Microsoft has released its Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023, addressing a total of 103 flaws in its software, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild.
Of the 103 flaws, 13 are rated Critical and 90 are rated Important in seve…

Microsoft has linked the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server to a nation-state actor it tracks as Storm-0062 (aka DarkShadow or Oro0lxy).
The tech giant’s threat intelligence team said it ob…

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset.
The layer 7 attacks were detected in …

Google on Tuesday announced the ability for all users to set up passkeys by default, five months after it rolled out support for the FIDO Alliance-backed passwordless standard for Google Accounts on all platforms.
“This means the next time you sign in …

Certain online risks to children are on the rise, according to a recent report from Thorn, a technology nonprofit whose mission is to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Research shared in the Emerging Online Trends in Child Sexual A…

A previously undocumented threat actor of unknown provenance has been linked to a number of attacks targeting organizations in the manufacturing, IT, and biomedical sectors in Taiwan.
The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, attributed the at…

A sophisticated Magecart campaign has been observed manipulating websites’ default 404 error page to conceal malicious code in what’s been described as the latest evolution of the attacks.
The activity, per Akamai, targets Magento and WooCommerce websi…

A new security flaw has been disclosed in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts.
Tracked as CVE-2023-43641 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue is described as a case o…

A recently disclosed critical flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices is being exploited by threat actors to conduct a credential harvesting campaign.
IBM X-Force, which uncovered the activity last month, said adversaries exploited “CVE-2023-3…

An ad fraud botnet dubbed PEACHPIT leveraged an army of hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS devices to generate illicit profits for the threat actors behind the scheme.
The botnet is part of a larger China-based operation codenamed BADBOX, which a…