The AI Hangover is Here – The End of the Beginning – The Hacker News
After a good year of sustained exuberance, the hangover is finally here. It’s a gentle one (for now), as the market corrects the share price of the major players (like…
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FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability – The Hacker News
The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges.…
Industrial Remote Access Tool Ewon Cosy+ Vulnerable to Root Access Attacks – The Hacker News
Security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the industrial remote access solution Ewon Cosy+ that could be abused to gain root privileges to the devices and stage follow-on attacks. The elevated…
EastWind Attack Deploys PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors Using Booby-Trapped LNK Files – The Hacker News
The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed EastWind. The…
Rogue PyPI Library Solana Users, Steals Blockchain Wallet Keys – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform but is actually designed to…
Researchers Uncover 10 Flaws in Google’s File Transfer Tool Quick Share – The Hacker News
As many as 10 security flaws have been uncovered in Google’s Quick Share data transfer utility for Android and Windows that could be assembled to trigger remote code execution (RCE)…
New Malware Hits 300,000 Users with Rogue Chrome and Edge Extensions – The Hacker News
An ongoing, widespread malware campaign has been observed installing rogue Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions via a trojan distributed via fake websites masquerading as popular software. “The trojan malware…
Microsoft Warns of Unpatched Office Vulnerability Leading to Data Breaches – The Hacker News
Microsoft has disclosed an unpatched zero-day in Office that, if successfully exploited, could result in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to malicious actors. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38200 (CVSS score:…
Experts Uncover Severe AWS Flaws Leading to RCE, Data Theft, and Full-Service Takeovers – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple critical flaws in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings that, if successfully exploited, could result in serious consequences. “The impact of these vulnerabilities range between remote…
Microsoft Reveals Four OpenVPN Flaws Leading to Potential RCE and LPE – The Hacker News
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed four medium-severity security flaws in the open-source OpenVPN software that could be chained to achieve remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE). “This attack…
New Flaws in Sonos Smart Speakers Allow Hackers to Eavesdrop on Users – The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users. The vulnerabilities “led to an entire break in the…
DOJ Charges Nashville Man for Helping North Koreans Get U.S. Tech Jobs – The Hacker News
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…
CISA Warns of Hackers Exploiting Legacy Cisco Smart Install Feature – The Hacker News
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…
University Professors Targeted by North Korean Cyber Espionage Group – The Hacker News
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…
0.0.0.0 Day: 18-Year-Old Browser Vulnerability Impacts MacOS and Linux Devices – The Hacker News
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…