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2023-03-14 15:41:00 | Microsoft Warns of Large-Scale Use of Phishing Kits to Send Millions of Emails Daily (lien direct) | An open source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit has found a number of takers in the cybercrime world for its ability to orchestrate attacks at scale. Microsoft Threat Intelligence is tracking the threat actor behind the development of the kit under its emerging moniker DEV-1101. An AiTM phishing attack typically involves a threat actor attempting to steal and intercept a target's | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-14 11:31:00 | Fortinet FortiOS Flaw Exploited in Targeted Cyberattacks on Government Entities (lien direct) | Government entities and large organizations have been targeted by an unknown threat actor by exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS software to result in data loss and OS and file corruption. "The complexity of the exploit suggests an advanced actor and that it is highly targeted at governmental or government-related targets," Fortinet researchers Guillaume Lovet and Alex Kong said in an | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-13 20:29:00 | Large-scale Cyber Attack Hijacks East Asian Websites for Adult Content Redirects (lien direct) | A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022. The ongoing campaign entails injecting malicious JavaScript code to the hacked websites, often connecting to the target web server using legitimate FTP credentials the threat actor previously obtained via an unknown | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-13 17:54:00 | Fake ChatGPT Chrome Extension Hijacking Facebook Accounts for Malicious Advertising (lien direct) | A fake ChatGPT-branded Chrome browser extension has been found to come with capabilities to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts, highlighting one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware. "By hijacking high-profile Facebook business accounts, the threat actor creates an elite army of Facebook bots and a malicious paid media apparatus," Guardio | Threat | ChatGPT ChatGPT | ★★ |
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2023-03-13 17:53:00 | How to Apply NIST Principles to SaaS in 2023 (lien direct) | The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is one of the standard-bearers in global cybersecurity. The U.S.-based institute's cybersecurity framework helps organizations of all sizes understand, manage, and reduce their cyber-risk levels and better protect their data. Its importance in the fight against cyberattacks can't be overstated. While NIST hasn't directly developed | Cloud | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-13 17:17:00 | Warning: AI-generated YouTube Video Tutorials Spreading Infostealer Malware (lien direct) | Threat actors have been increasingly observed using AI-generated YouTube Videos to spread a variety of stealer malware such as Raccoon, RedLine, and Vidar. "The videos lure users by pretending to be tutorials on how to download cracked versions of software such as Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Autodesk 3ds Max, AutoCAD, and other products that are licensed products available only to paid users," | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-03-13 13:06:00 | Researchers Uncover Over a Dozen Security Flaws in Akuvox E11 Smart Intercom (lien direct) | More than a dozen security flaws have been disclosed in E11, a smart intercom product made by Chinese company Akuvox. "The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code remotely in order to activate and control the device's camera and microphone, steal video and images, or gain a network foothold," Claroty security researcher Vera Mens said in a technical write-up. Akuvox E11 is | ★★★ | ||
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2023-03-13 11:45:00 | KamiKakaBot Malware Used in Latest Dark Pink APT Attacks on Southeast Asian Targets (lien direct) | The Dark Pink advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been linked to a fresh set of attacks targeting government and military entities in Southeast Asian countries with a malware called KamiKakaBot. Dark Pink, also called Saaiwc, was first profiled by Group-IB earlier this year, describing its use of custom tools such as TelePowerBot and KamiKakaBot to run arbitrary commands and exfiltrate | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-11 19:02:00 | BATLOADER Malware Uses Google Ads to Deliver Vidar Stealer and Ursnif Payloads (lien direct) | The malware downloader known as BATLOADER has been observed abusing Google Ads to deliver secondary payloads like Vidar Stealer and Ursnif. According to cybersecurity company eSentire, malicious ads are used to spoof a wide range of legitimate apps and services such as Adobe, OpenAPI's ChatGPT, Spotify, Tableau, and Zoom. BATLOADER, as the name suggests, is a loader that's responsible for | Malware | ChatGPT | ★★ |
