GitLab Issues Patch for Critical Flaw in its Community and Enterprise Software

DevOps platform GitLab this week issued patches to address a critical security flaw in its software that could lead to arbitrary code execution on affected systems.
Tracked as CVE-2022-2884, the issue is rated 9.9 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring sys… Continue reading GitLab Issues Patch for Critical Flaw in its Community and Enterprise Software

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Google Uncovers Tool Used by Iranian Hackers to Steal Data from Email Accounts

The Iranian government-backed actor known as Charming Kitten has added a new tool to its malware arsenal that allows it to retrieve user data from Gmail, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Outlook accounts.
Dubbed HYPERSCRAPE by Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG),… Continue reading Google Uncovers Tool Used by Iranian Hackers to Steal Data from Email Accounts

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Suspected Iranian Hackers Targeted Several Israeli Organizations for Espionage

A suspected Iranian threat activity cluster has been linked to attacks aimed at Israeli shipping, government, energy, and healthcare organizations as part of an espionage-focused campaign that commenced in late 2020.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant is tra… Continue reading Suspected Iranian Hackers Targeted Several Israeli Organizations for Espionage

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New Air-Gap Attack Uses MEMS Gyroscope Ultrasonic Covert Channel to Leak Data

A novel data exfiltration technique has been found to leverage a covert ultrasonic channel to leak sensitive information from isolated, air-gapped computers to a nearby smartphone that doesn’t even require a microphone to pick up the sound waves.
Dubb… Continue reading New Air-Gap Attack Uses MEMS Gyroscope Ultrasonic Covert Channel to Leak Data

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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a security flaw impacting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.
The high-severity vulnerabil… Continue reading CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS Vulnerability

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“As Nasty as Dirty Pipe” — 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered

Details of an eight-year-old security vulnerability in the Linux kernel have emerged that the researchers say is “as nasty as Dirty Pipe.”
Dubbed DirtyCred by a group of academics from Northwestern University, the security weakness exploits a previous… Continue reading “As Nasty as Dirty Pipe” — 8 Year Old Linux Kernel Vulnerability Uncovered

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