Category Security

Jan 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananActive Directory / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have found that the Microsoft Active Directory Group Policy that’s designed to disable NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v1 can be trivially bypassed by a misconfiguration. “A simple misconfiguration in on-premise applications…

Truth Social, the social media platform launched by the Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) in 2022, has become a hotspot for various online scams, including phishing schemes and investment fraud, according to a recent analysis by security researchers. Large…

Jan 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananSpear Phishing / Threat Intelligence The Russian threat actor known as Star Blizzard has been linked to a new spear-phishing campaign that targets victims’ WhatsApp accounts, signaling a departure from its longstanding tradecraft in a likely attempt…

Real estate scams have been rising across the Middle East as scammers exploit the trust associated with online listings and the urgency often felt when securing a property.  With the increasing use of digital platforms for property searches, many users…

Jan 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Cybersecurity Details have emerged about a now-patched security vulnerability that could allow a bypass of the Secure Boot mechanism in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-7344 (CVSS score:…

President Joe Biden issued his second cybersecurity-focused Executive Order just four days before leaving office. With this new document, “Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity,” the White House aims to improve US national cybersecurity in…

You can tell the story of the current state of stolen credential-based attacks in three numbers: Stolen credentials were the #1 attacker action in 2023/24, and the breach vector for 80% of web app attacks. (Source: Verizon). Cybersecurity budgets grew…

A new threat actor has leaked configuration files and virtual private network (VPN) information for 15,000 firewall devices provided by security vendor Fortinet. On January 15, Kevin Beaumont, an independent security researcher, revealed on Mastodon that sensitive information from the FortiGate…

Jan 16, 2025The Hacker NewsCertificate Management / Compliance The digital world is exploding. IoT devices are multiplying like rabbits, certificates are piling up faster than you can count, and compliance requirements are tightening by the day. Keeping up with it…

Major security failures were the cause of multiple customer data breaches of web hosting giant GoDaddy, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has found. A proposed FTC settlement order will require GoDaddy to implement a robust information security program to…