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2023-03-10 19:32:00 | New Version of Prometei Botnet Infects Over 10,000 Systems Worldwide (lien direct) | An updated version of a botnet malware called Prometei has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022. The infections are both geographically indiscriminate and opportunistic, with a majority of the victims reported in Brazil, Indonesia, and Turkey. Prometei, first observed in 2016, is a modular botnet that features a large repertoire of components and several proliferation | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-10 19:20:00 | China-linked Hackers Targeting Unpatched SonicWall SMA Devices with Malware (lien direct) | A suspecting China-linked hacking campaign has been observed targeting unpatched SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 appliances to drop malware and establish long-term persistence. "The malware has functionality to steal user credentials, provide shell access, and persist through firmware upgrades," cybersecurity company Mandiant said in a technical report published this week. The | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-03-10 19:09:00 | International Law Enforcement Takes Down Infamous NetWire Cross-Platform RAT (lien direct) | A coordinated international law enforcement exercise has taken down the online infrastructure associated with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) known as NetWire. Coinciding with the seizure of the sales website www.worldwiredlabs[.]com, a Croatian national who is suspected to be the website's administrator has been arrested. While the suspect's name was not released, investigative | ★★ | ||
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2023-03-10 18:26:00 | When Partial Protection is Zero Protection: The MFA Blind Spots No One Talks About (lien direct) | Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) has long ago become a standard security practice. With a wide consensus on its ability to fend off more than 99% percent of account takeover attacks, it's no wonder why security architects regard it as a must-have in their environments. However, what seems to be less known are the inherent coverage limitations of traditional MFA solutions. While compatible with | ★★ | ||
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2023-03-10 15:33:00 | Xenomorph Android Banking Trojan Returns with a New and More Powerful Variant (lien direct) | A new variant of the Android banking trojan named Xenomorph has surfaced in the wild, the latest findings from ThreatFabric reveal. Named "Xenomorph 3rd generation" by the Hadoken Security Group, the threat actor behind the operation, the updated version comes with new features that allow it to perform financial fraud in a seamless manner. "This new version of the malware adds many new | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-03-10 13:13:00 | North Korean UNC2970 Hackers Expands Operations with New Malware Families (lien direct) | A North Korean espionage group tracked as UNC2970 has been observed employing previously undocumented malware families as part of a spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. and European media and technology organizations since June 2022. Google-owned Mandiant said the threat cluster shares "multiple overlaps" with a long-running operation dubbed "Dream Job" that employs job recruitment lures in | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-03-09 20:24:00 | Hackers Exploiting Remote Desktop Software Flaws to Deploy PlugX Malware (lien direct) | Security vulnerabilities in remote desktop programs such as Sunlogin and AweSun are being exploited by threat actors to deploy the PlugX malware. AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC), in a new analysis, said it marks the continued abuse of the flaws to deliver a variety of payloads on compromised systems. This includes the Sliver post-exploitation framework, XMRig cryptocurrency | Malware Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-09 19:31:00 | IceFire Ransomware Exploits IBM Aspera Faspex to Attack Linux-Powered Enterprise Networks (lien direct) | A previously known Windows-based ransomware strain known as IceFire has expanded its focus to target Linux enterprise networks belonging to several media and entertainment sector organizations across the world. The intrusions entail the exploitation of a recently disclosed deserialization vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex file-sharing software (CVE-2022-47986, CVSS score: 9.8), according to | Ransomware Vulnerability | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-09 17:55:00 | Does Your Help Desk Know Who\'s Calling? (lien direct) | Phishing, the theft of users' credentials or sensitive data using social engineering, has been a significant threat since the early days of the internet – and continues to plague organizations today, accounting for more than 30% of all known breaches. And with the mass migration to remote working during the pandemic, hackers have ramped up their efforts to steal login credentials as they take | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-09 17:50:00 | Iranian Hackers Target Women Involved in Human Rights and Middle East Politics (lien direct) | Iranian state-sponsored actors are continuing to engage in social engineering campaigns targeting researchers by impersonating a U.S. think tank. "Notably the targets in this instance were all women who are actively involved in political affairs and human rights in the Middle East region," Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The cybersecurity | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-09 13:40:00 | New ScrubCrypt Crypter Used in Cryptojacking Attacks Targeting Oracle WebLogic (lien direct) | The infamous cryptocurrency miner group called 8220 Gang has been observed using a new crypter called ScrubCrypt to carry out cryptojacking operations. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the attack chain commences with successful exploitation of susceptible Oracle WebLogic servers to download a PowerShell script that contains ScrubCrypt. Crypters are a type of software that can encrypt, | ★★★ | ||
