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2021-10-13 05:52:17 | [eBook] The Guide for Reducing SaaS Applications Risk for Lean IT Security Teams (lien direct) | The Software-as-a-service (SaaS) industry has gone from novelty to an integral part of today's business world in just a few years. While the benefits to most organizations are clear – more efficiency, greater productivity, and accessibility – the risks that the SaaS model poses are starting to become visible. It's not an overstatement to say that most companies today run on SaaS. This poses an |
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2021-10-12 22:49:10 | Update Your Windows PCs Immediately to Patch 4 New 0-Days Under Active Attack (lien direct) | Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out security patches to contain a total of 71 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and other software, including a fix for an actively exploited privilege escalation vulnerability that could be exploited in conjunction with remote code execution bugs to take control over vulnerable systems.
Two of the addressed security flaws are rated Critical, 68 are rated Important |
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2021-10-12 08:18:15 | Digital Signature Spoofing Flaws Uncovered in OpenOffice and LibreOffice (lien direct) | The maintainers of LibreOffice and OpenOffice have shipped security updates to their productivity software to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that could be weaponized by malicious actors to alter documents to make them appear as if they are digitally signed by a trusted source.
The list of the three flaws is as follows -
CVE-2021-41830 / CVE-2021-25633 - Content and Macro Manipulation with |
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2021-10-12 00:57:12 | GitHub Revoked Insecure SSH Keys Generated by a Popular git Client (lien direct) | Code hosting platform GitHub has revoked weak SSH authentication keys that were generated via the GitKraken git GUI client due to a vulnerability in a third-party library that increased the likelihood of duplicated SSH keys.
As an added precautionary measure, the Microsoft-owned company also said it's building safeguards to prevent vulnerable versions of GitKraken from adding newly generated |
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2021-10-12 00:16:09 | Microsoft Fended Off a Record 2.4 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Azure Customers (lien direct) | Microsoft on Monday revealed that its Azure cloud platform mitigated a 2.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in the last week of August targeting an unnamed customer in Europe, surpassing a 2.3 Tbps attack stopped by Amazon Web Services in February 2020.
"This is 140 percent higher than 2020's 1 Tbps attack and higher than any network volumetric event previously detected on Azure, |
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2021-10-11 23:32:49 | Microsoft Warns of Iran-Linked Hackers Targeting US and Israeli Defense Firms (lien direct) | An emerging threat actor likely supporting Iranian national interests has been behind a password spraying campaign targeting US, EU, and Israeli defense technology companies, with additional activity observed against regional ports of entry in the Persian Gulf as well as maritime and cargo transportation companies focused in the Middle East.
Microsoft is tracking the hacking crew under the |
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2021-10-11 20:02:40 | Ukraine Arrests Operator of DDoS Botnet with 100,000 Compromised Devices (lien direct) | Ukrainian law enforcement authorities on Monday disclosed the arrest of a hacker responsible for the creation and management of a "powerful botnet" consisting of over 100,000 enslaved devices that was used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and spam attacks on behalf of paid customers.
The unnamed individual, from the Ivano-Frankivsk region of the country, is also said to have |
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2021-10-11 19:41:34 | Apple Releases Urgent iPhone and iPad Updates to Patch New Zero-Day Vulnerability (lien direct) | Apple on Monday released a security update for iOS and iPad to address a critical vulnerability that it says is being exploited in the wild, making it the 17th zero-day flaw the company has addressed in its products since the start of the year.'
The weakness, assigned the identifier CVE-2021-30883, concerns a memory corruption issue in the "IOMobileFrameBuffer" component that could allow an |
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2021-10-11 07:20:37 | Verify End-Users at the Helpdesk to Prevent Social Engineering Cyber Attack (lien direct) | Although organizations commonly go to great lengths to address security vulnerabilities that may exist within their IT infrastructure, an organization's helpdesk might pose a bigger threat due to social engineering attacks.
Social engineering is "the art of manipulating people so they give up confidential information," according to Webroot. There are many different types of social engineering |
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2021-10-11 02:21:02 | Indian-Made Mobile Spyware Targeted Human Rights Activist in Togo (lien direct) | A prominent Togolese human rights defender has been targeted with spyware by a threat actor known for striking victims in South Asia, marking the hacking group's first foray into digital surveillance in Africa.
