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Gigaset Android Update Server Hacked to Install Malware on Users' Devices
Gigaset has revealed a malware infection discovered in its Android devices was the result of a compromise of a server belonging to an external update service provider. Impacting older smartphone models — GS100, GS160, GS170, GS180, GS270 plus, and GS370 plus series — the malware took the form of...
Google limits which apps can access the list of installed apps on your device
Apps on Android have been able to infer the presence of specific apps, or even collect the full list of installed apps on the device. What's more, an app can also set to be notified when a new app is installed. Apart from all the usual concerns about misuse of such a data grab, the information ca...
Microsoft Says SolarWinds Hackers Accessed Some of Its Source Code
Microsoft on Thursday revealed that the threat actors behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack were able to gain access to a small number of internal accounts and escalate access inside its internal network. The "very sophisticated nation-state actor" used the unauthorized access to view, but no...
Microsoft Warns CrowdStrike of Hackers Targeting Azure Cloud Customers
New evidence amidst the ongoing probe into the espionage campaign targeting SolarWinds has uncovered an unsuccessful attempt to compromise cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike and access the company's email. The hacking endeavor was reported to the company by Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center on...
Zero-Click Wormable RCE Vulnerability Reported in Microsoft Teams
A zero-click remote code execution RCE bug in Microsoft Teams desktop apps could have allowed an adversary to execute arbitrary code by merely sending a specially-crafted chat message and compromise a target's system. The issues were reported to the Windows maker by Oskars Vegeris, a security...
Digitally Signed Bandook Malware Once Again Targets Multiple Sectors
A cyberespionage group with suspected ties to the Kazakh and Lebanese governments has unleashed a new wave of attacks against a multitude of industries with a retooled version of a 13-year-old backdoor Trojan. Check Point Research called out hackers affiliated with a group named Dark Caracal in a...
Cato MDR: Managed Threat Detection and Response Made Easy
Lately, we can't help noticing an endless cycle where the more enterprises invest in threat prevention; the more hackers adapt and continue to penetrate enterprises. To make things worse, detecting these penetrations still takes too long with an average dwell time that exceeds 100 ! days. To keep...
Critical RCE Bug Affects Millions of OpenWrt-based Network Devices
A cybersecurity researcher today disclosed technical details and proof-of-concept of a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting OpenWrt, a widely used Linux-based operating system for routers, residential gateways, and other embedded devices that route network traffic. Tracked as...
Apple Opens Its Invite-Only Bug Bounty Program to All Researchers
As promised by Apple in August this year, the company today finally opened its bug bounty program to all security researchers, offering monetary rewards to anyone for reporting vulnerabilities in the iOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, iPadOS, and iCloud to the company. Since its launch three years ago,...
Europol Shuts Down Over 30,500 Piracy Websites in Global Operation
In a coordinated global law enforcement operation, Europol has taken down more than 30,500 websites for distributing counterfeit and pirated items over the Internet and arrested three suspects. Among other things, the seized domains reportedly offered various counterfeit goods and pirated product...
Windows 10 Now Automatically Uninstalls Updates That Cause Problems
Do you always think twice before installing Windows updates worrying that it could crash your system or leave it non-working the day after Patch Tuesdays? Don't worry. Microsoft has addressed this issue by adding a safety measure that would from now onwards automatically uninstall buggy software...
3 Carbanak (FIN7) Hackers Charged With Stealing 15 Million Credit Cards
Three members of one of the world's largest cybercrime organizations that stole over a billion euros from banks across the world over the last five years have been indicted and charged with 26 felony counts, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday. The three suspects are believed to be...
21-Year-Old Creator of LuminosityLink Hacking Tool Pleads Guilty
As it was speculated that the author of LuminosityLink RAT was arrested last year, a plea agreement made available to the public today confirmed the news. Back in September last year, Europol's European Cybercrime Centre EC3 and National Crime Agency began the crackdown on the LuminosityLink RAT,...
US Warns of 'DeltaCharlie' – A North Korean DDoS Botnet Malware
The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation. The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS provided details on "DeltaCharlie," a malware variant used by "Hidden Cobra" hacking...
High-Severity Linux Sudo Flaw Allows Users to Gain Root Privileges
A high-severity vulnerability has been reported in Linux that could be exploited by a low privilege attacker to gain full root access on an affected system. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2017-1000367, was discovered by researchers at Qualys Security in Sudo's "getprocessttyname" function f...
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How to Reduce Phishing Exposure Before It Turns into Business Disruption
What happens when a phishing email looks clean enough to pass through security, but dangerous enough to expose the business after one click? That is the gap many SOCs still struggle with: the attacks that leave teams unsure what was exposed, who else was targeted, and how far the risk has spread...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Fortinet Exploits, RedLine Clipjack, NTLM Crack, Copilot Attack & More
In cybersecurity, the line between a normal update and a serious incident keeps getting thinner. Systems that once felt reliable are now under pressure from constant change. New AI tools, connected devices, and automated systems quietly create more ways in, often faster than security teams can...
