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At 4:30 p.m. UTC, all within the same second, the compromised servers woke up and ran a command script that disabled a variety of security controls and sent malicious payloads to every system managed by those servers, according to an analysis conducted by Huntress Labs. While security firms are still sifting through the data, reverse engineering has revealed that the attack — from the first packets exploiting dozens of VSA servers, to the deployment of ransomware on the endpoints of hundreds to thousands of MSP customers — took less than two hours. The speed of automation gave managed ser...

The OSV schema aims to precisely describe vulnerabilities in a way tailored to the open source use case, "with the goal of automating and improving vulnerability triage for developers and users of open source software," Google stated in a blog post published on June 24. The project could allow various developer tools to natively handle vulnerability information and make it easier for users of open source components to know whether particular vulnerabilities affect their applications.  The aim is to reduce the effort required to document vulnerabilities in open source projects, to make the is...

Attackers and red teams find multiple ways to bypass poorly deployed MFA in enterprise environments, underscoring how redundancy and good design are ...

The new architecture could help interrupt the infinite cycle of vulnerability discovery and patching by making vulnerabilities less useful, says Todd Austin, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan and a leader of the Morpheus project. "The vast majority of work in the computer-science space is 'how do I find and how do I fix vulnerabilities?'" he says. "We are on the other side. Our technology recognizes that an exploit is different than a vulnerability, so we ask, 'what are the juicy bits that attackers want to get access to after they have f...

The Cyberspace Solarium Commission worked with legislators and the Trump administration to get 27 recommendations implemented in policy last year. It's ...