CISA Adds GeoServer, Linux Kernel, and Roundcube Webmail Bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

The US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning about cyber threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities in GeoServer (CVE-2022-24816), the Linux kernel (CVE-2022-2586), and Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2020-13965).

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Mitigating Skeleton Key, a New Type of Generative AI Jailbreak Technique

Microsoft has discovered a new type of jailbreak attack called Skeleton Key. This technique uses a multi-turn strategy to make the model ignore its guardrails, allowing it to generate forbidden content or override its decision-making rules.

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Researchers Warn of Flaws in Widely Used Industrial Gas Analysis Equipment

Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in Emerson Rosemount gas chromatographs that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information, induce a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and even execute arbitrary commands.
The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and reside in versions 4.1.5 and prior.
According to operational technology (OT) security firm Claroty, the

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Xeno RAT Spread via .gg Domains and GitHub

XenoRAT is being used by North Korean hackers and other actors targeting the gaming community. It is being spread through .gg domains and a GitHub repository disguised as Roblox scripting tools.

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California Privacy Regulator to Partner With French Data Authority

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has signed a partnership agreement with France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) to conduct joint research and share investigative findings on data privacy issues.

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Vanna AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability Enables RCE

The Vanna AI library has been found to have a vulnerability (CVE-2024-5565) that could allow for remote code execution (RCE) due to a prompt injection issue related to the Plotly script.

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TeamViewer Detects Security Breach in Corporate IT Environment

TeamViewer on Thursday disclosed it detected an “irregularity” in its internal corporate IT environment on June 26, 2024.
“We immediately activated our response team and procedures, started investigations together with a team of globally renowned cyber security experts and implemented necessary remediation measures,” the company said in a statement.
It further noted that its corporate IT

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No Patches for Hospital Temperature Monitors’ Critical Flaws

Researchers at Nozomi Networks uncovered four vulnerabilities in Sensor Net Connect and three flaws in the Thermoscan IP desktop application, both made by a division of French firm Proges Plus.

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French AI Startups Felt Unstoppable. Then Came the Election

With polls suggesting voters are about to swing toward the far right or hard left, the AI industry is starting to freak out.

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Amazon Is Investigating Perplexity Over Claims of Scraping Abuse

AWS hosted a server linked to the Bezos family- and Nvidia-backed search startup that appears to have been used to scrape the sites of major outlets, prompting an inquiry into potential rules violations.

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