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Update Your Chrome Browser ASAP to Patch a Week Old Public Exploit
Google on Tuesday released an update for Chrome web browser for Windows, Mac, and Linux, with a total of seven security fixes, including one flaw for which it says an exploit exists in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-21224 , the flaw concerns a type confusion vulnerability in V8 open-source...
CompTIA Certification Training — Get Online Courses @ 95% OFF
The Information Technology industry has seen exponential growth over the years. It is essential for everyone to earn cybersecurity certification if you want to be a part of this growing industry. Organizations always prefer employees with strong internationally-recognized professional...
Prometei Botnet Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers
Attackers are exploiting the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server flaws to co-opt vulnerable machines to a cryptocurrency botnet named Prometei, according to new research. "Prometei exploits the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities associated with the HAFNIUM attacks to penetrate...
Secret Charges Against Julian Assange Revealed Due to "Cut-Paste" Error
Has Wikileaks founder Julian Assange officially been charged with any unspecified criminal offense in the United States? — YES United States prosecutors have accidentally revealed the existence of criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a recently unsealed court filing in an...
New Exploit Lets Malware Attackers Bypass Patch for Critical Microsoft MSHTML Flaw
A short-lived phishing campaign has been observed taking advantage of a novel exploit that bypassed a patch put in place by Microsoft to fix a remote code execution vulnerability affecting the MSHTML component with the goal of delivering Formbook malware. "The attachments represent an escalation ...
Critical RCE Flaw Affects F5 BIG-IP Application Security Servers
Cybersecurity researchers today issued a security advisory warning enterprises and governments across the globe to immediately patch a highly-critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting F5's BIG-IP networking devices running application security servers. The vulnerability, assigned...
Experts Unveil Cyber Espionage Attacks by CopyKittens Hackers
Security researchers have discovered a new, massive cyber espionage campaign that mainly targets people working in government, defence and academic organisations in various countries. The campaign is being conducted by an Iran-linked threat group, whose activities, attack methods, and targets hav...
OpenSSL Releases Patch for 2 New High-Severity Vulnerabilities
The OpenSSL project has rolled out fixes to contain two high-severity flaws in its widely used cryptography library that could result in a denial-of-service DoS and remote code execution. The issues, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, have been described as buffer overrun vulnerabilities...
Microsoft Patch Tuesday — January 2019 Security Updates Released
Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for this year to address 49 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other products, 7 of which are rated critical, 40 important and 2 moderate in severity. Just one of the security vulnerabilities patched by the tech...
Nearly 1 Million Computers Still Vulnerable to "Wormable" BlueKeep RDP Flaw
Nearly 1 million Windows systems are still unpatched and have been found vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical, wormable, remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Remote Desktop Protocol RDP—two weeks after Microsoft releases the security patch. If exploited, the vulnerability cou...
Apache Tomcat Patches Important Remote Code Execution Flaw
The Apache Tomcat team has recently patched several security vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat, one of which could allow an unauthorised attacker to execute malicious code on affected servers remotely. Apache Tomcat, developed by the Apache Software Foundation ASF, is an open source web server and...
Update Samba Servers Immediately to Patch Password Reset and DoS Vulnerabilities
Samba maintainers have just released new versions of their networking software to patch two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and change any other users' passwords, including admin's. Samba is open-source software...
Oracle Warns of Critical Remotely Exploitable Weblogic Server Flaws
Oracle on Tuesday released its quarterly Critical Patch Update for July 2021 with 342 fixes spanning across multiple products, some of which could be exploited by a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. Chief among them is CVE-2019-2729, a critical deserialization vulnerability v...
Iranian Hackers Targeting VMware Horizon Log4j Flaws to Deploy Ransomware
A "potentially destructive actor" aligned with the government of Iran is actively exploiting the well-known Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware Horizon servers with ransomware. Cybersecurity firm SentinelOne dubbed the group "TunnelVision" owing to their heavy reliance on tunneling...
Adobe releases important security patches for its 4 popular software
Adobe has released August 2018 security patch updates for a total of 11 vulnerabilities in its products, two of which are rated as critical that affect Adobe Acrobat and Reader software. The vulnerabilities addressed in this month updates affect Adobe Flash Player, Creative Cloud Desktop...
Update Your Windows PCs to Patch 117 New Flaws, Including 9 Zero-Days
Microsoft rolled out Patch Tuesday updates for the month of July with fixes for a total of 117 security vulnerabilities, including nine zero-day flaws, of which four are said to be under active attacks in the wild, potentially enabling an adversary to take control of affected systems. Of the 117...
Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password
In an effort to secure users' data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud servers in a way that even the company can't read it. Google allows Android users to automatically backup...
Critical Patch Released for 'Wormable' SMBv3 Vulnerability — Install It ASAP!
Microsoft today finally released an emergency software update to patch the recently disclosed very dangerous vulnerability in SMBv3 protocol that could let attackers launch wormable malware, which can propagate itself from one vulnerable computer to another automatically. The vulnerability, track...
