Experts warn of an Atlas VPN zero-day flaw impacting the Linux client that can reveal the user’s IP address by visiting a website. A Reddit user with the handle ‘Educational-Map-8145’ published a proof of concept exploit for a zero-day flaw in the Linux client of Atlas VPN. The exploit code works against the latest version […]
MITRE and CISA released a Caldera extension for OT that allows the emulation of attacks on operational technology systems. MITRE Caldera is an open-source adversary emulation platform that helps cybersecurity practitioners to automate security assessments. The tool is built on the MITRE ATT&CK framework, which is a widely-recognized framework for understanding and responding to cyber […]
Three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in ASUS routers potentially allow attackers to hijack the network devices. ASUS routers RT-AX55, RT-AX56U_V2, and RT-AC86U are affected by three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities that can potentially allow threat actors to take over the devices. The three vulnerabilities were reported by the Taiwanese CERT, below are their […]
Crypto gambling site Stake suffered a security breach, and threat actors withdrew $41M of funds stolen including Tether and Ether. Researchers reported abnormally large withdrawals made from the crypto gambling site Stake to an account with no previous activity, a circumstance that suggests that threat actors have hacked the platform and stolen crypto assets, including […]
Meta disrupted two influence campaigns orchestrated by China and Russia, the company blocked thousands of accounts and pages. Meta announced it has taken down two of the largest known covert influence operations originating from China and Russia. The social network giant revealed it has blocked thousands of accounts and pages across its platform. The company […]
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) down. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack took the site of the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) down for some days. It is not clear who is behind the DDoS attack, but the media speculate that it was launched […]
The social media site X announced that it will collect premium users’ biometric data for security and identification purposes. The social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) has updated its privacy policy informing its premium users that the company will collect their biometric data to curb fraud and prevent impersonation. Bloomberg first reported the news and […]
Resecurity has identified a large-scale smishing campaign, tracked as Smishing Triad, targeting the US Citizens. Earlier episodes have revealed victims from the U.K., Poland, Sweden, Italy, Indonesia, Japan and other countries – the group was impersonating the Royal Mail, New Zealand Postal Service (NZPOST), Correos (Spain), Postnord, Poste Italiane and the Italian Revenue Service (Agenzia […]
A threat actor was spotted exploiting MinIO storage system vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code on affected servers. Security Joes researchers have observed an unknown threat actor using a publicly available exploit chain for vulnerabilities in the MinIO Object Storage system to achieve arbitrary code execution on vulnerable servers. Object Storage is a data storage architecture […]
The University of Sydney (USYD) suffered a security breach caused by a third-party service provider that exposed personal information of recent applicants. The University of Sydney (USYD) announced that a data breach suffered by a third-party service provider exposed the personal information of recently applied and enrolled international applicants. The University of Sydney immediately launched […]