FBI: Ransomware Disruptions during Voting Periods Will Not Impact the Security and Resiliency of Vote Casting or Counting

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are issuing this announcement to inform the public that while ransomware attacks against state or local government networks or election infrastructure could cause localized delays, they Read More …

New Windows Cyber Attacks Confirmed – CISA Says Update By September 3

Microsoft has released the monthly round of Patch Tuesday security updates, with fixes for a total of 90 vulnerabilities across the Windows ecosystem. Of these, the Microsoft Security Response Center warns that five Windows vulnerabilities have confirmed and active cyber Read More …

Musk Blames DDoS Attack For 40-Minute Delayed Start to Trump’s X Livestream

Technical difficulties delayed former President Donald Trump’s live conversation with Elon Musk on X by over 40 minutes. Musk blamed the issues on a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) cyberattack, in which a bad actor seeks to overload a target server with Read More …

Indirect prompt injection in the real world: how people manipulate neural networks

Large language models (LLMs) – the neural network algorithms that underpin ChatGPT and other popular chatbots – are becoming ever more powerful and inexpensive. Systems built on instruction-executing LLMs may be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. A prompt is a Read More …

Keys to the Kingdom – Gaining access to the Physical Facility through Internal Access

This is a story of network segmentation and the impact that seemingly trivial misconfigurations can have for your organization. This is one of those occasions. This particular pen test asked for goals-based assessment focusing on post-compromise activities — an attempt Read More …

Report finds Apple devices fare the worst when it comes to full takeover risks

A worrying number of environments are vulnerable to complete takeover via escalated privileges, a new report from Picus Security has found. Environments were tested in simulated attacks, with the average organization managing to defend against 7 out of 10 attacks, but Read More …

The Proliferation of Cellular in IoT

Analysis of Cellular Based Internet of Things (IoT) Technology is a new whitepaper co-authored by Rapid7 principal security researcher Deral Heiland and Thermo Fisher Scientific lead product security researcher Carlota Bindner. In this new research, the authors dive deep into Read More …

EU to toughen cyberattack defence strategy for healthcare sector

Political Guidelines 2024-2029 published before Von der Leyen’s reappointment as president of the EU executive last week included suggested a new action plan on cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers will be presented in the first 100 days of the Read More …