RansomHub Becomes 2024's Top Ransomware Group, Hitting 600+ Organizations Globally
The threat actors behind the RansomHub ransomware-as-a-service RaaS scheme have been observed leveraging now-patched security flaws in Microsoft Active Directory and the Netlogon protocol to escalate privileges and gain unauthorized access to a victim network's domain controller as part of their...
MITRE Corporation Breached by Nation-State Hackers Exploiting Ivanti Flaws
The MITRE Corporation revealed that it was the target of a nation-state cyber attack that exploited two zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure appliances starting in January 2024. The intrusion led to the compromise of its Networked Experimentation, Research, and Virtualization Environment NERVE...
New Hugging Face Vulnerability Exposes AI Models to Supply Chain Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have found that it's possible to compromise the Hugging Face Safetensors conversion service to ultimately hijack the models submitted by users and result in supply chain attacks. "It's possible to send malicious pull requests with attacker-controlled data from the Huggin...
WordPress Bricks Theme Under Active Attack: Critical Flaw Impacts 25,000+ Sites
A critical security flaw in the Bricks theme for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to run arbitrary PHP code on susceptible installations. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-25600 CVSS score: 9.8, enables unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution. It impacts all...
Pegasus Spyware Targeted iPhones of Journalists and Activists in Jordan
The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirm...
Cisco Fixes High-Risk Vulnerability Impacting Unity Connection Software
Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Unity Connection that could permit an adversary to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system. Tracked as CVE-2024-20272 CVSS score: 7.3, the vulnerability is an arbitrary file upload bug residing in the...
New PoC Exploit for Apache ActiveMQ Flaw Could Let Attackers Fly Under the Radar
Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated a new technique that exploits a critical security flaw in Apache ActiveMQ to achieve arbitrary code execution in memory. Tracked as CVE-2023-46604 CVSS score: 10.0, the vulnerability is a remote code execution bug that could permit a threat actor to run...
New BiBi-Windows Wiper Targets Windows Systems in Pro-Hamas Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a Windows version of a wiper malware that was previously observed targeting Linux systems in cyber attacks aimed at Israel. Dubbed BiBi-Windows Wiper by BlackBerry, the wiper is the Windows counterpart of BiBi-Linux Wiper, which has been put to use by a...
SideCopy Exploiting WinRAR Flaw in Attacks Targeting Indian Government Entities
The Pakistan-linked threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed leveraging the recent WinRAR security vulnerability in its attacks targeting Indian government entities to deliver various remote access trojans such as AllaKore RAT, Ares RAT, and DRat. Enterprise security firm SEQRITE describe...
CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Adobe Acrobat Reader Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added a high-severity flaw in Adobe Acrobat Reader to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2023-21608 CVSS score: 7.8, the vulnerability has been described ...
New Apple Zero-Days Exploited to Target Egyptian ex-MP with Predator Spyware
The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023. "The targeting took place...
New Condi Malware Hijacking TP-Link Wi-Fi Routers for DDoS Botnet Attacks
A new malware called Condi has been observed exploiting a security vulnerability in TP-Link Archer AX21 AX1800 Wi-Fi routers to rope the devices into a distributed denial-of-service DDoS botnet. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said the campaign has ramped up since the end of May 2023. Condi is the work ...
U.S. Authorities Seize 13 Domains Offering Criminal DDoS-for-Hire Services
U.S. authorities have announced the seizure of 13 internet domains that offered DDoS-for-hire services to other criminal actors. The takedown is part of an ongoing international initiative dubbed Operation PowerOFF that's aimed at dismantling criminal DDoS-for-hire infrastructures worldwide. The...
CISA Warns of Critical Flaws in Illumina's DNA Sequencing Instruments
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released an Industrial Control Systems ICS medical advisory warning of a critical flaw impacting Illumina medical devices. The issues impact the Universal Copy Service UCS software in the Illumina MiSeqDx, NextSeq 550Dx, iScan, iS...
U.S. and U.K. Warn of Russian Hackers Exploiting Cisco Router Flaws for Espionage
U.K. and U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Russian nation-state actors exploiting now-patched flaws in networking equipment from Cisco to conduct reconnaissance and deploy malware against select targets. The intrusions, per the authorities, took place in 2021 and targete...
Severe Android and Novi Survey Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The two flaws are listed below - CVE-2023-20963 CVSS score: 7.8 - Android Framework Privilege Escalation...
