xz Utils Backdoor
The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in xz Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much accidentally discovered by...
Distinctive Campaign Evolution of Pikabot Malware
Authored by Anuradha and Preksha Introduction PikaBot is a malicious backdoor that has been active since early 2023. Its modular design is comprised of a...
Declassified NSA Newsletters
Through a 2010 FOIA request (yes, it took that long), we have copies of the NSA’s KRYPTOS Society Newsletter, “Tales of the Krypt,” from 1994...
AT&T Confirms 73 Million Customer Data Breach Linked to Dark Web
The telecommunications giant said that the published dataset comprises information from 2019 or earlier Read More
Researchers Report Sevenfold Increase in Data Theft Cases
Kaspersky said cybercriminals harvested 50.9 login credentials per infected device in 2023 Read More
Trusted Contributor Plants Sophisticated Backdoor in Critical Open-Source Library
A backdoor in XZ Utils, a widely used file-compressing software in Linux systems, could have led to a critical supply chain attack had a Microsoft...
Are You a Victim of a Deepfake Attack? Here’s What to Do Next
With the rise of cheap and easy-to-use AI tools, deepfake attacks find themselves likewise on the rise. Startling as that news might sound, you have...
USN-6720-1: Cacti vulnerability
Kentaro Kawane discovered that Cacti incorrectly handled user provided input sent through request parameters to the graph_view.php script. A remote authenticated attacker could use this...
Amazon refuses to refund me £700 for iPhone 15 it didn’t deliver
Amazon failed to deliver an iPhone 15 to my home, but claims I am not eligible for a refund. Is there anybody at Amazon who...
dotnet7.0-7.0.117-1.fc38
FEDORA-2024-8fd3285bd9 Packages in this update: dotnet7.0-7.0.117-1.fc38 Update description: This is the March 2024 update for .NET 7. Release Notes: https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/release-notes/7.0/7.0.17/7.0.17.md Read More