TheMoon Botnet Resurfaces, Exploiting EoL Devices to Power Criminal Proxy

A botnet previously considered to be rendered inert has been observed enslaving end-of-life EoL small home/small office SOHO routers and IoT devices to fuel a criminal proxy service called Faceless. "TheMoon, which emerged in 2014, has been operating quietly while growing to over 40,000 bots from...

Phobos Ransomware Aggressively Targeting U.S. Critical Infrastructure

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have warned of Phobos ransomware attacks targeting government and critical infrastructure entities, outlining the various tactics and techniques the threat actors have adopted to deploy the file-encrypting malware. "Structured as a ransomware as a...

Beware: Fake Facebook Job Ads Spreading 'Ov3r_Stealer' to Steal Crypto and Credentials

Threat actors are leveraging bogus Facebook job advertisements as a lure to trick prospective targets into installing a new Windows-based stealer malware codenamed Ov3rStealer. "This malware is designed to steal credentials and crypto wallets and send those to a Telegram channel that the threat...

Medusa Ransomware on the Rise: From Data Leaks to Multi-Extortion

The threat actors associated with the Medusa ransomware have ramped up their activities following the debut of a dedicated data leak site on the dark web in February 2023 to publish sensitive data of victims who are unwilling to agree to their demands. "As part of their multi-extortion strategy,...

Two High-Risk Security Flaws Discovered in Curl Library - New Patches Released

--- Image Source: JFrog Security Research Patches have been released for two security flaws impacting the Curl data transfer library, the most severe of which could potentially result in code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-38545 CVSS score: 7.5 - SOCKS5 heap-based...

Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in IOS and IOS XE Software After Exploitation Attempts

Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The medium-severity vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-20109, and has a CVSS score of 6....

Critical JetBrains TeamCity Flaw Could Expose Source Code and Build Pipelines to Attackers

A critical security vulnerability in the JetBrains TeamCity continuous integration and continuous deployment CI/CD software could be exploited by unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-42793, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and ha...

Vietnamese Cybercriminals Targeting Facebook Business Accounts with Malvertising

Malicious actors associated with the Vietnamese cybercrime ecosystem are leveraging advertising-as-a-vector on social media platforms such as Meta-owned Facebook to distribute malware. "Threat actors have long used fraudulent ads as a vector to target victims with scams, malvertising, and more,"...

Ongoing Xurum Attacks on E-commerce Sites Exploiting Critical Magento 2 Vulnerability

E-commerce sites using Adobe's Magento 2 software are the target of an ongoing campaign that has been active since at least January 2023. The attacks, dubbed Xurum by Akamai, leverage a now-patched critical security flaw CVE-2022-24086, CVSS score: 9.8 in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source...

Asylum Ambuscade: A Cybercrime Group with Espionage Ambitions

The threat actor known as Asylum Ambuscade has been observed straddling cybercrime and cyber espionage operations since at least early 2020. "It is a crimeware group that targets bank customers and cryptocurrency traders in various regions, including North America and Europe," ESET said in an...

Experts Detail New Zero-Click Windows Vulnerability for NTLM Credential Theft

Cybersecurity researchers have shared details about a now-patched security flaw in Windows MSHTML platform that could be abused to bypass integrity protections on targeted machines. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-29324 CVSS score: 6.5, has been described as a security feature bypass. It w...

Technical Details Released for 'SynLapse' RCE Vulnerability Reported in Microsoft Azure

Microsoft has incorporated additional improvements to address the recently disclosed SynLapse security vulnerability in order to meet comprehensive tenant isolation requirements in Azure Data Factory and Azure Synapse Pipelines. The latest safeguards include moving the shared integration runtimes...

Critical UNISOC Chip Vulnerability Affects Millions of Android Smartphones

A critical security flaw has been uncovered in UNISOC's smartphone chipset that could be potentially weaponized to disrupt a smartphone's radio communications through a malformed packet. "Left unpatched, a hacker or a military unit can leverage such a vulnerability to neutralize communications in...

Researchers Find Bugs in Over A Dozen Widely Used URL Parser Libraries

A study of 16 different Uniform Resource Locator URL parsing libraries has unearthed inconsistencies and confusions that could be exploited to bypass validations and open the door to a wide range of attack vectors. In a deep-dive analysis jointly conducted by cybersecurity firms Claroty and Snyk,...

