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Microsoft Warns of State-Sponsored Attacks Exploiting Critical PaperCut Vulnerability
Iranian nation-state groups have now joined financially motivated actors in actively exploiting a critical flaw in PaperCut print management software, Microsoft disclosed over the weekend. The tech giant's threat intelligence team said it observed both Mango Sandstorm Mercury and Mint Sandstorm...
CopyCat Android Rooting Malware Infected 14 Million Devices
A newly uncovered malware strain has already infected more than 14 Million Android devices around the world, earning its operators approximately $1.5 Million in fake ad revenues in just two months. Dubbed CopyCat, the malware has capabilities to root infected devices, establish persistency, and...
CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Wednesday issued a bulletin warning of a zero-day flaw affecting Zoho ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus deployments that is currently being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-40539, concerns a REST API...
Hackers Using Google Analytics to Bypass Web Security and Steal Credit Cards
Researchers reported on Monday that hackers are now exploiting Google's Analytics service to stealthily pilfer credit card information from infected e-commerce sites. According to several independent reports from PerimeterX, Kaspersky, and Sansec, threat actors are now injecting data-stealing cod...
Microsoft Issues Patch for Windows Zero-Day Flaw Under Active Attack
Microsoft today, on its year-end December Patch Tuesday, released security updates to patch a total 39 vulnerabilities its Windows operating systems and applications—10 of which are rated as critical and other important in severity. One of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech giant th...
Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered
2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks...
Deadglyph: New Advanced Backdoor with Distinctive Malware Tactics
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented advanced backdoor dubbed Deadglyph employed by a threat actor known as Stealth Falcon as part of a cyber espionage campaign. "Deadglyph's architecture is unusual as it consists of cooperating components – one a native x64 binary,...
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of Critical Spring4Shell Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added the recently disclosed remote code execution RCE vulnerability affecting the Spring Framework, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on "evidence of active exploitation." The critical severity flaw,...
TeamViewer Flaw Could Let Hackers Steal System Password Remotely
If you are using TeamViewer, then beware and make sure you're running the latest version of the popular remote desktop connection software for Windows. TeamViewer team recently released a new version of its software that includes a patch for a severe vulnerability CVE 2020-13699, which, if...
Comodo Forums Hack Exposes 245,000 Users' Data — Recent vBulletin 0-day Used
If you have an account with the Comodo discussion board and support forums, also known as ITarian Forum, you should change your password immediately. Cybersecurity company Comodo has become one of the major victims of a recently disclosed vBulletin 0-day vulnerability, exposing login account...
A Twitter Bug Left Android Users' Private Tweets Exposed For 4 Years
Twitter just admitted that the social network accidentally revealed some Android users' protected tweets to the public for more than 4 years — a kind of privacy blunder that you'd typically expect from Facebook. When you sign up for Twitter, all your Tweets are public by default, allowing anyone ...
Microsoft Issues Patches for Another Four Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
As part of this month's Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released security patches for a total of 55 vulnerabilities across its products, including fixes for four zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Just yesterday, Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update separately to pat...
23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users' Personal Data
Misconfigurations in multiple Android apps leaked sensitive data of more than 100 million users, potentially making them a lucrative target for malicious actors. "By not following best-practices when configuring and integrating third-party cloud-services into applications, millions of users'...
Critical Unpatched VMware Flaw Affects Multiple Corporates Products
VMware has released temporary workarounds to address a critical vulnerability in its products that could be exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system. "A malicious actor with network access to the administrative configurator on port 8443 and a valid password for the...
⚡ Weekly Recap: APT Campaigns, Browser Hijacks, AI Malware, Cloud Breaches and Critical CVEs
Cyber threats don't show up one at a time anymore. They're layered, planned, and often stay hidden until it's too late. For cybersecurity teams, the key isn't just reacting to alerts—it's spotting early signs of trouble before they become real threats. This update is designed to deliver clear,...
CISO Challenge: Check Your Cybersecurity Skills On This New Competition Site
InfoSec leaders tend to be a specific type. Their jobs require them to think of possible threats, take actions that may not pay immediate results, plan for unknown security risks, and react quickly when emergencies arise, often before the morning's first coffee. The high-stakes position also mean...
New Highly-Critical SAP Bug Could Let Attackers Take Over Corporate Servers
SAP has patched a critical vulnerability impacting the LM Configuration Wizard component in NetWeaver Application Server AS Java platform, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to take control of SAP applications. The bug, dubbed RECON and tracked as CVE-2020-6287, is rated with a maximum CVSS sco...
