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French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France’s tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France’s national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophisticated, the agency, ANSSI, says inRead More »French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps

The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software. The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps appeared first on SecurityWeek.

New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The new Spectre-v2 variant has been codenamed Branch Target ReuseRead More »New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

Russia’s Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor

Russia’s Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor

Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have affected more than 100 organizations since January, mostly in the U.S. and U.K.Read More »Russia’s Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor

New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks

Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel The post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

17.3 Trillion Microsoft Records Exposed

17.3 Trillion Microsoft Records Exposed

Approximately 17.3 trillion stored rows within several Microsoft datasets were found to be accessible via an internal analytics service.

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