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Researchers have demonstrated what they call the “first active contactless attack against capacitive touchscreens.” GhostTouch, as it’s called, “uses electromagnetic interference (EMI) to inject fake touch points into a touchscreen without the need to physically touch it,” a group of academics from Zhejiang University and Technical University of Darmstadt said in a new research paper. The core

Today’s modern companies are built on data, which now resides across countless cloud apps. Therefore preventing data loss is essential to your success. This is especially critical for mitigating against rising ransomware attacks — a threat that 57% of security leaders expect to be compromised by within the next year.  As organizations continue to evolve, in turn so does

Cloud-based repository hosting service GitHub on Friday shared additional details into the theft of GitHub integration OAuth tokens last month, noting that the attacker was able to access internal NPM data and its customer information. “Using stolen OAuth user tokens originating from two third-party integrators, Heroku and Travis CI, the attacker was able to escalate access to

Details have emerged about a recently patched critical remote code execution vulnerability in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine used in Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. The issue relates to a case of use-after-free in the instruction optimization component, successful exploitation of which could “allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of

In any organization, there are certain accounts that are designated as being privileged. These privileged accounts differ from standard user accounts in that they have permission to perform actions that go beyond what standard users can do. The actions vary based on the nature of the account but can include anything from setting up new

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a free-to-use browser automation framework that’s being increasingly used by threat actors as part of their attack campaigns. “The framework contains numerous features which we assess may be utilized in the enablement of malicious activities,” researchers from Team Cymru said in a new report published Wednesday. “The technical entry bar for

A malvertising threat is witnessing a new surge in activity since its emergence earlier this year. Dubbed ChromeLoader, the malware is a “pervasive and persistent browser hijacker that modifies its victims’ browser settings and redirects user traffic to advertisement websites,” Aedan Russell of Red Canary said in a new report. ChromeLoader is a rogue Chrome browser extension

Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) servers have been identified as vulnerable to the severe “Pantsdown” Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) flaw, according to new research published today. “An attacker running code on a vulnerable QCT server would be able to ‘hop’ from the server host to the BMC and move their attacks to the server management network,

The maintainers of the Tails project have issued a warning that the Tor Browser that’s bundled with the operating system is unsafe to use for accessing or entering sensitive information. “We recommend that you stop using Tails until the release of 5.1 (May 31) if you use Tor Browser for sensitive information (passwords, private messages,

An unknown advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been linked to a series of spear-phishing attacks targeting Russian government entities since the onset of the Russo-Ukrainian war in late February 2022. “The campaigns […] are designed to implant a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) that can be used to surveil the computers it infects, and run