ShotSpotter Keeps Listening for Gunfire After Contracts Expire

Internal emails suggest that the company continued to provide gunshot data to police in cities where its contracts had been canceled.

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Pentagon Launches DIB Vulnerability Disclosure Program

The DIB Vulnerability Disclosure Program (DIB-VDP), a joint venture between the DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3), the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), and HackerOne, will bring better vulnerability disclosure practices to the DIB.

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eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners

A new malware campaign has been exploiting the updating mechanism of the eScan antivirus software to distribute backdoors and cryptocurrency miners like XMRig through a long-standing threat codenamed GuptiMiner targeting large corporate networks.
Cybersecurity firm Avast said the activity is the work of a threat actor with possible connections to a North Korean hacking group dubbed 

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Study: GPT-4 Agent can Exploit Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Academics at a U.S. university found that if you feed a GPT-4 artificial intelligence agent public security advisories, it can exploit unpatched “real-world” vulnerabilities without precise technical information.

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CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers

A new ongoing malware campaign has been observed distributing three different stealers, such as CryptBot, LummaC2, and Rhadamanthys hosted on Content Delivery Network (CDN) cache domains since at least February 2024.
Cisco Talos has attributed the activity with moderate confidence to a threat actor tracked as CoralRaider, a suspected Vietnamese-origin

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5 Hard Truths About the State of Cloud Security 2024

Dark Reading talks cloud security with John Kindervag, the godfather of zero trust.

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Siemens Working on Fix for Device Affected by Palo Alto Firewall Bug

Growing attacks targeting the flaw prompted CISA to include it in the known exploited vulnerabilities catalog earlier this month.

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Hackers Create Legit Phishing Links With Ghost GitHub, GitLab Comments

An utterly innocuous feature in popular Git CDNs allows anyone to conceal malware behind brand names, without those brands being any the wiser.

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Russian APT28 Group in New “GooseEgg” Hacking Campaign

A notorious Russian APT group has been stealing credentials for years by exploiting a Windows Print Spooler bug and using a novel post-compromise tool known as “GooseEgg,” Microsoft has revealed.

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