Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it hard to detect using antivirus or othe...

Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it hard to detect using antivirus or othe...

Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance FTA servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved exploiting...

Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance FTA servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved exploiting...

Cyber Criminals Exploit Accellion FTA for Data Theft and Extortion

Starting in mid-December 2020, malicious actors that Mandiant tracks as UNC2546 exploited multiple zero-day vulnerabilities in Accellion’s legacy File Transfer Appliance FTA to install a newly discovered web shell named DEWMODE. The motivation of UNC2546 was not immediately apparent, but starting...

Researchers Unmask Hackers Behind APOMacroSploit Malware Builder

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new kind of Office malware distributed as part of a malicious email campaign that targeted more than 80 customers worldwide in an attempt to control victim machines and steal information remotely. The tool — dubbed "APOMacroSploit" — is a macro exploit...

SolarWinds Hack and the Case of DNS Security

It's not news that some of the top government agencies and companies in the world were victims of the SolarWinds attack. At this point, I can say it's the reason I didn't have a smoother transition back into work-life following a long vacation. As I understand it, the breaches happened after...

Unpatched ShareIT Android App Flaw Could Let Hackers Inject Malware

Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in SHAREit, a popular app with over one billion downloads, that could be abused to leak a user's sensitive data, execute arbitrary code, and possibly lead to remote code execution. The findings come from cybersecurity firm Trend Micro's...

Nude photo theft offers lessons in selfie security

Two former college graduates are in a lot of trouble after breaking into other students accounts and stealing sensitive personal data. They’re facing some serious charges with restitution payments of $35,430, potential jail time, and the threat of very big fines thrown into the mix. What happened...

Researchers Uncover Android Spying Campaign Targeting Pakistan Officials

Two new Android surveillanceware families have been found to target military, nuclear, and election entities in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a pro-India, state-sponsored hacking campaign. Dubbed Hornbill and Sunbird, the malware impersonates legitimate or seemingly innocuous services to cover...

Iranian Hackers Utilize ScreenConnect to Spy On UAE, Kuwait Government Agencies

UAE and Kuwait government agencies are targets of a new cyberespionage campaign potentially carried out by Iranian threat actors, according to new research. Attributing the operation to be the work of Static Kitten aka MERCURY or MuddyWater, Anomali said the "objective of this activity is to...

Hacker Sets Alleged Auction for Witcher 3 Source Code

The ransomware gang behind an attack on videogame developer CD Projekt Red may have made good on its promise to auction off the company’s data – including source code for Cyberpunk 2077 and an unreleased version of the Witcher 3. Or it may not have. The Twitter account @vxunderground, which bills...

Web Credit Card Skimmer Steals Data from Another Credit Card Skimmer

MalwareBytes is reporting a weird software credit card skimmer. It harvests credit card data stolen by another, different skimmer: Even though spotting multiple card skimmer scripts on the same online shop is not unheard of, this one stood out due to its highly specialized nature. "The threat...

Malicious Chrome extensions can steal data by abusing Sync feature

By Saad Rajpoot Security Researcher reveals malicious use of Chrome extension- C&C and data exfiltration possible through Sync Feature. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malicious Chrome extensions can steal data by abusing Sync feature...

Cisco Unified Communications Products Vulnerabilities (cisco-sa-imp-trav-inj-dM687ZD6)

According to its self-reported version, a SQL injection SQLi vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of Cisco Unified CM and Cisco Unified CM SME due to improper validation of user-submitted parameters. An authenticated, remote attacker with administrative credentials can explo...

Spotify Suffers Second Credential-Stuffing Cyberattack

Spotify streaming music aficionados are in the crosshairs of yet another credential-stuffing cyberattack, just three months after the last one. The service has forced password resets for impacted users. Cybercriminals carrying out credential-stuffing take advantage of people who reuse the same...

Over a Dozen Chrome Extensions Caught Hijacking Google Search Results for Millions

New details have emerged about a vast network of rogue extensions for Chrome and Edge browsers that were found to hijack clicks to links in search results pages to arbitrary URLs, including phishing sites and ads. Collectively called "CacheFlow" by Avast, the 28 extensions in question — including...

Authorities Seize Dark-Web Site Linked to the Netwalker Ransomware

U.S. and Bulgarian authorities this week took control of the dark web site used by the NetWalker ransomware cybercrime group to publish data stolen from its victims. "We are striking back against the growing threat of ransomware by not only bringing criminal charges against the responsible actors...

Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data

Insider data theft: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministrys COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. … According to Verlaan, the two suspects worked in DDG call centers, where they had access to official Dutch government...

IBM Jazz Foundation products 跨站脚本漏洞

IBM Engineering Workflow Management is a workflow management system. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in IBM Engineering Workflow Management, which can be exploited by remote attackers to inject malicious script or HTML code that can be used to obtain sensitive information or hijack a...