivation
Veeam research reveals that corporate victims of ransomware are more likely to increase prices and fire staff
Wang Zhong discovered that TinyXML incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were tricked into opening a specially crafted
input file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service.
The Metomic research also suggested 34.2% of the files were shared with external contacts
A cybercriminal group calling itself BlackSuit has claimed responsibility for a series of ransomware attacks, including breaches at schools in central Georgia.
And earlier in the year, a zoo in Tampa Bay was targeted by the same hacking gang.
Learn more about the BlackSuit ransomware in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
It was discovered that the GNU C Library was not properly handling certain
memory operations. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a
denial of service (application crash). (CVE-2023-4806, CVE-2023-4813)
It was discovered that the GNU C library was not properly implementing a
fix for CVE-2023-4806 in certain cases, which could lead to a memory leak.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service
(application crash). This issue only affected Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2023-5156)
Meta’s Head of Messenger announced that the company has begun to roll out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for personal chats and calls.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
