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Cyberattackers are launching a number of attacks aimed at the financial sector with the most targeted regions being North and South America, Western Europe, and Southern Asia. One of the most common and frequent attack vectors was phishing, followed by social engineering. Such cyberattacks on the financial sector are expected to rise in the future.

 Threat Actors

A report by Google revealed that Lazarus APT, the North Korean-linked cyberespionage group, impersonated Samsung recruiters to target South Korean security firms selling anti-malware solutions. The sent emails contain a malicious PDF that talks about recruiting. Hackers are innovating and putting more effort into upgrading their attack tactics, security experts must watch out for such threats.

 Malware and Vulnerabilities

According to 360 Netlab, so far, EwDoor has undergone three versions of updates, and its main functions can be summarized into two main categories of DDoS attacks and backdoor.

 Malware and Vulnerabilities

Video conferencing software giant Zoom has shipped patches for a pair of security defects that expose Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android users to malicious hacker attacks.

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Stegano is a basic Python Steganography module. Stegano implements two methods of hiding: using the red portion of a pixel to hide ASCII messages, and using the Least Significant Bit (LSB) technique. It is possible to use a more advanced LSB method based on integers sets. The sets (Sieve of Eratosthenes, Fermat, Carmichael numbers, etc.) are used to select the pixels used to hide the information.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-4829-04 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8.22. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.

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Ubuntu Security Notice 5158-1 - It was discovered that ImageMagick incorrectly handled certain values when processing visual effects based image files. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could crash the application causing a denial of service. It was discovered that ImageMagick   show more ...  

incorrectly handled certain values when performing resampling operations. By tricking a user into opening a specially crafted image file, an attacker could crash the application causing a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2021-4848-07 - The Migration Toolkit for Containers enables you to migrate Kubernetes resources, persistent volume data, and internal container images between OpenShift Container Platform clusters, using the MTC web console or the Kubernetes API. Issues addressed include code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities.

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Photon is a relatively fast crawler designed for automating OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) with a simple interface and tons of customization options. It is written in Python. Photon essentially acts as a web crawler which is able to extract URLs with parameters, also able to fuzz them, secret AUTH keys, and a lot more.

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One of the harsh realities of cybersecurity today is that malicious actors and attackers don’t distinguish between organizations that have seemingly endless resources and those operating with lean IT security teams. For these lean teams, meeting the challenges in the current security landscape requires constant attention, and sometimes a little support. XDR provider Cynet has built a new

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed multiple security flaws affecting 150 different multifunction printers (MFPs) from HP Inc that could be potentially abused by an adversary to take control of vulnerable devices, pilfer sensitive information, and infiltrate enterprise networks to mount other attacks. The two weaknesses — collectively called Printing Shellz — were discovered and

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Japanese consumer electronics giant Panasonic has disclosed a security breach wherein an unauthorized third-party broke into its network and potentially accessed data from one of its file servers. "As the result of an internal investigation, it was determined that some data on a file server had been accessed during the intrusion," the company said in a short statement published on November 26.

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Unofficial patches have been issued to remediate an improperly patched Windows security vulnerability that could allow information disclosure and local privilege escalation (LPE) on vulnerable systems. Tracked as CVE-2021-24084 (CVSS score: 5.5), the flaw concerns an information disclosure vulnerability in the Windows Mobile Device Management component that could enable an attacker to gain

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Government, diplomatic entities, military organizations, law firms, and financial institutions primarily located in the Middle East have been targeted as part of a stealthy malware campaign as early as 2019 by making use of malicious Microsoft Excel and Word documents. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky attributed the attacks with high confidence to a threat actor named WIRTE, adding the

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