Popular AMP Plugin for WordPress Patches Critical Flaw – Update Now
A security researcher has disclosed details of a critical vulnerability in one of the popular and widely active plugins for WordPress that could allow a low-privileged attacker to inject malicious code on AMP pages of the targeted website. The vulnerable WordPress plugin in question is "AMP for W...
Researchers Fingerprint Exploit Developers Who Help Several Malware Authors
Writing advanced malware for a threat actor requires different groups of people with diverse technical expertise to put them all together. But can the code leave enough clues to reveal the person behind it? To this effect, cybersecurity researchers on Friday detailed a new methodology to identify...
Warning — Unpatched Critical 'Wormable' Windows SMBv3 Flaw Disclosed
Shortly after releasing its monthly batch of security updates, Microsoft late yesterday separately issued an advisory warning billions of its Windows users of a new critical, unpatched, and wormable vulnerability affecting Server Message Block 3.0 SMBv3 network communication protocol. It appears...
CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws
Following Microsoft's release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued an emergency directive warning of "active exploitation" of the vulnerabilities. T...
This New Android Malware Can Gain Root Access to Your Smartphones
An unidentified threat actor has been linked to a new Android malware strain that features the ability to root smartphones and take complete control over infected smartphones while simultaneously taking steps to evade detection. The malware has been named "AbstractEmu" owing to its use of code...
FBI, NSA and CISA Warns of Russian Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure
Amid renewed tensions between the U.S. and Russia over Ukraine and Kazakhstan, American cybersecurity and intelligence agencies on Tuesday released a joint advisory on how to detect, respond to, and mitigate cyberattacks orchestrated by Russian state-sponsored actors. To that end, the Cybersecuri...
Hackers Used WhatsApp 0-Day Flaw to Secretly Install Spyware On Phones
Whatsapp has recently patched a severe vulnerability that was being exploited by attackers to remotely install surveillance malware on a few "selected" smartphones by simply calling the targeted phone numbers over Whatsapp audio call. Discovered, weaponized and then sold by the Israeli company NS...
Learn Ethical Hacking From Scratch — 2019 Training Bundle
The world of cybersecurity is fast-paced and ever-changing. New attacks are unleashed every day, and companies around the world lose millions of dollars as a result. The only thing standing in the way of cybercrime is a small army of ethical hackers. These cybersecurity experts are employed to fi...
WARNING: Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Bug Exploited in the Wild
Google has disclosed details of a new zero-day privilege escalation flaw in the Windows operating system that's being actively exploited in the wild. The elevation of privileges EoP vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-17087, concerns a buffer overflow present since at least Windows 7 in the Window...
Two Zero-Day Exploits Found After Someone Uploaded 'Unarmed' PoC to VirusTotal
Security researchers at Microsoft have unveiled details of two critical and important zero-day vulnerabilities that had recently been discovered after someone uploaded a malicious PDF file to VirusTotal, and get patched before being used in the wild. In late March, researchers at ESET found a...
US Agencies and FireEye Were Hacked Using SolarWinds Software Backdoor
State-sponsored actors allegedly working for Russia have targeted the US Treasury, the Commerce Department's National Telecommunications and Information Administration NTIA, and other government agencies to monitor internal email traffic as part of a widespread cyberespionage campaign. The...
Searching for Leaked Celebrity Photos? Don't Blindly Click that Fappening Link!
Are you curiously googling or searching torrents for photos or videos of Emma Watson, Amanda Seyfried, Rose McGowan, or any other celebrities leaked in The Fappenning 2.0? If yes, then beware, you should not click any link promising Fappenning celebrity photos. Cybercriminals often take advantage...
POWELIKS — A Persistent Windows Malware Without Any Installer File
Malware is nothing but a malicious files which is stored on an infected computer system in order to damage the system or steal sensitive data from it or perform other malicious activities. But security researchers have uncovered a new and sophisticated piece of malware that infects systems and...
Chinese Hackers TAG-74 Targets South Korean Organizations in a Multi-Year Campaign
A "multi-year" Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage campaign has been observed targeting South Korean academic, political, and government organizations. Recorded Future's Insikt Group, which is tracking the activity under the moniker TAG-74, said the adversary has been linked to "Chinese...
Instagram Accidentally Exposed Some Users' Passwords In Plaintext
Instagram has recently patched a security issue in its website that might have accidentally exposed some of its users' passwords in plain text. The company recently started notifying affected users of a security bug that resides in a newly offered feature called "Download Your Data" that allows...
Fortnite for Android Released, But Make Sure You Don't Download Malware
Yes, it is official. The massively popular battle royale video game from Epic Games, Fortnite: Battle Royale is finally available for Android devices. Epic announced Thursday that the Android version of Fortnite is now available for everyone to download for free, so you no longer require an invit...
