The stealthy Trojan targets users in Southeast Asia, allowing attackers to remotely control devices to commit bank fraud.
Thousands of devices have become infected with "BadBazaar," malware previously used to spy on Uyghur and Turkic ethnic minorities in China.
Artificial intelligence tools can automate the analysis of logs, video, and other important but tedious aspects of investigations.
A sophisticated threat actor managed to fly under the radar for three years, despite flexing serious muscle.
"Operation Doppelganger" has convincingly masqueraded as multiple news sites with elaborate fake stories containing real bylines of journalists, blasting them out on social media platforms.
Everyone makes mistakes — but what if your mistakes risk the security of millions of people?
Through strategic measures and a united front, the finance industry can overcome the looming threat of deepfakes.
The popular travel rental site is an ideal destination for cybercrooks bent on taking over accounts and bookings.
Japan CERT has uncovered a novel attack technique named 'MalDoc in PDF' that involves embedding a malicious Word file into a PDF document to evade detection. While the file appears as a PDF, it can be opened in Word and execute malicious macros. JPCERT has shared detection details and a Yara rule in its report.
The vulnerabilities, which affect VMware Aria Operations Networks versions 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5.1, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9, and 6.10, have been addressed in a series of patches released by VMware for each of the versions.
The hackers behind Ransomed are probably linked to other data leak websites like BreachForums and Exposed, Flashpot said. Some of these sites have shut down due to money problems or poor management, the researchers said.
The researchers also observed the threat actor downloading a malicious bash script named ‘reketed’ from a Tor proxy service, which evaded detection from AV engines on VirusTotal.
Microsoft is alerting about a rise in AiTM phishing methods within the PhaaS cybercrime model, enabling widespread large-scale phishing campaigns. The primary aim of these attacks is to steal session cookies, allowing malicious actors to gain entry to privileged systems without needing to authenticate again. As show more ... cybercriminal sophistication continues to grow, organizations must implement comprehensive cybersecurity measures to combat these evolving threats.
This operation, named Doppelganger, has persevered in its attempts to influence Western opinion despite numerous disruptions by Meta and “continuous scrutiny by platforms and researchers.”
This protects against man-in-the-middle attacks and prevents users from connecting through compromised channels. HSTS also eliminates the need for redirecting users from HTTP to HTTPS URLs.
The cross-border exercise involved the participation of France, Germany, Latvia, Romania, the Netherlands, the U.K., and the U.S., alongside technical assistance from cybersecurity company Zscaler.
Genshin Impact developer miHoYohas responded to an in-game hacking situation that has caused problems recently in its player community, warning that they would take legal action against those responsible.
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Android apps for Signal and Telegram distributed via the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store that are engineered to deliver the BadBazaar spyware on infected devices.
Now, teams using GitHub Actions can also create their own custom deployment protection rules, to ensure that only “the deployments that pass all quality, security, and manual approval requirements make it to production,” GitHub explained.
An unknown threat actor is leveraging malicious npm packages to target developers with an aim to steal source code and configuration files from victim machines, a sign of how threats lurk consistently in open-source repositories.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4876-01 - IBM Java SE version 8 includes the IBM Java Runtime Environment and the IBM Java Software Development Kit. This update upgrades IBM Java SE 8 to version 8 SR8-FP10.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4875-01 - Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.8.1 images Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes provides the capabilities to address common challenges that administrators and site reliability engineers face as they work across a range of public and private show more ... cloud environments. Clusters and applications are all visible and managed from a single console—with security policy built in. This advisory contains the container images for Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, which provide security updates and fix several bugs. Issues addressed include bypass and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6263-2 - USN-6263-1 fixed vulnerabilities in OpenJDK. Unfortunately, that update introduced a regression when opening APK, ZIP or JAR files in OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17. This update fixes the problem. Motoyasu Saburi discovered that OpenJDK incorrectly handled special characters in file name show more ... parameters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to insert, edit or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected OpenJDK 11 and OpenJDK 17.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6320-1 - Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked into opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, obtain sensitive information across domains, or execute arbitrary code. Lukas Bernhard show more ... discovered that Firefox did not properly manage memory when the "UpdateRegExpStatics" attempted to access "initialStringHeap". An attacker could potentially exploit this issue to cause a denial of service.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6319-1 - Daniël Trujillo, Johannes Wikner, and Kaveh Razavi discovered that some AMD processors utilising speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized memory reads via a speculative side-channel attack. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information, including kernel memory.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6317-1 - Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did show more ... not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6318-1 - Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did show more ... not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6316-1 - Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did show more ... not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4862-01 - Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes 2.3.1 images Multicluster engine for Kubernetes provides the foundational components that are necessary for the centralized management of multiple Kubernetes-based clusters across data centers, public clouds, and private clouds. You can use show more ... the engine to create new Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters or to bring existing Kubernetes-based clusters under management by importing them. After the clusters are managed, you can use the APIs that are provided by the engine to distribute configuration based on placement policy. Issues addressed include a bypass vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4864-01 - The Common UNIX Printing System provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems. Issues addressed include an information leakage vulnerability.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6315-1 - Daniel Moghimi discovered that some Intel Processors did not properly clear microarchitectural state after speculative execution of various instructions. A local unprivileged user could use this to obtain to sensitive information. Tavis Ormandy discovered that some AMD processors did show more ... not properly handle speculative execution of certain vector register instructions. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6314-1 - It was discovered that the netlink implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate policies when parsing attributes in some situations. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Billy Jheng Bing Jhong discovered that the CIFS network file system show more ... implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly validate arguments to ioctl in some situations. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service.
