IT Security Weekend Catch Up – December 2, 2023

Afraid of missing important security news during the week? We’re here to help! Every week we put together a curated list of all important security news in one place, for your reading pleasure. Enjoy!

For the less technical

  1. Nuclear safeguards – PAL and protection of nuclear warheads
  2. Google researchers’ attack prompts ChatGPT to reveal its training data
  3. France: Officials to ditch popular messaging services, urged to switch to French tech
  4. Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs
  5. Okta: Breach affected all customer support users
  6. Japan’s space agency hit by cyberattack
  7. Spyware in Serbia: civil society under attack
  8. Treasury sanctions mixer used by the DPRK to launder stolen virtual currency
  9. Hackers spent 2+ years looting secrets of chipmaker NXP before being detected
  10. Founder of spyware maker Hacking Team arrested for attempted murder
  11. TrickBot malware dev pleads guilty, faces 35 years in prison
  12. US sanctions North Korean ‘Kimsuky’ hackers after surveillance satellite launch

For the more technical

  1. The ticking supply chain attack bomb of exposed Kubernetes secrets
  2. The far-reaching consequences of LogoFAIL
  3. About the security content of iOS 17.1.2 and iPadOS 17.1.2
  4. VMware fixes critical Cloud Director auth bypass unpatched for 2 weeks
  5. Zyxel warns of multiple critical vulnerabilities in NAS devices
  6. Update now! Chrome fixes actively exploited zero-day vulnerability
  7. Qlik Sense exploited in Cactus ransomware campaign
  8. GoTitan botnet – Ongoing exploitation on Apache ActiveMQ
  9. Exploitation of Unitronics PLCs used in water and wastewater systems
  10. NCSC announces new standard for indicators of compromise
  11. CVE-2023-49103: ownCloud critical vulnerability quickly exploited in the wild
  12. IT threat evolution in Q3 2023. Mobile & non-mobile statistics
  13. A new type of Android banking malware, “FjordPhantom”
  14. Black Basta ransomware has extracted over $100 million from its victims
  15. Emerging MaaS operator Sordeal releases Nova infostealer
  16. Hellhounds: operation Lahat
  17. New SugarGh0st RAT targets Uzbekistan government and South Korea
  18. New tool set found used against organizations in the Middle East, Africa and the US

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