Blind Eagle Uses Proton66 Hosting for Phishing, RAT Deployment on Colombian Banks

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been attributed with high confidence to the use of the Russian bulletproof hosting service Proton66. Trustwave SpiderLabs, in a report published last week, said it was able to make this connection by pivoting from Proton66-linked digital assets, leading t...

Report Warns of Sophisticated DDoS Campaigns Crippling Global Banks

A new FS-ISAC and Akamai report warns that sophisticated DDoS attacks are severely impacting the global financial sector, leading to multi-day outages. Learn about these evolving threats and how institutions can strengthen defences...

Quantized Approximate Signal Processing (QASP): Towards Homomorphic Encryption for Audio

Audio and speech data are increasingly used in machine learning applications such as speech recognition, speaker identification, and mental health monitoring. However, the passive collection of this data by audio listening devices raises significant privacy concerns. Fully homomorphic encryption...

Analysis of Black Basta Ransomware Chat Leaks

Analysis of Black Basta Ransomware Chat Leaks By Jambul Tologonov and John Fokker · March 18, 2025 Introduction On Feb 11, 2025 a Telegram user @ExploitWhispers shared via their Telegram channel ‘shopotbasta’ EN: ‘basta whisper’ Black Basta RaaS Ransomware as a Service Matrix chat leaks containin...

CVE-2022-49549 x86/MCE/AMD: Fix memory leak when threshold_create_bank() fails

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/MCE/AMD: Fix memory leak when thresholdcreatebank fails In mcethresholdcreatedevice, if thresholdcreatebank fails, the previously allocated threshold banks array @bp will be leaked because the call to mcethresholdremovedevice...

CVE-2022-49549

The CVE-2022-49549 entry concerns a Linux kernel memory-leak in the x86 MCE/AMD path: when threshold_create_bank() fails inside mce_threshold_create_device(), the previously allocated threshold banks array (bp) could be leaked because threshold_remove_device() only frees it if the bank creation s...

WordPress Ultimate Classified Listings plugin <= 1.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Account Takeover vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery to Account Takeover vulnerability discovered by Rob Banks in WordPress Plugin Ultimate Classified Listings versions = 1.5...

kernel: x86/MCE/AMD: Fix memory leak when threshold_create_bank() fails

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/MCE/AMD: Fix memory leak when thresholdcreatebank fails In mcethresholdcreatedevice, if thresholdcreatebank fails, the previously allocated threshold banks array @bp will be leaked because the call to mcethresholdremovedevice...

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 04 - Nov 10)

⚠️ Imagine this: the very tools you trust to protect you online—your two-factor authentication, your car's tech system, even your security software—turned into silent allies for hackers. Sounds like a scene from a thriller, right? Yet, in 2024, this isn't fiction; it's the new cyber reality...

Mounting memory with MemProcFS for advanced memory forensics

Mounting memory? This changes everything! TL;DR Memory forensics is crucial for investigations, providing access to volatile data, like running processes and network connections. MemProcFS is a game-changer tool in memory forensics, allowing memory dumps to be mounted and browsed like file system...

CVE-2024-8914

The Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code Tự Động – MoMo, ViettelPay, VNPay và 40 ngân hàng Việt Nam plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in all versions up to, and including, 2.0.1 due to incorrect use of the wpksesallowedhtml function, which allows the 'onclick' attribute for...

WordPress plugin Thanh Toán Quét Mã QR Code T? Ð?ng – MoMo, ViettelPay, VNPay và 40 ngân hàng Vi?t Nam 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a suite of blogging platforms developed using the PHP language. The platform supports setting up personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. WordPress plugin...

This AI-Powered Cybercrime Service Bundles Phishing Kits with Malicious Android Apps

A Spanish-speaking cybercrime group named GXC Team has been observed bundling phishing kits with malicious Android applications, taking malware-as-a-service MaaS offerings to the next level. Singaporean cybersecurity company Group-IB, which has been tracking the e-crime actor since January 2023,...

How One Bad CrowdStrike Update Crashed the World’s Computers

A defective CrowdStrike update sent computers around the globe into a reboot death spiral, taking down air travel, hospitals, banks, and more with it. Here’s how that’s possible...

Singapore Banks to Phase Out OTPs for Online Logins Within 3 Months

Retail banking institutions in Singapore have three months to phase out the use of one-time passwords OTPs for authentication purposes when signing into online accounts to mitigate the risk of phishing attacks. The decision was announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore MAS and the...

Brazilian Banks Targeted by New AllaKore RAT Variant Called AllaSenha

Brazilian banking institutions are the target of a new campaign that distributes a custom variant of the Windows-based AllaKore remote access trojan RAT called AllaSenha. The malware is "specifically aimed at stealing credentials that are required to access Brazilian bank accounts, and leverages...

U.S. Sanctions 3 Cryptocurrency Exchanges for Helping Russia Evade Sanctions

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control OFAC sanctioned three cryptocurrency exchanges for offering services used to evade economic restrictions imposed on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine in early 2022. This includes Bitpapa IC FZC LLC, Crypto Explorer DMCC...

Cybersecurity Tactics FinServ Institutions Can Bank On in 2024

The landscape of cybersecurity in financial services is undergoing a rapid transformation. Cybercriminals are exploiting advanced technologies and methodologies, making traditional security measures obsolete. The challenges are compounded for community banks that must safeguard sensitive financia...

New Coyote Trojan Targets 61 Brazilian Banks with Nim-Powered Attack

Sixty-one banking institutions, all of them originating from Brazil, are the target of a new banking trojan called Coyote. "This malware utilizes the Squirrel installer for distribution, leveraging Node.js and a relatively new multi-platform programming language called Nim as a loader to complete...

outerbanksbluesales.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3851101

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...