CrowdStrike warns of a new malware campaign that exploits the recent Falcon update bug, leading to widespread IT outages. Cybercriminals are distributing the Daolpu information-stealing malware through phishing emails disguised as recovery instructions. Once active, Daolpu harvests account credentials, browser history, and cookies from popular web browsers, posing a significant …
Security researchers at PayPal have uncovered three new SMTP smuggling attack techniques that exploit misconfigurations and design flaws in at least 50 email-hosting providers. These techniques allow attackers to spoof emails from over 20 million trusted domains, bypassing essential security protocols like SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. As a result, malicious …
Los Angeles County Superior Court, the largest trial court in America, shut down all 36 courthouses following a severe ransomware attack. The attack, which occurred on Friday, rendered every electronic platform containing court data and all internet-connected devices inoperable. Since the attack, court employees and cybersecurity experts have been tirelessly …
Clay County, Indiana, has declared a local disaster following a ransomware attack that disrupted critical services at the county courthouse, Community Corrections, and Probation offices. The attack, discovered around midnight on July 9, prevented officials from accessing data or connecting with state partners, leading to the closure of the courthouse …
A critical issue in Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) has left over 1.5 million servers unpatched, posing significant security risks. Tracked as CVE-2024-39929, the flaw allows threat actors to bypass security filters and deliver malicious executable attachments to users’ mailboxes. The issue arises from incorrect parsing of multiline RFC2231 header …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three significant vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. These include a critical template injection flaw in the Rejetto HTTP File Server (CVE-2024-23692), a privilege escalation issue in Windows Hyper-V (CVE-2024-38080), and a spoofing vulnerability in the Windows MSHTML …
Cybersecurity experts from leading universities and tech companies have identified a critical vulnerability in the RADIUS networking protocol. Dubbed “Blast RADIUS,” the flaw allows attackers to bypass user authentication via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks and hash cracking. With a CVSS severity score of 7.5 out of 10, the vulnerability (CVE-2024-3596) poses …
As cloud usage becomes vital for organizations, it has also become a target for cyberattacks. A recent report by Thales highlights that 47% of corporate data stored in the cloud is sensitive, making cloud security a top priority. SaaS applications, cloud storage, and cloud management infrastructure are the leading attack …
Alabama’s State Department of Education recently experienced a significant data breach following a thwarted ransomware attack on June 17. Although IT professionals managed to stop the attack, threat actors accessed some data and disrupted services. Superintendent Eric Mackey revealed that while the full extent of the breach is still being …
Adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks are exposing vulnerabilities in passkey authentication. By stripping passkey options from login pages users are forced to rely on less secure authentication methods. This makes their accounts susceptible to compromise. Joe Stewart from eSentire’s Threat Response Unit highlights that the problem lies not in the passkeys themselves. …