IQ-Medya CMS version 2.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
The DBCPConnectionPool and HikariCPConnectionPool Controller Services in Apache NiFi 0.0.2 through 1.21.0 allow an authenticated and authorized user to configure a Database URL with the H2 driver that enables custom code execution. This exploit will result in several shells (5-7). Successfully tested against Apache nifi 1.17.0 through 1.21.0.
A proof of concept exploit for chaining four CVEs to achieve remote code execution in Juniper JunOS within SRX and EX Series products.
A coordinated law enforcement effort codenamed Operation Duck Hunt has felled QakBot, a notorious Windows malware family that's estimated to have compromised over 700,000 computers globally and facilitated financial fraud as well as ransomware. To that end, the U.S. Justice Department (DoJ) said the malware is "being deleted from victim computers, preventing it from doing any more harm," adding
VMware has released software updates to correct two security vulnerabilities in Aria Operations for Networks that could be potentially exploited to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution. The most severe of the flaws is CVE-2023-34039 (CVSS score: 9.8), which relates to a case of authentication bypass arising as a result of a lack of unique cryptographic key generation. "A
ChatGPT and similar large language models (LLMs) have added further complexity to the ever-growing online threat landscape. Cybercriminals no longer need advanced coding skills to execute fraud and other damaging attacks against online businesses and customers, thanks to bots-as-a-service, residential proxies, CAPTCHA farms, and other easily accessible tools. Now, the latest technology damaging
An unknown threat actor is leveraging malicious npm packages to target developers with an aim to steal source code and configuration files from victim machines, a sign of how threats lurk consistently in open-source repositories. "The threat actor behind this campaign has been linked to malicious activity dating back to 2021," software supply chain security firm Checkmarx said in a report shared
Recently disclosed security flaws impacting Juniper firewalls, Openfire, and Apache RocketMQ servers have come under active exploitation in the wild, according to multiple reports. The Shadowserver Foundation said that it's "seeing exploitation attempts from multiple IPs for Juniper J-Web CVE-2023-36844 (& friends) targeting /webauth_operation.php endpoint," the same day a proof-of-concept (PoC)
New findings show that malicious actors could leverage a sneaky malware detection evasion technique and bypass endpoint security solutions by manipulating the Windows Container Isolation Framework. The findings were presented by Deep Instinct security researcher Daniel Avinoam at the DEF CON security conference held earlier this month. Microsoft's container architecture (and by extension,
A previously undocumented Android banking trojan dubbed MMRat has been observed targeting mobile users in Southeast Asia since late June 2023 to remotely commandeer the devices and perform financial fraud. "The malware, named after its distinctive package name com.mm.user, can capture user input and screen content, and can also remotely control victim devices through various techniques, enabling
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered malicious Android apps for Signal and Telegram distributed via the Google Play Store and Samsung Galaxy Store that are engineered to deliver the BadBazaar spyware on infected devices. Slovakian company ESET attributed the campaign to a China-linked actor called GREF. "Most likely active since July 2020 and since July 2022, respectively, the campaigns
Japan’s National Center of Incident Readiness and Strategy for Cybersecurity (NISC), the agency responsible for the nation's defences against cyber attacks, has itself been hacked. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
ESET researchers have discovered active campaigns linked to the China-aligned APT group known as GREF, distributing espionage code that has previously targeted Uyghurs
