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2022-06-16 03:06:20 | Difference Between Agent-Based and Network-Based Internal Vulnerability Scanning (lien direct) | For years, the two most popular methods for internal scanning: agent-based and network-based were considered to be about equal in value, each bringing its own strengths to bear. However, with remote working now the norm in most if not all workplaces, it feels a lot more like agent-based scanning is a must, while network-based scanning is an optional extra. This article will go in-depth on the | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-16 03:05:49 | A Microsoft Office 365 Feature Could Help Ransomware Hackers Hold Cloud Files Hostage (lien direct) | A "dangerous piece of functionality" has been discovered in Microsoft 365 suite that could be potentially abused by a malicious actor to ransom files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive and launch attacks on cloud infrastructure. The cloud ransomware attack makes it possible to launch file-encrypting malware to "encrypt files stored on SharePoint and OneDrive in a way that makes them unrecoverable | Ransomware Malware | ||
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2022-06-16 00:25:57 | High-Severity RCE Vulnerability Reported in Popular Fastjson Library (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a recently patched high-severity security vulnerability in the popular Fastjson library that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-25845 (CVSS score: 8.1), the issue relates to a case of deserialization of untrusted data in a supported feature called "AutoType." It was patched by the project maintainers in | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-15 20:00:55 | MaliBot: A New Android Banking Trojan Spotted in the Wild (lien direct) | A new strain of Android malware has been spotted in the wild targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy, just weeks after a coordinated law enforcement operation dismantled FluBot. The information stealing trojan, codenamed MaliBot by F5 Labs, is as feature-rich as its counterparts, allowing it to steal credentials and cookies, bypass multi-factor | Malware | ||
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2022-06-15 19:28:48 | Critical Flaw in Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager Lets Attackers Bypass Authentication (lien direct) | Cisco on Wednesday rolled out fixes to address a critical security flaw affecting Email Security Appliance (ESA) and Secure Email and Web Manager that could be exploited by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to sidestep authentication. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2022-20798, the bypass vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and stems from improper | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-15 05:05:43 | Panchan: A New Golang-based Peer-To-Peer Botnet Targeting Linux Servers (lien direct) | A new Golang-based peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet has been spotted actively targeting Linux servers in the education sector since its emergence in March 2022. Dubbed Panchan by Akamai Security Research, the malware "utilizes its built-in concurrency features to maximize spreadability and execute malware modules" and "harvests SSH keys to perform lateral movement." The feature-packed | Malware | ||
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2022-06-15 01:46:41 | New Hertzbleed Side-Channel Attack Affects All Modern AMD and Intel CPUs (lien direct) | A newly discovered security vulnerability in modern Intel and AMD processors could let remote attackers steal encryption keys via a power side channel attack. Dubbed Hertzbleed by a group of researchers from the University of Texas, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Washington, the issue is rooted in dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS), power and thermal | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-15 01:46:03 | Comprehensive, Easy Cybersecurity for Lean IT Security Teams Starts with XDR (lien direct) | Breaches don't just happen to large enterprises. Threat actors are increasingly targeting small businesses. In fact, 43% of data breaches involved small to medium-sized businesses. But there is a glaring discrepancy. Larger businesses typically have the budget to keep their lights on if they are breached. Most small businesses (83%), however, don't have the financial resources to recover if they | Threat | ||
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2022-06-14 22:16:38 | Cloudflare Saw Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaking at 26 Million Request Per Second (lien direct) | Cloudflare on Tuesday disclosed that it had acted to prevent a record-setting 26 million request per second (RPS) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack last week, making it the largest HTTPS DDoS attack detected to date. The web performance and security company said the attack was directed against an unnamed customer website using its Free plan and emanated from a "powerful" botnet of | |||
