Matthew LaGarde writes: The US Department of Defense’s implementation of a new cybersecurity framework, the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 or CMMC, will require more than 300,000 military contracting companies to improve their cybersecurity protections. These safeguards are critically important, but it appears that more than half of military contractors are unprepared to meet these new requirements…
The Treasury Department announced sanctions in connection with a massive Chinese hack of American telecommunications companies and a breach of its own computer network. The post Treasury Levels Sanctions Tied to a Massive Hack of Telecom Companies and Breach of Its Own Network appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Mathew J. Schwartz reports: A member of the band of native English-speaking adolescent hackers lately calling itself Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters published Friday a semi-coherent screed proclaiming the collective would be “going dark.” Many cybersecurity experts responded with skepticism. Evidence suggests that at least some members of the loose-knit hacking collective are continuing to hit targets. Threat intelligence……
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed three security flaws in the popular Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) that could be chained to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution. Sitecore Experience Platform is an enterprise-oriented software that provides users with tools for content management, digital marketing, and analytics and reports. The list of vulnerabilities, which are yet to be
Financial institutions like trading and brokerage firms are the target of a new campaign that delivers a previously unreported remote access trojan called GodRAT. The malicious activity involves the “distribution of malicious .SCR (screen saver) files disguised as financial documents via Skype messenger,” Kaspersky researcher Saurabh Sharma said in a technical analysis published today. The
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that claims to offer the ability to create a SOCKS5 proxy service, while also providing a stealthy backdoor-like functionality to drop additional payloads on Windows systems. The deceptive package, named soopsocks, attracted a total of 2,653 downloads before it was taken…
Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw impacting NetScaler Console (formerly NetScaler ADM) and NetScaler Agent that could lead to privilege escalation under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12284, has been given a CVSS v4 score of 8.8 out of a maximum of 10.0 It has been described as a case…