GhostCat: New High-Risk Vulnerability Affects Servers Running Apache Tomcat
If your web server is running on Apache Tomcat, you should immediately install the latest available version of the server application to prevent hackers from taking unauthorized control over it. Yes, that's possible because all versions 9.x/8.x/7.x/6.x of the Apache Tomcat released in the past 13...
20-Year-Old BreachForums Founder Faces Up to 5 Years in Prison
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker "pompompurin," faces a maximum penalty of up to...
New SH1MMER Exploit for Chromebook Unenrolls Managed ChromeOS Devices
A new exploit has been devised to "unenroll" enterprise- or school-managed Chromebooks from administrative control. Enrolling ChromeOS devices makes it possible to enforce device policies as set by the organization via the Google Admin console, including the features that are available to users...
Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages
A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...
Juniper Releases Patches for Critical Flaws in Junos OS and Contrail Networking
Juniper Networks has pushed security updates to address several vulnerabilities affecting multiple products, some of which could be exploited to seize control of affected systems. The most critical of the flaws affect Junos Space and Contrail Networking, with the tech company urging customers to...
New Apache Log4j Update Released to Patch Newly Discovered Vulnerability
The Apache Software Foundation ASF on Tuesday rolled out fresh patches to contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in Log4j that could be abused by threat actors to run malicious code on affected systems, making it the fifth security shortcoming to be discovered in the tool in the span of a month...
Chinese Hackers Used a New Rootkit to Spy on Targeted Windows 10 Users
A formerly unknown Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to a long-standing evasive operation aimed at South East Asian targets as far back as July 2020 to deploy a kernel-mode rootkit on compromised Windows systems. Attacks mounted by the hacking group, dubbed GhostEmperor by Kaspersky,...
New Chrome 0-day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!
Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world's most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by the search giant for Windows, Mac,...
Unsecured Adobe Server Exposes Data for 7.5 Million Creative Cloud Users
The U.S. multinational computer software company Adobe has suffered a serious security breach earlier this month that exposed user records' database belonging to the company's popular Creative Cloud service. With an estimated 15 million subscribers, Adobe Creative Cloud or Adobe CC is a...
Beware!! New Windows .exe Malware Found Targeting macOS Computers
A malicious Windows EXE file can even infect your Mac computer as well. Yes, you heard me right — a .exe malware on macOS. Security researchers at antivirus firm Trend Micro have discovered a novel way hackers are using in the wild to bypass Apple's macOS security protection and infect Mac...
Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub's code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service DDoS attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps. Interestingly, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attac...
CISA's KEV Catalog Updated with 3 New Flaws Threatening IT Management Systems
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The list of vulnerabilities is below - CVE-2022-35914 CVSS score: 9.8 - Teclib GLPI Remote Code Execution...
Dozens of Vulnerable NuGet Packages Allow Attackers to Target .NET Platform
An analysis of off-the-shelf packages hosted on the NuGet repository has revealed 51 unique software components to be vulnerable to actively exploited, high-severity vulnerabilities, once again underscoring the threat posed by third-party dependencies to the software development process. In light...
Chinese Hackers Using Never-Before-Seen Tactics for Critical Infrastructure Attacks
The newly discovered Chinese nation-state actor known as Volt Typhoon has been observed to be active in the wild since at least mid-2020, with the hacking crew linked to never-before-seen tradecraft to retain remote access to targets of interest. The findings come from CrowdStrike, which is...
Hackers Exploit 0-Day Gatekeeper Flaw to Attack macOS Computers
Security is only as strong as the weakest link. As further proof of this, Apple released an update to macOS operating systems to address an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability that could circumvent all security protections, thus permitting unapproved software to run on Macs. The macOS flaw,...
Abusing Network Time Protocol (NTP) to perform massive Reflection DDoS attack
In 2013, we have seen a significant increase in the use of a specific distributed denial of service DDoS methodology known as Distributed Reflection Denial of Service attacks DrDoS. Open and misconfigured DNS Domain Name System can be used by anyone to resolve domain names to IP addresses are...
Hackers Using Microsoft MSHTML Flaw to Spy on Targeted PCs with Malware
A new Iranian threat actor has been discovered exploiting a now-addressed critical flaw in the Microsoft Windows MSHTML platform to target Farsi-speaking victims with a previously undocumented PowerShell-based information stealer designed to harvest extensive details from infected machines. "The...
