Secure Development of a Hooking-Based Deception Framework against Keylogging Techniques

Keyloggers remain a serious threat in modern cybersecurity, silently capturing user keystrokes to steal credentials and sensitive information. Traditional defenses focus mainly on detection and removal, which can halt malicious activity but do little to engage or mislead adversaries. In this pape...

CVE-2010-2442

Microsoft Internet Explorer, possibly 8, does not properly restrict focus changes, which allows remote attackers to read keystrokes via "cross-domain IFRAME gadgets."...

Malicious code in requests-async (npm)

The package contains several malicious PowerShell and VBS scripts used to harvest browser data, take screenshots, log keystrokes, and establish startup persistence. It also bundles a password stealer and exfiltrates stolen data via Slack and Discord webhooks. --- -= Per source details. Do not edi...

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing...

CVE-2024-27886

CVE-2024-27886 affects macOS Ventura/V Sonoma stack with a logic issue in AppKit that allowed an unprivileged app to log keystrokes in other apps, including those in secure input mode. The vulnerability is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.4; Apple documents describe a restriction upgrade to prevent cross...

CVE-2024-27886

A logic issue was addressed with improved restrictions. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.4, macOS Ventura 13.7. An unprivileged app may be able to log keystrokes in other apps including those using secure input mode...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS : OpenSSH vulnerability (USN-6887-1)

The remote Ubuntu 24.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-6887-1 advisory. Philippos Giavridis, Jacky Wei En Kung, Daniel Hugenroth, and Alastair Beresford discovered that the OpenSSH ObscureKeystrokeTiming feature did not work as...

New Medusa Android Trojan Targets Banking Users Across 7 Countries

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an updated version of an Android banking trojan called Medusa that has been used to target users in Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey, the U.K., and the U.S. The new fraud campaigns, observed in May 2024 and active since July 2023, manifested through...

Warning: New Adware Campaign Targets Meta Quest App Seekers

A new campaign is tricking users searching for the Meta Quest formerly Oculus application for Windows into downloading a new adware family called AdsExhaust. "The adware is capable of exfiltrating screenshots from infected devices and interacting with browsers using simulated keystrokes,"...

CVE-2024-27799

This issue was addressed with additional entitlement checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 16.7.8 and iPadOS 16.7.8, macOS Monterey 12.7.5, macOS Sonoma 14.5, macOS Ventura 13.6.7. An unprivileged app may be able to log keystrokes in other apps including those using secure input mode...

Popular Keyboard Apps Leak User Data: Billion Potentially Exposed

By Waqas Popular keyboard apps leak user data! Citizen Lab reports 8 out of 9 Android IMEs expose keystrokes. Change yours & protect passwords! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Popular Keyboard Apps Leak User Data: Billion Potentially Exposed...

From PDFs to Payload: Bogus Adobe Acrobat Reader Installers Distribute Byakugan Malware

Bogus installers for Adobe Acrobat Reader are being used to distribute a new multi-functional malware dubbed Byakugan. The starting point of the attack is a PDF file written in Portuguese that, when opened, shows a blurred image and asks the victim to click on a link to download the Reader...

DNS-Tunnel-Keylogger - Keylogging Server And Client That Uses DNS Tunneling/Exfiltration To Transmit Keystrokes

This post-exploitation keylogger will covertly exfiltrate keystrokes to a server. These tools excel at lightweight exfiltration and persistence, properties which will prevent detection. It uses DNS tunelling/exfiltration to bypass firewalls and avoid detection. Server Setup The server uses python...

CVE-2024-23277

The issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4, macOS Sonoma 14.4. An attacker in a privileged network position may be able to inject keystrokes by spoofing a keyboard...

About the security content of iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4

About the security content of iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 This document describes the security content of iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches ...

BlueZ: Privilege Escalation

Background BlueZ is the canonical bluetooth tools and system daemons package for Linux. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in BlueZ. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact An attacker may inject unauthenticated keystrokes via Bluetooth, leadi...

Authentication flaw

An authentication issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in macOS Sonoma 14.2, macOS Ventura 13.6.3, macOS Monterey 12.7.2. An app may be able to monitor keystrokes without user permission...

About the security content of iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2

About the security content of iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2 This document describes the security content of iOS 17.2 and iPadOS 17.2. About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches ...

The vulnerability of the Acer Wireless Keyboard SK-9662 lies in the insufficient security of its data encryption. This allows a hacker to decode keyboard inputs or insert arbitrary keystrokes.

The vulnerability of the Acer Wireless Keyboard SK-9662 relates to insufficiently secure data encryption. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to decode keyboard inputs or insert arbitrary keystrokes remotely...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-6540-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...