đš Urgent: Thousands of internet-accessible ActiveMQ instances are at risk.
HelloKitty ransomware group is actively exploiting a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) flaw, CVE-2023â46604, in Apache ActiveMQ.
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Cybersecurity experts uncover a critical flaw in Apache ActiveMQ. Hackers exploit it for ransomware attacks.
How much would it cost to hack your phone? The best guess for an iPhone is between $0 and $65,000 â and that price mainly depends on you. If you skipped a really important security update, the cost is closer to $0.
Say you were up to date. That $65,000 figure is an upper cost of exploiting the median individual â switch to an Android, a Mac, or a PC and it could get a lot lower. Apple has invested enormous resources in hardening the iPhone. The asking price for an individual exploit, rather than as a service, can go as high as $8 million. Compare that to the cost of an exploit of a PDF reader like Adobe Acrobat â notoriously riddled with security vulnerabilities â which according to this TrendMicro research report (PDF) is $250 and up.
Switch from targeting a specific person to targeting any of the thousands of people at a large company and there are myriad ways in. An attacker only needs to find the cheapest one.
Google has taken a significant step towards enhancing Chrome internet security by automatically upgrading insecure HTTP requests to HTTPS requests for 100% of users.
This feature is called HTTPS-Upgrades and will secure old links that utilize the http:// by automatically attempting to first connect to the URL over the encrypted https:// protocol.
A limited rollout of this feature in Google Chrome began in July, but as of October 16th, Google has now rolled it out to all users on the Stable channel.
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In a post on its leak site, prolific ransomware threat group LockBit claims that it breached Boeing, and said that it will start releasing sensitive data it purportedly stole from the companyâs systems if ransom demands arenât met by Nov. 2.
âA tremendous amount of sensitive data was exfiltrated and ready to be published if Boeing do (sic) not contact within deadline!â the LockBit post shared by cybersecurity analyst Dominic Alvieri read. âFor now we will not send lists or samples to protect the company BUT we will not keep it like that until the deadline.â
The post included a countdown clock to the deadline.
đš ExelaStealer, a dangerous info-stealing malware, has hit the scene, offering hackers a low-cost entry point for malicious attacks.
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Researchers warn of ExelaStealer, a new information stealer targeting Windows systems. It steals sensitive data like passwords, credit card numbers.
đ Beware! A new cyber threat is using bogus MSIX Windows app packages for popular software like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Grammarly, and Cisco Webex to spread a dangerous malware called GHOSTPULSE.
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Cyber criminals are using fake MSIX Windows app packages of popular software to deliver GHOSTPULSE malware loader.
OpenAIâs new preparedness team will address the potential dangers associated with AI, including nuclear threats.
OpenAI is forming a new team to mitigate the âcatastrophic risksâ associated with AI. In an update on Thursday.
The team will also work to mitigate âchemical, biological, and radiological threats,â as well as âautonomous replication,â or the act of an AI replicating itself. Some other risks that the preparedness team will address include AIâs ability to trick humans, as well as cybersecurity threats.
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The preparedness team will address several potential threats.
How safe are our routers? Japan & U.S. cybersecurity agencies have flagged a major threat in the form of Chinaâs BlackTech group.
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BlackTech, a notorious state-backed hackers from China, are using router backdoors to quietly to breach government, tech, and media sectors in the U.S.
Researchers demonstrate how Text-to-SQL systems can lead to cyber attacks.
A team of researchers from the University of Sheffield has demonstrated that popular artificial intelligence applications like OpenAIâs ChatGPT, among five others, can be manipulated to produce potentially harmful Structured Query Language (SQL) commands and can be exploited to attack computer systems in the real world.
The applications they used in their study included BAIDU-UNIT, ChatGPT, AI2SQL, AIHELPERBOT, Text2SQL, and ToolSKE.
Microsoft warns of Scattered Spider, a financially motivated hacking crew that infiltrates firms worldwide using SMS phishing, SIM swapping, and by posing as new employees, leading to data breaches and takeovers.
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The prolific threat actor known as Scattered Spider has been observed impersonating newly hired employees in targeted firms as a ploy to blend into normal on-hire processes and takeover accounts and breach organizations across the world.
Microsoft, which disclosed the activities of the financially motivated hacking crew, described the adversary as âone of the most dangerous financial criminal groups,â calling out its operational fluidity and its ability to incorporate SMS phishing, SIM swapping, and help desk fraud into its attack model.
âOcto Tempest is a financially motivated collective of native English-speaking threat actors known for launching wide-ranging campaigns that prominently feature adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques, social engineering, and SIM swapping capabilities,â the company said.