Palo Alto Networks Patches Vulnerabilities Allowing Firewall Disruption

Palo Alto Networks patches several high-severity vulnerabilities, including ones that allow DoS attacks against its firewalls.

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Google Cloud Unveils New AI-Powered Security Capabilities

Google adds AI to cloud security features and announces other security capabilities for cloud customers.

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Microsoft April 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 150 security flaws, 67 RCEs

Only three critical vulnerabilities were fixed as part of the April 2024 Patch Tuesday updates, but there are over 67 remote code execution bugs. More than half of the RCE flaws are found within Microsoft SQL drivers, likely sharing a common flaw.

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Analyzing CryptoJS Encrypted Phishing Attempt

ARC Labs recently analyzed a phishing email used in a credential harvesting campaign that leveraged a lure notifying the target they received a voice message and needed to visit a link to access it.

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Alethea Raises $20 Million for Disinformation Detection and Mitigation Solution

Alethea has raised $20 million in Series B funding for its technology designed to detect and mitigate disinformation.

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Fortinet Fixed a Critical RCE Bug in FortiClientLinux

Fortinet fixed a dozen vulnerabilities in multiple products, including a critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) issue, tracked as CVE-2023-45590 (CVSS score of 9.4), in FortiClientLinux.

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Apple Expands Spyware Alert System to Warn Users of Mercenary Attacks

Apple on Wednesday revised its documentation pertaining to its mercenary spyware threat notification system to mention that it alerts users when they may have been individually targeted by such attacks.
It also specifically called out companies like NSO Group for developing commercial surveillance tools such as Pegasus that are used by state actors to pull off “individually targeted

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Fortinet Rolls Out Critical Security Patches for FortiClientLinux Vulnerability

Fortinet has released patches to address a critical security flaw impacting FortiClientLinux that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution.
Tracked as CVE-2023-45590, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of a maximum of 10.
“An Improper Control of Generation of Code (‘Code Injection’) vulnerability [CWE-94] in FortiClientLinux may allow an unauthenticated attacker to

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Japan, Philippines, & US Forge Cyber Threat Intel-Sharing Alliance

Following the Volt Typhoon attacks on critical infrastructure in the region by China, the US reportedly will share cybersecurity threat information with both countries.

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XZ Utils Scare Exposes Hard Truths About Software Security

Much of the open source code embedded in enterprise software stacks comes from small, under-resourced, volunteer-run projects.

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