Tag: service
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GitLab Security Flaws Could Allow Two-Factor Authentication Bypass and DoS
GitLab has released critical security patches addressing multiple vulnerabilities affecting both Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). Versions 18.8.2, 18.7.2, and 18.6.4 are now available to fix flaws that enable two-factor authentication bypass and denial-of-service attacks. GitLab strongly recommends that all self-managed installations upgrade immediately, while GitLab.com has already deployed the patches. Critical Authentication…
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RansomHub claims alleged breach of Apple partner Luxshare
Chinese electronic manufacturer and Apple partner Luxshare Precision Industry has allegedly been breached by affiliates of the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service outfit. … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/01/21/luxshare-data-breach-apple-ransomhub/
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Webinar: How Smart MSSPs Using AI to Boost Margins with Half the Staff
Every managed security provider is chasing the same problem in 2026, too many alerts, too few analysts, and clients demanding “CISO-level protection” at SMB budgets.The truth? Most MSSPs are running harder, not smarter. And it’s breaking their margins. That’s where the quiet revolution is happening: AI isn’t just writing reports or surfacing risks, it’s rebuilding…
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Pro-Russian denial-of-service attacks target UK, NCSC warns
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued a warning about the threat posed by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks from Russia-linked hacking groups who are reported to be continuing to target British organisations. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/pro-russian-denial-of-service-attacks-target-uk-ncsc-warns
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Crooks impersonate LastPass in campaign to harvest master passwords
Password manager LastPass warns of an active phishing campaign impersonating the service to steal users’ master passwords. LastPass warned users about an active phishing campaign that began around January 19, 2026. Attackers impersonate the service with emails claiming urgent maintenance and urge users to back up their password vaults within 24 hours. The messages use…
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Experts Welcome Global Cybersecurity Vulnerability Enumeration Launch
A new service, the Global Cybersecurity Vulnerability Enumeration (GCVE), offers an alternative to the US-led CVE First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/global-cybersecurity-vulnerability/
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Vulnerability prioritization beyond the CVSS number
Tags: automation, container, credentials, cve, cvss, data, docker, endpoint, flaw, github, identity, network, open-source, risk, service, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementA different way to look at vulnerabilities: This is where the unified linkage model (ULM) comes in. Instead of asking, “How bad is this vulnerability on its own?” ULM asks, “What can this vulnerability affect once it starts moving?”It focuses on three kinds of relationships:Adjacency: Systems that sit side by side and can influence each…
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Experts Welcome Global Cybersecurity Vulnerability Enumeration Launch
A new service, the Global Cybersecurity Vulnerability Enumeration (GCVE), offers an alternative to the US-led CVE First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/global-cybersecurity-vulnerability/
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Report Fraud Promises to Streamline Fight Against Economic Crime
City of London Police has launched the UK’s national Report Fraud service First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/report-fraud-fight-against/
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13 cyber questions to better vet IT vendors and reduce third-party risk
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, extortion, firewall, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, international, ISO-27001, jobs, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, password, PCI, penetration-testing, radius, ransomware, risk, saas, sans, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerabilityVital vendor questions CISOs should ask: To gain that critical information, security leaders and experts recommend CSOs ask IT partners the following cyber-specific questions. 1. What attestation will you provide to prove proper security controls are in place? These are essential, says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO for cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis. Some of the…
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13 cyber questions to better vet IT vendors and reduce third-party risk
Tags: access, api, attack, authentication, automation, best-practice, breach, business, ceo, ciso, cloud, compliance, control, credentials, credit-card, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data, detection, endpoint, exploit, extortion, firewall, healthcare, identity, incident response, infrastructure, insurance, international, ISO-27001, jobs, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, network, nist, password, PCI, penetration-testing, radius, ransomware, risk, saas, sans, security-incident, service, supply-chain, threat, update, vpn, vulnerabilityVital vendor questions CISOs should ask: To gain that critical information, security leaders and experts recommend CSOs ask IT partners the following cyber-specific questions. 1. What attestation will you provide to prove proper security controls are in place? These are essential, says Juan Pablo Perez-Etchegoyen, CTO for cybersecurity and compliance platform Onapsis. Some of the…
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UK public sector, CNI in Russian hacktivist crosshairs
Hacktivists aligned to the Russian state are ramping up their targeting of UK organisations with denial of service attacks First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366637446/UK-public-sector-CNI-in-Russian-hacktivist-crosshairs
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UK public sector, CNI in Russian hacktivist crosshairs
Hacktivists aligned to the Russian state are ramping up their targeting of UK organisations with denial of service attacks First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366637446/UK-public-sector-CNI-in-Russian-hacktivist-crosshairs
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UK public sector, CNI in Russian hacktivist crosshairs
Hacktivists aligned to the Russian state are ramping up their targeting of UK organisations with denial of service attacks First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366637446/UK-public-sector-CNI-in-Russian-hacktivist-crosshairs
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LastPass Warns of Fake Maintenance Messages Targeting Users’ Master Passwords
LastPass is alerting users to a new active phishing campaign that’s impersonating the password management service, which aims to trick users into giving up their master passwords.The campaign, which began on or around January 19, 2026, involves sending phishing emails claiming upcoming maintenance and urging them to create a local backup of their password vaults…
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Azure Private Endpoint Deployments Expose Cloud Resources to DoS Attacks
A critical architectural weakness in Azure’s Private Endpoint deployments could allow both accidental and intentional denial of service (DoS) attacks against cloud resources. The vulnerability stems from how Azure’s Private DNS zone resolution interacts with hybrid networking configurations, potentially affecting over 5% of Azure storage accounts and multiple critical services. The Core Vulnerability The issue…
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Three vulnerabilities in Anthropic Git MCP Server could let attackers tamper with LLMs
mcp-server-git versions prior to 2025-12.18.The three vulnerabilities are·CVE-2025-68143, an unrestricted git_init.·CVE-2025-68145, a path validation bypass.·CVE-2025-68144, an argument injection in git_diff.Unlike other vulnerabilities in MCP servers that required specific configurations, these work on any configuration of Anthropic’s official server, out of the box, Cyata says.Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard introduced by Anthropic in 2024 to…
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How are non-humans identities protected?