High Severity Vulnerabilities Reported in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that, if successfully exploited, to completely compromise affected systems. Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 said the flaws could be abused to remote access to the devices and defeat security constraints. The issues...
Unofficial Patch Released for New Actively Exploited Windows MotW Vulnerability
An unofficial patch has been made available for an actively exploited security flaw in Microsoft Windows that makes it possible for files signed with malformed signatures to sneak past Mark-of-the-Web MotW protections. The fix, released by 0patch, arrives weeks after HP Wolf Security disclosed a...
Implementing Defense in Depth to Prevent and Mitigate Cyber Attacks
The increased use of information technology in our everyday life and business has led to cyber-attacks becoming more sophisticated and large-scale. For organizations to thrive in this era of technology, they must develop robust security strategies to detect and mitigate attacks. Defense in depth ...
Active Directory Bugs Could Let hackers Take Over Windows Domain Controllers
Microsoft is urging customers to patch two security vulnerabilities in Active Directory domain controllers that it addressed in November following the availability of a proof-of-concept PoC tool on December 12. The two vulnerabilities — tracked as CVE-2021-42278 and CVE-2021-42287 — have a severi...
Critical Flaw Found in Older Cisco Small Business Routers Won't Be Fixed
A critical vulnerability in Cisco Small Business Routers will not be patched by the networking equipment giant, since the devices reached end-of-life in 2019. Tracked as CVE-2021-34730 CVSS score: 9.8, the issue resides in the routers' Universal Plug-and-Play UPnP service, enabling an...
Hackers Use New Trick to Disable Macro Security Warnings in Malicious Office Files
While it's a norm for phishing campaigns that distribute weaponized Microsoft Office documents to prompt victims to enable macros in order to trigger the infection chain directly, new findings indicate attackers are using non-malicious documents to disable security warnings prior to executing mac...
Android Apps with 5.8 million Installs Caught Stealing Users' Facebook Passwords
Google intervened to remove nine Android apps downloaded more than 5.8 million times from the company's Play Store after the apps were caught furtively stealing users' Facebook login credentials. "The applications were fully functional, which was supposed to weaken the vigilance of potential...
BIOS Disconnect: New High-Severity Bugs Affect 128 Dell PC and Tablet Models
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed a chain of vulnerabilities affecting the BIOSConnect feature within Dell Client BIOS that could be abused by a privileged network adversary to gain arbitrary code execution at the BIOS/UEFI level of the affected device. "As the attacker has the...
Chinese Hackers Believed to be Behind Second Cyberattack on Air India
Even as a massive data breach affecting Air India came to light the previous month, India's flag carrier airline appears to have suffered a separate cyber assault that lasted for a period of at least two months and 26 days, new research has revealed, which attributed the incident with moderate...
Severe Bugs Reported in EtherNet/IP Stack for Industrial Systems
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday issued an advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in the OpENer EtherNet/IP stack that could expose industrial systems to denial-of-service DoS attacks, data leaks, and remote code execution. All OpENer commits and...
Joker's Stash, The Largest Carding Marketplace, Announces Shutdown
Joker's Stash, the largest dark web marketplace notorious for selling compromised payment card data, has announced plans to shut down its operations on February 15, 2021. In a message board post on a Russian-language underground cybercrime forum, the operator of the site — who goes by the name...
Valve's Steam Server Bugs Could've Let Hackers Hijack Online Games
Critical flaws in a core networking library powering Valve's online gaming functionality could have allowed malicious actors to remotely crash games and even take control over affected third-party game servers. "An attacker could remotely crash an opponent's game client to force a win or even...
New Bluetooth Vulnerability Exposes Billions of Devices to Hackers
Academics from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL disclosed a security vulnerability in Bluetooth that could potentially allow an attacker to spoof a remotely paired device, exposing over a billion of modern devices to hackers. The attacks, dubbed Bluetooth Impersonation AttackS or BIA...
New PlunderVolt Attack Targets Intel SGX Enclaves by Tweaking CPU Voltage
A team of cybersecurity researchers demonstrated a novel yet another technique to hijack Intel SGX, a hardware-isolated trusted space on modern Intel CPUs that encrypts extremely sensitive data to shield it from attackers even when a system gets compromised. Dubbed Plundervolt and tracked as...
Boost Your Personal Security With These Killer 2019 Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals
If you're like most consumers, you're probably looking forward to the upcoming Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale events. Who wouldn't want to get all sorts of products and services at massive discounts? But while most consumers are typically eyeing personal gadgets and entertainment appliances,...
Hostinger Suffers Data Breach – Resets Password For 14 Million Users
Popular web hosting provider Hostinger has been hit by a massive data breach, as a result of which the company has reset passwords for all customers as a precautionary measure. In a blog post published on Sunday, Hostinger revealed that "an unauthorized third party" breached one of its servers an...