Malware That Spreads Via Xcode Projects Now Targeting Apple's M1-based Macs

A Mac malware campaign targeting Xcode developers has been retooled to add support for Apple's new M1 chips and expand its features to steal confidential information from cryptocurrency apps. XCSSET came into the spotlight in August 2020 after it was found to spread via modified Xcode IDE project...

Chinese Hackers Escalate Attacks Against India and Hong Kong Amid Tensions

An emerging threat actor out of China has been traced to a new hacking campaign aimed at government agencies in India and residents of Hong Kong intending to steal sensitive information, cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes revealed in the latest report shared with The Hacker News. The attacks were...

Beware of 'Coronavirus Maps' – It's a malware infecting PCs to steal passwords

Cybercriminals will stop at nothing to exploit every chance to prey on internet users. Even the disastrous spread of SARS-COV-II the virus, which causes COVID-19 the disease, is becoming an opportunity for them to likewise spread malware or launch cyber attacks. Reason Labs recently released a...

Researchers Demonstrate How to Hack Any TikTok Account by Sending SMS

TikTok, the 3rd most downloaded app in 2019, is under intense scrutiny over users' privacy, censoring politically controversial content and on national-security grounds—but it's not over yet, as the security of billions of TikTok users would be now under question. The famous Chinese viral...

Cerberus: A New Android 'Banking Malware For Rent' Emerges

After a few popular Android Trojans like Anubis, Red Alert 2.0, GM bot, and Exobot, quit their malware-as-a-service businesses, a new player has emerged on the Internet with similar capabilities to fill the gap, offering Android bot rental service to the masses. Dubbed "Cerberus," the new remote...

Facebook Could Be Fined Up To $5 Billion Over Privacy Violations

Facebook expects to face a massive fine of up to $5 billion from the Federal Trade Commission FTC as the result of an investigation into its privacy policies—that's about one month's revenue for the social media giant. To be clear the amount of fine is not what the FTC has announced or hinted yet...

Encrypted Messaging Project "Matrix" Suffers Extensive Cyber Attack

Matrix—the organization behind an open source project that offers a protocol for secure and decentralized real-time communication—has suffered a massive cyber attack after unknown attackers gained access to the servers hosting its official website and data. Hackers defaced Matrix's website, and...

Researchers Implant "Protected" Malware On Intel SGX Enclaves

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a way to hide malicious code in Intel SGX enclaves, a hardware-based memory encryption feature in modern processors that isolates sensitive code and data to protect it from disclosure or modification. In other words, the technique allows attackers to...

U.S. Charges North Korean Spy Over WannaCry and Sony Pictures Hack

The U.S. Department of Justice announces criminal charges against a North Korean government spy in connection with the 2017 global WannaCry ransomware attack and the 2014 Sony Pictures Entertainment hack. According to multiple government officials cited by the NY Times who are familiar with the...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability

Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a...

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...

Google Secretly Planning to Launch a Censored Search Engine in China

After an eight-year-long absence from the most populated country in the world, Google search is going to dramatically make a comeback in China. Google is reportedly planning to launch a censored version of its search engine in China that is going to blacklist certain websites and search terms to...

Casino Gets Hacked Through Its Internet-Connected Fish Tank Thermometer

Internet-connected technology, also known as the Internet of Things IoT, is now part of daily life, with smart assistants like Siri and Alexa to cars, watches, toasters, fridges, thermostats, lights, and the list goes on and on. But of much greater concern, enterprises are unable to secure each a...

Millions of Android Devices Using Broadcom Wi-Fi Chip Can Be Hacked Remotely

Google has released its latest monthly security update for Android devices, including a serious bug in some Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets that affects millions of Android devices, as well as some iPhone models. Dubbed BroadPwn, the critical remote code execution vulnerability resides in Broadcom's...

New MySQL Zero Days — Hacking Website Databases

Two critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in the world's 2nd most popular database management software MySQL that could allow an attacker to take full control over the database. Polish security researcher Dawid Golunski has discovered two zero-days, CVE-2016-6662 and CVE-2016-666...

20-Year Old Vulnerability in LZO Compression Algorithm Went to Planet Mars

A 20 year old critical subtle integer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer LZO, an extremely efficient data compression algorithm that focuses on decompression speed, which is almost five times faster than zlib and bzip compression algorithms. Lempel-Ziv-Oberhumer LZ...

Japanese word processor 'Ichitaro' zero-day attack discovered in the wild

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Microsoft Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Library Vulnerability !

Microsoft Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Library Vulnerability ! I. BACKGROUND The Windows Picture and Fax Viewer "shimgvw.dll" library is used by Windows Explorer to generate thumbnail previews for media files. II. DESCRIPTION Remote exploitation of a buffer overflow vulnerability in multiple...