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2023-03-09 10:53:00 | New Critical Flaw in FortiOS and FortiProxy Could Give Hackers Remote Access (lien direct) | Fortinet has released fixes to address 15 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy that could enable a threat actor to take control of affected systems. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-25610, is rated 9.3 out of 10 for severity and was internally discovered and reported by its security teams. "A buffer underwrite ('buffer underflow') vulnerability in | Vulnerability Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-08 22:00:00 | Jenkins Security Alert: New Security Flaws Could Allow Code Execution Attacks (lien direct) | A pair of severe security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Jenkins open source automation server that could lead to code execution on targeted systems. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2023-27898 and CVE-2023-27905, impact the Jenkins server and Update Center, and have been collectively christened CorePlague by cloud security firm Aqua. All versions of Jenkins versions prior to 2.319.2 are | Guideline Cloud | ★★ | |
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2023-03-08 17:56:00 | Syxsense Platform: Unified Security and Endpoint Management (lien direct) | As threats grow and attack surfaces get more complex, companies continue to struggle with the multitude of tools they utilize to handle endpoint security and management. This can leave gaps in an enterprise's ability to identify devices that are accessing the network and in ensuring that those devices are compliant with security policies. These gaps are often seen in outdated spreadsheets that | ★★ | ||
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2023-03-08 16:04:00 | Lazarus Group Exploits Zero-Day Vulnerability to Hack South Korean Financial Entity (lien direct) | The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been observed weaponizing flaws in an undisclosed software to breach a financial business entity in South Korea twice within a span of a year. While the first attack in May 2022 entailed the use of a vulnerable version of a certificate software that's widely used by public institutions and universities, the re-infiltration in October 2022 involved the | Hack Vulnerability Medical | APT 38 | ★★★ |
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2023-03-08 13:27:00 | Sharp Panda Using New Soul Framework Version to Target Southeast Asian Governments (lien direct) | High-profile government entities in Southeast Asia are the target of a cyber espionage campaign undertaken by a Chinese threat actor known as Sharp Panda since late last year. The intrusions are characterized by the use of a new version of the Soul modular framework, marking a departure from the group's attack chains observed in 2021. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point said the " | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-08 12:00:00 | CISA\'s KEV Catalog Updated with 3 New Flaws Threatening IT Management Systems (lien direct) | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2022-35914 (CVSS score: 9.8) - Teclib GLPI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2022-33891 (CVSS score: 8.8) - Apache Spark Command Injection Vulnerability | Vulnerability | ★★ | |
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2023-03-07 19:28:00 | SYS01stealer: New Threat Using Facebook Ads to Target Critical Infrastructure Firms (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new information stealer dubbed SYS01stealer targeting critical government infrastructure employees, manufacturing companies, and other sectors. "The threat actors behind the campaign are targeting Facebook business accounts by using Google ads and fake Facebook profiles that promote things like games, adult content, and cracked software, etc. to lure | Threat | ★★★★★ | |
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2023-03-07 17:09:00 | Transparent Tribe Hackers Distribute CapraRAT via Trojanized Messaging Apps (lien direct) | A suspected Pakistan-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Transparent Tribe has been linked to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian and Pakistani Android users with a backdoor called CapraRAT. "Transparent Tribe distributed the Android CapraRAT backdoor via trojanized secure messaging and calling apps branded as MeetsApp and MeetUp," ESET said in a report | Threat | APT 36 | ★★ |
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2023-03-07 16:53:00 | Why Healthcare Can\'t Afford to Ignore Digital Identity (lien direct) | Investing in digital identity can improve security, increase clinical productivity, and boost healthcare's bottom line. - by Gus Malezis, CEO of Imprivata Digitalization has created immeasurable opportunities for businesses over the past two decades. But the growth of hybrid work and expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) has outpaced traditional 'castle and moat' cybersecurity, introducing | ★★★ | ||
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2023-03-07 13:12:00 | Shein\'s Android App Caught Transmitting Clipboard Data to Remote Servers (lien direct) | An older version of Shein's Android application suffered from a bug that periodically captured and transmitted clipboard contents to a remote server. The Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team said it discovered the problem in version 7.9.2 of the app that was released on December 16, 2021. The issue has since been addressed as of May 2022. Shein, originally named ZZKKO, is a Chinese online fast | ★★ | ||
