OpenAI now pays researchers $100,000 for critical vulnerabilities

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI has announced a fivefold increase in the maximum bug bounty rewards for “exceptional and differentiated” critical security vulnerabilities from $20,000 to $100,000. OpenAI says its services and platforms are used by 400 million users across businesses, enterprises, and governments worldwide every week. “We are significantly increasing the maximum bounty payout for […]

Phishing-as-a-service operation uses DNS-over-HTTPS for evasion

A newly discovered phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) operation that researchers call Morphing Meerkat, has been using the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol to evade detection. The platform also leverages DNS email exchange (MX) records to identify victims’ email providers and to dynamically serve spoofed login pages for more than 114 brands. Morphing Meerkat has been active since at […]

New Ubuntu Linux security bypasses require manual mitigations

Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. The issues allow local unprivileged users to create user namespaces with full administrative capabilities and impact Ubuntu versions 23.10, where unprivileged user namespaces restrictions are enabled, and 24.04 which has […]

Oracle Health breach compromises patient data at US hospitals

A breach at Oracle Health impacts multiple US healthcare organizations and hospitals after a threat actor stole patient data from legacy servers. Oracle Health has not yet publicly disclosed the incident, but in private communications sent to impacted customers and from conversations with those involved, BleepingComputer confirmed that patient data was stolen in the attack. Oracle […]

Infostealer campaign compromises 10 npm packages, targets devs

Ten npm packages were suddenly updated with malicious code yesterday to steal environment variables and other sensitive data from developers’ systems. The campaign targeted multiple cryptocurrency-related packages, and the popular ‘country-currency-map’ package was downloaded thousands of times a week. The malicious code was discovered by Sonatype researcher Ali ElShakankiry and is found in two heavily obfuscated […]

Chinese FamousSparrow hackers deploy upgraded malware in attacks

A China-linked cyberespionage group known as ‘FamousSparrow’ was observed using a new modular version of its signature backdoor ‘SparrowDoor’ against a US-based trade organization. The activity and new malware version were observed by security researchers at ESET, who found evidence the threat actor has been more active than initially thought since its last operations were exposed in […]

Windows 11 KB5053656 update released with 38 changes and fixes

​​Microsoft has released the KB5053656 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 with 38 changes, including real-time translation on AMD and Intel-powered Copilot+ PCs and fixes for authentication and blue-screen issues. The KB5053656 update is part of the company’s “optional non-security preview updates” schedule, which pushes updates at the end of each month to let Windows admins test […]