May 06, 2023Ravie Lakshmanan Users of Advanced Custom Fields plugin for WordPress are being urged to update version 6.1.6 following the discovery of a security flaw. The issue, assigned the identifier CVE-2023-30777, relates to a case of reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) that could be abused to inject arbitrary executable scripts into otherwise benign websites. The
The North Korean state-sponsored APT group known as Kimsuky has been observed using a new malware component called ReconShark. According to an advisory published by SentinelOne security researchers on Thursday, ReconShark is distributed through targeted spear-phishing emails, which contain OneDrive links that lead to downloading documents and activating harmful macros. “The spear-phishing emails are made
May 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananAdvanced Persistent Threat An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor known as Dragon Breath has been observed adding new layers of complexity to its attacks by adopting a novel DLL side-loading mechanism. “The attack is based on a classic side-loading attack, consisting of a clean application, a malicious loader, and an encrypted payload,
by Paul Ducklin World Password Day is always hard to write tips for, because the primary advice you’ll hear has been the same for many years. That’s because the “passwordless future” that we’ve all been promised is still some time away, even if some services already support it. Simply put, we’re stuck with the old,
Don’t torture people with exceedingly complex password composition rules but do blacklist commonly used passwords, plus other ways to help people help themselves – and your entire organization When engineer Bill Burr from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) wrote in 2003 what would soon become the world’s gold standard for password
The City of Dallas in Texas, US, has confirmed a ransomware attack took down essential services, including some 911 dispatch systems. “Wednesday morning, the City’s security monitoring tools notified our Security Operations Center (SOC) that a likely ransomware attack had been launched within our environment,” the City wrote in a press release. “Subsequently, the City has
May 05, 2023Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Android Various sectors in East Asian markets have been subjected to a new email phishing campaign that distributes a previously undocumented strain of Android malware called FluHorse that abuses the Flutter software development framework. “The malware features several malicious Android applications that mimic legitimate applications, most of which have
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