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Snowflake Breach Exposes 165 Customers’ Data in Ongoing Extortion Campaign
As many as 165 customers of Snowflake are said to have had their information potentially exposed as part of an ongoing campaign designed to facilitate data theft and extortion, indicating the operation has broader implications than previously thought. Google-owned...
Arm Warns of Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability in Mali GPU Drivers
Arm is warning of a security vulnerability impacting Mali GPU Kernel Driver that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-4610, the use-after-free issue impacts the following products - Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from r34p0 to...
More_eggs Malware Disguised as Resumes Targets Recruiters in Phishing Attack
Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a phishing attack distributing the More_eggs malware by masquerading it as a resume, a technique originally detected more than two years ago. The attack, which was unsuccessful, targeted an unnamed company in the industrial...
Cybersecurity CPEs: Unraveling the What, Why & How
Staying Sharp: Cybersecurity CPEs Explained Perhaps even more so than in other professional domains, cybersecurity professionals constantly face new threats. To ensure you stay on top of your game, many certification programs require earning Continuing Professional...
Azure Service Tags Vulnerability: Microsoft Warns of Potential Abuse by Hackers
Microsoft is warning about the potential abuse of Azure Service Tags by malicious actors to forge requests from a trusted service and get around firewall rules, thereby allowing them to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. "This case does highlight an inherent...
Google Takes Down Influence Campaigns Tied to China, Indonesia, and Russia
Google has revealed that it took down 1,320 YouTube channels and 1,177 Blogger blogs as part of a coordinated influence operation connected to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). "The coordinated inauthentic network uploaded content in Chinese and English about...
Sticky Werewolf Expands Cyber Attack Targets in Russia and Belarus
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a threat actor known as Sticky Werewolf that has been linked to cyber attacks targeting entities in Russia and Belarus. The phishing attacks were aimed at a pharmaceutical company, a Russian research institute...
New PHP Vulnerability Exposes Windows Servers to Remote Code Execution
Details have emerged about a new critical security flaw impacting PHP that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4577, has been described as a CGI argument injection vulnerability...
Microsoft Revamps Controversial AI-Powered Recall Feature Amid Privacy Concerns
Microsoft on Friday said it will disable its much-criticized artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Recall feature by default and make it an opt-in. Recall, currently in preview and coming exclusively to Copilot+ PCs on June 18, 2024, functions as an "explorable visual...
Ultimate Cyber Hygiene Guide: Learn How to Simplify Your Security Efforts
2023 was a year of unprecedented cyberattacks. Ransomware crippled businesses, DDoS attacks disrupted critical services, and data breaches exposed millions of sensitive records. The cost of these attacks? Astronomical. The damage to reputations? Irreparable. But...