CyberSecure Specialist

The first in-the-wild exploitation attempts targeting a recent vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server were observed over the weekend, threat intelligence firm GreyNoise warns. Patched a week ago, the critical security defect tracked as CVE-2023-22518 (CVSS score of 9.1) is an improper authorization flaw that could lead to “significant data loss”, Atlassian warned. The issue impacts all Confluence versions. Less than five days after releasing the patch, Atlassian issued a second warning,…

Delegates from 28 nations, including the U.S. and China, agreed Wednesday to work together to contain the potentially “catastrophic” risks posed by galloping advances in artificial intelligence. The first international AI Safety Summit, held at a former codebreaking spy base near London, focused on cutting-edge “frontier” AI that some scientists warn could pose a risk to humanity’s very existence. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the declaration was “a landmark achievement that sees the world’s…

The recent shutdown of the Mozi botnet is believed to be the work of its operators, who may have been forced to kill their creation by Chinese authorities. This is a theory from cybersecurity firm ESET, whose researchers recently discovered a kill switch suggesting that the takedown was deliberate.  Mozi emerged in September 2019 and at one point it was a highly active botnet, accounting for a large chunk of the traffic associated with IoT…

VMware Carbon Black’s Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) has identified dozens of previously unknown vulnerable kernel drivers that could be exploited by attackers to alter firmware or escalate privileges. It’s not uncommon for threat actors, including cybercriminals and state-sponsored groups, to abuse kernel drivers in their operations. Such drivers can allow malicious hackers to manipulate system processes, maintain persistence on a system, and evade security products. VMware’s TAU collected roughly 18,000 Windows driver samples from VirusTotal…