It’s important to be familiar with multiple types of fraud that could affect your organization
Academics Devise Open Source Tool For Hunting Node.js Security Flaws
A group of academic researchers have designed an open source Node.js bug hunting tool that has already identified 180 security vulnerabilities.
FBI Warns of Surge in Attacks Targeting DeFi Platforms
The FBI is warning of an increase in attacks targeting decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms to steal cryptocurrency.
According to the agency, miscreants are taking advantage of the increased interest in cryptocurrency and the complex functionality and the open source nature of DeFi platforms to perform nefarious activities.
Atlassian Ships Urgent Patch for Critical Bitbucket Vulnerability
Atlassian’s security response team has issued an urgent advisory to warn of a critical command injection flaw in its Bitbucket Server and Data Center product.
The vulnerability carries a CVSS severity score of 9.9 out of 10 and can be exploited remotely to launch code execution attacks, Atlassian said.
LastPass Says Source Code Stolen in Data Breach
Password management software firm LastPass has suffered a data breach that led to the theft of source code and proprietary technical information.
BalkanID Adds $2.3M to Seed Funding Round
BalkanID, a Texas startup building technology in the Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) space, has added $2.3 million to its seed financing round, bringing the total raised to $8.1 million.
Plex Confirms Database Breach, Data Theft
Popular streaming media platform Plex is scrambling to reset user passwords after a database hack that included the theft of emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords.
Privilege Escalation Flaw Haunts VMware Tools
Virtualization technology software giant VMware on Tuesday released patches to fix an important-severity security flaw in the VMware Tools suite of utilities.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31676, could be exploited by attackers to escalate privileges on a compromised system.
Novant Health Says Malformed Tracking Pixel Exposed Health Data to Meta
Healthcare services provider Novant Health has sent notifications to more than 1.3 million individuals that their protected health information (PHI) might have been inadvertently exposed to Facebook parent company Meta.
FBI Warns of Proxies and Configurations Used in Credential Stuffing Attacks
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has raised an alarm for cybercriminals using proxies and configurations to hide and automate credential stuffing attacks against companies in the United States.
