Author: Robert Timlick

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting university staff, researchers, and professors for intelligence gathering purposes.
Cybersecurity firm Resilience said it identified the activity in late July 2024 after it observed an operation security (OPSEC) error made by the hackers.
Kimsuky, also known by the names APT43, ARCHIPELAGO,

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new “0.0.0.0 Day” impacting all major web browsers that malicious websites could take advantage of to breach local networks.
The critical vulnerability “exposes a fundamental flaw in how browsers handle network requests, potentially granting malicious actors access to sensitive services running on local devices,” Oligo Security researcher Avi Lumelsky

The last few years have seen more than a few new categories of security solutions arise in hopes of stemming a never-ending tidal wave of risks. One of these categories is Automated Security Validation (ASV), which provides the attacker’s perspective of exposures and equips security teams to continuously validate exposures, security measures, and remediation at scale. ASV is an important element

Microsoft said it is developing security updates to address two loopholes that it said could be abused to stage downgrade attacks against the Windows update architecture and replace current versions of the operating system files with older versions.
The vulnerabilities are listed below –

CVE-2024-38202 (CVSS score: 7.3) – Windows Update Stack Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
CVE-2024-21302

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel phishing campaign that leverages Google Drawings and shortened links generated via WhatsApp to evade detection and trick users into clicking on bogus links designed to steal sensitive information.
“The attackers chose a group of the best-known websites in computing to craft the threat, including Google and WhatsApp to host the attack elements,

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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive.
“Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably,” a group of academics from the Graz University of Technology said [PDF]. “

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of security flaws in the Roundcube webmail software that could be exploited to execute malicious JavaScript in a victim’s web browser and steal sensitive information from their account under specific circumstances.
“When a victim views a malicious email in Roundcube sent by an attacker, the attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim’s

An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra.
“GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control (C&C) server hosted on Microsoft mail services,” Symantec, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
It’s currently not clear how it’s

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike has published its root cause analysis detailing the Falcon Sensor software update crash that crippled millions of Windows devices globally.
The “Channel File 291” incident, as originally highlighted in its Preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR), has been traced back to a content validation issue that arose after it introduced a new Template Type to enable