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2023-03-07 11:51:00 | LastPass Hack: Engineer\'s Failure to Update Plex Software Led to Massive Data Breach (lien direct) | The massive breach at LastPass was the result of one of its engineers failing to update Plex on their home computer, in what's a sobering reminder of the dangers of failing to keep software up-to-date. The embattled password management service last week revealed how unidentified actors leveraged information stolen from an earlier incident that took place prior to August 12, 2022, along with | Data Breach | LastPass LastPass | ★★ |
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2023-03-06 19:48:00 | New HiatusRAT Malware Targets Business-Grade Routers to Covertly Spy on Victims (lien direct) | A never-before-seen complex malware is targeting business-grade routers to covertly spy on victims in Latin America, Europe, and North America at least since July 2022. The elusive campaign, dubbed Hiatus by Lumen Black Lotus Labs, has been found to deploy two malicious binaries, a remote access trojan dubbed HiatusRAT and a variant of tcpdump that makes it possible to capture packet capture on | Malware | ★★ | |
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2023-03-06 19:34:00 | From Disinformation to Deep Fakes: How Threat Actors Manipulate Reality (lien direct) | Deep fakes are expected to become a more prominent attack vector. Here's how to identify them. What are Deep Fakes? A deep fake is the act of maliciously replacing real images and videos with fabricated ones to perform information manipulation. To create images, video and audio that are high quality enough to be used in deep fakes, AI and ML are required. Such use of AI, ML and image replacement | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-06 17:43:00 | Core Members of DoppelPaymer Ransomware Gang Targeted in Germany and Ukraine (lien direct) | Law enforcement authorities from Germany and Ukraine have targeted suspected core members of a cybercrime group that has been behind large-scale attacks using DoppelPaymer ransomware. The operation, which took place on February 28, 2023, was carried out with support from the Dutch National Police (Politie) and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), according to Europol. This encompassed | Ransomware | ★ | |
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2023-03-06 17:21:00 | Experts Reveal Google Cloud Platform\'s Blind Spot for Data Exfiltration Attacks (lien direct) | Malicious actors can take advantage of "insufficient" forensic visibility into Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to exfiltrate sensitive data, a new research has found. "Unfortunately, GCP does not provide the level of visibility in its storage logs that is needed to allow any effective forensic investigation, making organizations blind to potential data exfiltration attacks," cloud incident response | Cloud | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-06 14:00:00 | Experts Discover Flaw in U.S. Govt\'s Chosen Quantum-Resistant Encryption Algorithm (lien direct) | A group of researchers has revealed what it says is a vulnerability in a specific implementation of CRYSTALS-Kyber, one of the encryption algorithms chosen by the U.S. government as quantum-resistant last year. The exploit relates to "side-channel attacks on up to the fifth-order masked implementations of CRYSTALS-Kyber in ARM Cortex-M4 CPU," Elena Dubrova, Kalle Ngo, and Joel Gärtner of KTH | Vulnerability | ★ | |
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2023-03-04 17:03:00 | Security and IT Teams No Longer Need To Pay For SaaS-Shadow IT Discovery (lien direct) | This past January, a SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) company named Wing Security (Wing) made waves with the launch of its free SaaS-Shadow IT discovery solution. Cloud-based companies were invited to gain insight into their employees' SaaS usage through a completely free, self-service product that operates on a "freemium" model. If a user is impressed with the solution and wants to gain | Cloud | ★★★★ | |
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2023-03-04 16:48:00 | New FiXS ATM Malware Targeting Mexican Banks (lien direct) | A new ATM malware strain dubbed FiXS has been observed targeting Mexican banks since the start of February 2023. "The ATM malware is hidden inside another not-malicious-looking program," Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q said in a report shared with The Hacker News. Besides requiring interaction via an external keyboard, the Windows-based ATM malware is also vendor-agnostic and is | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-03 15:48:00 | New Flaws in TPM 2.0 Library Pose Threat to Billions of IoT and Enterprise Devices (lien direct) | A pair of serious security defects has been disclosed in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 reference library specification that could potentially lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation. One of the vulnerabilities, CVE-2023-1017, concerns an out-of-bounds write, while the other, CVE-2023-1018, is described as an out-of-bounds read. Credited with discovering and reporting the | Threat Guideline | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-03 15:26:00 | Chinese Hackers Targeting European Entities with New MQsTTang Backdoor (lien direct) | The China-aligned Mustang Panda actor has been observed using a hitherto unseen custom backdoor called MQsTTang as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that commenced in January 2023. "Unlike most of the group's malware, MQsTTang doesn't seem to be based on existing families or publicly available projects," ESET researcher Alexandre Côté Cyr said in a new report. Attack chains | ★★★ | ||
