The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday charged a 38-year-old individual from Nashville, Tennessee, for allegedly running a “laptop farm” to help get North Koreans remote jobs with American and British companies. Matthew Isaac Knoot is charged with conspiracy to cause damage to protected computers, conspiracy to launder monetary instruments, conspiracy to commit wire […]
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that threat actors are abusing the legacy Cisco Smart Install (SMI) feature with the aim of accessing sensitive data. The agency said it has seen adversaries “acquire system configuration files by leveraging available protocols or software on devices, such as abusing the legacy Cisco Smart […]
At Black Hat USA, security researcher Michael Bargury released a “LOLCopilot” ethical hacking module to demonstrate how attackers can exploit Microsoft Copilot — and offered advice for defensive tooling. Go to Source Author: Jeffrey Schwartz, Contributing Writer
Microsoft execs detailed the company’s reaction to the CrowdStrike incident and emphasized the value of a collective identity. Go to Source Author: Kristina Beek, Associate Editor, Dark Reading
Attackers can use a seemingly innocuous IP address to exploit localhost APIs to conduct a range of malicious activity, including unauthorized access to user data and the delivery of malware. Go to Source Author: Elizabeth Montalbano, Contributing Writer
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting university staff, researchers, and professors for intelligence gathering purposes. Cybersecurity firm Resilience said it identified the activity in late July 2024 after it observed an operation security (OPSEC) error made by the hackers. Kimsuky, also known by […]
Black Hat USA 2024 kicks off Aug. 3 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas with training sessions, followed by a series of summits on Aug. 6, including the CISO Summit, with sessions on quantifying the cost of cyber risk, navigating regulatory complexity, and rebuilding after a cyber crisis, among others. But the big show rolls […]
As AI technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, privacy, security and governance teams can’t expect to achieve strong AI governance while working in isolation. Go to Source Author: Sanket Kavishwar, Kenneth Moras
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new “0.0.0.0 Day” impacting all major web browsers that malicious websites could take advantage of to breach local networks. The critical vulnerability “exposes a fundamental flaw in how browsers handle network requests, potentially granting malicious actors access to sensitive services running on local devices,” Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky Go […]
Black Hat presentation reveals adversaries don’t need to complete all seven stages of a traditional kill chain to achieve their objectives. Go to Source Author: Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer