MAL-2024-1603 Malicious code in icon-reactjs (npm)

This package is considered malicious because it contains code to spam Telegram channels and Whatsapp channels with fake payment confirmations...

More_eggs Malware Disguised as Resumes Targets Recruiters in Phishing Attack

Cybersecurity researchers have spotted a phishing attack distributing the Moreeggs malware by masquerading it as a resume, a technique originally detected more than two years ago. The attack, which was unsuccessful, targeted an unnamed company in the industrial services industry in May 2024,...

Financial sextortion scams on the rise

“Hey there!” messaged Savannah, someone 16-year-old Charlie had never met before, but looked cute in her profile picture. She had long blonde hair, blue eyes, and an adorable smile, so he decided to DM with her on Instagram. Soon their flirty exchanges grew heated, and Savannah was sending Charli...

WhatsApp cryptocurrency scam goes for the cash prize

This weekend a scammer tried his luck by reaching out to me on WhatsApp. It’s not that I don’t appreciate it, but trust me, it’s bad for your business. I received one message from a number hailing from the Togolese Republic. WhatsApp message from an unknow sender “Jay, your financial account has...

Beware: Fake Browser Updates Deliver BitRAT and Lumma Stealer Malware

Fake web browser updates are being used to deliver remote access trojans RATs and information stealer malware such as BitRAT and Lumma Stealer aka LummaC2. "Fake browser updates have been responsible for numerous malware infections, including those of the well-known SocGholish malware,"...

OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations IO originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence AI tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity...

Moonstone Sleet emerges as new North Korean threat actor with new bag of tricks

Microsoft has identified a new North Korean threat actor, now tracked as Moonstone Sleet formerly Storm-1789, that uses both a combination of many tried-and-true techniques used by other North Korean threat actors and unique attack methodologies to target companies for its financial and...

Fake Antivirus Sites Spread Malware Disguised as Avast, Malwarebytes, Bitdefender

By Deeba Ahmed Trellix research exposes the dangers of fake antivirus websites disguised as legitimate security software but harbouring malware. Learn… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake Antivirus Sites Spread Malware Disguised as Avast, Malwarebytes, Bitdefender...

Beware: These Fake Antivirus Sites Spreading Android and Windows Malware

Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices. "Hosting malicious software through sites which lo...

SUSE CVE-2023-52866

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: uclogic: Fix user-memory-access bug in uclogicparamsugeev2initeventhooks When CONFIGHIDUCLOGIC=y and CONFIGKUNITALLTESTS=y, launch kernel and then the below user-memory-access bug occurs. In...

A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting

A Catalog of Hazardous AV Sites – A Tale of Malware Hosting By Trellix · May 23, 2024 This blog was written by Gurumoorthi Ramanathan Executive summary In mid-April 2024, Trellix Advanced Research Center team members observed multiple fake AV sites hosting highly sophisticated malicious files suc...

Hackers Sell Fake Pegasus Spyware on Clearnet and Dark Web

By Waqas Be cautious! Hackers are selling fake Pegasus spyware source code, alerts CloudSEK. Learn how to protect yourself from… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers Sell Fake Pegasus Spyware on Clearnet and Dark Web...

Refs and paths with reserved Windows device names access the devices

Summary On Windows, fetching refs that clash with legacy device names reads from the devices, and checking out paths that clash with such names writes arbitrary data to the devices. This allows a repository, when cloned, to cause indefinite blocking or the production of arbitrary message that...

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-52866

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: uclogic: Fix user-memory-access bug in uclogicparamsugeev2initeventhooks When CONFIGHIDUCLOGIC=y and CONFIGKUNITALLTESTS=y, launch kernel and then the below user-memory-access bug occurs. In...

UBUNTU-CVE-2023-52866

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: HID: uclogic: Fix user-memory-access bug in uclogicparamsugeev2initeventhooks When CONFIGHIDUCLOGIC=y and CONFIGKUNITALLTESTS=y, launch kernel and then the below user-memory-access bug occurs. In...

Cyber Criminals Exploit GitHub and FileZilla to Deliver Malware Cocktail

A "multi-faceted campaign" has been observed abusing legitimate services like GitHub and FileZilla to deliver an array of stealer malware and banking trojans such as Atomic aka AMOS, Vidar, Lumma aka LummaC2, and Octo by impersonating credible software like 1Password, Bartender 5, and Pixelmator...

CreateWiki 安全漏洞

CreateWiki is a MediaWiki extension for Miraheze for requesting and creating wikis. A security vulnerability exists in CreateWiki that stems from an issue with fake wiki requestors...

Malicious Python Package Hides Sliver C2 Framework in Fake Requests Library Logo

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a malicious Python package that purports to be an offshoot of the popular requests library and has been found concealing a Golang-version of the Sliver command-and-control C2 framework within a PNG image of the project's logo. The package employing this...

PT-2024-7514 · Linux · Linux Kernel

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to the pac1934 read raw function in the drivers/iio/adc/pac1934.c module of the Linux kernel, which is associated with accessing memory beyond the allocated buffer...

Watch out for tech support scams lurking in sponsored search results

This blog post was written based on research carried out by Jérôme Segura. A campaign using sponsored search results is targeting home users and taking them to tech support scams. Sponsored search results are the ones that are listed at the top of search results and are labelled "Sponsored". They...