Author: HackWatchit
CrowdStrike is excited to announce a first-of-its-kind integration that embeds application insights within runtime detections, delivering unmatched visibility and protection for critical services. CrowdStrike Falcon® ASPM now delivers enriched data to support endpoint and container detections in Falcon Cloud Security. This new feature integrates ASPM findings into runtime detections to improve visibility into risk, business criticality, and dependencies through cross-domain telemetry. This enhances runtime detection context by connecting application-specific data to refine threat detection and remediation efforts. SOC teams face a lack of application-specific context in runtime detections, making it difficult to accurately assess the impact of threats and collaborate…
moth // Introduction One fateful night in June of 2022, Ethan sent a message to the crew: “Anyone know ways to fool Auditd on Linux? I’m trying to figure out how to change the auid (audit user id) field. This field remains the same even if you use su or sudo (there are other user id fields that track these changes).” Ethan also helpfully sent a reference link to describe what he was looking at. Now, do I know Auditd well enough to warrant looking into this myself? No. Am I a big enough fan of Linux (and a big enough fool) to throw my hat in the ring anyway? Most definitely. So, what was Ethan’s original goal…
Journey with us to Myanmar’s shadowy scam factories, where trafficked workers are forced to run romance-baiting and fake tech support scams, and find out why a company’s mandatory hold time for tech support could lead to innocent users having their computers compromised. All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault. Plus – don’t miss our featured interview with Acronis CISO Gerald Beuchelt! Warning: This podcast may contain nuts, adult themes, and rude language. Hosts: Graham Cluley: @grahamcluley.com @[email protected] Carole Theriault: @caroletheriault Episode links: Sponsored by:…
Introduction If you’ve ever analyzed data using built-in t-test functions, such as those in R or SciPy, here’s a question for you: have you ever adjusted the default setting for the alternative hypothesis? If your answer is no—or if you’re not even sure what this means—then this blog post is for you! The alternative hypothesis parameter, commonly referred to as “one-tailed” versus “two-tailed” in statistics, defines the expected direction of the difference between control and treatment groups. In a two-tailed test, we assess whether there is any difference in mean values between the groups, without specifying a direction. A one-tailed…
Broadcom Urges VMware Customers to Address Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Broadcom, a leading American semiconductor company and now the owner of VMware, has issued a critical alert to all virtualization software customers, urging them to take immediate action against discovered zero-day vulnerabilities affecting VMware’s Fusion, Workstation, and ESXi products. These security flaws have the potential to be exploited by cybercriminals, posing a significant risk to systems across the globe. The alert comes after Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) flagged the vulnerabilities, which could allow attackers to gain administrative privileges and exploit sensitive applications within VMware environments. This breach could potentially provide hackers…
Web scraping — the automated extraction of publicly available information from websites — has long been a standard method for gathering data at scale. Traditionally, businesses, researchers and developers have used it for purposes ranging from price comparison tools to market analysis. But with the rise of artificial intelligence, web scraping is no longer just about collecting raw data. AI transforms this data, embedding it into machine learning models that can generate insights, predict behaviors and even infer new information about individuals in ways that were never intended when the data was first made public.As AI-driven scraping becomes more sophisticated,…
The US Justice Department has charged Chinese state security officers along with APT27 and i-Soon hackers for network breaches and cyberattacks that have targeted victims globally since 2011. Their victim list includes US federal and state government agencies, foreign ministries of multiple governments in Asia, U.S.-based dissidents, as well as a prominent religious organization in the United States. “These malicious cyber actors, acting as freelancers or as employees of i-Soon, conducted computer intrusions at the direction of the PRC’s MPS and Ministry of State Security (MSS) and on their own initiative. The MPS and MSS paid handsomely for stolen data,”…
Chinese Lotus Blossom APT targets multiple sectors with Sagerunex backdoor Pierluigi Paganini March 06, 2025 China-linked Lotus Blossom APT targets governments and industries in Asian countries with new Sagerunex backdoor variants. Talos researchers linked China-backed Lotus Blossom APT (also known as Elise and Esile) to multiple campaigns targeting organizations in sectors such as government, manufacturing, telecommunications and media with the Sagerunex backdoor. The victims of the attacks are in the Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The cyber espionage group has been active since at least 2012 and has been using the Sagerunex backdoor since at least 2016. Talos observed…
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has revealed that he was not invited to the upcoming White House Crypto Summit on March 7.His exclusion has sparked discussions, especially since the blockchain network’s ADA token is included in US President Donald Trump’s proposed crypto reserve.No White House inviteIn a March 6 broadcast, Hoskinson revealed that he had not received an invitation to the highly anticipated crypto event.According to him:“We did not get an invitation on Monday. We did not get an invitation on Tuesday. We did not get an invitation today on Wednesday. So I’m going to operate under the assumption I have…