Malicious code in cxp-jquery (npm)

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Malicious code in lib-bb-html-sanitizer (npm)

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Malicious code in digital-marketing-client (npm)

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Facebook Bans Spy-for-Hire Firms for Targeting 50K People

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has kicked six alleged spy-for-hire “cyber-mercenaries” to the curb, along with a mysterious Chinese law-enforcement supplier. It accused the entities of collectively targeting about 50,000 people for surveillance. In a report PDF entitled “Threat Report on the...

5 Things We’ve Learned About CVE-2021-44228

Over the last week, Imperva Threat Research observed interesting data points related to CVE-2021-44228. Despite new variants being discovered and patched by our team, we wanted to share five interesting things that we’ve learned from analyzing a subset of our overall global network traffic. Attac...

Microsoft Internet Explorer / ActiveX Control - Security Bypass

Exploit Title: Microsoft Internet Explorer / ActiveX Control - Security Bypass Exploit Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-INTERNET-EXPLORER-ACTIVEX-CONTROL-SECURITY-BYPASS.txt twitter.com/hyp3rlinx ISR:...

Locke.sol:Stream - arbitraryCall can be used to drain incentive tokens

Handle ScopeLift Vulnerability details Impact Governor can drain incentive balance via arbitraryCall Proof of Concept The Stream contract offers createIncentive and claimIncentive which is the way the contract "expects" incentives to go. Access to claiming incentives is limited to the stream...

Meta Expands Facebook Protect Program to Activists, Journalists, Government Officials

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Thursday announced an expansion of its Facebook Protect security program to include human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and government officials who are more likely to be targeted by bad actors across its social media platforms. "These...

ICO challenges adtech to step up privacy protection

The UK Information Commissioners Office ICO wants the advertising industry to come up with new initiatives that address the risks of adtech, and take account of data protection requirements from the outset. The ICO is an independent body set up to uphold information rights. The technology that is...

IT threat evolution Q3 2021

IT threat evolution Q3 2021 IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. PC statistics IT threat evolution in Q3 2021. Mobile statistics Targeted attacks WildPressure targets macOS Last March, we reported a WildPressure campaign targeting industrial-related entities in the Middle East. While tracking this...

APT C-23 Hackers Using New Android Spyware Variant to Target Middle East Users

A threat actor known for striking targets in the Middle East has evolved its Android spyware yet again with enhanced capabilities that allow it to be stealthier and more persistent while passing off as seemingly innocuous app updates to stay under the radar. The new variants have "incorporated ne...

High-Severity Intel Processor Bug Exposes Encryption Keys

A security vulnerability in Intel chips opens the door for encrypted file access and espionage, plus the ability to bypass copyright protection for digital content. That’s according to Positive Technologies PT, which found that the vulnerability CVE-2021-0146 is a debugging functionality with...

HTML smuggling surges: Highly evasive loader technique increasingly used in banking malware, targeted attacks

HTML smuggling, a highly evasive malware delivery technique that leverages legitimate HTML5 and JavaScript features, is increasingly used in email campaigns that deploy banking malware, remote access Trojans RATs, and other payloads related to targeted attacks. Notably, this technique was observe...

Iran's Lyceum Hackers Target Telecoms, ISPs in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Africa

A state-sponsored threat actor allegedly affiliated with Iran has been linked to a series of targeted attacks aimed at internet service providers ISPs and telecommunication operators in Israel, Morocco, Tunisia, and Saudi Arabia, as well as a ministry of foreign affairs MFA in Africa, new finding...

Security Researchers Reveal Activity Targeting ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus

On September 16, CISA released a joint alert on exploitation of a vulnerability CVE-2021-40539 in ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus. On November 8, security researchers from Palo Alto Networks and Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC released separate reports on targeted attacks against...

CVE-2021-41176

Pterodactyl is an open-source game server management panel built with PHP 7, React, and Go. In affected versions of Pterodactyl a malicious user can trigger a user logout if a signed in user visits a malicious website that makes a request to the Panel's sign-out endpoint. This requires a targeted...

CVE-2021-41176

Pterodactyl is an open-source game server management panel built with PHP 7, React, and Go. In affected versions of Pterodactyl a malicious user can trigger a user logout if a signed in user visits a malicious website that makes a request to the Panel's sign-out endpoint. This requires a targeted...

Nation-State Attacker of Telecommunications Networks

Someone has been hacking telecommunications networks around the world: LightBasin aka UNC1945 is an activity cluster that has been consistently targeting the telecommunications sector at a global scale since at least 2016, leveraging custom tools and an in-depth knowledge of telecommunications...

The joy of phishing your employees

Many companies set up phishing test programs for their employees, often as part of a compliance requirement involving ongoing employee education on security topics. The aim of these programs is to train employees on how to spot a malicious link, not click it, and forward it on to the appropriate...

Google warns some users that FancyBear’s been prowling around

APT28, also known as FancyBear, is at the heart of another targeted campaign. This time, it’s sniffing around users of Google services. Some 14,000 people have been notified about a spear phish attempt looking to compromise accounts and access their files. When did this happen? Sometime late...