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SMS Impersonation Scam Victims Must Be Made Whole
Singapore regulators gave banks six months to institute real-time detection tools for blocking impersonation scams or else assume liability for stolen funds. A finalized framework published Thursday also shifts liability onto island-nation telecoms unless they block fraudulent SMS messages

Top Tier Capital, HarbourVest Support Concentric's Path to Autonomous Data Security
Supported by Top Tier Capital Partners and HarbourVest Partners, Concentric AI’s $45 million Series B funding round will drive product innovation in identity governance, risk monitoring and data breach investigation - critical areas for enterprises seeking resilient data security solutions.

How Might Election Outcome Affect HHS' Healthcare Cyber Work?
Regardless of who wins the upcoming Presidential election, one thing is apparent: As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged with enforcing HIPAA are racing to complete unfinished work they deem as critically important to healthcare sector cyber.

Rust-Based Ransomware Employs Aggressive Anti-Detection Tactics
Operators of a Russian-speaking ransomware group launched a new encryptor with enhanced measures for defeating cyber defenders including wiping logs, disrupting backup systems and stopping decryption without insiders knowledge. The same group disrupted London hospitals in a July attack.

Name: Hack Havoc 2.0 (an Hack Havoc event.)
Date: Oct. 4, 2024, 1:59 p.m. — 25 Oct. 2024, 13:59 UTC  [add to calendar]
Format: Jeopardy
On-line
Offical URL: https://ctf.cybermaterial.com/
Rating weight: 0
Event organizers: Hack Havoc

Name: EngimaXplore2.0 2024 (an EnigmaXplore event.)
Date: Oct. 24, 2024, 12:29 p.m. — 25 Oct. 2024, 12:30 UTC  [add to calendar]
Format: Jeopardy
On-line
Offical URL: https://enigmaxplore.ctfd.io/
Rating weight: 24.58
Event organizers: Crispr_iiitn

The BlackBasta ransomware operation has moved its social engineering attacks to Microsoft Teams, posing as corporate help desks contacting employees to assist them with an ongoing spam attack. [...]

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.43/6.10.2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function udf_rename. The manipulation of the argument name leads to uninitialized pointer. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-43845. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.43/6.10.2. This affects an unknown part of the component Fragmented Packet Handler. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-43847. The attack needs to be done within the local network. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function xenvif_flush_hash of the component xen-netback. The manipulation leads to use after free. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-49936. Access to the local network is required for this attack. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.6.54/6.10.13/6.11.2. Affected is the function stop_kthread of the component timerlat. The manipulation leads to deadlock. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-49976. The attack needs to be done within the local network. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.10.13/6.11.2. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function xe_migrate_copy. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-49942. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.2. This issue affects the function cm3_helper_translate_curve_to_hw_format of the component AMD Display. The manipulation leads to buffer overflow. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-49969. The attack needs to be done within the local network. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 6.11.2 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is the function gpiod_get_label. The manipulation leads to null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-49941. The attack needs to be approached within the local network. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Kremlin intelligence carried out a wide-scale phishing campaign in contrast to its usual, more targeted operations.