Beware: hundreds of thousands of websites are fakes. Theyre made to look like the sites of popular online stores, banks, and delivery services, but with just one purpose: to steal your passwords and financial data. Victims are lured to such sites by phishing emails, messenger chats, and even paid ads. But dont show more ...
In Episode 313 of the Transatlantic Cable Podcast, the team look at a new supply-chain attack with the majority of victims being in the Hong Kong area along with news that Google have introduced their first Quantum Resilient FIDO2 security key – something that sounds like its from a science fiction novel but is very show more ...
The world's most notorious threat actor is using an unprecedented tactic for sneaking spyware into the IT networks of important companies.
Embracing a risk-first mindset empowers organizations to make informed decisions, strengthen security, safeguard valuable assets, and reduce financial impact.
Hive tells us a lot about ransomware-as-a-service trends and the best ways to defend against attacks.
TZW is the latest version of Adhubllka, which has been active since 2019 but has gone largely unreported due to its lower ransom demands.
Thanks to a simple Telegram bot that democratizes phishing, ordinary Russians can conduct full-fledged phishing attacks with zero technical knowhow.
The eSentire LLM Gateway provides monitoring and governance of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models being used in the organization.
Foreign intelligence entities have the US space industry in their sights, posing serious threats to US national security, multiple federal agencies say.
Probes are tiny processes which run inside containers and scan applications for vulnerabilities.
Threat actors were seen exploiting paid Facebook promotions to disseminate malicious code, aiming to deploy a harmful browser add-on for credential theft. Going by the keywords and variables noticed within the malicious script, researchers believe that Vietnamese threat actors could be behind the attack. To show more ...
An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities from guest machines running virtualization environments to perform a guest-to-host escape, as we’ve illustrated with previous vulnerabilities in NVIDIA graphics drivers.
The experts pointed out that the bug has been exploited for more than two months, but yet to be added to the CISA KEV catalog. The researchers discovered approximately 6,300 servers on Shodan and a bit more using the Censys search engine.
Its latest solution, SpyCloud Compass, enables Post-Infection Remediation of malware exposures, including the compromised assets most likely to lead to ransomware attacks.
The warning comes just about a month after three teams at the DEF CON 23 convention in Las Vegas managed to successfully hack a government satellite in orbit. Other less technical tactics are also being used to steal information.
None of these attacks are especially sophisticated, but they do show how cybercriminals are shifting their attack techniques by combining techniques in different ways to evade detection.
Two blog posts came out in early August, identifying new DarkGate attacks. Advanced IP Scanner is a popular tool used by IT administrators. Victims who click on the ad are presented with a decoy site.
The SOS program, created for students in third through eighth grades, covers topics like cyberbullying, passwords, malware, social media, and more. It also provides teachers with a curriculum that meets state and federal internet safety mandates.
Variants analyzed can target multiple browsers, including Firefox, Edge, Chrome, and Brave. It can log keystrokes, target Coinomi crypto-wallets, and provide thorough fingerprinting of the local system.
The exposed data encompassed a vast array of information from the logging database containing around 14.7 million records, totalling a size of approximately 19.17 GB, to the AWS cloud storage which held over 3.5 million files.
The exact origins of the threat actors, dubbed Neanderthals, are unclear, but evidence points to Russia as the country of origin of the toolkit's authors and users, owing to the use of Russian SMS templates.
QuiteRAT is clearly an evolution of MagicRAT. While MagicRAT is a bigger, bulkier malware family averaging around 18MB in size, QuiteRAT is a much much smaller implementation, averaging around 4 to 5MB in size.
The council warned in a further message on its website for locals to watch out for phishing emails impersonating their bank and informing them of a new direct debit. That would suggest that the hackers have access to citizens’ personal information.
The APT group starts by sending a spear-phishing email, which consists of a DOC file embedded with a URL for a ZIP file download. Once the ZIP file gets downloaded, it contains an EXE file and a DLL file which are executed to infect malware.
In a public statement published on August 23, 2023, Pôle emploi confirmed “a breach in the information system of one of its service providers, involving a risk of disclosure of jobseekers' personal data.”
Two DeFi platforms, Exactly and Harbor, fell victim to cyberattacks resulting in the theft of millions of dollars' worth of cryptocurrency. Exactly Protocol confirmed suffering a loss of around $7.3 million worth of ETH.
