Tag: backdoor
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Cisco Talos Blog: What I’ve learned in my first 7-ish years in cybersecurity
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/threat-source-newsletter-oct-17-2024/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: What I’ve learned in my first 7-ish years in cybersecurity Feedly Summary: Plus, a zero-day vulnerability in Qualcomm chips, exposed health care devices, and the latest on the Salt Typhoon threat actor. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text shares personal insights and experiences from an…
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Cisco Talos Blog: UAT-5647 targets Ukrainian and Polish entities with RomCom malware variants
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-5647-romcom/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: UAT-5647 targets Ukrainian and Polish entities with RomCom malware variants Feedly Summary: By Dmytro Korzhevin, Asheer Malhotra, Vanja Svajcer and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos has observed a new wave of attacks active since at least late 2023, from a Russian speaking group we track as “UAT-5647”, against Ukrainian…
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The Register: China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/china_intel_chip_security/ Source: The Register Title: China’s infosec leads accuse Intel of NSA backdoor, cite chip security flaws Feedly Summary: Uncle Sam having a secret way into US tech? Say it ain’t so A Chinese industry group has accused Intel of backdooring its CPUs, in addition to other questionable security practices while calling for…
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Hacker News: Avoiding a Geopolitical open-source Apocalypse
Source URL: https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/ Source: Hacker News Title: Avoiding a Geopolitical open-source Apocalypse Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the growing divide in open source development, particularly between Chinese and Western developers, and explores the implications for security and trust in open source software. It addresses concerns about the geopolitical…
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Schneier on Security: Perfectl Malware
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/perfectl-malware.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Perfectl Malware Feedly Summary: Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua…
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Hacker News: Bug, $50K+ in bounties: how Zendesk left a backdoor in companies
Source URL: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/68ec8ed145fcee49d2f5e2b9d2cf2e52 Source: Hacker News Title: Bug, $50K+ in bounties: how Zendesk left a backdoor in companies Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text narrates the journey of a young programmer discovering a significant security vulnerability in Zendesk, which could potentially expose sensitive customer support tickets for multiple Fortune 500…
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The Register: US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/us_lawmakers_salt_typhoon/ Source: The Register Title: US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants Feedly Summary: Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also…