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Got Conti? Here’s the ransomware cure to avoid paying up
S3 Ep 126: The price of fast fashion (and feature creep) [Audio + Text]
UK.gov bans TikTok from its devices as a ‘precaution’ over spying fears
Not‑so‑private messaging: Trojanized WhatsApp and Telegram apps go after cryptocurrency wallets

ESET researchers analyzed Android and Windows clippers that can tamper with instant messages and use OCR to steal cryptocurrency funds The post Not‑so‑private messaging: Trojanized WhatsApp and Telegram apps go after cryptocurrency wallets appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

The container suse/sles/15.5/virt-operator was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.5/libguestfs-tools was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.5/virt-launcher was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.5/virt-handler was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.5/virt-exportserver was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse/sles/15.5/virt-exportproxy was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Smashing Security podcast #313: Tesla twins and deepfake dramas
Hands up who DIDN’T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server…
Microsoft has another go at closing security hole exploited by Magniber ransomware
Cancer patient sues hospital after ransomware gang leaks her nude medical photos

Several buffer overflows were found which allow an attacker to make tcpdump crash.

Sebastian Krahmer found a problem in the modprobe utility that could beexploited by local users to run arbitrary commands as root if themachine is running a kernel with kmod enabled.

Proton reported on bugtraq that tcsh did not handle in-here documentscorrectly. The version of tcsh that is distributed with Debian GNU/Linux2.2r0 also suffered from this problem.

The version of gnupg that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 hada logic error in the code that checks for valid signatures which couldcause false positive results:

The slow Tick‑ing time bomb: Tick APT group compromise of a DLP software developer in East Asia

ESET Research uncovered a campaign by APT group Tick against a data-loss prevention company in East Asia and found a previously unreported tool used by the group The post The slow Tick‑ing time bomb: Tick APT group compromise of a DLP software developer in East Asia appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Emacs could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it opened a specially crafted file.

Pair accused of breaking into US law enforcement database, posing as cops

Several security issues were fixed in OpenJPEG.

Tailscale: Fast and easy VPNs for developers
SVB collapse’s mix of money, urgency and uncertainty makes it irresistible to scammers
China sought control of submarine cables to spy, says Micronesia

No matter how old you are, it is important to learn how to stay safe online! According to a study conducted by Learning Innovation, more than 93% of students have access to smartphones and laptops. Cyber threats show no sign of slowing down, which is why it is important to stay up to date on […]

Microsoft fixes two 0-days on Patch Tuesday – update now!
Crims exploit Microsoft, Fortinet flaws before any patches exist

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Microsoft squashes Windows bug exploited to inflict ransomware misery
Firefox 111 patches 11 holes, but not 1 zero-day among them…
5 signs you’ve fallen for a scam – and what to do next

Here’s how to know you have fallen victim to a scam – and what to do in order to undo or mitigate the damage. The post 5 signs you’ve fallen for a scam – and what to do next appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Software supply chain attacks are on the rise — are you at risk?
STALKER 2 hacker demands Ukrainian game developer reinstates Russian language support, or else…
ReversingLabs adds new context-based secret detection capabilities
FBI reveals that more money is lost to investment fraud than ransomware and business email compromise combined
A Guide to Business Cybersecurity: Common Digital Attacks and Precautions
New Linux IceFire Ransomware Variant Discovered: What You Need to Know to Secure Your Systems
How OpenSSF Aims to Make Log4j-Like Incidents Rare

The container sles-15-sp4-chost-byos-v20230310-arm64 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp4-chost-byos-v20230310-hvm-ssd-x86_64 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container suse-sles-15-sp4-chost-byos-v20230310-x86_64-gen2 was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

It was discovered that there was a potential remote denial of service vulnerability in redis, a popular key-value database. Authenticated users could have used string matching commands (like

UK refreshes national security plan to stop more of China’s secret-stealing cyber-tricks

Security fix for CVE-2023-25193 Update of HarfBuzz to 7.0.1 version (#2169172) Update of freetype to 2.13.0 version (#2168496) —- Security fix for CVE-2023-25193, Update to 7.0.1 version (#2169172)

Security fix for CVE-2023-25193 Update of HarfBuzz to 7.0.1 version (#2169172) Update of freetype to 2.13.0 version (#2168496) —- Security fix for CVE-2023-25193, Update to 7.0.1 version (#2169172)

LockBit brags: We’ll leak thousands of SpaceX blueprints stolen from supplier
Zoll Medical says intruders had 1M+ patient, staff records at their fingertips
GitHub begins 2FA rollout
Linux gets double-quick double-update to fix kernel Oops!

Several security issues were fixed in XStream.

The container ses/7.1/rook/ceph was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container ses/7.1/ceph/ceph was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container ses/7.1/cephcsi/cephcsi was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

CISA joins forces with Women in CyberSecurity to break up the boy’s club

Several security issues were fixed in Twig.

The UK’s bad encryption law can’t withstand global contempt

Several security issues were fixed in Protocol Buffers.