Despite the shutdown of certain internal systems following the detection of unusual network activity, SRHS disclosed that workarounds have been implemented to ensure the partial continuation of business operations.
Whiffy Recon works by checking for the WLAN AutoConfig service (WLANSVC) on the infected system and terminating itself if the service name doesn't exist. Persistence is achieved by means of a shortcut that's added to the Windows Startup folder.
Wireshark is a GTK+-based network protocol analyzer that lets you capture and interactively browse the contents of network frames. The goal of the project is to create a commercial-quality analyzer for Unix and Win32 and to give Wireshark features that are missing from closed-source sniffers. This is the source code release.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4671-01 - 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 container images for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.30.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4720-01 - Red Hat Middleware for OpenShift provides images for many of the Red Hat Middleware products for use within the OpenShift Container Platform cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This release of the AMQ Broker 7.11.1 aligned Operator show more ...
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4674-01 - 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 4.12.30.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6305-1 - It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain XML files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. It was discovered that PHP incorrectly handled certain PHAR files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash, expose sensitive information or execute arbitrary code.
This Metasploit module exploits an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability that affects Chamilo versions 1.11.18 and below. Due to a functionality called Chamilo Rapid to easily convert PowerPoint slides to courses on Chamilo, it is possible for an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary show more ...
GEN Security+ version 4.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Geeklog version 2.1.0b1 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
GraceHRM version 1.0.3 suffers from a directory traversal vulnerability.
User Registration and Login and User Management System version 3.0 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
User Registration and Login and User Management System version 3.0 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability.
Uvdesk version 1.1.4 suffers from a persistent cross site scripting vulnerability.
FlightPath LMS version 5.0-rc2 suffers from an insecure direct object reference vulnerability.
FAST TECH CMS version 1.0 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
doorGets CMS version 12 suffers from a remote shell upload vulnerability.
Thousands of Openfire XMPP servers are unpatched against a recently disclosed high-severity flaw and are susceptible to a new exploit, according to a new report from VulnCheck. Tracked as CVE-2023-32315 (CVSS score: 7.5), the vulnerability relates to a path traversal vulnerability in Openfire's administrative console that could permit an unauthenticated attacker to access otherwise restricted
The U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) on Wednesday unsealed an indictment against two founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service, charging them with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. Both the individuals, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov, have been charged with conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to commit sanctions violations, and
A new financially motivated operation is leveraging a malicious Telegram bot to help threat actors scam their victims. Dubbed Telekopye, a portmanteau of Telegram and kopye (meaning "spear" in Russian), the toolkit functions as an automated means to create a phishing web page from a premade template and send the URL to potential victims, codenamed Mammoths by the criminals. "This toolkit is
Public Wi-Fi, which has long since become the norm, poses threats to not only individual users but also businesses. With the rise of remote work, people can now work from virtually anywhere: a cafe close to home, a hotel in a different city, or even while waiting for a plane at the airport. Next, let's explore the risks of connecting to public Wi-Fi, both for you personally and for businesses.
The SmokeLoader malware is being used to deliver a new Wi-Fi scanning malware strain called Whiffy Recon on compromised Windows machines. "The new malware strain has only one operation. Every 60 seconds it triangulates the infected systems' positions by scanning nearby Wi-Fi access points as a data point for Google's geolocation API," Secureworks Counter Threat Unit (CTU) said in a statement
A recently patched security flaw in the popular WinRAR archiving software has been exploited as a zero-day since April 2023, new findings from Group-IB reveal. The vulnerability, cataloged as CVE-2023-38831, allows threat actors to spoof file extensions, thereby making it possible to launch malicious scripts contained within an archive that masquerades as seemingly innocuous image or text files.
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group has been observed exploiting a now-patched critical security flaw impacting Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus to distribute a remote access trojan called such as QuiteRAT. Targets include internet backbone infrastructure and healthcare entities in Europe and the U.S., cybersecurity company Cisco Talos said in a two-part analysis
Surely you should be able to order pizza without being pestered for sex? And Carole takes a look at the what and why of wearables... All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
A London court has found two British teens responsible for a spree of high profile hacks, including one that saw the leaking of source code and videos of Rockstar Games's as-yet unreleased "Grand Theft Auto 6." Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
After a series of high-profile cryptocurrency hacks, the state-sponsored North Korean Lazarus Group is poised to cash out millions of dollars. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Analysis of Telegram bot that helps cybercriminals scam people on online marketplaces
