THN Cybersecurity Recap: Top Threats, Tools and Trends (Oct 7 - Oct 13)

Hey there, it's your weekly dose of "what the heck is going on in cybersecurity land " – and trust me, you NEED to be in the loop this time. We've got everything from zero-day exploits and AI gone rogue to the FBI playing crypto kingpin – it's full of stuff they don't 🤫 want you to know. So let's...

Octo2 Malware Uses Fake NordVPN, Chrome Apps to Infect Android Devices

Octo2 malware is targeting Android devices by disguising itself as popular apps like NordVPN and Google Chrome. This…...

OpenAI Blocks 20 Global Malicious Campaigns Using AI for Cybercrime and Disinformation

OpenAI on Wednesday said it has disrupted more than 20 operations and deceptive networks across the world that attempted to use its platform for malicious purposes since the start of the year. This activity encompassed debugging malware, writing articles for websites, generating biographies for...

N. Korean Hackers Use Fake Interviews to Infect Developers with Cross-Platform Malware

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting job seekers in the tech industry to deliver updated versions of known malware families tracked as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity cluster, tracked as CL-STA-0240, is part of a campaign dubbed Contagious Interview tha...

Scammers Hit Florida Hurricane Victims with Fake FEMA Claims, Malware Files

Cybercriminals exploit disaster relief efforts to target vulnerable individuals and organizations in Florida, compromising the integrity of relief…...

Lua Malware Targeting Student Gamers via Fake Game Cheats

Morphisec Threat Labs uncovers sophisticated Lua malware targeting student gamers and educational institutions. Learn how these attacks work…...

Malicious code in fake-usreagant (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 ef713dc551a4b2eb9b0c94b270f4c214aa90e688076e15bb263b3bb5f3b8484b Package imitates the legitimate fake-useragent, however it has a few suspicious additions: fake.py L149 calls a function from 'urllib2' module, which contains ...

MAL-2024-12270 Malicious code in fake-usreagant (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 ef713dc551a4b2eb9b0c94b270f4c214aa90e688076e15bb263b3bb5f3b8484b Package imitates the legitimate fake-useragent, however it has a few suspicious additions: fake.py L149 calls a function from 'urllib2' module, which contains ...

Malicious code in fake-usreagent (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 f4baefb66829fd54eeb9a557917c302ba8588059ca8483d1a56b06518d7638d4 Inside the library there is a part running code hidden in the attached image, which then exfiltrate user-provided data, downloads and install next stage code,...

MAL-2024-11590 Malicious code in fake-usreagent (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 f4baefb66829fd54eeb9a557917c302ba8588059ca8483d1a56b06518d7638d4 Inside the library there is a part running code hidden in the attached image, which then exfiltrate user-provided data, downloads and install next stage code,...

THN Cybersecurity Recap: Top Threats and Trends (Sep 30 - Oct 6)

Ever heard of a "pig butchering" scam? Or a DDoS attack so big it could melt your brain? This week's cybersecurity recap has it all – government showdowns, sneaky malware, and even a dash of app store shenanigans. Get the scoop before it's too late! ⚡ Threat of the Week Double Trouble: Evil Corp&...

Pig Butchering: Fake Trading Apps Target Crypto on Apple, Google Play Stores

Pig Butchering scam targets crypto users with fake trading apps on Apple and Google Play Stores. Disguised as…...

PyPI Repository Found Hosting Fake Crypto Wallet Recovery Tools That Steal User Data

A new set of malicious packages has been unearthed in the Python Package Index PyPI repository that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallet recovery and management services, only to siphon sensitive data and facilitate the theft of valuable digital assets. "The attack targeted users of Atomic, Trust...

DNS Cache Poisoning

github.com/coredns/coredns is vulnerable to DNS Cache Poisoning. The vulnerability is due to manipulation of the DNS caching mechanism through a birthday attack, which allows attackers to achieve DNS cache poisoning by injecting fake responses...

SUSE CVE-2023-30464

CoreDNS through 1.10.1 enables attackers to achieve DNS cache poisoning and inject fake responses via a birthday attack...

Authentication Bypass by Spoofing

Overview github.com/coredns/coredns/plugin/pkg/proxy is a package that implements a forwarding proxy. It caches an upstream net.Conn for some time, so if the same client returns the upstream's Conn will be precached. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authentication Bypass by...

CoreDNS Cache Poisoning via a birthday attack

CoreDNS through 1.10.1 enables attackers to achieve DNS cache poisoning and inject fake responses via a birthday attack...

GHSA-H92Q-FGPP-QHRQ CoreDNS Cache Poisoning via a birthday attack

CoreDNS through 1.10.1 enables attackers to achieve DNS cache poisoning and inject fake responses via a birthday attack...

Walmart customers scammed via fake shopping lists, threatened with arrest

Shopping online or attempting to get in touch with a store is a little bit like walking on a minefield: you might get lucky or take a wrong step and get scammed. Case in point, a malicious ad campaign is abusing Walmart Lists, a kind of virtual shopping list customers can share with family and...

CVE-2023-28457

An issue was discovered in Technitium through 11.0.3. It enables attackers to conduct a DNS cache poisoning attack and inject fake responses within 1 second, which is impactful...