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Hackers are actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in the popular Elementor Pro WordPress plugin to install backdoors on sites. Elementor Pro is a WordPress page builder plugin allowing users to easily build professional-looking sites without knowing how to code, featuring drag and drop, theme building, a template collection, custom widget support, and a WooCommerce builder for online shops. This vulnerability was discovered by NinTechNet researcher Jerome Bruandet on March 18, 2023, who shared technical details this week about how the bug can be exploited when installed alongside WooCommerce. The issue, which impacts v3.11.6 and all versions before it, allows authenticated users, like…

The busy summer travel season has already begun, so you might want to prepare for rounds of flight delays, crowds, and the potential for lost luggage. Luckily, you can prepare for the chaos ahead of time with today’s Walmart deal on a pack of Apple AirTags. The retailer is selling four AirTags for $79.99 ($20 off), which is just $5 shy of the all-time low set during Black Friday. Be aware that when this deal has come around in the past, it’s been quite fleeting, so try not to sit on the fence deciding for too long.An AirTag is an…

Tether, the company renowned for powering the world’s foremost stablecoin, announced today its ambitious venture into energy production and sustainable Bitcoin mining in Uruguay. The company is expanding its portfolio to include the energy sector, signaling its firm commitment towards energy innovation and the future of cryptocurrency. This initiative will be implemented in collaboration with a local licensed company in Uruguay. This strategic decision underpins Tether’s aspiration to be a global tech leader, extending its influence beyond the realms of finance and communication. In light of this announcement, Tether is recruiting experts in the energy sector to bolster its team.…

Republican leaders and the White House have secured the backing of crucial mainstream lawmakers for their deal to avert a damaging default on US debt, raising confidence that the pact can be swiftly approved by Congress.Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and president Joe Biden have little room for error to ensure passage of the bipartisan pact they agreed to late on Saturday after days of heated negotiations.The deal immediately triggered a backlash from rightwing conservatives. Chip Roy of Texas called it a “turd sandwich”, Ralph Norman of South Carolina said it was “insane”, and Dan Bishop of North Carolina described…

The United States and international cybersecurity authorities are issuing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) to highlight a recently discovered cluster of activity of interest associated with a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor, also known as Volt Typhoon. Private sector partners have identified that this activity affects networks across U.S. critical infrastructure sectors, and the authoring agencies believe the actor could apply the same techniques against these and other sectors worldwide. This advisory from the United States National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Australian…

Over the past decades, cyber attackers have become increasingly skilled at compromising systems and circumventing security measures. As a result, detecting and accurately identifying malware is a pressing challenge for many businesses and individuals worldwide. Cyber-security experts have recently been exploring the potential of machine learning techniques for classifying malware and determining what actions should be taken to eradicate it. While some of these techniques achieved promising results, studies showed that many of them can be fooled or fail to accurately identify malware that they never encountered before. In the hope of identifying more reliable methods to classify malware, researchers…

SuperMailer, a legitimate email newsletter program, has been found abused by threat actors to conduct a high-volume credential harvesting campaign, according to network security firm Cofense.“The SuperMailer-generated emails have been reaching inboxes at an increasingly remarkable volume,” Brah Haas, cyberthreat intelligence analyst at Cofense, said in a blog post. “Emails containing the unique SuperMailer string barely registered in January and February, but in the first half of May they accounted for over 5% of credential phishing emails.”The unique SuperMailer string refers to a coding mistake included by the threat actors when crafting email templates in SuperMailer. Cofense was also able…

Over 15 million publicly facing services are susceptible to at least one of the 896 vulnerabilities listed in CISA’s KEV (known exploitable vulnerabilities) catalog. This massive number is reported by cybersecurity company Rezilion, which conducted large-scale research to identify vulnerable systems exposed to cyberattacks from threat actors, whether state-sponsored or ransomware gangs. Rezilion’s findings are particularly worrying because the examined vulnerabilities are known and highlighted in CISA’s KEV catalog as actively exploited by hackers, so any delays in their patching maintain a large attack surface, giving threat actors numerous potential targets. Exposed to attacks Rezilion used the Shodan web scanning…

If you’ve been waiting for a substantial discount on the beefy last-gen 16-inch MacBook Pro since the new one dropped earlier this year, B&H Photo is certainly delivering one today. Until 11:59PM ET (or 8:59PM PT) today, you can buy the 16-inch MacBook Pro with an M1 Pro chip, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage for $1,899 ($800 off) from B&H Photo. If you don’t mind buying it refurbished, you can also buy it from Woot with a one-year warranty as a part of its refurbished MacBook sale for $1,659.99 until the end of May 26th.There may be a…

Salman Rushdie is working on a book about the attack that robbed him of his right eye, he said in one of his first public appearances since he was repeatedly stabbed onstage at a literary festival in upstate New York last year.Speaking at the FT Weekend Festival in Washington on Saturday, the novelist, 75, said he was still “a little beaten up” but “basically fine”, nearly one year after the attempt on his life. Wearing glasses with a darkened right lens, Rushdie appeared at the event via video link.“I am not reading as fast as I used to but . . . I am…