GitLab has released patches to address a critical flaw impacting Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that could result in an authentication bypass.
The vulnerability is rooted in the ruby-saml library (CVE-2024-45409, CVSS score: 10.0), …

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen botnet comprising an army of small office/home office (SOHO) and IoT devices that are likely operated by a Chinese nation-state threat actor called Flax Typhoon (aka Ethereal Panda or RedJuli…

A Chinese national has been indicted in the U.S. on charges of conducting a “multi-year” spear-phishing campaign to obtain unauthorized access to computer software and source code created by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), res…

The evolution of software always catches us by surprise. I remember betting against the IBM computer Deep Blue during its chess match against the grandmaster Garry Kasparov in 1997, only to be stunned when the machine claimed victory. Fast forward to t…

A North Korea-linked cyber-espionage group has been observed leveraging job-themed phishing lures to target prospective victims in energy and aerospace verticals and infect them with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MISTPEN.
The activity clust…

Google has announced that it’s rolling out a new set of features to its Chrome browser that gives users more control over their data when surfing the internet and protects against online threats.
“With the newest version of Chrome, you can take advanta…

The GSM Association, the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it’s working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iO…

Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a heap-ove…

Google has announced that it will be switching from KYBER to ML-KEM in its Chrome web browser as part of its ongoing efforts to defend against the risk posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs).
“Chrome will offer a key share predic…

The U.S. Department of Treasury has imposed fresh sanctions against five executives and one entity with ties to the Intellexa Consortium for their role in the development, operation, and distribution of a commercial spyware called Predator.
“The United…