“Total access to all your devices.” Sextortion scammers strike again

At the moment, we’re seeing all kinds of sextortion emails. The scam is cheap to run, easy to automate, and apparently profitable enough that cybercriminals keep using it. Some criminals put more effort into their messages than others. Sextortion emails are messages claiming that scammers recorde...

EUVD-2020-3264

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BitRAT Now Sharing Sensitive Bank Data as a Lure

Introduction In June of 2022 Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU wrote an in-depth report on Redline, a commercial off the shelf infostealer that spreads via fake cracked software hosted on Discord’s content delivery network. Since then, we have continued to track similar threats to identify their...

Australian Hacker Charged with Creating, Selling Spyware to Cyber Criminals

A 24-year-old Australian national has been charged for his purported role in the creation and sale of spyware for use by domestic violence perpetrators and child sex offenders. Jacob Wayne John Keen, who currently resides at Frankston, Melbourne, is said to have created the remote access trojan R...

No-Joke Borat RAT Propagates Ransomware, DDoS

Attackers are using a newly released remote access trojan RAT to spread ransomware and distributed denial of service DDoS — in addition to the traditional RAT function of backdooring victims’ systems. Researchers at Cyble Research Labs discovered the RAT, which they dubbed Borat RAT because it us...

Zulip Desktop License Issue Vulnerability

Zulip Desktop is a desktop version of the team chat application from Zulip USA. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in versions prior to Zulip Desktop 5.0.0, which stems from allowing an attacker to record from a webcam and microphone because of an unprivileged request processor...

CVE-2020-10858

Zulip Desktop before 5.0.0 allows attackers to perform recording via the webcam and microphone due to a missing permission request handler...

CVE-2020-10858

Zulip Desktop before 5.0.0 allows attackers to perform recording via the webcam and microphone due to a missing permission request handler...

CVE-2020-10858: Missing Authorization

Zulip Desktop before 5.0.0 allows attackers to perform recording via the webcam and microphone due to a missing permission request handler...

PT-2021-9177

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Zulip Desktop versions prior to 5.0.0 Description The issue allows attackers to perform recording via the webcam and microphone due to a missing permission request handler. Recommendations For versions prior to 5.0.0, update to version 5.0.0 o...

Reasonably Clever Extortion E-mail Based on Password Theft

Imagine you've gotten your hands on a file of e-mail addresses and passwords. You want to monetize it, but the site it's for isn't very valuable. How do you use it? You convince the owners of the password to send you money. I recently saw a spam e-mail that ties the password to a porn site. The...

Sextortion Scam Uses Recipient’s Hacked Passwords

Here's a clever new twist on an old email scam that could serve to make the con far more believable. The message purports to have been sent from a hacker who's compromised your computer and used your webcam to record a video of you while you were watching porn. The missive threatens to release th...