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2023-03-03 12:12:00 | U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Raises Alarm Over Royal Ransomware\'s Deadly Capabilities (lien direct) | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new advisory about Royal ransomware, which emerged in the threat landscape last year. "After gaining access to victims' networks, Royal actors disable antivirus software and exfiltrate large amounts of data before ultimately deploying the ransomware and encrypting the systems," CISA said. The custom ransomware | Ransomware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-03-02 19:10:00 | Hackers Exploit Containerized Environments to Steals Proprietary Data and Software (lien direct) | A sophisticated attack campaign dubbed SCARLETEEL is targeting containerized environments to perpetrate theft of proprietary data and software. "The attacker exploited a containerized workload and then leveraged it to perform privilege escalation into an AWS account in order to steal proprietary software and credentials," Sysdig said in a new report. The advanced cloud attack also entailed the | Cloud | ★★★★ | |
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2023-03-02 17:09:00 | New Cryptojacking Campaign Leverages Misconfigured Redis Database Servers (lien direct) | Misconfigured Redis database servers are the target of a novel cryptojacking campaign that leverages a legitimate and open source command-line file transfer service to implement its attack. "Underpinning this campaign was the use of transfer[.]sh," Cado Security said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "It's possible that it's an attempt at evading detections based on other common code | ★★★ | ||
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2023-03-02 17:05:00 | 2023 Browser Security Report Uncovers Major Browsing Risks and Blind Spots (lien direct) | As a primary working interface, the browser plays a significant role in today's corporate environment. The browser is constantly used by employees to access websites, SaaS applications and internal applications, from both managed and unmanaged devices. A new report published by LayerX, a browser security vendor, finds that attackers are exploiting this reality and are targeting it in increasing | Cloud | ★★★ | |
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2023-03-02 16:51:00 | Experts Identify Fully-Featured Info Stealer and Trojan in Python Package on PyPI (lien direct) | A malicious Python package uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI) has been found to contain a fully-featured information stealer and remote access trojan. The package, named colourfool, was identified by Kroll's Cyber Threat Intelligence team, with the company calling the malware Colour-Blind. "The 'Colour-Blind' malware points to the democratization of cybercrime that could lead to an | Malware Threat Guideline | ★★ | |
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2023-03-02 13:33:00 | SysUpdate Malware Strikes Again with Linux Version and New Evasion Tactics (lien direct) | The threat actor known as Lucky Mouse has developed a Linux version of a malware toolkit called SysUpdate, expanding on its ability to target devices running the operating system. The oldest version of the updated artifact dates back to July 2022, with the malware incorporating new features designed to evade security software and resist reverse engineering. Cybersecurity company Trend Micro said | Malware Threat Prediction | APT 27 | ★★ |
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2023-03-02 09:47:00 | Critical Flaw in Cisco IP Phone Series Exposes Users to Command Injection Attack (lien direct) | Cisco on Wednesday rolled out security updates to address a critical flaw impacting its IP Phone 6800, 7800, 7900, and 8800 Series products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20078, is rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and is described as a command injection bug in the web-based management interface arising due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. Successful | ★★★ | ||
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2023-03-01 19:32:00 | Cybercriminals Targeting Law Firms with GootLoader and FakeUpdates Malware (lien direct) | Six different law firms were targeted in January and February 2023 as part of two disparate threat campaigns distributing GootLoader and FakeUpdates (aka SocGholish) malware strains. GootLoader, active since late 2020, is a first-stage downloader that's capable of delivering a wide range of secondary payloads such as Cobalt Strike and ransomware. It notably employs search engine optimization ( | Malware Threat | ★★ | |
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2023-03-01 17:02:00 | BlackLotus Becomes First UEFI Bootkit Malware to Bypass Secure Boot on Windows 11 (lien direct) | A stealthy Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackLotus has become the first publicly known malware capable of bypassing Secure Boot, making it a potent threat in the cyber landscape. "This bootkit can run even on fully up-to-date Windows 11 systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled," Slovak cybersecurity company ESET said in a report shared with The Hacker News. UEFI | Malware Threat | ★★★★ | |
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2023-03-01 17:00:00 | CISOs Are Stressed Out and It\'s Putting Companies at Risk (lien direct) | Employee well-being has become a primary focus for many businesses. Even before the pandemic, the C-suite was acutely aware of how employee mental health impacts business outcomes. But for cybersecurity professionals, stress has always been a part of the job. A new survey revealed that one of the most concerning aspects of employee mental health is how it impacts cybersecurity programs and, | ★★ |
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