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A popular WordPress theme with tens of thousands of users carries a high severity vulnerability that allows threat actors to run malicious PHP code. The patch for the flaw has already been made available, and hackers have started targeting vulnerable sites to disable security plugins. A security researcher alias “snicco” recently found a vulnerability in […]
A major vulnerability has been discovered operating across in almost all Linux variants that could allow threat actors to run malware at the firmware level. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-40547, and is described as a buffer overflow weakness. It resides in shim, a component that runs in the firmware, before the booting of the […]
Netskope has revealed new research claiming more than one in 10 enterprise employees now access at least one generative AI application every month, compared with one in 50 the year previously. The surge in generative AI app usage is put down to the immeasurable success of apps like ChatGPT, to the point that Netskope described […]
Google has fixed its first, actively exploited, Chrome zero-day vulnerability of the year. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2024-0519, and allows attackers to gain access to sensitive data, or launch denial of service attacks. The flaw can also be chained with other vulnerabilities to achieve remote code execution (RCE), it was said. “Google is aware […]
Thousands of Juniper devices were found vulnerable to a critical flaw which allows threat actors to execute malicious code remotely and without the need for authentication. The Register reported a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-21591. Described as an out-of-bounds write flaw, the vulnerability carries a severity score of 9.8/10, and allows hackers to obtain root privileges, […]
Security researchers recently warned of new malware capable of reviving expired authentication tokens via a Google Chrome API. The feature is a one-off, but still dangerous as it allows threat actors to remain logged into their victims’ Google accounts for longer. However Google is now looking to downplay the importance of the vulnerability, essentially stating […]
WordPress has released a new version – 6.4.2, that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability. Used in pair with another flaw, hackers could run arbitrary PHP code on a WordPress website, and as almost half of the internet is thought to run on WordPress, the attack surface is quite wide. As per the website builder […]
The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as Chat-GPT and the increasing popularity of cloud services have made spam and phishing emails infinitely more dangerous, new research has claimed. A new report from the VIPRE Security Group found that as consumers started using the cloud more, so did hackers. Link-based malware delivery made […]
A number of panelists who took part in a community manager talk during EGX 2023 have been calling on event organizers to increase security at future panels after sexist and derogatory comments were allegedly shouted out while they were speaking. The panel in question was called ‘What Does A Community Manager Really Do?’, and it […]
If you’re a Steam user, beware, as hackers have managed to deliver malware to gamers through the platform. Multiple game developers have had their Valve accounts compromised recently, with the attackers using these accounts to update the games they were distributing through Steam, by adding malicious code. Valve has confirmed the news, contacting affected users […]
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