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Stealthy Malware Leverages MQTT Protocol in Spam Campaigns

Researchers observed thousands of spam emails delivering the WailingCrab malware that were sent to targets in North and South America, Europe and Asia.

Spam, Malware

Decipher Podcast: What We’re Thankful For

Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch talk about some of things in the security community they're thankful for, and a couple of things they're not.

Podcast

CISA Warns of Widespread Exploitation of Citrix Bleed Flaw

Citrix is urging impacted customers to update, but also recommends that they remove any active or persistent sessions and look for patterns of suspicious session use.

Citrix, Citrix Netscaler

Morgan Stanley Fined $6.5M, Must Take Security Measures

The fine stems from two previously known Morgan Stanley data security incidents.

Morgan Stanley, Bank Security

Four Threat Groups Targeted Zimbra Collaboration Flaw

Google's Threat Analysis Group has identified four separate campaigns targeting the Zimbra Collaboration vulnerability (CVE-2023-37580) in recent months.

Zimbra, Google

Memory Safe: Merritt Baer

Merritt Baer, field CISO at Lacework and former member of the AWS office of the CISO, joins Lindsey O'Donnel-Welch in this week's Memory Safe episode to discuss her career arc, finding a true seat at the table as a security executive, and security as a business enabler.

Podcast, CISO

EU Parliament Committee Rejects Mass Scanning of Encrypted Messages

A key European Union Parliament committee has rejected proposed language that would allow for mass scanning of encrypted messages.

Encryption, Government

Microsoft Patches Three Zero Days in November Update

Microsoft released patches for 57 vulnerabilities in November's Patch Tuesday update, including three flaws that have been actively exploited.

Microsoft

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 11/9

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources.

Source Code

Lace Tempest Seen Exploiting SysAid Zero Day

A path traversal zero day (CVE-2023-47246) in the SysAid on-premises product is under active attack by the ace Tempest threat group.

Vulnerability, Ransomware

CISOs, Developers and the Software Supply Chain Security Disconnect

A new report revealed discrepancies in how CISOs and developers view their roles and responsibilities around software supply chain security.

Supply Chain Security

Decipher Podcast: Kymberlee Price

Kymberlee Price, co-founder of Zatik, joins Dennis Fisher to talk about her experience running security response programs at Microsoft, BlackBerry, and other companies, and how the changing security landscape helped lead her to start her own company.

Podcast

New Gootloader Malware Variant Harder to Detect, Block

Researchers with IBM X-Force recently observed the new Gootloader variant being used for lateral movement, marking a significant change in the malware’s post-infection tactics.

Malware, Detection and Response, MDR

Exploit Attempts, Ransomware Target Critical Confluence Flaw

Attackers are targeting the critical Atlassian Confluence flaw (CVE-2023-22518) with active exploit attempts, including some trying to deploy ransomware.

Atlassian

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 11/3

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources.

Source Code