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[[{"value":"Multiple vulnerabilities in the CocoaPods dependency manager have been identified, posing a significant risk of supply chain attacks. The flaw enables any malicious actor to take control of thousands of…

[[{"value":"Researchers from the University of California have unveiled a novel high-precision Branch Target Injection (BTI) attack, dubbed “Indirector,” that exploits vulnerabilities in the Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and the Branch…

[[{"value":"This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine – Read the Full TIME Story Sausalito, Calif. – Jul. 2, 2024 The recently released “2024 Cybersecurity Almanac” has a…

The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual "State of Ransomware 2024" report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year with organizations that paid a ransom reporting an average payment of $2 million, up from

Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen, leverages shortcomings identified in Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and the Branch Target Buffer (BTB

[[{"value":"CSHARP-STREAMER, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT), was identified during an investigation of a ransomware attack using Metaencryptor, with a Powershell loader deploying CSHARP-STREAMER, which utilizes publicly available techniques, including AMSI-Memory-Bypass…