Tag: network
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New VVS Stealer Malware Targets Discord Accounts via Obfuscated Python Code
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Python-based information stealer called VVS Stealer (also styled as VVS $tealer) that’s capable of harvesting Discord credentials and tokens.The stealer is said to have been on sale on Telegram as far back as April 2025, according to a report from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42.”VVS stealer’s code…
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NDSS 2025 A New PPML Paradigm For Quantized Models
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Tianpei Lu (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University), Bingsheng Zhang (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University), Xiaoyuan Zhang (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University), Kui Ren (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain…
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NDSS 2025 DLBox: New Model Training Framework For Protecting Training Data
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jaewon Hur (Seoul National University), Juheon Yi (Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK), Cheolwoo Myung (Seoul National University), Sangyun Kim (Seoul National University), Youngki Lee (Seoul National University), Byoungyoung Lee (Seoul National University) PAPER DLBox: New Model Training Framework For Protecting Training Data Sharing training data for deep…
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NDSS 2025 Understanding Data Importance In Machine Learning Attacks
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Rui Wen (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Michael Backes (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Yang Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) PAPER Understanding Data Importance in Machine Learning Attacks: Does Valuable Data Pose Greater Harm? Machine learning has revolutionized numerous domains, playing a crucial…
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NDSS 2025 AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks Via Alpha Channel Oversight
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Qi Xia (University of Texas at San Antonio), Qian Chen (University of Texas at San Antonio) PAPER AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks via Alpha Channel Oversight Traditional black-box adversarial attacks on computer vision models face significant limitations, including intensive querying requirements, time-consuming iterative processes, a lack of universality,…
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Cisco XDR in 30: Turning Security Signals Into Confident Action
How network-led Cisco XDR helps teams see threats clearly and respond faster First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/01/02/cisco-xdr-in-30/
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NDSS 2025 “¢ Decentralized Infrastructure For Sharing Trusted Encrypted Facts And Nothing More
Session 7C: Secure Protocols Authors, Creators & Presenters: Sofia Celi (Brave Software), Alex Davidson (NOVA LINCS & Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London & Brave Software), Gonçalo Pestana (Hashmatter), Joe Rowell (Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London) PAPER DiStefano: Decentralized Infrastructure for Sharing Trusted Encrypted Facts and Nothing More We…
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NDSS 2025 Impact Tracing: Identifying The Culprit Of Misinformation In Encrypted Messaging Systems
Session 7C: Secure Protocols Authors, Creators & Presenters: Zhongming Wang (Chongqing University), Tao Xiang (Chongqing University), Xiaoguo Li (Chongqing University), Biwen Chen (Chongqing University), Guomin Yang (Singapore Management University), Chuan Ma (Chongqing University), Robert H. Deng (Singapore Management University) PAPER Impact Tracing: Identifying the Culprit of Misinformation in Encrypted Messaging Systems Encrypted messaging systems obstruct…
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MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847): the US, China, and the EU are among the top exploited GEOs
MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847) lets attackers remotely leak memory from unpatched MongoDB servers using zlib compression, without authentication. A critical vulnerability, CVE-2025-14847 (MongoBleed), was disclosed right after Christmas, an unwelcome “gift” for the cybersecurity community, impacting MongoDB Server deployments that use zlib network compression. MongoDB is a popular open-source NoSQL database used to store and manage data…
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NSFOCUS Monthly APT Insights November 2025
Regional APT Threat Situation In November 2025, the global threat hunting system of Fuying Lab detected a total of 28 APT attack activities. These activities were primarily concentrated in regions including South Asia and East Asia, with a smaller portion also found in Eastern Europe and Middle East. Some organizations remain unattributed to known APT…The…
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Equifax Europe CISO: Notorious breach spurred cybersecurity transformation
