From The Hacker News – Indian Software Firm’s Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware

From The Hacker News – Indian Software Firm’s Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware

Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to distribute information-stealing malware. The installers correspond to Notezilla, RecentX, and Copywhiz, according to cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which discovered the supply chain compromise on June 18, 2024. The issue has since been remediated by Conceptworld as of June 24
From The Hacker News – End-to-End Secrets Security: Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities

From The Hacker News – End-to-End Secrets Security: Making a Plan to Secure Your Machine Identities

At the heart of every application are secrets. Credentials that allow human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. Machine identities outnumber human identities by a factor of 45-to-1 and represent the majority of secrets we need to worry about. According to CyberArk's recent research, 93% of organizations had two or more identity-related breaches in the past year. It is clear that we
From The Hacker News – New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems

From The Hacker News – New OpenSSH Vulnerability Could Lead to RCE as Root on Linux Systems

OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387. It resides in the OpenSSH server component, also known as sshd, which is designed to listen for connections from any of the client