Category: NEWS & INDUSTRY

Sophisticated Threat Actor Targets Governments, Defense Industry in Western Asia

High-ranking government officials and individuals in the defense industry in Western Asia were targeted in a sophisticated campaign that involved the use of Graphite malware, according to XDR firm Trellix, which resulted from the merger between McAfee Enterprise and FireEye.

Cyber Insights 2022: Identity

New Open Source Tool Helps Identify EtherNet/IP Stacks for ICS Research, Analysis

Industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty on Wednesday announced a new open source tool designed for identifying EtherNet/IP stacks.

According to the company, the new “EtherNet/IP & CIP Stack Detector” tool can be useful to security researchers, operational technology (OT) engineers, and asset owners.

Virtual Event Today: Ransomware Resilience & Recovery Summit – Doors Are Open

Ransomware Resilience and Recovery Summit, presented by Palo Alto Networks

Slim.AI Raises $31 Million to Secure Cloud-Native Applications

Cloud-native application security startup Slim.AI today announced that it has raised $31 million in Series A funding, which brings the total raised by the company to $37.6 million.

Apple Pays Out $100,000 for Webcam, User Account Hacking Exploit

A security researcher claims to have received a significant bug bounty from Apple for reporting a series of Safari and macOS vulnerabilities that could have been exploited to hijack a user’s online accounts and webcam.

Polkit Vulnerability Provides Root Privileges on Linux Systems

Qualys security researchers warn of an easily exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, a SUID-root program found in all Linux distributions.

Europe’s Hypocrisy Over Personal Data Privacy Exposed

There seems to be a strong likelihood that European hypocrisy over personal data privacy might continue indefinitely

Two More Poles Identified as Victims of Hacking With Spyware

Two more Poles have been identified as victims of phone hacking with the notoriously powerful spyware from Israel’s NSO Group: an agrarian political leader at odds with Poland’s right-wing government and the co-author of a book about the head of Poland’s secret services.

SonicWall Customers Warned of Possible Attacks Exploiting Recent Vulnerability

Hackers have started targeting a recently patched vulnerability affecting SonicWall’s Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances, and while the attacks observed to date do not appear to have been successful, that could soon change.