The old, but newly disclosed, vulnerability is buried deep inside personal computers, servers, and mobile devices, and their supply chains, making remediation a headache.
Pakistani hackers are spying (▀̿Ĺ̯▀̿ ̿) on the highly sensitive organizations in India by using emojis (Ծ_Ծ) as malicious commands (⚆ᗝ⚆) and the old Dirty Pipe Linux flaw.
Face scans stored like passwords inevitably will be compromised, like passwords are. But there's a crucial difference between the two that organizations can rely on when their manufacturers fail.
The pro-Ukranian group has upgraded its infection chain, with credentials, strategic info on commercial pilots, or billion-dollar designs as the possible prizes.
As always, Russian APTs are hoping to foment unrest by stoking existing societal divides and fears, this time around the Olympics and EU politics; and, concerns remain around physical disruption.
Most of the operations were feckless efforts with little impact, but they illustrate how AI is changing the game for inauthentic content on both the adversary and defense sides.
North Korea's newest threat actor uses every trick in the nation-state APT playbook, and most of cybercrime's tricks, too. It also developed a whole video game company to hide malware.
Mandiant warns that defenders must rethink how to thwart Chinese cyber-espionage groups now using professional "infrastructure-as-a-service" operational relay box networks of virtual private servers as well as hijacked smart devices and routers.
An on-by-default endpoint in ubiquitous logging service Fluent Bit contains an oversight that hackers can toy with to rattle most any cloud environment.
A number of serious Windows bugs still haven't made their way into criminal circles, but that won't remain the case forever — and time is running short before ZDI releases exploit details.
Thankfully, GE ultrasounds aren't Internet-facing. Exploiting most of the bugs to cause serious damage to patients would require physical device access.
Ransomware groups have always created problems for their victims that only they could solve. Black Basta is taking that core idea in a creative, new direction.
As Verizon Business redefines "supply chain breach," it could either help organizations address third-party risk holistically or just conflate and confuse.
The space agency needs to implement stricter policies and standards when it comes to its cybersecurity practices, but doing so the wrong way would put machinery at risk, a federal review found.
A recent campaign targeting Middle Eastern government organizations plays standard detection tools like a fiddle. With cyberattackers getting more creative, defenders must start keeping pace.