How Secure Are Your Machine Identities? Where technology drives growth and innovation, are we adequately securing the machine identities that power our digital? Non-human identities (NHIs), encompassing machine identities like APIs, service accounts, and IoT devices, play a pivotal role in modern cybersecurity architectures. Yet, their management often lags behind due to a disconnect between……
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Flaws in Chainlit AI dev framework expose servers to compromise
/proc/self/environ file is used to store environment variables, and these can contain API keys, credentials, internal file paths, database paths, tokens for AWS and other cloud services, and even CHAINLIT_AUTH_SECRET, a secret that’s used to sign authentication tokens when authentication is enabled.On top of that, if LangChain is used as the orchestration layer behind Chainlit…
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Minnesota Agency Notifies 304,000 of Vendor Breach
State Monitoring Incident Involving a Health Entity Worker for Potential Fraud. The Minnesota Department of Human Services is notifying nearly 304,000 people of data breach involving someone at a healthcare provider who inappropriately accessed information from an IT system managed by a vendor. State officials are monitoring the incident for potential fraud. First seen on…
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NDSS 2025 Studying the Defensive Registration Practices of the Fortune 500
Session 9C: Phishing & Fraud 2 Authors, Creators & Presenters: Boladji Vinny Adjibi (Georgia Tech), Athanasios Avgetidis (Georgia Tech), Manos Antonakakis (Georgia Tech), Michael Bailey (Georgia Tech), Fabian Monrose (Georgia Tech) PAPER The Guardians of Name Street: Studying the Defensive Registration Practices of the Fortune 500 Using orthographic, phonetic, and semantic models, we study the…
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Face-Swapping Tools Pose Elevated ‘Know Your Customer’ Risks
Easy-to-Use Deepfake Services for Criminals Rapidly Improving, Researchers Warn. Financial firms’ fraud and risk teams must bolster know-your-customer checks in the face of increasingly effective and affordable deepfake technology and services that can generate synthetic identities, convincing face-swaps and defeat live biometric checks to bypass defenses, warn researchers. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article:…
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Microsoft & Anthropic MCP Servers At Risk of RCE, Cloud Takeovers
Researchers found the popular model context protocol (MCP) servers, which are integral components of AI services, carry serious vulnerabilities. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/microsoft-anthropic-mcp-servers-risk-takeovers
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UK launches landmark ‘Report Fraud’ service to tackle cybercrime and fraud
British authorities are rolling out Report Fraud, a platform intended to win back public trust over how law enforcement responds to widespread cybercrime and fraud. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/uk-report-fraud-platform-launch-police-cybercrime
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The Hidden Risk of Orphan Accounts
The Problem: The Identities Left BehindAs organizations grow and evolve, employees, contractors, services, and systems come and go – but their accounts often remain. These abandoned or “orphan” accounts sit dormant across applications, platforms, assets, and cloud consoles.The reason they persist isn’t negligence – it’s fragmentation. Traditional IAM and IGA systems are designed First seen…
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Thales named Growth Index leader in Frost Radar: Data Security Platforms Report
Tags: access, ai, business, cloud, compliance, container, control, data, defense, detection, edr, encryption, endpoint, governance, identity, intelligence, LLM, monitoring, risk, saas, service, siem, soc, technology, toolThales named Growth Index leader in Frost Radar: Data Security Platforms Report madhav Tue, 01/20/2026 – 04:29 Data has always been the backbone of enterprise operations, but the rise of cloud, big data, and GenAI has multiplied its value and, with it, the motivation for attackers. In parallel, regulatory expectations are increasing and evolving. The…
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NCSC Warns of Increased Russian Hacktivist Threat to UK Online Services
National Cyber Security Centre says these ideologically motivated attackers are moving beyond simple website disruptions. The post NCSC Warns of Increased Russian Hacktivist Threat to UK Online Services appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ncsc-russian-hackers-target-uk/
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OPNsense 25.7.11 Enhances Network Visibility With Host Discovery Feature
TheOPNsenseteam has started the new year with the release of version 25.7.11, bringing a notable networking enhancement: a native host discovery service that deepens visibility into connected devices and tightens policy control across thefirewall. Native host discovery improves network visibility.The headline feature in 25.7.11 is the new host discovery service, built on thehostwatchcomponent. It automatically…
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Telegram-based illicit billionaire marketplace Tudou Guarantee stopped transactions
Major Telegram-based illicit marketplace Tudou Guarantee appears to be shutting down its operations, according to Elliptic. Blockchain cybersecurity firm Elliptic reports that Tudou Guarantee, a major Telegram-based illicit marketplace in Southeast Asia, has stopped transactions in its public groups after handling over $12 billion. The researchers noted that other services still run, so a full…
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Tudou Guarantee Marketplace Halts Telegram Transactions After Processing Over $12 Billion
A Telegram-based guarantee marketplace known for advertising a broad range of illicit services appears to be winding down its operations, according to new findings from Elliptic.The blockchain intelligence company said Tudou Guarantee has effectively ceased transactions through its public Telegram groups following a period of significant growth. The marketplace is estimated to have processed First…