Microsoft this week announced the open source availability of Python code for “CyberBattleSim,” a research toolkit that supports simulating complex computer systems. Designed to help advance artificial intelligence and machine learning, the experimental research project was designed to aid in the analysis of how “autonomous agents operate in a simulated enterprise environment using high-level abstraction ..
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new tool to help with the detection of potential compromise within Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. Dubbed Aviary, the new tool is a dashboard that makes it easy to visualize and analyze output from Sparrow, the compromise detection tool ..
Getty Images reader comments 27 with 20 posters participating, including story author Share this story A newly discovered cryptomining worm is stepping up its targeting of Windows and Linux devices with a batch of new exploits and capabilities, a researcher said. Research company Juniper started monitoring what it’s calling the Sysrv botnet in December. One ..
The Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition has come to an end, with participants earning more than $1.2 million — more than ever paid out at the event — for exploits in the browser, virtualization, server, local privilege escalation, and enterprise communications categories. Over the course of three days, participants made 23 attempts, targeting Safari, Chrome, Edge, ..
Cisco this week announced patches for tens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a critical severity issue impacting the SD-WAN vManage software. Tracked as CVE-2021-1479 with a CVSS score of 9.8, the critical bug exists because of improper validation of user-supplied input and could allow an attacker to trigger a buffer overflow by sending ..
NEWS ANALYSIS: Google’s decision to promote Rust for low-level Android programming is another sign that the shelf-life for memory corruption mitigations are no match for the speed of in-the-wild exploit development. Just 13 years after Google introduced the sandbox in Chrome touting “a new approach in browser security,” the company is now blaming the limitations ..
It’s a bigger problem than is immediately apparent, and has the potential for hacks as big as Equifax and as widespread as SolarWinds. The universal need for speed and lack of resource in commercial app development requires developers to use free open-source software libraries. The difficulty is that there is no easy way to manage ..
Getty Images reader comments 34 with 30 posters participating Share this story Ransomware operators shut down two production facilities belonging to a European manufacturer after deploying a relatively new strain that encrypted servers that control a manufacturer’s industrial processes, a researcher from Kaspersky Lab said on Wednesday. The ransomware, known as Cring, came to public ..
The April 2021 Android security bulletin published this week by Google describes more than 30 vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system, including a remote code execution flaw in the System component. Tracked as CVE-2021-0430 and affecting Android 10 and 11, the code execution vulnerability is deemed critical severity. The bug was patched as part of ..
On the first day of the Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition, participants earned more than half a million dollars, including $440,000 for demonstrating exploits against Microsoft products. The competition’s organizer, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), said there were seven attempts on the first day and five of them were successful. A team called Devcore earned ..
