An office worker received an email that appeared to be from a vendor but was caught in quarantine and the user requested its release. It looked innocent enough, so an administrator released the email. The user clicked on the email to review the contents, which included an attached invoice. That’s where the trouble started: clicking […]
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A newly patched security flaw impacting Windows NT LAN Manager (NTLM) was exploited as a zero-day by a suspected Russia-linked actor as part of cyber attacks targeting Ukraine. The vulnerability in question, CVE-2024-43451 (CVSS score: 6.5), refers to an NTLM hash disclosure spoofing vulnerability that could be exploited to steal a user’s NTLMv2 hash. It […]
CISOs with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop in their environments should patch two holes that could give an authenticated hacker the ability to escalate privileges and run remote code. This warning comes after the discovery by researchers at watchTowr of the vulnerabilities, who said that what they described as “a carelessly-exposed MSMQ [Microsoft message queuing] […]
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Tuesday published its timetables for moving government agencies off current types of encryption onto what they hope will be quantum-resistant encryption by 2035. But analysts urge enterprises to move much more quickly, given that state actors are expected to achieve quantum at scale by 2028. […]
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The China-affiliated group is using the highly modular DeepData framework to target organizations in South Asia. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
Among the top exploited zero-day vulnerabilities were bugs found in systems from Citrix and Cisco. Go to Source Author: Dark Reading Staff
CISA and the FBI confirmed that Chinese hackers compromised the “private communications” of a “limited number” of government officials after breaching multiple U.S. broadband providers. […] Go to Source Author: Sergiu Gatlan
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