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The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week. The post A week in security (July 25 – July 31) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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The Gutenberg plugin through 13.7.3 for WordPress allows stored XSS by the Contributor role via an SVG document to the "Insert from URL" feature. NOTE: the XSS payload does not execute in the context of the WordPress instance's domain; however, analogous attempts by low-privileged users to reference SVG documents are blocked by some similar products, and this behavioral difference might have security relevance to some WordPress site administrators.

Dark Reading's digest of other "don't-miss" stories of the week — including a Microsoft alert connecting disparate cybercrime activity together, and an explosion of Luca Stealer variants after an unusual Dark Web move.

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  Between the White House’s recent meeting, countless conference talks and report after report warning of cybersecurity burnout, there’s been a ton of talk recently around the cybersecurity skills gap and hiring.  Everyone wants to know the magic ticket to figure out how to increase hiring at their cybersecurity practice without hiring somehow with under-developed skills that could leave clients open to attack. This is not a problem exclusive to cybersecurity, but I do find it interesting that there’s been so much talk about the problems the cybersecurity workforce faces and not much about actual solutions.  I think a good place to start would change the meaning of what an “entry-level” position truly is in security. I came into this field with zero security experience from the domain of journalism. My family considered me to be “a computer guy” just because I was good at searching the internet fo...

By Deeba Ahmed According to Microsoft, hackers are exploiting the IIS web servers to install backdoors and steal credentials in their… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft: Hackers are Using Malicious IIS Extensions to Backdoor Exchange Servers

The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has warned that attackers are increasingly leveraging Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions as covert backdoors into servers. The post IIS extensions are on the rise as backdoors to servers appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Fighting against ransomware can be difficult—especially if your organization has limited IT resources to begin with. But Adam Kujawa, security evangelist and director of Malwarebytes Labs, has a few tips for overburdened IT folks looking to simplify their fight against ransomware.  In this post, we’ll break down Kujawa’s observations about ransomware and three tips on... The post Simplifying the fight against ransomware: An expert explains appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Threat actors are increasingly abusing Internet Information Services (IIS) extensions to backdoor servers as a means of establishing a "durable persistence mechanism." That's according to a new warning from the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, which said that "IIS backdoors are also harder to detect since they mostly reside in the same directories as legitimate modules used by target

By Waqas Ducktail malware targets users and organizations on Facebook Business and Ads platform in this financially motivated malicious new… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ducktail Malware Exploits LinkedIn to Hack Facebook Business Accounts