Amnesty International tied the covert attack campaign to a collective tracked as "Donot Team" (aka APT-C-35), which has been linked to cyber offensives in India and Pakistan, while also |
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2021-10-08 06:41:27 | Ransomware Group FIN12 Aggressively Going After Healthcare Targets (lien direct) | An "aggressive" financially motivated threat actor has been identified as linked to a string of RYUK ransomware attacks since October 2018, while maintaining close partnerships with TrickBot-affiliated threat actors and using a publicly available arsenal of tools such as Cobalt Strike Beacon payloads to interact with victim networks.
Cybersecurity firm Mandiant attributed the intrusions to a |
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2021-10-08 00:25:34 | Researchers Warn of FontOnLake Rootkit Malware Targeting Linux Systems (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new campaign that likely targets entities in Southeast Asia with a previously unrecognized Linux malware that's engineered to enable remote access to its operators, in addition to amassing credentials and function as a proxy server.
The malware family, dubbed "FontOnLake" by Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET, is said to feature "well-designed modules" that |
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2021-10-07 21:47:57 | New Patch Released for Actively Exploited 0-Day Apache Path Traversal to RCE Attacks (lien direct) | The Apache Software Foundation on Thursday released additional security updates for its HTTP Server product to remediate what it says is an "incomplete fix" for an actively exploited path traversal and remote code execution flaw that it patched earlier this week.
CVE-2021-42013, as the new vulnerability is identified as, builds upon CVE-2021-41773, a flaw that impacted Apache web servers running |
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2021-10-07 04:50:04 | Code Execution Bug Affects Yamale Python Package - Used by Over 200 Projects (lien direct) | A high-severity code injection vulnerability has been disclosed in 23andMe's Yamale, a schema and validator for YAML, that could be trivially exploited by adversaries to execute arbitrary Python code.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-38305 (CVSS score: 7.8), involves manipulating the schema file provided as input to the tool to circumvent protections and achieve code execution. Particularly, the |
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2021-10-07 03:41:30 | Penetration Testing Your AWS Environment - A CTO\'s Guide (lien direct) | So, you've been thinking about getting a Penetration Test done on your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment. Great! What should that involve exactly?
There are many options available, and knowing what you need will help you make your often limited security budget go as far as possible. Broadly, the key focus areas for most penetration tests involving AWS:
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2021-10-07 02:47:19 | New U.S. Government Initiative Holds Contractors Accountable for Cybersecurity (lien direct) | The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that aims to hold contractors accountable for failing to meet required cybersecurity requirements in order to safeguard public sector information and infrastructure.
"For too long, companies have chosen silence under the mistaken belief that it is less risky to hide a breach than to bring it forward |
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2021-10-07 01:32:24 | Apple now requires all apps to make it easy for users to delete their accounts (lien direct) | All third-party iOS, iPadOS, and macOS apps that allow users to create an account should also provide a method for terminating their accounts from within the apps beginning next year, Apple said on Wednesday.
"This requirement applies to all app submissions starting January 31, 2022," the iPhone maker said, urging developers to "review any laws that may require you to maintain certain types of |
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2021-10-06 23:54:03 | Twitch Suffers Massive 125GB Data and Source Code Leak Due to Server Misconfiguration (lien direct) | Interactive livestreaming platform Twitch acknowledged a "breach" after an anonymous poster on the 4chan messaging board leaked its source code, an unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios, details of creator payouts, proprietary software development kits, and other internal tools.
The Amazon-owned service said it's "working with urgency to understand the extent of this," adding the |
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2021-10-06 23:30:12 | Cyber Security WEBINAR - How to Ace Your InfoSec Board Deck (lien direct) | Communication is a vital skill for any leader at an organization, regardless of seniority. For security leaders, this goes double. Communicating clearly works on multiple levels. On the one hand, security leaders and CISOs must be able to communicate strategies clearly – instructions, incident response plans, and security policies. On the other, they must be able to communicate the importance of |
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2021-10-06 05:31:33 | Iranian Hackers Abuse Dropbox in Cyberattacks Against Aerospace and Telecom Firms (lien direct) | Details have emerged about a new cyber espionage campaign directed against the aerospace and telecommunications industries, primarily in the Middle East, with the goal of stealing sensitive information about critical assets, organizations' infrastructure, and technology while remaining in the dark and successfully evading security solutions.
