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Citrix Issues Patches for Critical Flaw Affecting ADC and Gateway Products
Citrix has released security updates to address a critical authentication bypass flaw in the application delivery controller ADC and Gateway products that could be exploited to take control of affected systems. Successful exploitation of the issues could enable an adversary to gain authorized...
Experts Find URLScan Security Scanner Inadvertently Leaks Sensitive URLs and Data
Security researchers are warning of "a trove of sensitive information" leaking through urlscan.io, a website scanner for suspicious and malicious URLs. "Sensitive URLs to shared documents, password reset pages, team invites, payment invoices and more are publicly listed and searchable," Positive...
New Evidence Links Raspberry Robin Malware to Dridex and Russian Evil Corp Hackers
Researchers have identified functional similarities between a malicious component used in the Raspberry Robin infection chain and a Dridex malware loader, further strengthening the operators' connections to the Russia-based Evil Corp group. The findings suggest that "Evil Corp is likely using...
Microsoft Uncovers New Post-Compromise Malware Used by Nobelium Hackers
The threat actor behind the SolarWinds supply chain attack has been linked to yet another "highly targeted" post-exploitation malware that could be used to maintain persistent access to compromised environments. Dubbed MagicWeb by Microsoft's threat intelligence teams, the development reiterates...
New UEFI Firmware Vulnerabilities Impact Several Lenovo Notebook Models
Consumer electronics maker Lenovo on Tuesday rolled out fixes to contain three security flaws in its UEFI firmware affecting over 70 product models. "The vulnerabilities can be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution in the early phases of the platform boot, possibly allowing the attackers ...
Researchers Warn of 'Matanbuchus' Malware Campaign Dropping Cobalt Strike Beacons
A malware-as-a-service Maas dubbed Matanbuchus has been observed spreading through phishing campaigns, ultimately dropping the Cobalt Strike post-exploitation framework on compromised machines. Matanbuchus, like other malware loaders such as BazarLoader, Bumblebee, and Colibri, is engineered to...
Critical Sophos Firewall RCE Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation
