AWS environments compromised through exposed .env files

August 19, 2024 0 Comments 1 tag

Lateral movement inside AWS environments In the hands of knowledgeable hackers, leaked secrets can be very powerful and dangerous. For example, the attackers behind this operation exhibited advanced knowledge of

Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing

August 16, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Friday Squid Blog: The Market for Squid Oil Is Growing How did I not know before now that there was a market for squid oil? The squid oil market has

SystemBC Malware Used to Target Users by Black Basta-Linked Threat Actors

August 16, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

“Multiple intrusion attempts” have been connected to an ongoing social engineering campaign purportedly tied to the Black Basta ransomware group, which aims to steal credentials and install a malware dropper

New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability

August 16, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

New Windows IPv6 Zero-Click Vulnerability The press is reporting a critical Windows vulnerability affecting IPv6. As Microsoft explained in its Tuesday advisory, unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw remotely in

11 top bug bounty programs launched in 2024

August 16, 2024 0 Comments 1 tag

AI start-up Anthropic launches bug reporting scheme Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic launched a vulnerability disclosure program (VDP), managed by HackerOne, in August with bounty rewards up to $15,000 for novel,

Major GitHub repos leak access tokens putting code and clouds at risk

August 15, 2024 0 Comments 1 tag

An analysis of build artifacts generated by GitHub Actions workflows inside open-source repositories belonging to major companies revealed sensitive access tokens to third-party cloud services, as well as GitHub itself.

Thousands of NetSuite stores leak sensitive data due to access control misconfiguration

August 15, 2024 0 Comments 1 tag

How does this lead to misconfigurations? Let’s assume an administrator creates a CRT with “No Permissions Required.” In adding custom fields, he wants some fields to be readable by unauthenticated

MIT delivers database containing 700+ risks associated with AI

August 15, 2024 0 Comments 1 tag

However, researchers noted in the FAQ that the Repository does have several limitations, including being limited to risks from the 43 taxonomies, so it “may be missing emerging, domain-specific risks,

NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms

August 15, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

From the Federal Register: After three rounds of evaluation and analysis, NIST selected four algorithms it will standardize as a result of the PQC Standardization Process. The public-key encapsulation mechanism

5 Malware Variants You Should Know

August 15, 2024 0 Comments 2 tags