Boston-based cybersecurity company Cybereason dubbed |
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2021-10-06 02:05:06 | Google to turn on 2-factor authentication by default for 150 million users (lien direct) | Google has announced plans to automatically enroll about 150 million users into its two-factor authentication scheme by the end of the year as part of its ongoing efforts to prevent unauthorized access to accounts and improve security.
In addition, the internet giant said it also intends to require 2 million YouTube creators to switch on the setting, which it calls two-step verification (2SV), |
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2021-10-06 00:17:39 | Multiple Critical Flaws Discovered in Honeywell Experion PKS and ACE Controllers (lien direct) | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday released an advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Honeywell Experion Process Knowledge System C200, C200E, C300, and ACE controllers that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) conditions.
"A Control Component Library (CCL) may be modified |
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2021-10-05 09:58:29 | Researchers Discover UEFI Bootkit Targeting Windows Computers Since 2012 (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday revealed details of a previously undocumented UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit that has been put to use by threat actors to backdoor Windows systems as early as 2012 by modifying a legitimate Windows Boot Manager binary to achieve persistence, once again demonstrating how technology meant to secure the environment prior to loading the |
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2021-10-05 07:53:29 | Apache Warns of Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild - Patch You Web Servers Now! (lien direct) | Apache has issued patches to address two security vulnerabilities, including a path traversal and file disclosure flaw in its HTTP server that it said is being actively exploited in the wild.
"A flaw was found in a change made to path normalization in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.49. An attacker could use a path traversal attack to map URLs to files outside the expected document root," the open-source |
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2021-10-05 06:16:08 | New Study Links Seemingly Disparate Malware Attacks to Chinese Hackers (lien direct) | Chinese cyber espionage group APT41 has been linked to seemingly disparate malware campaigns, according to fresh research that has mapped together additional parts of the group's network infrastructure to hit upon a state-sponsored campaign that takes advantage of COVID-themed phishing lures to target victims in India.
"The image we uncovered was that of a state-sponsored campaign that plays on |
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2021-10-05 00:36:08 | Ransomware Hackers Who Attacked Over 100 Companies Arrested in Ukraine (lien direct) | Law enforcement agencies have announced the arrest of two "prolific ransomware operators" in Ukraine who allegedly conducted a string of targeted attacks against large industrial entities in Europe and North America since at least April 2020, marking the latest step in combating ransomware incidents.
The joint exercise was undertaken on September 28 by officials from the French National |
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2021-10-04 07:29:11 | Creating Wireless Signals with Ethernet Cable to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Systems (lien direct) | A newly discovered data exfiltration mechanism employs Ethernet cables as a "transmitting antenna" to stealthily siphon highly-sensitive data from air-gapped systems, according to the latest research.
"It's interesting that the wires that came to protect the air-gap become the vulnerability of the air gap in this attack," Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of R&D in the Cyber Security Research Center |
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2021-10-04 07:00:00 | Poorly Configured Apache Airflow Instances Leak Credentials for Popular Services (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers on Monday discovered misconfigurations across older versions of Apache Airflow instances belonging to a number of high-profile companies across various sectors, resulting in the exposure of sensitive credentials for popular platforms and services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Binance, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), PayPal, Slack, and Stripe.
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2021-10-04 05:48:16 | A New APT Hacking Group Targeting Fuel, Energy, and Aviation Industries (lien direct) | A previously undocumented threat actor has been identified as behind a string of attacks targeting fuel, energy, and aviation production industries in Russia, the U.S., India, Nepal, Taiwan, and Japan with the goal of stealing data from compromised networks.
Cybersecurity company Positive Technologies dubbed the advanced persistent threat (APT) group ChamelGang - referring to their |
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2021-10-04 05:48:04 | The Shortfalls of Mean Time Metrics in Cybersecurity (lien direct) | Security teams at mid-sized organizations are constantly faced with the question of "what does success look like?". At ActZero, their continued data-driven approach to cybersecurity invites them to grapple daily with measuring, evaluating, and validating the work they do on behalf of their customers.
Like most, they initially turned toward the standard metrics used in cybersecurity, built |
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2021-10-01 07:15:24 | Apple Pay Can be Abused to Make Contactless Payments From Locked iPhones (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed an unpatched flaw in Apple Pay that attackers could abuse to make an unauthorized Visa payment with a locked iPhone by taking advantage of the Express Travel mode set up in the device's wallet.