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2022-06-14 19:42:01 | Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Issues Fix for Actively Exploited \'Follina\' Vulnerability (lien direct) | Microsoft officially released fixes to address an actively exploited Windows zero-day vulnerability known as Follina as part of its Patch Tuesday updates. Also addressed by the tech giant are 55 other flaws, three of which are rated Critical, 51 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. Separately, five other shortcomings were resolved in the Microsoft Edge browser. | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-14 07:13:25 | New Zimbra Email Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Your Login Credentials (lien direct) | A new high-severity vulnerability has been disclosed in the Zimbra email suite that, if successfully exploited, enables an unauthenticated attacker to steal cleartext passwords of users sans any user interaction. "With the consequent access to the victims' mailboxes, attackers can potentially escalate their access to targeted organizations and gain access to various internal services and steal | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-14 06:51:12 | What is the Essential Eight (And Why Non-Aussies Should Care) (lien direct) | In 2017, The Australian Cyber Security Center (ACSC) published a set of mitigation strategies that were designed to help organizations to protect themselves against cyber security incidents. These strategies, which became known as the Essential Eight, are designed specifically for use on Windows networks, although variations of these strategies are commonly applied to other platforms. What is | |||
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2022-06-14 05:21:21 | Technical Details Released for \'SynLapse\' RCE Vulnerability Reported in Microsoft Azure (lien direct) | Microsoft has incorporated additional improvements to address the recently disclosed SynLapse security vulnerability in order to meet comprehensive tenant isolation requirements in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines. The latest safeguards include moving the shared integration runtimes to sandboxed ephemeral instances and using scoped tokens to prevent adversaries from using a client | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-14 01:30:24 | Unpatched Travis CI API Bug Exposes Thousands of Secret User Access Tokens (lien direct) | An unpatched security issue in the Travis CI API has left tens of thousands of developers' user tokens exposed to potential attacks, effectively allowing threat actors to breach cloud infrastructures, make unauthorized code changes, and initiate supply chain attacks. "More than 770 million logs of free tier users are available, from which you can easily extract tokens, secrets, and other | Threat | ||
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2022-06-14 00:54:54 | New Syslogk Linux Rootkit Lets Attackers Remotely Command It Using "Magic Packets" (lien direct) | A new covert Linux kernel rootkit named Syslogk has been spotted under development in the wild and cloaking a malicious payload that can be remotely commandeered by an adversary using a magic network traffic packet. "The Syslogk rootkit is heavily based on Adore-Ng but incorporates new functionalities making the user-mode application and the kernel rootkit hard to detect," Avast security | |||
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2022-06-14 00:02:08 | Researchers Detail PureCrypter Loader Cyber Criminals Using to Distribute Malware (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have detailed the workings of a fully-featured malware loader dubbed PureCrypter that's being purchased by cyber criminals to deliver remote access trojans (RATs) and information stealers. "The loader is a .NET executable obfuscated with SmartAssembly and makes use of compression, encryption, and obfuscation to evade antivirus software products," Zscaler's Romain Dumont | Malware | ||
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2022-06-13 05:53:14 | Chinese Hackers Distribute Backdoored Web3 Wallets for iOS and Android Users (lien direct) | A technically sophisticated threat actor known as SeaFlower has been targeting Android and iOS users as part of an extensive campaign that mimics official cryptocurrency wallet websites intending to distribute backdoored apps that drain victims' funds. Said to be first discovered in March 2022, the cluster of activity "hint[s] to a strong relationship with a Chinese-speaking entity yet to be | Threat | ||
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2022-06-13 05:26:13 | Chinese \'Gallium\' Hackers Using New PingPull Malware in Cyberespionage Attacks (lien direct) | A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Gallium has been observed using a previously undocumented remote access trojan in its espionage attacks targeting companies operating in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Called PingPull, the "difficult-to-detect" backdoor is notable for its use of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for command-and-control (C2) communications, | Malware Threat | ||
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2022-06-13 02:55:31 | Researchers Disclose Rooting Backdoor in Mitel IP Phones for Businesses (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two medium-security flaws in Mitel 6800/6900 desk phones that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to gain root privileges on the devices. Tracked as CVE-2022-29854 and CVE-2022-29855 (CVSS score: 6.8), the access control issues were discovered by German penetration testing firm SySS, following which patches were shipped in May | |||
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2022-06-13 02:49:51 | Quick and Simple: BPFDoor Explained (lien direct) | BPFDoor isn't new to the cyberattack game - in fact, it's gone undetected for years - but PwC researchers discovered the piece of malware in 2021. Subsequently, the cybersecurity community is learning more about the stealthy nature of malware, how it works, and how it can be prevented. What's BPFDoor? BPFDoor is a piece of malware associated with China-based threat actor Red Menshen that has hit | Malware Threat | ||
