Helga Labus
Chinese hackers breached Dutch Ministry of Defense
Chinese state-sponsored hackers have breached the Dutch Ministry of Defense (MOD) last year and deployed a new remote access trojan (RAT) malware to serve as a backdoor. …
On-premises JetBrains TeamCity servers vulnerable to auth bypass (CVE-2024-23917)
JetBrains has patched a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2024-23917) affecting TeamCity On-Premises continuous integration and deployment servers. About …
Common cloud security mistakes and how to avoid them
According to recent surveys, 98% of organizations keep their financial, business, customer and/or employee information in the cloud but, at the same time, 95% of cloud …
Spoutible API exposed encrypted password reset tokens, 2FA secrets of users
A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the …
FritzFrog botnet exploits Log4Shell, PwnKit vulnerabilities
The FritzFrog cryptomining botnet has new potential for growth: a recently analyzed variant of the bot is exploiting the Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) and PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034) …
FBI disrupts Chinese botnet used for targeting US critical infrastructure
The FBI has disrupted the KV botnet, used by People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored hackers (aka “Volt Typhoon”) to target US-based critical …
Zero trust implementation: Plan, then execute, one step at a time
82% of cybersecurity professionals have been working on implementing zero trust last year, and 16% should be on it by the end of this year. The challenges of zero trust …
How to make developers accept DevSecOps
According to a recent Dynatrace report, only 50% of CISOs believe that development teams have thoroughly tested the software for vulnerabilities before deploying it into the …
Critical Jenkins RCE flaw exploited in the wild. Patch now! (CVE-2024-23897)
Several proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for a recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2024-23897) in Jenkins have been made public and there’s evidence of …
Third-party risk management best practices and why they matter
With organizations increasingly relying on third-party vendors, upping the third-party risk management (TPRM) game has become imperative to prevent the fallout of third-party …
Russian hackers breached Microsoft, HPE corporate maliboxes
Cozy Bear (aka Midnight Blizzard, aka APT29) has been busy hacking and spying on big tech companies: both Microsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) have recently …
AI expected to increase volume, impact of cyberattacks
All types of cyber threat actor are already using artificial intelligence (AI) to varying degrees, UK National Cyber Security Centre’s analysts say, and predict that AI …
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