Summary

Top Articles:

  • Critical Bug Allows DoS, RCE, Data Leaks in All Major Cloud Platforms
  • Microsoft Has Yet to Patch 7 Pwn2Own Zero-Days
  • China-linked APT Flew Under Radar for Decade
  • PyPI Shuts Down Over the Weekend, Says Incident Was Overblown
  • Popular NFT Marketplace Phished for $540M
  • CrowdStrike 'Updates' Deliver Malware & More as Attacks Snowball
  • Critical VMware Bugs Open Swaths of VMs to RCE, Data Theft
  • Session Takeover Bug in AWS Apache Airflow Reveals Larger Cloud Risk
  • Newly ID'ed Chinese APT Hides Backdoor in Software Updates
  • Is CISA's Secure by Design Pledge Toothless?

Critical VMware Bugs Open Swaths of VMs to RCE, Data Theft

Published: 2024-06-18 20:23:24

Popularity: 32

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

LLM Says: ""VMware hacked""

A trio of bugs could allow hackers to escalate privileges and remotely execute code on virtual machines deployed across cloud environments.

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Session Takeover Bug in AWS Apache Airflow Reveals Larger Cloud Risk

Published: 2024-03-21 17:13:23

Popularity: 13

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

A bug exposed users of an AWS workflow management service to cookie tossing, but behind the scenes lies an even deeper issue that runs across all of the top cloud services.

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Newly ID'ed Chinese APT Hides Backdoor in Software Updates

Published: 2024-01-26 21:00:00

Popularity: 9

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

The threat actor went more than half a decade before being discovered — thanks to a remarkable backdoor delivered in invisible adversary-in-the-middle attacks.

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PyPI Shuts Down Over the Weekend, Says Incident Was Overblown

Published: 2023-05-22 20:52:00

Popularity: 45

Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer, Dark Reading

The climate of concern around open source security and supply chain attacks may have caused a small story to become a big one.

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Popular NFT Marketplace Phished for $540M

Published: 2022-07-11 20:06:10

Popularity: 43

Author: Nate Nelson

Keywords:

  • Cryptography
  • Hacks
  • In March, a North Korean APT siphoned blockchain gaming platform Axie Infinity of $540M.

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    China-linked APT Flew Under Radar for Decade

    Published: 2022-06-17 13:34:04

    Popularity: 57

    Author: Nate Nelson

    Keywords:

  • Government
  • Malware
  • Vulnerabilities
  • Evidence suggests that a just-discovered APT has been active since 2013.

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    Microsoft Has Yet to Patch 7 Pwn2Own Zero-Days

    Published: 2024-05-17 12:00:00

    Popularity: 63

    Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

    A number of serious Windows bugs still haven't made their way into criminal circles, but that won't remain the case forever — and time is running short before ZDI releases exploit details.

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    Is CISA's Secure by Design Pledge Toothless?

    Published: 2024-05-10 18:21:29

    Popularity: 9

    Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

    CISA's agreement is voluntary and, frankly, basic. Signatories say that's a good thing.

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    Critical Bug Allows DoS, RCE, Data Leaks in All Major Cloud Platforms

    Published: 2024-05-20 19:31:25

    Popularity: 95

    Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

    An on-by-default endpoint in ubiquitous logging service Fluent Bit contains an oversight that hackers can toy with to rattle most any cloud environment.

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    CrowdStrike 'Updates' Deliver Malware & More as Attacks Snowball

    Published: 2024-07-25 20:51:01

    Popularity: 43

    Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

    LLM Says: "Malware Alert"

    The fake updates are part of a phishing and fraud surge that is both more voluminous and more targeted that the usual activity around national news stories.

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    Critical, Actively Exploited Jenkins RCE Bug Suffers Patch Lag

    Published: 2024-08-22 19:42:04

    Popularity: None

    Author: Nate Nelson, Contributing Writer

    LLM Says: ""Exploit alert""

    A 7-month-old bug in an OSS CI/CD server is still being actively exploited, thanks to spotty patching, CISA warns.

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