An attacker exploited a previously unknown and unpatched Cisco vulnerability earlier this year to infiltrate a communications service provider and gain the highest level of access possible, Mandiant said Wednesday. Cisco has since patched the flaw, one of seven actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities this year in its SD-WAN (software-defined wide area network) software used to...Read More

The rapid rise of advanced artificial intelligence models capable of identifying software vulnerabilities at unprecedented speed is creating one of the biggest opportunities the cybersecurity industry has seen in years, according to Zscaler founder and chief executive Jay Chaudhry. “There has never been a time in cyber where there’s more need for cybersecurity than we...Read More

The backdoor itself reaches out to a command-and-control (C2) server and can execute code delivered from it directly in memory, without saving any file on disk. Other features include the ability to write, delete, and move files on the victim machine and to download and upload files to the C2 server. The researchers have also...Read More

The four-month initiative will select and train 15 members of Parents’ Councils from Sharjah City and the Central and Eastern regions through a structured programme focused on child safety and protection. Sharjah: The Child Safety Organisation (CSO) has launched the Ahl Al Athar initiative under the slogan Awareness Creates Impact, a programme designed to equip...Read More