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, awareness, breach, business, ceo, cio, ciso, cloud, computer, control, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, defense, dora, espionage, finance, framework, google, government, identity, infrastructure, intelligence, network, nis-2, phishing, regulation, risk, risk-management, security-incident, service, strategy, technology, threat, updateCloud as a new technological axis: Equifax’s $3 billion migration to the cloud, “which had been brewing for about seven years” and which the company says is the largest technological investment in its history, has involved moving more than 300 systems, over 30 product families, and thousands of customers to the company’s cloud platform, Equifax Cloud, in Spain…
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New Open-Source C2 Framework AdaptixC2 Debuts With Improved Stability and Speed
The open-source community has received a major update with the release of AdaptixC2 Version 1.0. This new version brings significant enhancements to the Command and Control (C2) framework, with a focus on network stability, user interface (UI) performance, and operational speed. The most notable technical improvement in Version 1.0 is the complete overhaul of the…
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NDSS 2025 PQConnect: Automated Post-Quantum End-To-End Tunnels
Session 7C: Secure Protocols Authors, Creators & Presenters: Daniel J. Bernstein (University of Illinois at Chicago and Academia Sinica), Tanja Lange (Eindhoven University of Technology amd Academia Sinica), Jonathan Levin (Academia Sinica and Eindhoven University of Technology), Bo-Yin Yang (Academia Sinica) PAPER PQConnect: Automated Post-Quantum End-to-End Tunnels This paper introduces PQConnect, a post-quantum end-to-end tunneling…
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Palo Alto Networks Allies with Google to Secure AI
Palo Alto Networks will significantly expand the scope of the cybersecurity offerings it makes available on Google Cloud in the New Year while at the same time making greater use of cloud infrastructure and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies provided by Google across its portfolio. Specifically, Palo Alto Networks will make its Prisma AIRS platform for..…
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NDSS 2025 Distributed Function Secret Sharing And Applications
Session 7C: Secure Protocols Authors, Creators & Presenters: Pengzhi Xing (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Hongwei Li (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Meng Hao (Singapore Management University), Hanxiao Chen (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Jia Hu (University of Electronic Science and Technology of China), Dongxiao Liu…
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European Space Agency confirms breach of “external servers”
The European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed that attackers recently breached servers outside its corporate network, which contained what it described as “unclassified” information on collaborative engineering activities. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-space-agency-confirms-breach-of-external-servers/
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React2Shell: Anatomy of a max-severity flaw that sent shockwaves through the web
What the research quickly agreed on: Across early reports from Wiz, Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, Google AWS, and others, there was a strong alignment on the core mechanics of React2Shell. Researchers independently confirmed that the flaw lives inside React’s server-side rendering pipeline and stems from unsafe deserialization in the protocol used to transmit component…
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MongoBleed Detector Launched to Identify Critical MongoDB Flaw (CVE-2025-14847)
Security researchers have released an open-source detection tool to help organizations identify potential exploitation of MongoBleed (CVE-2025-14847), a critical memory disclosure vulnerability affecting multiple MongoDB versions. The MongoBleed Detector, developed by Neo23x0, provides incident responders with an offline analysis capability to scan MongoDB logs for exploitation indicators without requiring network connectivity or additional agents. MongoBleed…
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Cybersicherheitstrends 2026: Welche Angriffe ohne Malware zunehmen
Da Malware-freie Angriffe mittlerweile den Großteil der kriminellen Aktivitäten ausmachen, steht außer Frage, dass die Trends in der gesamten Landschaft dazu geführt haben, dass sich diese Bedrohungen ausbreiten konnten. Für 2026 erwartet Zero Networks eine weitere Zunahme der Angriffe ohne Malware. Dazu gehören insbesondere: Maschinenidentitäten schaffen Sicherheitslücken Maschinenidentitäten wie Dienstkonten, die bekanntermaßen überprivilegiert und… First…
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Cybersicherheitstrends 2026: Welche Angriffe ohne Malware zunehmen
Da Malware-freie Angriffe mittlerweile den Großteil der kriminellen Aktivitäten ausmachen, steht außer Frage, dass die Trends in der gesamten Landschaft dazu geführt haben, dass sich diese Bedrohungen ausbreiten konnten. Für 2026 erwartet Zero Networks eine weitere Zunahme der Angriffe ohne Malware. Dazu gehören insbesondere: Maschinenidentitäten schaffen Sicherheitslücken Maschinenidentitäten wie Dienstkonten, die bekanntermaßen überprivilegiert und… First…
