31 Oct

Month in security with Tony Anscombe – October 2024 edition

Video Election interference, American Water and the Internet Archive breaches, new cybersecurity laws, and more – October saw no shortage of impactful cybersecurity news stories

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31 Oct

LottieFiles supply chain attack exposes users to malicious crypto wallet drainer

LottieFiles is overcoming something of a Halloween fright after battling to regain control of a compromised developer account that was used to exploit users’ crypto

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31 Oct

Tower PC case used as ‘creative cavity’ by drug importer

Australian police have arrested a man after finding he imported what appear to be tower PC cases that were full of illicit drugs. The arrest

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31 Oct

Chinese attackers accessed Canadian government networks – for five years

A report by Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) revealed that state-backed actors have collected valuable information from government networks for five years. The biennial National

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30 Oct

Windows Themes zero-day bug exposes users to NTLM credential theft

There’s a Windows Themes spoofing zero-day bug on the loose that allows attackers to steal people’s NTLM credentials. That’s the bad news. The good news:

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30 Oct

Fired Disney staffer accused of hacking menu to add profanity, wingdings, removes allergen info

A disgruntled ex-Disney employee has been arrested and charged with hacking his former employer’s systems to alter restaurant menus with potentially deadly consequences.  Michael Scheuer

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30 Oct

Russian spies use remote desktop protocol files in unusual mass phishing drive

Microsoft says a mass phishing campaign by Russia’s foreign intelligence services (SVR) is now in its second week, and the spies are using a novel

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30 Oct

How to remove your personal information from Google Search results

How To Have you ever googled yourself? Were you happy with what came up? If not, consider requesting the removal of your personal information from

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30 Oct

Beijing claims it’s found ‘underwater lighthouses’ that its foes use for espionage

China has accused unnamed foreign entities of using devices hidden in the seabed and bobbing on the waves to learn its maritime secrets. The nation’s

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29 Oct

Uncle Sam outs a Russian accused of developing Redline infostealing malware

The US government has named and charged a Russian national, Maxim Rudometov, with allegedly developing and administering the notorious Redline infostealer.  The story of how

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29 Oct

Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code

OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the

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29 Oct

How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding

OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an attacker to jump the

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29 Oct

Belgian cops cuff 2 suspected cybercrooks in Redline, Meta infostealer sting

International law enforcement officials have arrested two individuals and charged another in connection with the use and distribution of the Redline and Meta infostealer malware

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29 Oct

The story behind the Health Infrastructure Security and Accountability Act

Partner Content Breaches breed regulation; which hopefully in turn breeds meaningful change. In February 2024, Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (UHG), was the

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29 Oct

Admins better Spring into action over latest critical open source vuln

If you’re running an application built using the Spring development framework, now is a good time to check it’s fully updated – a new, critical-severity

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29 Oct

Merde! Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data

The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via the

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29 Oct

Don’t become a statistic: Tips to help keep your personal data off the dark web

Cybercrime You may not always stop your personal information from ending up in the internet’s dark recesses, but you can take steps to protect yourself

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29 Oct

Five Eyes nations tell tech startups to take infosec seriously. Again

Cyber security agencies from the Five Eyes nations have delivered on a promise to offer tech startups more guidance on how to stay secure. The

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