BlackMatter Ransomware Reportedly Shutting Down; Latest Analysis Released

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An analysis of new samples of BlackMatter ransomware for Windows and Linux has revealed the extent to which the operators have continually added new features and encryption capabilities in successive …

Facebook to Shut Down Facial Recognition System and Delete Billions of Records

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Facebook’s newly-rebranded parent company Meta on Tuesday announced plans to discontinue its decade-old “Face Recognition” system and delete a massive trove of more than a billion users’ facial recognition templates as part …

Alert! Hackers Exploiting GitLab Unauthenticated RCE Flaw in the Wild

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A now-patched critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in GitLab’s web interface has been detected as actively exploited in the wild, cybersecurity researchers warn, rendering a large number of internet-facing …

Critical Flaws Uncovered in Pentaho Business Analytics Software

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho Business Analytics software that could be abused by malicious actors to upload arbitrary data files and even execute arbitrary code on …

New ‘Trojan Source’ Technique Lets Hackers Hide Vulnerabilities in Source Code

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A novel class of vulnerabilities could be leveraged by threat actors to inject visually deceptive malware in a way that’s semantically permissible but alters the logic defined by the source …