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Expert Tips on How to Spot a Phishing Link

Phishing attacks are becoming more advanced and harder to detect, but there are still telltale signs that can help you spot them before it's too late. See these key indicators that security experts use to identify phishing links:1. Check Suspicious URLs  Phishing URLs are often long, confusing, or filled with random characters. Attackers use these to disguise the link's true destination

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Agentic AI in SOCs: A Solution to SOAR's Unfulfilled Promises

Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) was introduced with the promise of revolutionizing Security Operations Centers (SOCs) through automation, reducing manual workloads and enhancing efficiency. However, despite three generations of technology and 10 years of advancements, SOAR hasn’t fully delivered on its potential, leaving SOCs still grappling with many of the same

ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could've Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function

A now-patched security vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT app for macOS could have made it possible for attackers to plant long-term persistent spyware into the artificial intelligence (AI) tool's memory. The technique, dubbed SpAIware, could be abused to facilitate "continuous data exfiltration of any information the user typed or responses received by ChatGPT, including any future chat sessions

GHSA-f5fw-25gw-5m92: Apache Hadoop: Temporary File Local Information Disclosure

Apache Hadoop’s `RunJar.run()` does not set permissions for temporary directory by default. If sensitive data will be present in this file, all the other local users may be able to view the content. This is because, on unix-like systems, the system temporary directory is shared between all local users. As such, files written in this directory, without setting the correct posix permissions explicitly, may be viewable by all other local users.

GHSA-48cr-j2cx-mcr8: Apache Answer: Avatar URL leaked user email addresses

Inadequate Encryption Strength vulnerability in Apache Answer. This issue affects Apache Answer: through 1.3.5. Using the MD5 value of a user's email to access Gravatar is insecure and can lead to the leakage of user email. The official recommendation is to use SHA256 instead. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 1.4.0, which fixes the issue.

Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware

Transportation and logistics companies in North America are the target of a new phishing campaign that delivers a variety of information stealers and remote access trojans (RATs). The activity cluster, per Proofpoint, makes use of compromised legitimate email accounts belonging to transportation and shipping companies so as to inject malicious content into existing email conversations. As many

CISA Flags Critical Ivanti vTM Vulnerability Amid Active Exploitation Concerns

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw impacting Ivanti Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS score: 9.8), which could be exploited by a remote unauthenticated attacker to bypass the

GHSA-98hf-m87w-cq6h: Mellium allows Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Mellium mellium.im/xmpp 0.0.1 through 0.21.4 allows response spoofing because the stanza type is not checked. This is fixed in 0.22.0.

GHSA-x8h2-255q-jg4x: Cross site scripting in Concrete CMS

Concrete CMS versions 9 through 9.3.3 and versions below 8.5.19 are vulnerable to stored XSS in the calendar event addition feature because the calendar event name was not sanitized on output. Users or groups with permission to create event calendars can embed scripts, and users or groups with permission to modify event calendars can execute scripts. 

GHSA-6375-pg5j-8wph: Denial of service in rocket chat message parser

Rocket.Chat 6.12.0, 6.11.2, 6.10.5, 6.9.6, 6.8.6, 6.7.8, and earlier is vulnerable to denial of service (DoS). Attackers who craft messages with specific characters may crash the workspace due to an issue in the message parser.