"An attacker only needs a stolen, powered on iPhone. The transactions could also be relayed from an iPhone inside someone's bag, without their knowledge," a group |
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2021-10-01 05:25:31 | Chinese Hackers Used a New Rootkit to Spy on Targeted Windows 10 Users (lien direct) | A formerly unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to a long-standing evasive operation aimed at South East Asian targets as far back as July 2020 to deploy a kernel-mode rootkit on compromised Windows systems.
Attacks mounted by the hacking group, dubbed GhostEmperor by Kaspersky, are also said to have used a "sophisticated multi-stage malware framework" that allows for providing |
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2021-10-01 00:21:43 | Beware of Fake Amnesty International Antivirus for Pegasus that Hacks PCs with Malware (lien direct) | In yet another indicator of how hacking groups are quick to capitalize on world events and improvise their attack campaigns for maximum impact, threat actors have been discovered impersonating Amnesty International to distribute malware that purports to be security software designed to safeguard against NSO Group's Pegasus surveillanceware.
"Adversaries have set up a phony website that looks |
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2021-09-30 20:55:27 | Update Google Chrome ASAP to Patch 2 New Actively Exploited Zero-Day Flaws (lien direct) | Google on Thursday pushed urgent security fixes for its Chrome browser, including a pair of new security weaknesses that the company said are being exploited in the wild, making them the fourth and fifth actively zero-days plugged this month alone.
The issues, designated as CVE-2021-37975 and CVE-2021-37976, are part of a total of four patches, and concern a use-after-free flaw in V8 JavaScript |
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2021-09-30 06:49:19 | New Azure AD Bug Lets Hackers Brute-Force Passwords Without Getting Caught (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed an unpatched security vulnerability in the protocol used by Microsoft Azure Active Directory that potential adversaries could abuse to stage undetected brute-force attacks.
"This flaw allows threat actors to perform single-factor brute-force attacks against Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) without generating sign-in events in the targeted organization's |
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2021-09-30 06:32:43 | Incentivizing Developers is the Key to Better Security Practices (lien direct) | Professional developers want to embrace DevSecOps and write secure code, but their organizations need to support this seachange if they want that effort to grow.
The cyber threat landscape is becoming more complex by the day. Attackers are constantly scanning networks for vulnerable applications, programs, cloud instances, and the latest flavor of the month is APIs, widely considered an easy win |
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2021-09-30 02:09:19 | ImmuniWeb Launches Free Cloud Security Test to Detect Unprotected Storage (lien direct) | The IDC cloud security survey 2021 states that as many as 98% of companies were victims of a cloud data breach within the past 18 months.
Fostered by the pandemic, small and large organizations from all over the world are migrating their data and infrastructure into a public cloud, while often underestimating novel and cloud-specific security or privacy issues.
Nearly every morning, the |
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2021-09-30 00:40:22 | (Déjà vu) New Tomiris Backdoor Found Linked to Hackers Behind SolarWinds Cyberattack (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday disclosed a previously undocumented backdoor likely designed and developed by the Nobelium advanced persistent threat (APT) behind last year's SolarWinds supply chain attack, joining the threat actor's ever-expanding arsenal of hacking tools.
Moscow-headquartered firm Kaspersky codenamed the malware "Tomiris," calling out its similarities to another |
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2021-09-30 00:00:33 | Cybersecurity Firm Group-IB\'s CEO Arrested Over Treason Charges in Russia (lien direct) | Russian authorities on Wednesday arrested and detained Ilya Sachkov, the founder of cybersecurity firm Group-IB, for two months in Moscow on charges of state treason following a search of its office on September 28.
The Russian company, which is headquartered in Singapore, confirmed the development but noted the "reason for the search was not yet clear," adding "The decentralized infrastructure |
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2021-09-29 10:59:29 | Facebook Releases New Tool That Finds Security and Privacy Bugs in Android Apps (lien direct) | Facebook on Wednesday announced it's open-sourcing Mariana Trench, an Android-focused static analysis platform the company uses to detect and prevent security and privacy bugs in applications created for the mobile operating system at scale.
