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CloudSEK Disputes Oracle Over Data Breach Denial with New Evidence

Oracle is caught up in a cybersecurity mess right now, with claims about a massive data breach affecting…

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Ongoing Cyber Attacks Exploit Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco Smart Licensing Utility

Two now-patched security flaws impacting Cisco Smart Licensing Utility are seeing active exploitation attempts, according to SANS Internet Storm Center. The two critical-rated vulnerabilities in question are listed below -  CVE-2024-20439 (CVSS score: 9.8) - The presence of an undocumented static user credential for an administrative account that an attacker could exploit to log in to an

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: Information security and the Baseball Hall of Fame

In this week’s Threat Source newsletter, William pitches a fun comparison between baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and the unsung heroes of information security, highlights newly released UAT-5918 research, and shares an exciting new Talos video.

UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan

UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and open-sourced tooling to conduct post-compromise activities to establish persistence in victim environments for information theft and credential harvesting.

Google Acquires Wiz for Record $32 Billion

$32B Wiz acquisition: Google ramps up cloud security. Following Mandiant, this deal signals major GCP defense upgrade.

Cybercriminals Exploit CSS to Evade Spam Filters and Track Email Users' Actions

Malicious actors are exploiting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which are used to style and format the layout of web pages, to bypass spam filters and track users' actions. That's according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said such malicious activities can compromise a victim's security and privacy. "The features available in CSS allow attackers and spammers to track users' actions and

AI Chatbot DeepSeek R1 Can Be Manipulated to Create Malware

Tenable Research reveals that AI chatbot DeepSeek R1 can be manipulated to generate keyloggers and ransomware code. While…

Miniaudio and Adobe Acrobat Reader vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed a Miniaudio and three Adobe vulnerabilities.   The vulnerabilities mentioned in this blog post have been patched by their respective vendors, all in adherence to Cisco’s third-party vulnerability disclosure policy.     For Snort coverage

Patch it up: Old vulnerabilities are everyone’s problems

Thorsten picks apart some headlines, highlights Talos’ report on an unknown attacker predominantly targeting Japan, and asks, “Where is the victim, and does it matter?”

Abusing with style: Leveraging cascading style sheets for evasion and tracking

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are ever present in modern day web browsing, however its far from their own use. This blog will detail the ways adversaries use CSS in email campaigns for evasion and tracking.