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22 hours agoCritical ShareFile Flaws Lead to Unauthenticated RCE
Two critical vulnerabilities in ShareFile could allow unauthenticated remote code execution through improper access to configuration pages.
AI Armor provides dynamic runtime security and relies on a central policy engine in the Universal Management Suite (UMS) to meet compliance requirements, ensuring that organizations can manage their security effectively.
Rhyne's attack involved unauthorized remote desktop sessions, deletion of network administrator accounts, and changing of passwords, showcasing significant security vulnerabilities.
He stormed up to my desk, leaned over my partition, and began his rant before I could so much as say hello. He screamed about the rubbish laptops and IT systems we had, nothing ever worked, all the usual stuff. The user's rant ended with a thundered 'Just FIX IT!'
I looked at the config and noticed the customer did not have a default route set. He wasn't sure if that was the problem, so he made some changes he thought might be useful. The router Caleb worked on then rebooted, which he expected. But when it restarted, its previous configuration was gone.
What if I told you that everything you know and everything you do to ensure quality backups is no longer viable? In fact, what if I told you that in an era of generative AI, when it comes to backups, we're all pretty much screwed?
Spyware is one of the top threats to your mobile security and can severely impact your handset's performance if you are unlucky enough to become infected. It is a type of malware that typically lands on your iPhone or Android phone through malicious mobile apps or through phishing links, emails, and messages. While appearing to be a legitimate software package or useful utility, spyware will operate quietly in the background to monitor your movements,
Smartphones are now the most crucial source of digital evidence in solving nearly every criminal investigation, a report has found. Detectives rely on the wealth of information held on the devices in 97 per cent of cases - double the number in which data from laptops was needed. With the devices containing swathes of detailed messages, photos and location data, police chiefs told the Mail the devices had become 'a crime scene in your pocket'.
Before you do any of those things, your top three priorities should be migrating your apps and files to your new device, expunging your personal data from the old PC, and resetting the operating system on the device you plan to recycle, so the new owner can be productive right away. As with all things Windows, there are multiple ways to accomplish these goals.
The average e-crime breakout time - the period between initial access and lateral movement onto another system - dropped to 29 minutes, a 65% increase in speed from 2024. One such intrusion undertaken by Luna Moth targeting a law firm moved from initial access to data exfiltration in four minutes.
U.S. federal authorities and industry officials are urging hospitals and clinics to address a critical flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access software, which if exploited, could give an attacker a foothold inside a corporate network. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in an alert Thursday warned healthcare and public health sector organizations to review and address the vulnerability in light of rising cyberattacks targeting those entities.
Security researchers have discovered a live infection in which an infostealer has stolen the configuration files of an OpenClaw AI agent. The attack was carried out through a broad file-theft routine that automatically searched for sensitive file extensions and specific folder names, including .openclaw. The malware was not specifically designed for OpenClaw; it arose by chance from capturing the operational context of the victim's AI assistant. What makes the attack particularly serious is the combination of stolen data.
In its annual Red Report, a body of research that analyzes real-world attacker techniques using large-scale attack simulation data, Picus Labs warns cybersecurity professionals that threat actors are rapidly shifting away from ransomware encryption to parasitic "sleeperware" extortion as their means to loot organizations for millions of dollars per attack. Released today and now in its sixth year, the 278-page Red Report gets its name from Picus-organized cybersecurity exercises that take the perspective of the attacker's team, otherwise known as the "red team."
Since then, the vulnerability has come under widespread exploitation, with attack chains typically concealing the malicious file, such as a Windows shortcut (LNK), within the alternate data streams ( ADS) of a decoy file inside the archive, causing the payload to be extracted to a specific path (e.g., the Windows Startup folder) and automatically executing it once the user logs in to the machine after a restart.