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Infosec expert Rani Osnat lays out security challenges and offers hope for organizations migrating their IT stack to the private and public cloud environments.

The Microsoft Advertising Universal Event Tracking (UET) WordPress plugin before 1.0.4 does not sanitise and escape its settings, allowing high privilege users such as admin to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed. Due to the nature of this plugin, well crafted XSS can also leak into the frontpage.

The exploit researcher recently rejoined Talos after starting her career with the company’s predecessor  By Jonathan Munshaw.  Lurene Grenier says state-sponsored threat actors keep her up at night, even after years of studying and following them.   She’s spent her security career warning people why this was going to be a problem.  Today if someone is compromised by a well-funded, state-sponsored actor, she is concerned but doesn’t necessarily feel sorry. After all, she’s been warning the security community about this for years.  “You think about the phrase ‘fool me once, shame on you...’ Five years ago if we had this discussion and you were hit with an attack, you’d think ‘shame on China,’” she said. “Today, if we have that discussion about why you were hit, it’s shame on us.”  Grenier has spent her career looking at state-sponsored actor trends and writing detection content to block those actors. She was one of the first of the smaller research staff at the Sourcefire Vulnerability...

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Plus: A Google Chrome patch licks the DevilsTongue spyware, Android’s kernel gets a tune-up, and Microsoft fixes 84 flaws.

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Plus: Google delays the end of cookies (again), EU officials were targeted with Pegasus spyware, and more of the top security news.

Microsoft on Friday disclosed a potential connection between the Raspberry Robin USB-based worm and an infamous Russian cybercrime group tracked as Evil Corp. The tech giant said it observed the FakeUpdates (aka SocGholish) malware being delivered via existing Raspberry Robin infections on July 26, 2022. Raspberry Robin, also called QNAP Worm, is known to spread from a compromised system via

A threat actor operating with interests aligned with North Korea has been deploying a malicious extension on Chromium-based web browsers that's capable of stealing email content from Gmail and AOL. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the malware to an activity cluster it calls SharpTongue, which is said to share overlaps with an adversarial collective publicly referred to under the name