Tag: security
North Korean hackers are targeting aerospace – Lazarus Group tricks employees into installing malware themselves
A famous cybercriminal group known for its links to the North Korean regime has continued its spree of recent attacks by targeting an unnamed Spanish aerospace company. Lazarus, notably known for its 2017 WannaCry attack, have been adapting and evolving their methods of attack. This latest attack is a variant…
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Major Linux distros targeted by hackers exploiting this significant flaw
A high-severity flaw has been sitting in many Linux endpoints for two years now, potentially allowing threat actors to run malicious code with elevated privileges. This is according to cybersecurity researchers from Qualys’ Threat Research Unit, which shared in its writeup, that the flaw is tracked as CVE-2023-4911. This is…
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AI and machine learning TorchServe servers vulnerable to malware attacks
A vulnerability chain comprising three distinct flaws can be used to compromise vulnerable TorchServer servers, researchers have said, warning that if leveraged, the flaws can be used to take over the target endpoint and even run malware. These are the findings of cybersecurity experts Oligo Security, which dubbed the three…
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Some top ARM GPUs have a potentially worrying security flaw – here’s what you need to know
Chip manufacturing powerhouse ARM has published a security advisory claiming to have addressed a high-severity vulnerability affecting its popular Mali GPU drivers. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-4211, is allegedly being used in “limited, targeted exploitation” attacks, the company added, as an improper access to freed memory, but could also be…
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Exim mail servers left open to zero-day attacks for over a year
A major flaw in Exim’s mail transfer agent (MTA) software has been detected that has gone without a patch for more than a year. Researchers from Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative were tipped off by an anonymous researcher in June last year, about an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered in the…
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