Cutting complexity

update to 111.0.5563.64. Fixes the following security issues: CVE-2023-0927 CVE-2023-0928 CVE-2023-0929 CVE-2023-0930 CVE-2023-0931 CVE-2023-0932 CVE-2023-0933 CVE-2023-0941 CVE-2023-1213 CVE-2023-1214 CVE-2023-1215 CVE-2023-1216 CVE-2023-1217 CVE-2023-1218 CVE-2023-1219 CVE-2023-1220 CVE-2023-1221 CVE-2023-1222 CVE-2023-1223 CVE-2023-1224 CVE-2023-1225

An issue has been found in mpv, a video player based on MPlayer/mplayer2. Due to a use after free an attacker coudl execute arbitrary code or crash the program via the ao_c parameter.

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in imagemagick that may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks. CVE-2020-19667

High CVE-2023-1213: Use after free in Swiftshader. Reported by Jaehun Jeong(@n3sk) of Theori on 2023-01-30 High CVE-2023-1214: Type Confusion in V8. Reported by Man Yue Mo of GitHub Security Lab on 2023-02-03

A change in the libreswan 4.2 Traffic Selector parsing code introduced a missing check that would reject palformed Traffic Selector payloads. As such, in such case the code stumbles on to hit a double free, leading to a crash and restart of the pluto daemon. No remote code execution. (CVE-2023-23009)

This kernel-linus update is based on upstream 5.15.98 and fixes atleast the following security issues: A regression exists in the Linux Kernel within KVM: nVMX that allowed for speculative execution attacks. L2 can carry out Spectre v2 attacks on L1

APT hackers set a honeytrap to ensnare victims – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

A request to move an online conversation to a supposedly more secure platform may not be as well-meaning as it sounds The post APT hackers set a honeytrap to ensnare victims – Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Common WhatsApp scams and how to avoid them

Here’s a roundup of some of the most common tricks that fraudsters use to dupe their victims on WhatsApp – and what you can do to protect yourself against them. The post Common WhatsApp scams and how to avoid them appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

Update to 5.9.10 for CVE-2023-26463

Security fix for CVE-2022-43272

Apply upstream libtiff fix for CVE-2022-4645

Release of stargz snapshotter v0.14.2 https://github.com/containerd/stargz- snapshotter/releases/tag/v0.14.2 This release uses containerd v1.7.0-rc.1 so this release fixes GHSA-hmfx-3pcx-653p (CVE-2023-25173) and GHSA-259w-8hf6-59c2 (CVE-2023-25153). This release uses Go 1.20.1 so this release fixes CVE-2022-41717 .

Update to python-werkzeug-2.2.3.

Backport patch for CVE-2023-25587.

Google euthanizes Chrome Cleanup Tool because it no longer has a purpose
What happens if you ‘cover up’ a ransomware infection? For Blackbaud, a $3m charge

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Electronics market shows US-China decoupling will hike inflation and slow growth
SHEIN shopping app goes rogue, grabs price and URL data from your clipboard
WhatsApp and UK government on collision course, as app vows not to remove end-to-end encryption
Pirated copies of Final Cut Pro infect Macs with cryptojacking malware

Several security issues were fixed in SnakeYAML.

The container bci/openjdk-devel was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

The container bci/openjdk-devel was updated. The following patches have been included in this update:

Data protection vendor Acronis admits to data leak as 12GB trove appears online
Catholic clergy surveillance org ‘outs gay priests’

**Redis 6.2.11** – Released Tue Feb 28 12:00:00 IST 2023 Upgrade urgency: SECURITY, contains fixes to security issues. Security Fixes: * (**CVE-2023-25155**) Specially crafted SRANDMEMBER, ZRANDMEMBER, and HRANDFIELD commands can trigger an integer overflow, resulting in a runtime assertion and termination of the Redis server process. * (**CVE-2022-36021**) String matching

Backport of upstream fix for CVE-2022-29718.

Security fix for CVE-2023-23931 cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In affected versions `Cipher.update_into` would accept Python objects which implement the buffer protocol, but provide only immutable buffers. This would allow immutable objects (such as `bytes`) to be mutated, thus violating fundamental rules of Python and

FBI and international cops catch a NetWire RAT
GitHub 2FA campaign begins
AT&T blames marketing bods for exposing 9M accounts
US House reps, staff health data swiped in cyber-heist
S3 Ep125: When security hardware has security holes [Audio + Text]
Refreshed from its holiday, Emotet has gone phishing
TSA tells US aviation industry to boost its cybersecurity
‘A woman from Mars’: Life in the pursuit of space exploration

An astrobiologist, analog astronaut, author and speaker, Dr. Michaela Musilova shares her experience as a woman at the forefront of space exploration and from her quest for scientific and personal excellence The post ‘A woman from Mars’: Life in the pursuit of space exploration appeared first on WeLiveSecurity

How to use Confidential Containers without confidential hardware

The container bci/bci-init was updated. The following patches have been included in this update: