Published on: 2025-04-20 07:02:08
A remote code execution vulnerability affecting SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) appliances has been under active exploitation since at least January 2025, according to cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf. This security flaw (CVE-2021-20035) impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v devices and was patched almost four years ago, in September 2021, when SonicWall said it could only be exploited to take down vulnerable appliances in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. However, the
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Chinese-speaking IronHusky hackers are targeting Russian and Mongolian government organizations using upgraded MysterySnail remote access trojan (RAT) malware. Security researchers at Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) spotted the updated implant while investigating recent attacks where the attackers deployed the RAT malware using a malicious MMC script camouflaged as a Word document, which downloaded second-stage payloads and gained persistence on compromised systems. One o
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On Wednesday, CISA warned federal agencies to secure their SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances against attacks exploiting a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2021-20035, this security flaw impacts SMA 200, SMA 210, SMA 400, SMA 410, and SMA 500v (ESX, KVM, AWS, Azure) devices. Successful exploitation can allow remote threat actors with low privileges to execute arbitrary code in low-complexity attacks. "Improper neutralization of special e
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BlackJack3D/Getty Images 2024 delivered some good news and bad news in the area of cybercrime. Malware-based ransomware attacks dropped for the third year in a row. But instances of infostealer malware grew dramatically. Those findings come from IBM X-Force's "2025 Threat Intelligence Index" released Thursday. First, let's look at the good news. For the year, ransomware accounted for just 28% of malware incidents, the third annual decline in a row. This means a decrease in malware distributed
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Your security tools say everything’s fine, but attackers still get through. Despite years of investment in firewalls, endpoint protection, SIEMs, and other layered defenses, most organizations still face a disturbing truth: according to recent research by Picus Security, only 59% of threats are stopped by their security controls. That means 41% of attacks successfully bypass defenses. And the real damage often starts where visibility ends. 40% of enterprise environments have attack paths that
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4chan, an infamous online forum, was taken offline earlier today after what appears to be a significant hack and has since been loading intermittently. Members of the Soyjak.party imageboard (also known as The Party) have since claimed to be behind the attack. They also leaked screenshots of admin panels and a list of emails allegedly belonging to 4chan admins, moderators, and janitors (less privileged mods who help moderate the forums)." "Tonight has been a very special night for many of us a
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Kidney dialysis firm DaVita disclosed Monday it suffered a weekend ransomware attack that encrypted parts of its network and impacted some of its operations. DaVita is a major provider of kidney care services in the United States, operating over 2,600 outpatient treatment centers that provide dialysis to those suffering from kidney disease. It is a Fortune 500 organization with 76,000 employees in 12 countries and an annual revenue that surpasses $12.8 billion. The company disclosed today in a
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Executive Summary Pillar Security researchers have uncovered a dangerous new supply chain attack vector we've named "Rules File Backdoor." This technique enables hackers to silently compromise AI-generated code by injecting hidden malicious instructions into seemingly innocent configuration files used by Cursor and GitHub Copilot—the world's leading AI-powered code editors. By exploiting hidden unicode characters and sophisticated evasion techniques in the model facing instruction payload,
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More More than 40% of corporate fraud is now AI-driven, designed to mimic real users, bypass traditional defenses and scale at speeds that overwhelm even the best-equipped SOCs. In 2024, nearly 90% of enterprises were targeted, and half of them lost $10 million or more. Bots emulate human behavior and create entire emulation frameworks, synthetic identities, and behavioral
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Sensata Technologies (known as Sensata) has suffered a ransomware attack last weekend that encrypted parts of the company network and disrupted operations. In an 8-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Sensata says that the attack occurred on Sunday, April 6, and involved data theft, too. “The incident has temporarily impacted Sensata’s operations, including shipping, receiving, manufacturing production, and various other support functions,” reads the notification. S
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Microsoft says the RansomEXX ransomware gang has been exploiting a high-severity zero-day flaw in the Windows Common Log File System to gain SYSTEM privileges on victims' systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-29824, was patched during this month's Patch Tuesday and was only exploited in a limited number of attacks. CVE-2025-29824 is due to a use-after-free weakness that lets local attackers with low privileges gain SYSTEM privileges in low-complexity attacks that don't require user i
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April 1, 2025 Volume 23, issue 1 PDF Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security For decades, software reuse was only a lofty goal. Now it's very real. Russ Cox In March 1972, the United States Air Force started a review of a Honeywell Multics system to understand whether it could be used in secure environments. The report was issued in mid-1974 and concluded that Multics, while not secure, was better than its peers and might be a reasonable starting point for a secure system
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Over the weekend, a massive wave of credential stuffing attacks hit multiple large Australian super funds, compromising thousands of members’ accounts. The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Australia's advocacy body for the superannuation industry, said today that "a number of members were affected" even though the "majority of the attempts were repelled." Reuters has learned from a source familiar with the matter that over 20,000 accounts were breached in this massive w
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“I think ultimately we’re going to live in a world where the majority of cyberattacks are carried out by agents,” says Mark Stockley, a security expert at the cybersecurity company Malwarebytes. “It’s really only a question of how quickly we get there.” While we have a good sense of the kinds of threats AI agents could present to cybersecurity, what’s less clear is how to detect them in the real world. The AI research organization Palisade Research has built a system called LLM Agent Honeypot i
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A cascading supply chain attack on GitHub that targeted Coinbase in March has now been traced back to a single token stolen from a SpotBugs workflow, which allowed a threat actor to compromise multiple GitHub projects. The popular static analysis tool SpotBugs was breached in November 2024, leading to the compromise of Reviewdog, which subsequently led to the infection of tj-actions/changed-files. The multi-step supply chain attack eventually exposed secrets in 218 repositories, while the late
