5 Keys to Improve Your Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity isn't easy. If there was a product or service you could buy that would just magically solve all of your cybersecurity problems, everyone would buy that thing, and we could all rest easy. However, that is not the way it works. Technology continues to evolve. Cyber attackers adapt and...

Millions of PCs Found Running Outdated Versions of Popular Software

It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves vulnerable to online threats and known security vulnerabilities/exploits. Security vendor Avast has released its PC Trends Report 2019 revealing...

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...

⚡ 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,...

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 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...

CISA Issues Urgent Warning: Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on March 15 added a security vulnerability impacting Adobe ColdFusion to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The critical flaw in question is CVE-2023-26360 CVSS score: 8.6, which...

Researchers Warn of Ongoing Mass Exploitation of Zimbra RCE Vulnerability

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added two flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The two high-severity issues relate to weaknesses in Zimbra Collaboration, both of which could be chained to achieve...

SIM Cards in 29 Countries Vulnerable to Remote Simjacker Attacks

Until now, I'm sure you all might have heard of the SimJacker vulnerability disclosed exactly a month ago that affects a wide range of SIM cards and can remotely be exploited to hack into any mobile phone just by sending a specially crafted binary SMS. If you are unaware, the name "SimJacker" has...

Warning: ASUS Software Update Server Hacked to Distribute Malware

Remember the CCleaner hack? CCleaner hack was one of the largest supply chain attacks that infected more than 2.3 million users with a backdoored version of the software in September 2017. Security researchers today revealed another massive supply chain attack that compromised over 1 million...

RunC Flaw Lets Attackers Escape Linux Containers to Gain Root on Hosts

A serious security vulnerability has been discovered in the core runC container code that affects several open-source container management systems, potentially allowing attackers to escape Linux container and obtain unauthorized, root-level access to the host operating system. The vulnerability,...

New malware found using Google Drive as its command-and-control server

Since most security tools also keep an eye on the network traffic to detect malicious IP addresses, attackers are increasingly adopting infrastructure of legitimate services in their attacks to hide their malicious activities. Cybersecurity researchers have now spotted a new malware attack campai...

Hackers Using Zero-Width Spaces to Bypass MS Office 365 Protection

Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cybercriminals and email scammers are already being using in the wild to bypass security features of Microsoft Office 365, including Safe Links, which are originally designed to protect users from malware and phishing attacks...

Google DNS Service (8.8.8.8) Now Supports DNS-over-TLS Security

Almost every activity on the Internet starts with a DNS query, a key function of the Internet that works as an Internet's directory where your device looks up for the server IP addresses after you enter a human-readable web address e.g., thehackernews.com. Since DNS queries are sent in clear text...

New iPhone Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Photos and Contacts

Looking for a hack to bypass the passcode or screen lock on iPhones? Jose Rodriguez, an iPhone enthusiast, has discovered a passcode bypass vulnerability in Apple's new iOS version 12 that potentially allows an attacker to access photos and contacts, including phone numbers and emails, on a locke...

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...

New Threat: Stealthy HeadCrab Malware Compromised Over 1,200 Redis Servers

At least 1,200 Redis database servers worldwide have been corralled into a botnet using an "elusive and severe threat" dubbed HeadCrab since early September 2021. "This advanced threat actor utilizes a state-of-the-art, custom-made malware that is undetectable by agentless and traditional...

5 High Impact Flaws Affect Cisco Routers, Switches, IP Phones and Cameras

Several Cisco-manufactured network equipments have been found vulnerable to five new security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to take complete control over them, and subsequently, over the enterprise networks they power. Four of the five high-severity bugs are remote code execution issue...

More SIM Cards Vulnerable to Simjacker Attack Than Previously Disclosed

In case you missed it. SimJacker vulnerability is concerning because it can be executed: ➡️ against mass audience, ➡️ against devices manufactured by any vendor, ➡️ with just a $10 GSM modem, ➡️ and there's nothing much affected users can do. Details — pic.twitter.com/ByXhMGB0Hl...

Hackers' Operating System Kali Linux Released for Raspberry Pi 4

We've got some really exciting news for you... Offensive Security has released an official version of Kali Linux for Raspberry Pi 4—the most powerful version of the compact computer board yet that was released just two weeks ago with the full 4GB of RAM at low cost and easy accessibility. Based o...

