From The Hacker News – Defending against USB drive attacks with Wazuh

From The Hacker News – Defending against USB drive attacks with Wazuh

USB drive attacks constitute a significant cybersecurity risk, taking advantage of the everyday use of USB devices to deliver malware and circumvent traditional network security measures. These attacks lead to data breaches, financial losses, and operational disruptions, with lasting impacts on an organization's reputation. An example is the Stuxnet worm discovered in 2010, a malware designed to
From The Hacker News – Identity: The New Cybersecurity Battleground

From The Hacker News – Identity: The New Cybersecurity Battleground

The rapid adoption of cloud services, SaaS applications, and the shift to remote work have fundamentally reshaped how enterprises operate. These technological advances have created a world of opportunity but also brought about complexities that pose significant security threats. At the core of these vulnerabilities lies Identity—the gateway to enterprise security and the number one attack vector
From The Hacker News – Malicious ML Models on Hugging Face Leverage Broken Pickle Format to Evade Detection

From The Hacker News – Malicious ML Models on Hugging Face Leverage Broken Pickle Format to Evade Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two malicious machine learning (ML) models on Hugging Face that leveraged an unusual technique of "broken" pickle files to evade detection. "The pickle files extracted from the mentioned PyTorch archives revealed the malicious Python content at the beginning of the file," ReversingLabs researcher Karlo Zanki said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "