Cybersecurity
Black Hat’s network ops center brings rivals together for a common cause
The Reg goes behind the scenes of the conference NOC, where volunteers 'look for a needle in a needle stack' Black Hat Neil "Grifter" Wyler is spending the week "looking for a needle in a needle stack," a task he'll perform from the network operations center (NOC) that…
CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack
Indications of compromise and Sigma rules report for your security scanners amid ongoing 'ToolShell' blitz CISA has published a malware analysis report with compromise indicators and Sigma rules for "ToolShell" attacks targeting specific Microsoft SharePoint Server versions.…
KLM, Air France latest major organizations looted for customer data
Watch out, the phishermen are about, customers told European airline giants Air France and KLM say they are the latest in a string of major organizations to have their customers' data stolen by way of a break-in at a third party org.…
Meta training AI on social media posts? Only 7% in Europe think it’s OK
Privacy campaigner Max Schrem's NOYB is back on Zuck's back Updated Meta's enthusiasm for training its AI on user data is not shared by the users themselves – at least for some Europeans – according a study commissioned by Facebook legal nemesis Max Schrems and his privacy advocacy…
Google says the group behind last year’s Snowflake attack slurped data from one of its Salesforce instances
ShinyHunters suspected in rash of intrusions Google confirmed that criminals breached one of its Salesforce databases and stole info belonging to some of its small-and-medium-business customers.…
Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution
More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a…
Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack
Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users' devices, steal passwords, and access sensitive data, including fingerprint information, according to Cisco Talos.…
Study finds humans not completely useless at malware detection
Some pinpointed software nasties but were suspicious of printer drivers too Researchers from the Universities of Guelph and Waterloo have discovered exactly how users decide whether an application is legitimate or malware before installing it – and the good news is they're better than you might expect, at…
Chained bugs in Nvidia’s Triton Inference Server lead to full system compromise
Wiz Research details flaws in Python backend that expose AI models and enable remote code execution Security researchers have lifted the lid on a chain of high-severity vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) on Nvidia's Triton Inference Server.…
Hacker summer camp: What to expect from BSides, Black Hat, and DEF CON
These are the conference events to keep an eye on. You can even stream a few The security industry is hitting Vegas hard this week with three conferences in Sin City that bring the world's largest collection of security pros together for the annual summer camp.…