Security

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 11 - Nov 17)
What do hijacked websites, fake job offers, and sneaky ransomware have in common? They’re proof that cybercriminals are finding smarter, sneakier ways to exploit both systems and people. This week makes one thing clear: no system, no person, no organ...
2024-11-18 17:06
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Gmail's New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacy
Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam. The feature was first reported by Android Authority last week following a teardown o...
2024-11-18 16:45
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Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information
A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. "The campaign leverag...
2024-11-18 16:26
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Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing
IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules. Most companies approach network penetration tes...
2024-11-18 16:00
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NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta's Lawsuit
Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta's WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app to deliver Pegasus, including one even after it was sued ...
2024-11-18 11:22
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Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites
A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker to remotely gain full administrative access to a ...
2024-11-18 10:22
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PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs and Patch Released
Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has been actively exploited in the wild. To that end,...
2024-11-16 13:51
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PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs Released
Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a new zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has been actively exploited in the wild. To that ...
2024-11-16 13:51
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Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials
A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet's FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework called DEEPDATA. Volexity, which disclosed the findings Friday, said it ident...
2024-11-16 11:55
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Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google's Vertex AI ML Platform
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google's Vertex machine learning (ML) platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges and exfiltrate models from the cloud. "By exploiting cust...
2024-11-15 18:05
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Master Certificate Management: Join This Webinar on Crypto Agility and Best Practices
In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations, though rare, can send shockwaves through your operations, impacting security, customer confidence, and business continuity. A...
2024-11-15 17:18
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Live Webinar: Dive Deep into Crypto Agility and Certificate Management
In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations, though rare, can send shockwaves through your operations, impacting security, customer confidence, and business continuity. A...
2024-11-15 17:18
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