News

Unit 42 researchers detail a campaign that aimed to instal an infostealer variant capable of taking over Facebook business accounts

Patients’ personal data was shared on the app for years

Outsourcer suffered major cyber incident several months ago

Its authors are actively and rapidly developing it

No zero-days, but some interesting patches with their very own “teachable moments”.

The Washington Post is reporting on a hack to fool automatic resume sorting programs: putting text in a white font. The idea is that the programs rely primarily on simple pattern matching, and the trick is to copy a list of relevant keywords—or the published job description—into the resume in a white font. The computer will process the text, but humans won’t see it.

Clever. I’m not sure it’s actually useful in getting a job, though. Eventually the humans will figure out that the applicant doesn’t actually have the required skills. But…maybe.

Cleafy said the malware exploits Accessibility services to conduct multiple malicious activities

The attackers established a channel for data exfiltration, including from air-gapped systems

The White House says that filling cyber job vacancies is a national security imperative

The initiative is designed to transform how cybersecurity is addressed in capability programs across the MoD