How Leading Organizations Are Turning EDR Into Operational Resilience

Most organizations now recognize that endpoint protection alone is no longer sufficient. That's why adoption of endpoint detection and response EDR has accelerated rapidly in recent years. Organizations understand that modern attacks move faster, evade traditional prevention controls, and require...

Security Flaw in Styra's OPA Exposes NTLM Hashes to Remote Attackers

Details have emerged about a now-patched security flaw in Styra's Open Policy Agent OPA that, if successfully exploited, could have led to leakage of New Technology LAN Manager NTLM hashes. "The vulnerability could have allowed an attacker to leak the NTLM credentials of the OPA server's local us...

Patch Issued for Critical VMware vCenter Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution

Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 CVSS score: 9.8, has been described as a heap-overflow vulnerability in the DCE/RPC protocol. "A...

Critical Security Flaw Found in LiteSpeed Cache Plugin for WordPress

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered yet another critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could allow unauthenticated users to take control of arbitrary accounts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-44000 CVSS score: 7.5, impacts versions before and includin...

FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability

The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a...

Cisco Warns of Critical Flaw Affecting On-Prem Smart Software Manager

Cisco has released patches to address a maximum-severity security flaw impacting Smart Software Manager On-Prem Cisco SSM On-Prem that could enable a remote, unauthenticated attacker to change the password of any users, including those belonging to administrative users. The vulnerability, tracked...

Critical Apache HugeGraph Vulnerability Under Attack - Patch ASAP

Threat actors are actively exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server that could lead to remote code execution attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-27348 CVSS score: 9.8, the vulnerability impacts all versions of the software before 1.3.0. It has been describ...

Meta's 'Pay or Consent' Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny

Meta's decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union E.U. has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc's competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the...

Researchers Warn of Flaws in Widely Used Industrial Gas Analysis Equipment

Multiple security flaws have been disclosed in Emerson Rosemount gas chromatographs that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information, induce a denial-of-service DoS condition, and even execute arbitrary commands. The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and resid...

Practical Guidance For Securing Your Software Supply Chain

The heightened regulatory and legal pressure on software-producing organizations to secure their supply chains and ensure the integrity of their software should come as no surprise. In the last several years, the software supply chain has become an increasingly attractive target for attackers who...

Hackers Created Rogue VMs to Evade Detection in Recent MITRE Cyber Attack

The MITRE Corporation has revealed that the cyber attack targeting the not-for-profit company towards late December 2023 by exploiting zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure ICS involved the threat actor creating rogue virtual machines VMs within its VMware environment. "The adversary created...

Update Chrome Browser Now: 4th Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in May 2024

Google on Thursday rolled out fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has been exploited in the wild. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, the vulnerability relates to a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. It was reported...

Malicious Code in XZ Utils for Linux Systems Enables Remote Code Execution

The malicious code inserted into the open-source library XZ Utils, a widely used package present in major Linux distributions, is also capable of facilitating remote code execution, a new analysis has revealed. The audacious supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094 CVSS score: 10.0, came...

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...

PEACHPIT: Massive Ad Fraud Botnet Powered by Millions of Hacked Android and iOS

An ad fraud botnet dubbed PEACHPIT leveraged an army of hundreds of thousands of Android and iOS devices to generate illicit profits for the threat actors behind the scheme. The botnet is part of a larger China-based operation codenamed BADBOX, which also entails selling off-brand mobile and...

Apple Rolls Out Security Patches for Actively Exploited iOS Zero-Day Flaw

Apple on Wednesday rolled out security patches to address a new zero-day flaw in iOS and iPadOS that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-42824, the kernel vulnerability could be abused by a local attacker to elevate their privileges. The iPhone maker said i...

Critical Security Flaws Affect Ivanti Avalanche, Threatening 30,000 Organizations

Multiple critical security flaws have been reported in Ivanti Avalanche, an enterprise mobile device management solution that's used by 30,000 organizations. The vulnerabilities, collectively tracked as CVE-2023-32560 CVSS score: 9.8, are stack-based buffer overflows in Ivanti Avalanche...

Major Security Flaw Discovered in Metabase BI Software – Urgent Update Required

Users of Metabase, a popular business intelligence and data visualization software package, are being advised to update to the latest version following the discovery of an "extremely severe" flaw that could result in pre-authenticated remote code execution on affected installations. Tracked as...