‘Jingle Thief’ Highlights Retail Cyber Threats

Neither security issue requires user interaction; and one of the vulnerabilities was used to unlock a student activist’s device in an attempt to install spyware.

It’s called “grokking,” and gives spammers a way to skirt X’s ban on links in promoted posts and reach larger audiences than ever before.

The consequences of this burnout are far-reaching, affecting productivity, incident response times, and employee retention.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical “by design” weakness in the Model Context Protocol’s (MCP) architecture that could pave the way for remote code execution and have a cascading effect on the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain. “This flaw enables Arbitrary Command Execution (RCE) on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, granting attackers direct…

The threat actor known as PlushDaemon has been observed using a previously undocumented Go-based network backdoor codenamed EdgeStepper to facilitate adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks. EdgeStepper “redirects all DNS queries to an external, malicious hijacking node, effectively rerouting the traffic from legitimate infrastructure used for software updates to attacker-controlled infrastructure

A couple-dozen changes to SBOM fields will make them more comprehensive, but some argue that the framework lacks real risk-management improvements.