An ongoing, widespread malware campaign has been observed installing rogue Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions via a trojan distributed via fake websites masquerading as popular software.
“The trojan malware contains different deliverables rang…

Microsoft has disclosed an unpatched zero-day in Office that, if successfully exploited, could result in unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information to malicious actors.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38200 (CVSS score: 7.5), has been desc…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered multiple critical flaws in Amazon Web Services (AWS) offerings that, if successfully exploited, could result in serious consequences.
“The impact of these vulnerabilities range between remote code execution (RC…

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed four medium-severity security flaws in the open-source OpenVPN software that could be chained to achieve remote code execution (RCE) and local privilege escalation (LPE).
“This attack chain could enable attackers to gain…

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered weaknesses in Sonos smart speakers that could be exploited by malicious actors to clandestinely eavesdrop on users.
The vulnerabilities “led to an entire break in the security of Sonos’s secure boot process acro…

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday charged a 38-year-old individual from Nashville, Tennessee, for allegedly running a “laptop farm” to help get North Koreans remote jobs with American and British companies.
Matthew Isaac Knoot is charged…

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed that threat actors are abusing the legacy Cisco Smart Install (SMI) feature with the aim of accessing sensitive data.
The agency said it has seen adversaries “acquire system…

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting university staff, researchers, and professors for intelligence gathering purposes.
Cybersecurity firm Resilience said it identified the activity in l…

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new “0.0.0.0 Day” impacting all major web browsers that malicious websites could take advantage of to breach local networks.
The critical vulnerability “exposes a fundamental flaw in how browsers handle netwo…

The last few years have seen more than a few new categories of security solutions arise in hopes of stemming a never-ending tidal wave of risks. One of these categories is Automated Security Validation (ASV), which provides the attacker’s perspective o…