Google on Monday revealed that almost 200,000 app submissions to its Play Store for Android were either rejected or remediated to address issues with access to sensitive data such as… Read More »Google Prevented 2.28 Million Malicious Apps from Reaching Play Store in 2023
A security vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that could be exploited by a threat actor to create a malicious RDS (R Data Serialization) file such that it results… Read More »New R Programming Vulnerability Exposes Projects to Supply Chain Attacks
A previously undocumented cyber threat dubbed Muddling Meerkat has been observed undertaking sophisticated domain name system (DNS) activities in a likely effort to evade security measures and conduct reconnaissance of networks across the world since October 2019. Cloud… Read More »China-Linked ‘Muddling Meerkat’ Hijacks DNS to Map Internet on Global Scale
It comes as no surprise that today’s cyber threats are orders of magnitude more complex than those of the past. And the ever-evolving tactics that attackers use demand the adoption of better, more holistic… Read More »Navigating the Threat Landscape: Understanding Exposure Management, Pentesting, Red Teaming and RBVM
Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in the Judge0 open-source online code execution system that could be exploited to obtain code execution on the target system. The three flaws, all critical in nature, allow an “adversary… Read More »Sandbox Escape Vulnerabilities in Judge0 Expose Systems to Complete Takeover
Identity and access management (IAM) services provider Okta has warned of a spike in the “frequency and scale” of credential stuffing attacks aimed at online services. These unprecedented attacks, observed… Read More »Okta Warns of Unprecedented Surge in Proxy-Driven Credential Stuffing Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a targeted operation against Ukraine that has been found leveraging a nearly seven-year-old flaw in Microsoft Office to deliver Cobalt Strike on compromised systems. The attack chain, which… Read More »Ukraine Targeted in Cyberattack Exploiting 7-Year-Old Microsoft Office Flaw
An ongoing social engineering campaign is targeting software developers with bogus npm packages under the guise of a job interview to trick them into downloading a Python backdoor. Cybersecurity firm Securonix is… Read More »Bogus npm Packages Used to Trick Software Developers into Installing Malware
Several security vulnerabilities disclosed in Brocade SANnav storage area network (SAN) management application could be exploited to compromise susceptible appliances. The 18 flaws impact all versions up to and including 2.3.0, according to independent security researcher… Read More »Severe Flaws Disclosed in Brocade SANnav SAN Management Software
Palo Alto Networks has shared remediation guidance for a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting PAN-OS that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3400 (CVSS score: 10.0), could be weaponized to obtain unauthenticated remote… Read More »Palo Alto Networks Outlines Remediation for Critical PAN-OS Flaw Under Attack