U.S. DOJ warns of fake unemployment benefit websites stealing data

By Habiba Rashid The United States Justice Department has warned of fake unemployment benefit websites aiming at the personal data of Americans. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: U.S. DOJ warns of fake unemployment benefit websites stealing data...

WordPress Injection Anchors Widespread Malware Campaign

The downloader malware known as Gootloader is poisoning websites globally as part of an extensive drive-by and watering-hole cybercampaign that abuses WordPress sites by injecting them with hundreds of pages of fake content. The adversaries have so far delivered the Cobalt Strike intrusion tool,...

How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?

An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss, security breach, and compromised...

Malvertising campaign on PornHub and other top adult brands exposes users to tech support scams

Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on the worlds largest adult platforms including PornHub. The same group behind this campaign has been active for much longer and we believe is tied to previous schemes...

Valentine’s Day Malware Attack Mimics Flower Store

With Valentine’s Day approaching this weekend, several people have received “recent order” email confirmations for flowers or lingerie. These emails are actually part of a spear-phishing attack, which ultimately leads recipients to a malicious document that executes the BazaLoader malware. The...

Generation of fake documents via public GET-call

Impact Generation of fake documents via public GET-call Patches We recommend to update to the current version 6.3.5.1. You can get the update to 6.3.5.1 regularly via the Auto-Updater or directly via the download overview. https://www.shopware.com/en/download/shopware-6 Workarounds For older...

GHSA-JVG4-9RC2-WVCR Generation of fake documents via public GET-call

Impact Generation of fake documents via public GET-call Patches We recommend to update to the current version 6.3.5.1. You can get the update to 6.3.5.1 regularly via the Auto-Updater or directly via the download overview. https://www.shopware.com/en/download/shopware-6 Workarounds For older...

Detailed: Here's How Iran Spies on Dissidents with the Help of Hackers

Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition forces, and ISIS supporters, and Kurdish native...

Government Demands for Amazon User Data Exploded in 2020

Plus: Smartmatic lawsuits, a fake WhatsApp, and more of the week’s top security news...

N. Korean Hackers Targeting Security Experts to Steal Undisclosed Researches

Google on Monday disclosed details about an ongoing campaign carried out by a government-backed threat actor from North Korea that has targeted security researchers working on vulnerability research and development. The internet giant's Threat Analysis Group TAG said the adversary created a...

Malicious Package

Overview From https://blog.sonatype.com/sonatype-spots-more-discord-malware-in-npm?hspreview=BbDPGbfh-40737456755: The malicious packages were detected by Sonatype’s Security Research Team leveraging Sonatype’s Nexus Intelligence research service. On analyzing these packages closely, our Security...

Malicious Package

Overview From https://blog.sonatype.com/sonatype-spots-more-discord-malware-in-npm?hspreview=BbDPGbfh-40737456755: The malicious packages were detected by Sonatype’s Security Research Team leveraging Sonatype’s Nexus Intelligence research service. On analyzing these packages closely, our Security...

Beware — A New Wormable Android Malware Spreading Through WhatsApp

A newly discovered Android malware has been found to propagate itself through WhatsApp messages to other contacts in order to expand what appears to be an adware campaign. "This malware spreads via victim's WhatsApp by automatically replying to any received WhatsApp message notification with a li...

CVE-2020-35686

The SECOMN service in Sound Research DCHU model software component modules APO through 2.0.9.17, delivered on HP Windows 10 computers, may allow escalation of privilege via a fake DLL. As a resolution, Windows Update is being submitted for all affected products to update to 2.0.9.18 or later...

CVE-2020-35686

The SECOMN service in Sound Research DCHU model software component modules APO through 2.0.9.17, delivered on HP Windows 10 computers, may allow escalation of privilege via a fake DLL. As a resolution, Windows Update is being submitted for all affected products to update to 2.0.9.18 or later...

Design/Logic Flaw

The SECOMN service in Sound Research DCHU model software component modules APO through 2.0.9.17, delivered on HP Windows 10 computers, may allow escalation of privilege via a fake DLL. As a resolution, Windows Update is being submitted for all affected products to update to 2.0.9.18 or later...

CVE-2020-35686

The CVE-2020-35686 issue affects the Sound Research DCHU software (SECOMN service) used on HP Windows 10 machines, up to version 2.0.9.17. Root cause is a privilege escalation via a fake DLL loaded by the SECOMN service. The documented impact is local privilege escalation with high severity; expl...

CVE-2020-35686

The SECOMN service in Sound Research DCHU model software component modules APO through 2.0.9.17, delivered on HP Windows 10 computers, may allow escalation of privilege via a fake DLL. As a resolution, Windows Update is being submitted for all affected products to update to 2.0.9.18 or later...

Backdoor.Win32.Kurbadur.a Remote Stack Buffer Overflow

Discovery / credits: malvuln - Malvuln.com c 2021 Original source: https://malvuln.com/advisory/821d3d5a9b15dc3388fe17f233cce296.txt Contact: [email protected] Media: twitter.com/malvuln Threat: Backdoor.Win32.Kurbadur.a Vulnerability: Remote Stack Buffer Overflow Description: The malware liste...

Pakistani Android users hit by spyware campaign with malicious apps

By Waqas The spyware campaign is sophisticated considering the use of fake yet convincing apps and domains. Here's what we know so far. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pakistani Android users hit by spyware campaign with malicious apps...