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This python script is a proof of concept exploit that demonstrates a IPv6 related memory corruption in Microsoft Windows.

In addition to its long-standing password spraying attacks, Microsoft says Iran-backed hacker group Peach Sandstorm—or APT 33—has developed custom malware dubbed “Tickler.”

The threat actors behind the BlackByte ransomware group have been observed likely exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors, while also leveraging various vulnerable drivers to disarm security protections. "The BlackByte ransomware group continues to leverage tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that have formed the foundation of its tradecraft since its

In recent investigations, Talos Incident Response has observed the BlackByte ransomware group using techniques that depart from their established tradecraft. Read the full analysis.

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new QR code phishing (aka quishing) campaign that leverages Microsoft Sway infrastructure to host fake pages, once again highlighting the abuse of legitimate cloud offerings for malicious purposes. "By using legitimate cloud applications, attackers provide credibility to victims, helping them to trust the content it serves," Netskope Threat

Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) is a centralized and comprehensive identity management solution that provides a wide range of features designed to help manage user identities, enforce security policies and facilitate access management. IdM offers a number of tailored and customizable features that will support the organization in implementing a 360-degree solution for managing identities, users and host security at scale, and it is included with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) subscription.In this article we spotlight some of the features that IdM can bring to your organization.User and gr

Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts "almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in the form of shell scripts from the attackers' server," Kaspersky researcher Sergey Puzan said. HZ RAT was first

Details have emerged about a now-patched vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot that could enable the theft of sensitive user information using a technique called ASCII smuggling. "ASCII Smuggling is a novel technique that uses special Unicode characters that mirror ASCII but are actually not visible in the user interface," security researcher Johann Rehberger said. "This means that an attacker

We came a cross a clever abuse of Google and Microsoft's services that fooled us for a minute. See if you could have spotted it.

Ubuntu Security Notice 6973-2 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Bluetooth subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. A privileged local attacker could use this to possibly cause a denial of service. Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system.