Facebook admits public data of its 2.2 billion users has been compromised

Facebook dropped another bombshell on its users by admitting that all of its 2.2 billion users should assume malicious third-party scrapers have compromised their public profile information. On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that "malicious actors" took advantage of "Search" too...

Someone Stole Almost Half a BILLION Dollars from Japanese Cryptocurrency Exchange

Coincheck, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange, has suffered what appears to be the biggest hack in the history of cryptocurrencies, losing $532 million in digital assets nearly $420 million in NEM tokens and $112 in Ripples. In 2014, Mt Gox, one of the largest bitcoin exchange at that time,...

Severe Security Flaw Found in "jsonwebtoken" Library Used by 22,000+ Projects

UPDATE: CVE-2022-23529 Retracted Following Review Auth0 and Unit 42 said they are formally retracting CVE-2022-23529 CVSS score: 7.6 based on the fact that several prerequisites are essential for exploitation. The cybersecurity company said "important security checks" have been added to fix the...

New Zloader Banking Malware Campaign Exploiting Microsoft Signature Verification

An ongoing ZLoader malware campaign has been uncovered exploiting remote monitoring tools and a nine-year-old flaw concerning Microsoft's digital signature verification to siphon user credentials and sensitive information. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point Research, which has been trackin...

Learn How to Manage and Secure Active Directory Service Accounts

There are many different types of accounts in a typical Active Directory environment. These include user accounts, computer accounts, and a particular type of account called a service account. A service account is a special type of account that serves a specific purpose for services, and...

New Shamoon Malware Variant Targets Italian Oil and Gas Company

Shamoon is back… one of the most destructive malware families that caused damage to Saudi Arabia's largest oil producer in 2012 and this time it has targeted energy sector organizations primarily operating in the Middle East. Earlier this week, Italian oil drilling company Saipem was attacked and...

Researchers Detail Critical RCE Flaw Reported in Popular vm2 JavaScript Sandbox

A now-patched security flaw in the vm2 JavaScript sandbox module could be abused by a remote adversary to break out of security barriers and perform arbitrary operations on the underlying machine. "A threat actor can bypass the sandbox protections to gain remote code execution rights on the host...

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...

'Dirty Pipe' Linux Flaw Affects a Wide Range of QNAP NAS Devices

Network-attached storage NAS appliance maker QNAP on Monday warned of a recently disclosed Linux vulnerability affecting its devices that could be abused to elevate privileges and gain control of affected systems. "A local privilege escalation vulnerability, also known as 'Dirty Pipe,' has been...

Researchers Warn of Linux Kernel 'Dirty Pipe' Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

Linux distributions are in the process of issuing patches to address a newly disclosed security vulnerability in the kernel that could allow an attacker to overwrite arbitrary data into any read-only files and allow for a complete takeover of affected systems. Dubbed "Dirty Pipe" CVE-2022-0847,...

New UAF Vulnerability Affecting Microsoft Office to be Patched Today

Four security vulnerabilities discovered in the Microsoft Office suite, including Excel and Office online, could be potentially abused by bad actors to deliver attack code via Word and Excel documents. "Rooted from legacy code, the vulnerabilities could have granted an attacker the ability to...

Facebook Finds 'No Evidence' Hackers Accessed Connected Third-Party Apps

When Facebook last weekend disclosed a massive data breach—that compromised access tokens for more than 50 million accounts—many feared that the stolen tokens could have been used to access other third-party services, including Instagram and Tinder, through Facebook login. Good news is that...

Looking For Secure VPN Services? Get a Lifetime Subscription

PRIVACY – a bit of an Internet buzzword nowadays, because the business model of the Internet has now shifted towards data collection. Today, most users surf the web unaware of the fact that websites and online services collect their personal information, including search histories, location, and...

CISA Warns of 5 Actively Exploited Security Flaws: Urgent Action Required

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Friday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This includes three high-severity flaws in the Veritas Backup Exec Agent software...

