Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

A major credential leak spurred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen protections for its sensitive materials, improve how researchers can report agency vulnerabilities and develop plans for similar incidents, the agency said in a forensic report released Thursday. The blog post outlines CISA’s response to the leak that the researcher who discovered it […] The post CISA looks to remedy ailments from big May credential leak appeared first on CyberScoop.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise

Researchers follow in Nightmare Eclipse’s footsteps, flipping off Redmond in favor of insta-leaks

Security Researchers Fear Broader Legal Pressure on Bug DisclosuresMicrosoft is pursuing legal action after a researcher publicly released six Windows zero-days and exploit code following a breakdown in coordinated disclosure talks, escalating tensions over vulnerability disclosure, platform moderation and protections for independent security researchers.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security vulnerability in Ollama that, if successfully exploited, could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to leak its entire process memory

Leaked API keys are no longer unusual, nor are the breaches that follow. So why are sensitive tokens still being so easily exposed? To find out, Intruder’s research team looked at what traditional vulnerability scanners actually cover and built a new secrets detection method to address gaps in existing approaches.  Applying this at scale by scanning 5 million applications revealed over

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new set of vulnerabilities impacting OpenAI's ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot that could be exploited by an attacker to steal personal information from users' memories and chat histories without their knowledge

Thousands of MCP Servers Leave AI Apps Open to Attack SurfacesHundreds of Model Context Protocol servers designed to help AI tools access private data are insecurely exposed online, say BackSlash Security researchers. Weak configurations leave systems vulnerable to data leaks and remote code execution attacks.

A vulnerability allowed researchers to brute-force any Google account's recovery phone number simply by knowing a their profile name and an easily retrieved partial phone number, creating a massive risk for phishing and SIM-swapping attacks. [...]

Researchers at ETH Zürich have discovered yet another security flaw that they say impacts all modern Intel CPUs and causes them to leak sensitive data from memory, showing that the vulnerability known as Spectre continues to haunt computer systems after more than seven years

In what's an instance of hacking the hackers, threat hunters have managed to infiltrate the online infrastructure associated with a ransomware group called BlackLock, uncovering crucial information about their modus operandi in the process. Resecurity said it identified a security vulnerability in the data leak site (DLS) operated by the e-crime group that made it possible to extract

Actively Targeted Zero Day Patched; Warning Issued After Device Configurations LeakFortinet has released patches to fix a zero-day vulnerability being actively exploited by attackers. Separately, researchers are warning customers to review their infrastructure after attackers leaked configuration details - including firewall rules and plaintext VPN passwords - for 15,000 devices.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered severe cryptographic issues in various end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) cloud storage platforms that could be exploited to leak sensitive data

Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors

New cybersecurity research has found that command-line interface (CLI) tools from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud can expose sensitive credentials in build logs, posing significant risks to organizations

Cybersecurity researchers are warning that threat actors are actively exploiting a "disputed" and unpatched vulnerability in an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform called Anyscale Ray to hijack computing power for illicit cryptocurrency mining

A group of researchers has discovered a new data leakage attack impacting modern CPU architectures supporting speculative execution

A now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords when opening a specially crafted file

LeftoverLocals Affects Apple, AMD and Qualcomm DevicesResearchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in graphic processing units of popular devices that could allow attackers to access data from large language models. They dubbed the vulnerability LeftoverLocals and said it affects the GPU frameworks of Apple, AMD and Qualcomm devices.

LeftoverLocals Affects Apple, AMD and Qualcomm DevicesResearchers uncovered a critical vulnerability in graphic processing units of popular devices that could allow attackers to access data from large language models. They dubbed the vulnerability LeftoverLocals and said it affects the GPU frameworks of Apple, AMD and Qualcomm devices.