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Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites.

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Windows Kernel-Mode Driver (CVE-2024-35250) vulnerability has increased. This vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. As in the case of the CVE-2024-30090 vulnerability, it was discovered by a researcher with the nickname Angelboy from DEVCORE. And it also affects the Kernel Streaming framework, […]

The severity of the Elevation of Privilege – Microsoft Streaming Service (CVE-2024-30090) vulnerability has increased. The vulnerability was fixed as part of the June Microsoft Patch Tuesday. At that time, no one highlighted this vulnerability. The vulnerability was discovered by a researcher with the nickname Angelboy from the DEVCORE company. The details are described in […]

September episode of “In The Trend of VM”: 7 CVEs, fake reCAPTCHA, lebanese pagers, VM and IT annual bonuses. Starting this month, we decided to slightly expand the topics of the videos and increase their duration. I cover not only the trending vulnerabilities of September, but also social engineering cases, real-world vulnerability exploitation, and practices […]

Brazilian authorities reportedly have arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of being "USDoD," a prolific cybercriminal who rose to infamy in 2022 after infiltrating the FBI's InfraGard program and leaking contact information for 80,000 members. More recently, USDoD was behind a breach at the consumer data broker National Public Data that led to the leak of Social Security numbers and other personal information for a significant portion of the U.S. population.

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the arrest and charging of two Sudanese brothers accused of running Anonymous Sudan (a.k.a. AnonSudan), a cybercrime business known for launching powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a range of targets, including dozens of hospitals, news websites and cloud providers. One of the brothers is facing life in prison for allegedly seeking to kill people with his attacks.

October Linux Patch Wednesday. There are 248 vulnerabilities in total. Of these, 92 are in the Linux Kernel. 5 vulnerabilities with signs of exploitation in the wild: 🔻 Remote Code Execution – CUPS (CVE-2024-47176) and 4 more CUPS vulnerabilities that can also be used to enhance DoS attacks🔻 Remote Code Execution – Mozilla Firefox (CVE-2024-9680) […]

About Cross Site Scripting – Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2024-37383) vulnerability. Roundcube is a web-based email client with functionality comparable to desktop email clients such as Outlook Express or Mozilla Thunderbird. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the processing of SVG elements in the email body. The victim opens an email from the attacker, which […]

Veeam B&R RCE vulnerability CVE-2024-40711 is exploited in attacks. On September 24, there were no signs of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. And on October 10, Sophos X-Ops reported that they had observed a series of attacks exploiting this vulnerability over the course of a month. The attackers’ goal was to install Akira […]

The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August were carjacked a week later, while out house-hunting in a brand new Lamborghini. Prosecutors say the couple was beaten and briefly kidnapped by six young men who traveled from Florida as part of a botched plan to hold the parents for ransom.