Update Now: Microsoft Releases Patches for 3 Actively Exploited Windows Vulnerabilities
Microsoft on Tuesday released security updates to address 75 flaws spanning its product portfolio, three of which have come under active exploitation in the wild. The updates are in addition to 22 flaws the Windows maker patched in its Chromium-based Edge browser over the past month. Of the 75...
Hackers Exploiting Unpatched RCE Flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite
A severe remote code execution vulnerability in Zimbra's enterprise collaboration software and email platform is being actively exploited, with no patch currently available to remediate the issue. The shortcoming, assigned CVE-2022-41352, carries a critical-severity rating of CVSS 9.8, providing ...
Google Adds Control-Flow Integrity to Beef up Android Kernel Security
Google has added a new security feature to the latest Linux kernels for Android devices to prevent it against code reuse attacks that allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by exploiting control-flow hijacking vulnerabilities. In code reuse attacks, attackers exploit memory corruptio...
Chinese APT41 Hackers Broke into at Least 6 U.S. State Governments: Mandiant
APT41, the state-sponsored threat actor affiliated with China, breached at least six U.S. state government networks between May 2021 and February 2022 by retooling its attack vectors to take advantage of vulnerable internet-facing web applications. The exploited vulnerabilities included "a zero-d...
Not Just Criminals, But Governments Were Also Using MS Word 0-Day Exploit
Recently we reported about a critical code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Word that was being exploited in the wild by cyber criminal groups to distribute malware like Dridex banking trojans and Latentbot. Now, it turns out that the same previously undisclosed vulnerability in Word...
Microsoft Launches Free Linux Forensics and Rootkit Malware Detection Service
Microsoft has announced a new free-to-use initiative aimed at uncovering forensic evidence of sabotage on Linux systems, including rootkits and intrusive malware that may otherwise go undetected. The cloud offering, dubbed Project Freta, is a snapshot-based memory forensic mechanism that aims to...
Citrix Releases Patches for Critical ADC Vulnerability Under Active Attack
Citrix has finally started rolling out security patches for a critical vulnerability in ADC and Gateway software that attackers started exploiting in the wild earlier this month after the company announced the existence of the issue without releasing any permanent fix. I wish I could say, "better...
Silk Road Admin Pleads Guilty – Could Face Up to 20 Years in Prison
An Irish national who helped run the now-defunct dark web marketplace Silk Road pleaded guilty on Friday to drug trafficking charges that carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Gary Davis, also known as Libertas, was one of the site administrators and forum moderators for Silk Road,...
Hezbollah Hacker Group Targeted Telecoms, Hosting, ISPs Worldwide
A "persistent attacker group" with alleged ties to Hezbollah has retooled its malware arsenal with a new version of a remote access Trojan RAT to break into companies worldwide and extract valuable information. In a new report published by the ClearSky research team on Thursday, the Israeli...
French Dark-Web Drug Dealer Sentenced to 20 Years in US Prison
A dark web drugs kingpin who was arrested last year when he arrived in the United States to compete in the World Beard and Mustache Championships has now been sentenced to 20 years in prison. On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola sentenced 36-year-old French national Gal Vallerius, aka...
Disable TELNET! Cisco finds 0-Day in CIA Dump affecting over 300 Network Switch Models
Cisco is warning of a new critical zero-day IOS / IOS XE vulnerability that affects more than 300 of its switch models. The company identified this highest level of vulnerability in its product while analyzing "Vault 7" — a roughly 8,761 documents and files leaked by Wikileaks last week, claiming...
New Wi-Fi Encryption Vulnerability Affects Over A Billion Devices
Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new high-severity hardware vulnerability residing in the widely-used Wi-Fi chips manufactured by Broadcom and Cypress—apparently powering over a billion devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, routers, and IoT gadgets. Dubbed 'Kr00k' and track...
Someone Hijacked MEGA Chrome Extension to Steal Users' Passwords
Warning! If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now. The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz cloud storage service had been compromised and replaced with a malicious version that can steal users' credentials for popular websites like...
Critical Flaws in MySQL Give Hackers Root Access to Server (Exploits Released)
Over a month ago we reported about two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the world's 2nd most popular database management software MySQL: MySQL Remote Root Code Execution CVE-2016-6662 Privilege Escalation CVE-2016-6663 At that time, Polish security researcher Dawid Golunski of Legal Hackers w...
UK Regulator Fines Equifax £500,000 Over 2017 Data Breach
Atlanta-based consumer credit reporting agency Equifax has been issued a £500,000 fine by the UK's privacy watchdog for its last year's massive data breach that exposed personal and financial data of hundreds of millions of its customers. Yes, £500,000—that's the maximum fine allowed by the UK's...
Apple Releases Urgent 0-Day Bug Patch for Mac, iPhone and iPad Devices
Apple on Monday rolled out an urgent security update for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS to address a zero-day flaw that it said may have been actively exploited, making it the thirteenth such vulnerability Apple has patched since the start of this year. The updates, which arrive less than a week after th...