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OpenSSH has released version 10.6p2 to fix a critical flaw that lets attackers bypass login checks on some Alpine Linux servers by submitting a very long password.
The latest stories from the sources above, newest first. Each opens our brief, with a link to the original reporting.
Dark Reading editors discussed an ill-conceived phishing simulation linked to the Knicks and a hacktivist attack on a US government agency in a recent video conversation.
US agencies have warned of an ongoing cyber threat to internet-accessible industrial refrigeration controllers, following several waves of attacks on commercial freezers in the US and Europe.
US bank regulators contacted lenders to check for weaknesses after the reported US$6.3 billion Binance hack, amid concern that crypto attacks could spill into traditional finance.
Security experts warn that several White House staffers use devices running residential proxy services, one linked to a Russian company whose founder's hosting business was central to 2016 election system attacks.
Google and its partners have disrupted the XCPE botnet, which Google alleges was run by Android device maker Videostrong using backdoored set-top boxes and IoT devices.
The US Treasury Department has sanctioned four people and 41 companies tied to Prince Group, a Cambodian company accused of running a billion-dollar scam operation, to disrupt the shell companies used to launder its proceeds.
The Russian state-sponsored group APT29 is using compromised websites to identify mobile visitors and collect information from those it finds interesting.
A senior US Air Force cyber official argued that digital forensics, security planning and more realistic exercises are needed to respond to cyber incidents as they happen.
A Cisco Talos researcher reports from the it-sa expo in Nuremberg, noting strong interest in AI, regulation and compliance, and a notable gap in vocational cyber training in Germany.
Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has confirmed that attackers who broke into its systems in October also obtained password hashes and live tokens, worsening the picture of the incident.
SecurityDataPipeline.com has launched as a free educational site covering how security data pipelines can lower SIEM ingestion costs while keeping detection coverage.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports a sharp September rise in phishing emails, with attackers changing techniques and taking advantage of overly broad security exceptions.
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