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2022-06-13 00:55:14 | Hello XD Ransomware Installing Backdoor on Targeted Windows and Linux Systems (lien direct) | Windows and Linux systems are being targeted by a ransomware variant called HelloXD, with the infections also involving the deployment of a backdoor to facilitate persistent remote access to infected hosts. "Unlike other ransomware groups, this ransomware family doesn't have an active leak site; instead it prefers to direct the impacted victim to negotiations through Tox chat and onion-based | Ransomware | ||
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2022-06-12 19:39:36 | Iranian Hackers Spotted Using a new DNS Hijacking Malware in Recent Attacks (lien direct) | The Iranian state-sponsored threat actor tracked under the moniker Lyceum has turned to using a new custom .NET-based backdoor in recent campaigns directed against the Middle East. "The new malware is a .NET based DNS Backdoor which is a customized version of the open source tool 'DIG.net,'" Zscaler ThreatLabz researchers Niraj Shivtarkar and Avinash Kumar said in a report published last week. " | Malware Tool Threat | ||
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2022-06-11 00:31:56 | MIT Researchers Discover New Flaw in Apple M1 CPUs That Can\'t Be Patched (lien direct) | A novel hardware attack dubbed PACMAN has been demonstrated against Apple's M1 processor chipsets, potentially arming a malicious actor with the capability to gain arbitrary code execution on macOS systems. It leverages "speculative execution attacks to bypass an important memory protection mechanism, ARM Pointer Authentication, a security feature that is used to enforce pointer integrity," MIT | |||
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2022-06-10 06:53:09 | Researchers Find Bluetooth Signals Can be Fingerprinted to Track Smartphones (lien direct) | A new research undertaken by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego has revealed for the first time that Bluetooth signals can be fingerprinted to track smartphones (and therefore, individuals). The identification, at its core, hinges on imperfections in the Bluetooth chipset hardware introduced during the manufacturing process, resulting in a "unique physical-layer | |||
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2022-06-10 01:10:55 | Researchers Detail How Cyber Criminals Targeting Cryptocurrency Users (lien direct) | Cybercriminals are impersonating popular crypto platforms such as Binance, Celo, and Trust Wallet with spoofed emails and fake login pages in an attempt to steal login details and deceptively transfer virtual funds. "As cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) become more mainstream, and capture headlines for their volatility, there is a greater likelihood of more individuals falling victim | |||
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2022-06-09 23:03:24 | Researchers Disclose Critical Flaws in Industrial Access Control System from Carrier (lien direct) | As many as eight zero-day vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Carrier's LenelS2 HID Mercury access control system that's used widely in healthcare, education, transportation, and government facilities. "The vulnerabilities uncovered allowed us to demonstrate the ability to remotely unlock and lock doors, subvert alarms and undermine logging and notification systems," Trellix security | |||
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2022-06-09 08:39:22 | New Privacy Framework for IoT Devices Gives Users Control Over Data Sharing (lien direct) | A newly designed privacy-sensitive architecture aims to enable developers to create smart home apps in a manner that addresses data sharing concerns and puts users in control over their personal information. Dubbed Peekaboo by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the system "leverages an in-home hub to pre-process and minimize outgoing data in a structured and enforceable manner before | |||
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2022-06-09 04:08:48 | Symbiote: A Stealthy Linux Malware Targeting Latin American Financial Sector (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off what they call a "nearly-impossible-to-detect" Linux malware that could be weaponized to backdoor infected systems. Dubbed Symbiote by threat intelligence firms BlackBerry and Intezer, the stealthy malware is so named for its ability to conceal itself within running processes and network traffic and drain a victim's resources like a parasite. | Malware Threat | ||
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2022-06-09 03:54:41 | Even the Most Advanced Threats Rely on Unpatched Systems (lien direct) | Common cybercriminals are a menace, there's no doubt about it – from bedroom hackers through to ransomware groups, cybercriminals are causing a lot of damage. But both the tools used and the threat posed by common cybercriminals pale in comparison to the tools used by more professional groups such as the famous hacking groups and state-sponsored groups. In fact, these tools can prove almost | Ransomware Tool Threat | ||
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2022-06-09 03:00:45 | A Decade-Long Chinese Espionage Campaign Targets Southeast Asia and Australia (lien direct) | A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed Aoqin Dragon has been linked to a string of espionage-oriented attacks aimed at government, education, and telecom entities chiefly in Southeast Asia and Australia dating as far back as 2013. "Aoqin Dragon seeks initial access primarily through document exploits and the use of fake removable devices," | Threat | ★★★ | |