Google Issues Urgent Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

Google on Thursday rolled out emergency fixes to contain an actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-3723, has been described as a type confusion flaw in the V8 JavaScript engine. Security researchers Jan Vojtěšek, Milánek, and Przemek...

Microsoft Issues Patches for 2 Windows Zero-Days and 126 Other Vulnerabilities

Microsoft's Patch Tuesday updates for the month of April have addressed a total of 128 security vulnerabilities spanning across its software product portfolio, including Windows, Defender, Office, Exchange Server, Visual Studio, and Print Spooler, among others. 10 of the 128 bugs fixed are rated...

First Patch Tuesday of 2022 Brings Fix for a Critical 'Wormable' Windows Vulnerability

Microsoft on Tuesday kicked off its first set of updates for 2022 by plugging 96 security holes across its software ecosystem, while urging customers to prioritize patching for what it calls a critical "wormable" vulnerability. Of the 96 vulnerabilities, nine are rated Critical and 89 are rated...

Multiple Critical Flaws Discovered in Honeywell Experion PKS and ACE Controllers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday released an advisory regarding multiple security vulnerabilities affecting all versions of Honeywell Experion Process Knowledge System C200, C200E, C300, and ACE controllers that could be exploited to achieve remote code...

Critical Flaws Discovered in Azure App That Microsoft Secretly Installs on Linux VMs

Microsoft on Tuesday addressed a quartet of security flaws as part of its Patch Tuesday updates that could be abused by adversaries to target Azure cloud customers and elevate privileges as well as allow for remote takeover of vulnerable systems. The list of flaws, collectively called OMIGOD by...

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...

NK Hackers Deploy Browser Exploits on South Korean Sites to Spread Malware

A North Korean threat actor has been discovered taking advantage of two exploits in Internet Explorer to infect victims with a custom implant as part of a strategic web compromise SWC targeting a South Korean online newspaper. Cybersecurity firm Volexity attributed the watering hole attacks to a...

PwnedPiper PTS Security Flaws Threaten 80% of Hospitals in the U.S.

Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed a set of nine vulnerabilities known as "PwnedPiper" that left a widely-used pneumatic tube system PTS vulnerable to critical attacks, including a possibility of complete takeover. The security weaknesses, disclosed by American cybersecurity firm Armis...

New WhatsApp Bug Could Have Let Hackers Secretly Install Spyware On Your Devices

The recent controversies surrounding the WhatsApp hacking haven't yet settled, and the world's most popular messaging platform could be in the choppy waters once again. The Hacker News has learned that last month WhatsApp quietly patched yet another critical vulnerability in its app that could ha...

Warning: Researcher Drops phpMyAdmin Zero-Day Affecting All Versions

A cybersecurity researcher recently published details and proof-of-concept for an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL and MariaDB databases. phpMyAdmin is a free and open source administration tool for MySQL and MariaDB that's...

Apple Releases iOS 12.4.1 Emergency Update to Patch 'Jailbreak' Flaw

Apple just patched an unpatched flaw that it patched previously but accidentally unpatched recently — did I confuse you? Let's try it again... Apple today finally released iOS 12.4.1 to fix a critical jailbreak vulnerability, like it or not, that was initially patched by the company in iOS 12.3 b...

China's Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists' Phones

Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed. Xinjiang XUAR is an autonomous territory and home to many Muslim ethnic...

In-Depth Analysis of JS Sniffers Uncovers New Families of Credit Card-Skimming Code

In a world that's growing increasingly digital, Magecart attacks have emerged as a key cybersecurity threat to e-commerce sites. Magecart, which is in the news a lot lately, is an umbrella term given to 12 different cyber criminal groups that are specialized in secretly implanting a special piece...

Critical Flaws in Ghostscript Could Leave Many Systems at Risk of Hacking

Google Project Zero's security researcher has discovered a critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Ghostscript—an open source interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and PDF page description languages. Written entirely in C, Ghostscript is a package of software that runs on differen...

Google Blocks Chrome Extension Installations From 3rd-Party Sites

You probably have come across many websites that let you install browser extensions without ever going to the official Chrome web store. It's a great way for users to install an extension, but now Google has decided to remove the ability for websites to offer "inline installation" of Chrome...

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...