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DorXNG is a modern solution for harvesting OSINT data using advanced search engine operators through multiple upstream search providers. On the backend it leverages a purpose built containerized image of SearXNG, a self-hosted, hackable, privacy focused, meta-search engine. Our SearXNG...

Chinese APT Group Hits Air-Gapped Systems in Europe with Malware

By Deeba Ahmed Industrial organizations in Eastern Europe are the prime targets of this data-harvesting campaign. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chinese APT Group Hits Air-Gapped Systems in Europe with Malware...

Researchers Uncover Thriving Phishing Kit Market on Telegram Channels

In yet another sign that Telegram is increasingly becoming a thriving hub for cybercrime, researchers have found that threat actors are using the messaging platform to peddle phishing kits and help set up phishing campaigns. "To promote their 'goods,' phishers create Telegram channels through whi...

Fake ChatGPT Chrome Extension Hijacking Facebook Accounts for Malicious Advertising

A fake ChatGPT-branded Chrome browser extension has been found to come with capabilities to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts, highlighting one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware. "By hijacking high-profile Facebook business accounts, t...

Consumer privacy and social media

Looking at the privacy related stories of 2022, its not hard to see that much of the focus was on the social media giants. Banning TikTok is slowly becoming a trend among US states. Google and Facebooks owner Meta was fined on several occasions for amounts that would have put other companies out ...

Beware: Tainted VPNs Being Used to Spread EyeSpy Surveillanceware

Tainted VPN installers are being used to deliver a piece of surveillanceware dubbed EyeSpy as part of a malware campaign that started in May 2022. It uses "components of SecondEye – a legitimate monitoring application – to spy on users of 20Speed VPN, an Iranian-based VPN service, via trojanized...

Malicious PyPI Packages Using Cloudflare Tunnels to Sneak Through Firewalls

In yet another campaign targeting the Python Package Index PyPI repository, six malicious packages have been found deploying information stealers on developer systems. The now-removed packages, which were discovered by Phylum between December 22 and December 31, 2022, include pyrologin,...

Newly Uncovered PyPI Package Drops Fileless Cryptominer to Linux Systems

A now-removed rogue package pushed to the official third-party software repository for Python has been found to deploy cryptominers on Linux systems. The module, named "secretslib" and downloaded 93 times prior to its deletion, was released to the Python Package Index PyPI on August 6, 2022 and i...

U.S. FCC Commissioner Asks Apple and Google to Remove TikTok from App Stores

One of the commissioners of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC has renewed calls asking for Apple and Google to boot the popular video-sharing platform TikTok from their app stores citing "its pattern of surreptitious data practices." "It is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable...

Natural Language Processing and “Mindful” AI Drive More Sophisticated Bad Bot Attacks

The evolution from human to bot attacks Over the last several years of my career in cyber security, I have been fortunate to work with professionals who researched and developed new cyber security detection and prevention solutions that block high-end cyber attacks. Initially, these attacks were...

Chinese Hackers Caught Stealing Intellectual Property from Multinational Companies

An elusive and sophisticated cyberespionage campaign orchestrated by the China-backed Winnti group has managed to fly under the radar since at least 2019. Dubbed "Operation CuckooBees" by Israeli cybersecurity company Cybereason, the massive intellectual property theft operation enabled the threa...

A week in security (April 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Credential-stealing malware disguises itself as Telegram, targets social media users Old Play Store apps served notice by upcoming API level changes Denonia cryptominer is first malware to target AWS Lambda Ransomware: March 2022 review Why identity management...

Apps removed from Google Play for harvesting user data

Dozens of apps were removed from the Google Play Store after they were found to be harvesting the data of device owners. The code in question—a software development kit SDK—was used inside apps which were downloaded over 10 million times. What happened? A wide range of Android apps were found to...

Are Fake COVID Testing Sites Harvesting Data?

Over the past few weeks, Ive seen a bunch of writing about what seems to be fake COVID-19 testing sites. They take your name and info, and do a nose swab, but you never get test results. Speculation centered around data harvesting, but that didnt make sense because it was far too labor intensive...

'Free' Cyberpunk 2077 Downloads Lead to Data Harvesting

The hotly anticipated videogame title Cyberpunk 2077 comes out on Dec. 10, inspiring breathless countdowns from gaming publications and enthusiasts across the globe. As with all things zeitgeisty, cybercriminals are looking to cash in on the excitement, with scams that offer “free copies” while...

IRS COVID-19 Relief Payment Deadlines Anchor Convincing Phish

A credential-phishing email campaign is making the rounds, using the lure of coronavirus tax relief to scam people into giving up their personal information. The data-harvesting cybercriminals are looking to take advantage of the Internal Revenue Service IRS deadlines that are approaching for...

Over 100 New Chrome Browser Extensions Caught Spying On Users

Google recently removed 106 more extensions from its Chrome Web Store after they were found illegally collecting sensitive user data as part of a "massive global surveillance campaign" targeting oil and gas, finance, and healthcare sectors. Awake Security, which disclosed the findings late last...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Members Personal Information Leak Due to IDOR

Summary https://██████ allows anyone to sign up and view other members profile. According to wikipedia, ███████ is part of US DoD "████████": ██████ I signed up with a regular account and noticed that by referencing users ████, I can send thousands of "█████████" and also, using another end-point...

Ring Doorbell App for Android Caught Sharing User Data with Facebook, Data-Miners

UPDATE Amazon’s Ring Doorbell app for Android is a nexus for data-harvesting, according to an investigation by the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF. Privacy advocates allege Ring goes so far as to silently deliver updates on Ring customer usage to Facebook, even if the Ring owner doesn’t have a...

Smart Krampus-3PC Malware Targets iPhone Users Online

A malicious web redirect campaign affecting iPhone users has impacted more than 100 publisher websites, including online newspapers and international weekly news magazines. According to The Media Trust’s Digital Security & Operations DSO team, iPhone users visiting any of the impacted websites we...