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NDSS 2025 Automated Data Protection For Embedded Systems Via Data Flow Based Compartmentalization
Tags: access, automation, breach, conference, data, exploit, firmware, Hardware, healthcare, Internet, network, tool, vulnerabilityNDSS 2025 – Automated Data Protection For Embedded Systems Via Data Flow Based Compartmentalization Session 7B: Trusted Hardware and Execution Authors, Creators & Presenters: Zelun Kong (University of Texas at Dallas), Minkyung Park (University of Texas at Dallas), Le Guan (University of Georgia), Ning Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis), Chung Hwan Kim (University of…
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Zero Network erwartet weitere Zunahme von Angriffen ohne Malware
Da Malware-freie Angriffe mittlerweile den Großteil der kriminellen Aktivitäten ausmachen, steht außer Frage, dass die Trends in der gesamten Landschaft dazu geführt haben, dass sich diese Bedrohungen ausbreiten konnten. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/zero-network-erwartet-weitere-zunahme-von-angriffen-ohne-malware/a43265/
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NDSS 2025 CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks On AMD SEV-SNP
Tags: attack, conference, control, data-breach, exploit, germany, Hardware, Internet, leak, malicious, network, oracle, side-channelSession 7B: Trusted Hardware and Execution Authors, Creators & Presenters: Stefan Gast (Graz University of Technology), Hannes Weissteiner (Graz University of Technology), Robin Leander Schröder (Fraunhofer SIT, Darmstadt, Germany and Fraunhofer Austria, Vienna, Austria), Daniel Gruss (Graz University of Technology) – PAPER CounterSEVeillance: Performance-Counter Attacks On AMD SEV-SNP Confidential virtual machines (VMs) promise higher security…
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TDL 012 – The Architect of the Internet on the Future of Trust
Summary In this episode of The Defenders Log, Paul Mockapetris, the architect of DNS, discusses the evolving role of the Domain Name System from a simple directory to a sophisticated security tool. He posits that modern networking requires “making sure DNS doesn’t work when you don’t want it to,” comparing DNS filtering to essential services…
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CISA Flags Actively Exploited Digiever NVR Vulnerability Allowing Remote Code Execution
Tags: authentication, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kev, network, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a security flaw impacting Digiever DS-2105 Pro network video recorders (NVRs) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-52163 (CVSS score: 8.8), relates to a case of command injection that allows post-authentication remote code First seen on thehackernews.com…
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CERN: how does the international research institution manage risk?
Tags: access, ai, business, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, framework, governance, group, international, iot, LLM, network, risk, service, strategy, technology, toolStefan Lüders and Tim Bell of CERN. CERNEmploying proprietary technology can introduce risks, according to Tim Bell, leader of CERN’s IT governance, risk and compliance section, who is responsible for business continuity and disaster recovery. “If you’re a visitor to a university, you’ll want to bring your laptop and use it at CERN. We can’t…
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NDSS 2025 Mysticeti: Reaching The Latency Limits With Uncertified DAGs
Session 7A: Network Security 2 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Kushal Babel (Cornell Tech & IC3), Andrey Chursin (Mysten Labs), George Danezis (Mysten Labs & University College London (UCL)), Anastasios Kichidis (Mysten Labs), Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Mysten Labs & IST Austria), Arun Koshy (Mysten Labs), Alberto Sonnino (Mysten Labs & University College London (UCL)), Mingwei Tian (Mysten…
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NDSS 2025 LAMP: Lightweight Approaches For Latency Minimization In Mixnets With Practical Deployment Considerations
Session 7A: Network Security 2 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Mahdi Rahimi (KU Leuven), Piyush Kumar Sharma (University of Michigan), Claudia Diaz (KU Leuven) PAPER LAMP: Lightweight Approaches For Latency Minimization In Mixnets With Practical Deployment Considerations Mixnets are a type of anonymous communication system designed to provide network privacy to users. They route client messages…
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Net-SNMP Vulnerability Triggers Buffer Overflow, Crashing the Daemon
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Net-SNMP’s snmptrapd daemon allows remote attackers to crash the service by sending specially crafted packets, potentially disrupting network monitoring operations across enterprise environments. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-68615, affects all versions of Net-SNMP before the recently released patches. Security researcher Buddurid, working with Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative, discovered…