Israeli NSO Group Suspected of “MMS Fingerprint” Attack on WhatsApp
NSO Group, an Israeli spyware firm, is suspected of exploiting a novel “MMS Fingerprint” attack to target unsuspected users on WhatsApp, exposing their device information…
Month: February 2024
Competition For Top Cybersecurity Talent Is Fierce
16 Feb Leadership Careers: Competition For Top Cybersecurity Talent Is Fierce This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine – Read the full…
Microsoft Exchange vulnerability actively exploited
As it turns out, there was another actively exploited vulnerability included in Microsoft’s patch Tuesday updates for February. When Microsoft said in its update guide…
Malicious ‘SNS Sender’ Script Abuses AWS for Bulk Smishing Attacks
Feb 16, 2024NewsroomCyber Threat / Cloud Security A malicious Python script known as SNS Sender is being advertised as a way for threat actors to…
Google claims AI advances with Gemini LLM
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has unveiled the next version of Google’s Gemini large language model (LLM). The new version of the LLM, formerly known…
hackers breached a state government organization
U.S. CISA: hackers breached a state government organization Pierluigi Paganini February 16, 2024 U.S. CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization…
U.S. State Government Network Hacked Via Former Employee Account
CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) and MS-ISAC (Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center) have jointly disclosed that an unknown organization has attacked a state…
ISC2 Collaborates with IBM to Launch Entry-Level Cybersecurity Certificate
ISC2 – the world’s leading nonprofit member organization for cybersecurity professionals – announced a partnership with IBM (NYSE: IBM) to launch the IBM and ISC2 Cybersecurity Specialist Professional…
1000+ JetBrains TeamCity Instances Vulnerable to RCE Attacks
A critical security vulnerability was detected in TeamCity On-Premises, tagged as CVE-2024-23917, with a CVSS score of 9.8. An unauthenticated attacker with HTTP(S) access to…
U.S. authorities disrupt Russian intelligence’s botnet
In January 2024, an operation dismantled a network of hundreds of SOHO routers controlled by GRU Military Unit 26165, also known as APT 28, Sofacy…
Why We Must Democratize Cybersecurity
With breaches making the headlines on an almost weekly basis, the cybersecurity challenges we face are becoming visible not only to large enterprises, who have…
Green IT: How Google’s cloud and AI tools are supporting a methane-tracking satellite project
A satellite due for launch will track how much methane is being emitted by oil and gas facilities, aiming to encourage moves to reduce the…