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2022-06-08 22:38:48 | New Emotet Variant Stealing Users\' Credit Card Information from Google Chrome (lien direct) | Image Source: Toptal The notorious Emotet malware has turned to deploy a new module designed to siphon credit card information stored in the Chrome web browser. The credit card stealer, which exclusively singles out Chrome, has the ability to exfiltrate the collected information to different remote command-and-control (C2) servers, according to enterprise security company Proofpoint, which | Malware | ||
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2022-06-08 06:24:15 | Researchers Warn of Unpatched "DogWalk" Microsoft Windows Vulnerability (lien direct) | An unofficial security patch has been made available for a new Windows zero-day vulnerability in the Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool (MSDT), even as the Follina flaw continues to be exploited in the wild. The issue - referenced as DogWalk - relates to a path traversal flaw that can be exploited to stash a malicious executable file to the Windows Startup folder when a potential target opens a | Tool Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-08 00:20:20 | U.S. Agencies Warn About Chinese Hackers Targeting Telecoms and Network Service Providers (lien direct) | U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned about China-based state-sponsored cyber actors leveraging network vulnerabilities to exploit public and private sector organizations since at least 2020. The widespread intrusion campaigns aim to exploit publicly identified security flaws in network devices such as Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) routers and Network Attached Storage (NAS) | |||
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2022-06-07 22:45:21 | FBI Seizes \'SSNDOB\' ID Theft Service for Selling Personal Info of 24 Million People (lien direct) | An illicit online marketplace known as SSNDOB was taken down in operation led by U.S. law enforcement agencies, the Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Tuesday. SSNDOB trafficked in personal information such as names, dates of birth, credit card numbers, and Social Security numbers of about 24 million individuals in the U.S., generating its operators $19 million in sales revenue. The action | |||
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2022-06-07 04:51:35 | Evil Corp Cybercrime Group Shifts to LockBit Ransomware to Evade Sanctions (lien direct) | The threat cluster dubbed UNC2165, which shares numerous overlaps with a Russia-based cybercrime group known as Evil Corp, has been linked to multiple LockBit ransomware intrusions in an attempt to get around sanctions imposed by the U.S. Treasury in December 2019. "These actors have shifted away from using exclusive ransomware variants to LockBit - a well-known ransomware as a service (RaaS) - | Ransomware Threat | ||
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2022-06-07 02:18:00 | Hacking Scenarios: How Hackers Choose Their Victims (lien direct) | Enforcing the "double-extortion" technique aka pay-now-or-get-breached emerged as a head-turner last year. May 6th, 2022 is a recent example. The State Department said the Conti strain of ransomware was the most costly in terms of payments made by victims as of January. Conti, a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) program, is one of the most notorious ransomware groups and has been responsible for | Ransomware | ||
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2022-06-07 01:14:19 | Researchers Warn of Spam Campaign Targeting Victims with SVCReady Malware (lien direct) | A new wave of phishing campaigns has been observed spreading a previously documented malware called SVCReady. "The malware is notable for the unusual way it is delivered to target PCs - using shellcode hidden in the properties of Microsoft Office documents," Patrick Schläpfer, a threat analyst at HP, said in a technical write-up. SVCReady is said to be in its early stage of development, with the | Spam Malware Threat | ||
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2022-06-06 22:35:38 | Apple\'s New Feature Will Install Security Updates Automatically Without Full OS Update (lien direct) | Apple has introduced a Rapid Security Response feature in iOS 16 and macOS Ventura that's designed to deploy security fixes without the need for a full operating system version update. "macOS security gets even stronger with new tools that make the Mac more resistant to attack, including Rapid Security Response that works in between normal updates to easily keep security up to date without a | Tool | ||
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2022-06-06 06:34:49 | 10 Most Prolific Banking Trojans Targeting Hundreds of Financial Apps with Over a Billion Users (lien direct) | 10 of the most prolific mobile banking trojans have set their eyes on 639 financial applications that are available on the Google Play Store and have been cumulatively downloaded over 1.01 billion times. Some of the most targeted apps include Walmart-backed PhonePe, Binance, Cash App, Garanti BBVA Mobile, La Banque Postale, Ma Banque, Caf - Mon Compte, Postepay, and BBVA México. These apps alone | |||
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2022-06-06 06:04:57 | Unpatched Critical Flaws Disclosed in U-Boot Bootloader for Embedded Devices (lien direct) | Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two unpatched security vulnerabilities in the open-source U-Boot boot loader. The issues, which were uncovered in the IP defragmentation algorithm implemented in U-Boot by NCC Group, could be abused to achieve arbitrary out-of-bounds write and denial-of-service (DoS). U-Boot is a boot loader used in Linux-based embedded systems such as ChromeOS as well as | |||
