The CrowdStrike incident that affected more than 8.5 million Windows PCs worldwide and forced users to face the “Blue Screen of Death,” made Microsoft sit down and revisit the resilience of its operating system. The company is now prioritizing the reduction of kernel-level access for software applications, a move designed to enhance the overall security […]
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Searchable Encryption has long been a mystery. An oxymoron. An unattainable dream of cybersecurity professionals everywhere. Organizations know they must encrypt their most valuable, sensitive data to prevent data theft and breaches. They also understand that organizational data exists to be used. To be searched, viewed, and modified to keep businesses running. Unfortunately, our Network […]
The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new open source software package, Dioptra, that allows developers to determine what type of attacks would make an AI model perform less effectively. “Testing the effects of adversarial attacks on machine learning models is one of the goals of Dioptra, a new software package […]
A threat actor known as Stargazer Goblin has set up a network of inauthentic GitHub accounts to fuel a Distribution-as-a-Service (DaaS) that propagates a variety of information-stealing malware and netting them $100,000 in illicit profits over the past year. The network, which comprises over 3,000 accounts on the cloud-based code hosting platform, spans thousands of […]
Threat actors are exploiting a misconfiguration in Selenium Grid, a popular web app testing framework, to deploy a modified XMRig tool for mining Monero cryptocurrency. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas
As athletes from around the world vie for gold at the 2024 Olympics and Paralympics in Paris, cybercriminals are fine-tuning their own game plans to hack, attack, and exploit the largest event on the planet, making the 30th Olympiad potentially the greatest cybersecurity risk in history. “Cybercrime and cyberthreats have gone through the roof in […]
The dust is largely settled from the global blue-screen-of-death (BSD) CrowdStrike inflicted on over 8.5 million Windows devices by its flawed delivery of a channel file in its Falcon Sensor update, crippling businesses worldwide. And now that nearly all those devices have been restored, it’s time for CISOs to pick up the pieces and contemplate […]
The remote access trojan known as Gh0st RAT has been observed being delivered by an “evasive dropper” called Gh0stGambit as part of a drive-by download scheme targeting Chinese-speaking Windows users. These infections stem from a fake website (“chrome-web[.]com”) serving malicious installer packages masquerading as Google’s Chrome browser, indicating that users searching for the software on […]
Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has named a new minister for home affairs and for cybersecurity. Tony Burke will take on the responsibility along with immigration and multicultural affairs; minister for the arts; leader of the House. The cabinet change announced on Sunday comes two years after Clare O’Neil was appointed and having cybersecurity as […]
Microsoft has added a feature to Windows 11 that allows you to end tasks directly from the taskbar. […] Go to Source Author: Mayank Parmar