Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH).
“With this upgrade…

GitLab has shipped security patches to resolve a critical flaw that allows an attacker to run pipelines as another user.
The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-5009 (CVSS score: 9.6), impacts all versions of GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) starting from 13.12 a…

Cybersecurity company Trend Micro has released patches and hotfixes to address a critical security flaw in Apex One and Worry-Free Business Security solutions for Windows that has been actively exploited in real-world attacks.
Tracked as CVE-2023-41179…

Telecommunication service providers in the Middle East are the target of a new intrusion set dubbed ShroudedSnooper that employs a stealthy backdoor called HTTPSnoop.
“HTTPSnoop is a simple, yet effective, backdoor that consists of novel techniques to …

Targets located in Azerbaijan have been singled out as part of a new campaign that’s designed to deploy Rust-based malware on compromised systems.
Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct is tracking the operation under the name Operation Rusty Flag. It has no…

XWorm is a relatively new representative of the remote access trojan cohort that has already earned its spot among the most persistent threats across the globe. 
Since 2022, when it was first observed by researchers, it has undergone a number of major …

The China-linked threat actor known as Earth Lusca has been observed targeting government entities using a never-before-seen Linux backdoor called SprySOCKS.
Earth Lusca was first documented by Trend Micro in January 2022, detailing the adversary’s att…

As the adoption of generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, continues to surge, so does the risk of data exposure. According to Gartner’s “Emerging Tech: Top 4 Security Risks of GenAI” report, privacy and data security is one of the four major emerging risks…

New research has found that close to 12,000 internet-exposed Juniper firewall devices are vulnerable to a recently disclosed remote code execution flaw.
VulnCheck, which discovered a new exploit for CVE-2023-36845, said it could be exploited by an “una…

The suspected Pakistan-linked threat actor known as Transparent Tribe is using malicious Android apps mimicking YouTube to distribute the CapraRAT mobile remote access trojan (RAT), demonstrating the continued evolution of the activity.
“CapraRAT is a …