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2022-06-06 04:39:17 | Be Proactive! Shift Security Validation Left (lien direct) | "Shifting (security)" left approach in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) means starting security earlier in the process. As organizations realized that software never comes out perfectly and are riddled with many exploitable holes, bugs, and business logic vulnerabilities that require going back to fix and patch, they understood that building secure software requires incorporating and | |||
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2022-06-06 04:23:37 | Microsoft Seizes 41 Domains Used in Spear-Phishing Attacks by Bohrium Hackers (lien direct) | Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) last week disclosed that it had taken legal proceedings against an Iranian threat actor dubbed Bohrium in connection with a spear-phishing operation. The adversarial collective is said to have targeted entities in tech, transportation, government, and education sectors located in the U.S., Middle East, and India. "Bohrium actors create fake | Threat | ||
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2022-06-06 03:58:16 | CISA Warned About Critical Vulnerabilities in Illumina\'s DNA Sequencing Devices (lien direct) | The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have issued an advisory about critical security vulnerabilities in Illumina's next-generation sequencing (NGS) software. Three of the flaws are rated 10 out of 10 for severity on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), with two others having severity ratings of 9.1 and 7.4. The issues | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-05 18:54:10 | State-Backed Hackers Exploit Microsoft \'Follina\' Bug to Target Entities in Europe and U.S (lien direct) | A suspected state-aligned threat actor has been attributed to a new set of attacks exploiting the Microsoft Office "Follina" vulnerability to target government entities in Europe and the U.S. Enterprise security firm Proofpoint said it blocked attempts at exploiting the remote code execution flaw, which is being tracked CVE-2022-30190 (CVSS score: 7.8). No less than 1,000 phishing messages | Vulnerability Threat | ||
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2022-06-04 00:57:38 | Atlassian Releases Patch for Confluence Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in the Wild (lien direct) | Atlassian on Friday rolled out fixes to address a critical security flaw affecting its Confluence Server and Data Center products that have come under active exploitation by threat actors to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-26134, the issue is similar to CVE-2021-26084 - another security flaw the Australian software company patched in August 2021. Both relate to a case of | Threat | ||
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2022-06-03 07:01:16 | GitLab Issues Security Patch for Critical Account Takeover Vulnerability (lien direct) | GitLab has moved to address a critical security flaw in its service that, if successfully exploited, could result in an account takeover. Tracked as CVE-2022-1680, the issue has a CVSS severity score of 9.9 and was discovered internally by the company. The security flaw affects all versions of GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) starting from 11.10 before 14.9.5, all versions starting from 14.10 | Vulnerability | ||
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2022-06-03 06:54:33 | Chinese LuoYu Hackers Using Man-on-the-Side Attacks to Deploy WinDealer Backdoor (lien direct) | An "extremely sophisticated" Chinese-speaking advanced persistent threat (APT) actor dubbed LuoYu has been observed using a malicious Windows tool called WinDealer that's delivered by means of man-on-the-side attacks. "This groundbreaking development allows the actor to modify network traffic in-transit to insert malicious payloads," Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said in a new report. | Tool Threat | ||
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2022-06-03 02:58:38 | Researchers Uncover Malware Controlling Thousands of Sites in Parrot TDS Network (lien direct) | The Parrot traffic direction system (TDS) that came to light earlier this year has had a larger impact than previously thought, according to new research. Sucuri, which has been tracking the same campaign since February 2019 under the name "NDSW/NDSX," said that "the malware was one of the top infections" detected in 2021, accounting for more than 61,000 websites. Parrot TDS was documented in | Malware | ★★★ | |
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2022-06-03 01:19:30 | Microsoft Blocks Iran-linked Lebanese Hackers Targeting Israeli Companies (lien direct) | Microsoft on Thursday said it took steps to disable malicious activity stemming from abuse of OneDrive by a previously undocumented threat actor it tracks under the chemical element-themed moniker Polonium. In addition to removing the offending accounts created by the Lebanon-based activity group, the tech giant's Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) said it suspended over 20 malicious OneDrive | Threat | ||
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2022-06-02 19:57:46 | Hackers Exploiting Unpatched Critical Atlassian Confluence Zero-Day Vulnerability (lien direct) | Atlassian has warned of a critical unpatched remote code execution vulnerability impacting Confluence Server and Data Center products that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The Australian software company credited cybersecurity firm Volexity for identifying the flaw, which is being tracked as CVE-2022-26134. "Atlassian has been made aware of current active exploitation of a | Vulnerability |
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