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Secure Hardware Design MIT’s Secure Hardware Design Class (6.5950/6.5951) is an open-source course that teaches students both how to attack modern CPUs and design architectures resilient to those attacks. Students gain hands-on experience hacking real processors and are taught various state-of-the-art hardware attacks and defenses. This course is the culmination of multiple years of work. Browse our story here. Meet the Team Secure Hardware Design is the culmination of years of effort by a t
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ZDNET When you think of phishing emails, you probably think of the crude, grammatically flawed, easy-to-spot samples that go straight to your junk folder. I regret to inform you that those weak "spray and pray" campaigns are yesterday's news. The crooks haven't gotten smarter, but their tools have. Also: These phishing attacks are targeting Mac browsers - how to protect yourself With the help of generative AI, online scammers have become dramatically better at crafting and delivering phishin
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Knight Ride Reach the target to win. Capture pieces for points and bonus moves. Level score = points × moves left. Beware of attackers! ⭐ Your High Score: 0 ⭐ Start Game
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We caught an attack where the first successful login we saw for a user was malicious. How we could be sure this was an attack? After all, we had no baseline for this user … Let’s dive in. The User Timeline: 1 Failed Login —> 1 Successful Login This is all the data we had for the user at the time of the attack: 1-26-25: Failed login to Microsoft Azure CLI from Hurricane Electric LLC, a data center in Mexico 1-29-25: Successful login to Microsoft Azure CLI from different IP in the same data
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WhataWin/Getty Images On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this? While the pro-Palestinian hacking collective known as Dark Storm Team claimed responsibility on Telegram for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against X, we can't be sure they're responsible. Also: Microsoft's new AI agents aim to help security pros combat the l
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A new cybercrime platform named 'Atlantis AIO' provides an automated credential stuffing service against 140 online platforms, including email services, e-commerce sites, banks, and VPNs. Specifically, Atlantis AIO features pre-configured modules for these services to perform brute force attacks, bypass CAPTCHAs, automate account recovery processes, and monetize stolen credentials/accounts. Credential stuffing and automation Credential stuffing is a type of cyberattack where threat actors try
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is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. Blizzard has announced that it will make exceptions to its hardcore permadeath policy and allow some characters to return to life. According to a report in Ars Technica, Blizzard made the pronouncement in response to a string of DDoS attacks that seemed specifically targeted to cause the in-game deaths of members of a high-p
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As AI applications proliferate across industries and sectors, two key security questions arise: Are these AI applications cyber-secure? Can bad actors exploit them through attacks? A recent article discusses these questions in relation to AI’s Achilles’ heel: adversarial machine learning (AdvML). In “Lights Toward Adversarial Machine Learning: The Achilles’ Heel of Artificial Intelligence,” authors Luca Pajola and Mauro Conti take a cybersecurity practitioner’s viewpoint as they discuss the
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Google has fixed a high-severity Chrome zero-day vulnerability exploited to escape the browser's sandbox and deploy malware in espionage attacks targeting Russian organizations. "Google is aware of reports that an exploit for CVE-2025-2783 exists in the wild," the company said in a security advisory published Tuesday. Tracked as CVE-2025-2783, this vulnerability was discovered by Kaspersky's Boris Larin and Igor Kuznetsov, who described it as an "incorrect handle provided in unspecified circu
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A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month. Uncovered by Trend Micro staff researcher Aliakbar Zahravi, this security feature bypass (dubbed 'MSC EvilTwin' and now tracked as CVE-2025-26633) resides in how MSC files are handled on vulnerable devices. Attackers can leverage the vulnerability to evade Windows file reputation protections and execute code because the user is not warned be
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World of Warcraft Classic's Hardcore mode has set itself apart from the average MMO experience simply by making character death permanent across the entire in-game realm. For years, Blizzard has not allowed any appeals or rollbacks for these Hardcore mode character deaths, even when such deaths came as the direct result of a server disconnection or gameplay bug. Now, Blizzard says it's modifying that policy somewhat in response to a series of "unprecedented distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS)
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A threat actor known as EncryptHub has been linked to Windows zero-day attacks exploiting a Microsoft Management Console vulnerability patched this month. Uncovered by Trend Micro staff researcher Aliakbar Zahravi, this security feature bypass (dubbed 'MSC EvilTwin' and now tracked as CVE-2025-26633) resides in how MSC files are handled on vulnerable devices. Attackers can leverage the vulnerability to evade Windows file reputation protections and execute code because the user is not warned be
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-30 22:52:30
World of Warcraft Classic's Hardcore mode has set itself apart from the average MMO experience simply by making character death permanent across the entire in-game realm. For years, Blizzard has not allowed any appeals or rollbacks for these Hardcore mode character deaths, even when such deaths came as the direct result of a server disconnection or gameplay bug. Now, Blizzard says it's modifying that policy somewhat in response to a series of "unprecedented distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS)
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Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s national railway operator, has been hit by a massive cyberattack that disrupted online services for buying tickets both through mobile apps and the website. The incident forced people to booths to buy physical tickets, causing overcrowding, delays, long waiting times, and frustration. With trains being the only reliable and relatively safe means for people to travel within Ukraine and internationally, the cyberattack is having a significant impact, Daryna Antoniuk rep
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As the speed, sophistication, and volume of attacks on corporate systems accelerate, CISOs and IT security teams struggle to apply an effective and consistent Linux security policy across all their servers. With Rocky Linux from CIQ - Hardened, you get Enterprise Linux and can be assured that it is delivered securely, configured correctly, and is proactively protecting your apps and services from malicious threats.
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