The Daily Index — Wednesday, January 31, 2024

ATTACKS & VULNERABILITIES

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750M INDIAN PHONE NUMBERS UP FOR SALE ON DARK WEB

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cybernews.com · 3 min

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MALWARE CAMPAIGN USING ARS TECHNICA HAD NOVEL ATTACK TO FLY UNDER THE RADAR

Ars Technica and Vimeo were used to covertly serve malware via a novel attack hiding in image/video links. Payloads were disguised as Base64-encoded random strings. The first-stage infected devices and then fetched the strings, decoding them to install second-stage malware.

arstechnica.com · 3 min

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RIDING THE AI WAVES: THE RISE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO COMBAT CYBER THREATS

AI is transforming cybersecurity with machine learning to adapt to evolving threats. This post dives into how AI has been evolving over the last two decades, from spam filters to predictive analytics. This rise has democratized AI, empowering more sophisticated attacks. While AI is indispensable for modern cyber protection, its dual-use nature poses risks.

blogs.blackberry.com · 10 min

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EXTRACTING STRINGS FROM GO AND RUST EXECUTABLES

The Mandiant FLARE team has released a new version of FLOSS that contains specialized algorithms for extracting strings from Go and Rust binaries. These languages use structs to determine string length as opposed to null-terminated strings which leads to strings.exe struggling to extract strings. This post includes details of how strings are stored in the languages and how FLOSS detects them.

mandiant.com · 8 min

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MASTERING KUBERNETES SECURITY: SAFEGUARDING YOUR CONTAINER KINGDOM

A post from Red Canary that looks at Kubernetes security through the 4C security model with a particular focus on Container and Cluster threat models. The Container section focuses on issues such as malicious containers and on-the-fly containers. The Cluster section focuses on common misconfigurations and contains remediation advice.

redcanary.com · 10 min

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9 WAYS TO GAIN EXPERIENCE IN CYBER SECURITY

A blog post from TryHackMe that suggests ways to gain experience in cybersecurity. The suggestions include work placements, volunteering, CTF events, networking, home labs, bug bounties, and open source projects.

tryhackme.com · 4 min

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CHATGPT: ITALY SAYS OPENAI'S CHATBOT BREACHES DATA PROTECTION RULES

The saga continues between OpenAI and the Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA). The DPA concluded that available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the EU GDPR.

bbc.co.uk · 2 min

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DEFENDING AGAINST THE ATTACK OF THE CLONE[D WEBSITE]S!

This article discusses the release of two new versions of the Cloned Website Canarytoken, which alerts users when an attacker is using an Adversary-in-the-Middle attack against their sites.

blog.thinkst.com · 7 min

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STATE OF RANSOMWARE 2024

This report highlights how ransomware is becoming more dangerous year over year.

delinea.com · 10 min

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GITLAB CRITICAL SECURITY RELEASE

GitLab has released an update fixing a critical security vulnerability. Update ASAP.

about.gitlab.com · 2 min

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NORTH KOREAN HACKERS EMPLOY GENERATIVE AI FOR CYBERATTACKS

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service has warned that North Korean hackers have begun utilizing generative AI, leading to fears that these tools will be utilized to influence elections and spread misinformation.

thedefensepost.com · 1 min

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