Netgear Patches Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Many Products
A vulnerability in Netgear small office/home office (SOHO) devices can be exploited by an attacker on the local area network (LAN) to execute code remotely with root privileges, GRIMM security researchers warn.
Robinhood Says Thousands of Phone Numbers Also Stolen in Breach
Mobile stock trading platform Robinhood on Tuesday confirmed that phone numbers and other information have also been stolen in the recent data breach.
Open XDR Company Stellar Cyber Raises $38 Million
Detection and response solutions provider Stellar Cyber on Tuesday announced that it has raised $38 million in Series B funding. To date, the company has raised over $68 million.
CISA Releases Incident and Vulnerability Response Playbooks
In response to an executive order signed by President Biden in May, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released two cybersecurity playbooks focusing on incident response and vulnerability response.
UK Orders National Security Review of NVIDIA Deal to Buy Arm
American technology company NVIDIA’s planned $40 billion takeover of British chip designer Arm Ltd. faces months of delays after the U.K. government asked competition regulators Tuesday to investigate the national security implications of the deal.
Chrome 96 Plugs High-Risk Browser Flaws
Google this week announced the availability of Chrome 96 in the stable channel with fixes for 25 security flaws, including 18 bugs reported by external security researchers.
Mandiant Attributes Ghostwriter APT Attacks to Belarus
The Belarusian government is at least partially responsible for the Ghostwriter disinformation campaign, according to security researchers at the Mandiant Threat Intelligence team.
Blacksmith: Rowhammer Fuzzer Bypasses Existing Protections
A group of security researchers devised a new attack that completely bypasses the existing mitigations against the Rowhammer vulnerability in dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips.
Hackers Targeted Afghan Officials on Facebook Amid Taliban Offensive
Facebook revealed Tuesday it had worked to block a hacker group that targeted the accounts of people tied to Afghanistan’s then-government and security forces as the Taliban was moving in to take power.