"[Mariana Trench] is designed to be able to scan large mobile codebases and flag potential issues on pull requests before they make it into production," the |
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2021-09-29 06:01:11 | Beware! This Android Trojan Stole Millions of Dollars from Over 10 Million Users (lien direct) | A newly discovered "aggressive" mobile campaign has infected north of 10 million users from over 70 countries via seemingly innocuous Android apps that subscribe the individuals to premium services costing €36 (~$42) per month without their knowledge.
Zimperium zLabs dubbed the malicious trojan "GriftHorse." The money-making scheme is believed to have been under active development starting from |
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2021-09-29 05:17:37 | [eBook] Your First 90 Days as CISO - 9 Steps to Success (lien direct) | Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) are an essential pillar of an organization's defense, and they must account for a lot. Especially for new CISOs, this can be a daunting task. The first 90 days for a new CISO are crucial in setting up their security team, so there is little time to waste, and much to accomplish.
Fortunately. A new guide by XDR provider Cynet (download here) looks to |
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2021-09-29 03:21:12 | Hackers Targeting Brazil\'s PIX Payment System to Drain Users\' Bank Accounts (lien direct) | Two newly discovered malicious Android applications on Google Play Store have been used to target users of Brazil's instant payment ecosystem in a likely attempt to lure victims into fraudulently transferring their entire account balances into another bank account under cybercriminals' control.
"The attackers distributed two different variants of banking malware, named PixStealer and MalRhino, |
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2021-09-29 02:06:23 | New FinSpy Malware Variant Infects Windows Systems With UEFI Bootkit (lien direct) | Commercially developed FinFisher surveillanceware has been upgraded to infect Windows devices using a UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) bootkit using a trojanized Windows Boot Manager, marking a shift in infection vectors that allow it to elude discovery and analysis.
Detected in the wild since 2011, FinFisher (aka FinSpy or Wingbird) is a spyware toolset for Windows, macOS, and Linux |
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2021-09-28 08:31:06 | Atlassian Confluence RCE Flaw Abused in Multiple Cyberattack Campaigns (lien direct) | Opportunistic threat actors have been found actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Atlassian Confluence deployments across Windows and Linux to deploy web shells that result in the execution of crypto miners on compromised systems.
Tracked as CVE-2021-26084 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability concerns an OGNL (Object-Graph Navigation Language) injection flaw that |
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2021-09-28 01:32:38 | New BloodyStealer Trojan Steals Gamers\' Epic Games and Steam Accounts (lien direct) | A new advanced trojan sold on Russian-speaking underground forums comes with capabilities to steal users' accounts on popular online video game distribution services, including Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA Origin, underscoring a growing threat to the lucrative gaming market.
Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, which coined the malware "BloodyStealer," said it first detected the malicious tool in |
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2021-09-27 23:15:52 | Microsoft Warns of FoggyWeb Malware Targeting Active Directory FS Servers (lien direct) | Microsoft on Monday revealed new malware deployed by the hacking group behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack last December to deliver additional payloads and steal sensitive information from Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) servers.
The tech giant's Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) codenamed the "passive and highly targeted backdoor" FoggyWeb, making it the threat actor tracked |
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2021-09-27 06:35:19 | Russian Turla APT Group Deploying New Backdoor on Targeted Systems (lien direct) | State-sponsored hackers affiliated with Russia are behind a new series of intrusions using a previously undocumented implant to compromise systems in the U.S., Germany, and Afghanistan.
Cisco Talos attributed the attacks to the Turla advanced persistent threat (APT) group, coining the malware "TinyTurla" for its limited functionality and efficient coding style that allows it to go undetected. |
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2021-09-27 04:47:41 | New Android Malware Steals Financial Data from 378 Banking and Wallet Apps (lien direct) | The operators behind the BlackRock mobile malware have surfaced back with a new Android banking trojan called ERMAC that targets Poland and has its roots in the infamous Cerberus malware, according to the latest research.
"The new trojan already has active distribution campaigns and is targeting 378 banking and wallet apps with overlays," ThreatFabric's CEO Cengiz Han Sahin said in an emailed |
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2021-09-27 04:21:35 | How Does DMARC Prevent Phishing? (lien direct) | DMARC is a global standard for email authentication. It allows senders to verify that the email really comes from whom it claims to come from. This helps curb spam and phishing attacks, which are among the most prevalent cybercrimes of today. Gmail, Yahoo, and many other large email providers have implemented DMARC and praised its benefits in recent years.
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