Google Releases Urgent Chrome Update to Patch 2 Actively Exploited 0-Day Bugs
Google on Thursday rolled out an emergency update for its Chrome web browser, including fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that it says are being actively exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-38000 and CVE-2021-38003, the weaknesses relate to insufficient validation of untrusted input i...
Update Your Chrome Browser to Patch Yet Another 0-Day Exploited in-the-Wild
Google has rolled out yet another update to Chrome browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux to fix four security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw that's being exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-30554, the high severity flaw concerns a use after free vulnerability in WebGL aka Web...
New Bugs Could Let Hackers Bypass Spectre Attack Mitigations On Linux Systems
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from kernel memory. Discovered by Piotr Krysi...
Let's Encrypt Revoking 3 Million TLS Certificates Issued Incorrectly Due to a Bug
The most popular free certificate signing authority Let's Encrypt is going to revoke more than 3 million TLS certificates within the next 24 hours that may have been issued wrongfully due to a bug in its Certificate Authority software. The bug, which Let's Encrypt confirmed on February 29 and was...
New Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Found Actively Exploited in the Wild
You must update your Google Chrome immediately to the latest version of the web browsing application. Security researcher Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group discovered and reported a high severity vulnerability in Chrome late last month that could allow remote attackers to execute...
Snapd Flaw Lets Attackers Gain Root Access On Linux Systems
Ubuntu and some other Linux distributions suffer from a severe privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow a local attacker or a malicious program to obtain root privileges and total control over the targeted system. Dubbed "DirtySock" and identified as CVE-2019-7304, the vulnerability wa...
PornHub Pays Hackers $20,000 to Find Zero-day Flaws in its Website
Cyber attacks get bigger, smarter, more damaging. PrnHub launched its bug bounty program two months ago to encourage hackers and bug bounty hunters to find and responsibly report flaws in its services and get rewarded. Now, it turns out that the world's most popular prngraphy site has paid its...
Alert: Active Exploitation of TP-Link, Apache, and Oracle Vulnerabilities Detected
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added three flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The security vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2023-1389 CVSS score: 8.8 - TP-Link Archer AX-21 Command Injection...
Someone Hacked 50,000 Printers to Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel
This may sound crazy, but it's true! The war for "most-subscribed Youtube channel" crown between T-Series and PewDiePie just took an interesting turn after a hacker yesterday hijacked more than 50,000 internet-connected printers worldwide to print out flyers asking everyone to subscribe to...
Feds Warn of AndroxGh0st Botnet Targeting AWS, Azure, and Office 365 Credentials
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI warned that threat actors deploying the AndroxGh0st malware are creating a botnet for "victim identification and exploitation in target networks." A Python-based malware, AndroxGh0st was fir...
Experts Notice Sudden Surge in Exploitation of WordPress Page Builder Plugin Vulnerability
Researchers from Wordfence have sounded the alarm about a "sudden" spike in cyber attacks attempting to exploit an unpatched flaw in a WordPress plugin called Kaswara Modern WPBakery Page Builder Addons. Tracked as CVE-2021-24284, the issue is rated 10.0 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system a...
WARNING: A New Android Zero-Day Vulnerability Is Under Active Attack
Google has disclosed that a now-patched vulnerability affecting Android devices that use Qualcomm chipsets is being weaponized by adversaries to launch targeted attacks. Tracked as CVE-2020-11261 CVSS score 8.4, the flaw concerns an "improper input validation" issue in Qualcomm's Graphics compone...
Ubuntu-Maker Canonical's GitHub Account Gets Hacked
An unknown hacker yesterday successfully managed to hack into the official GitHub account of Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux project and created 11 new empty repositories. It appears that the cyberattack was, fortunately, just a "loud" defacement attempt rather than a "silent"...
Rogue Developer Infects Widely Used NodeJS Module to Steal Bitcoins
A widely used third-party NodeJS module with nearly 2 million downloads a week was compromised after one of its open-source contributor gone rogue, who infected it with a malicious code that was programmed to steal funds stored in Bitcoin wallet apps. The Node.js library in question is...
U.S. Cybersecurity Agency CISA Adds Three New Vulnerabilities in KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added three security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The list of shortcomings is as follows - CVE-2022-47986 CVSS score: 9.8 - IBM Aspera Faspex Code...
Microsoft Releases Patch for Actively Exploited Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability
A day after Apple and Google rolled out urgent security updates, Microsoft has pushed software fixes as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release cycle to plug 66 security holes affecting Windows and other components such as Azure, Office, BitLocker, and Visual Studio, including an actively...