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  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/24/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-23006 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Deserialization Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/seasoning-email-threats-with-hidden-text-salting/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Seasoning email threats with hidden text salting Feedly Summary: Hidden text salting is a simple yet effective technique for bypassing email parsers, confusing spam filters, and evading detection engines that rely on keywords. Cisco Talos observed an increase in the number of email threats leveraging hidden text…

  • Wired: OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-sets-chatgpt-loose-on-the-web/ Source: Wired Title: OpenAI’s Operator Lets ChatGPT Use the Web for You Feedly Summary: The company that kicked off the AI chatbot craze now wants AI to do more than just talk. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s new feature called Operator introduces an AI agent capable of using a web…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/23/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2020-11023 JQuery Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/01/16/new-star-blizzard-spear-phishing-campaign-targets-whatsapp-accounts/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed opportunity to join a WhatsApp group. This is the first…

  • Hacker News: Mastercard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/ Source: Hacker News Title: Mastercard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving MasterCard’s DNS misconfiguration underscores the critical importance of accurate DNS management as a security measure in the financial sector. The flaw, which existed for nearly five years, highlights potential…

  • Krebs on Security: MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/mastercard-dns-error-went-unnoticed-for-years/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: MasterCard DNS Error Went Unnoticed for Years Feedly Summary: The payment card giant MasterCard just fixed a glaring error in its domain name server settings that could have allowed anyone to intercept or divert Internet traffic for the company by registering an unused domain name. The misconfiguration…

  • Hacker News: Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/how-cryptocurrency-turns-to-cash-in-russian-banks/ Source: Hacker News Title: Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the emergence of a Canadian financial firm as a payment processor for Russian cryptocurrency exchanges, implicating it in facilitating cybercrime services targeted at Russian-speaking customers. This raises significant concerns…

  • The Register: HPE probes IntelBroker’s bold data theft boasts

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/21/hpe_intelbroker_claims/ Source: The Register Title: HPE probes IntelBroker’s bold data theft boasts Feedly Summary: Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation’s systems and accessed source code, among other things.……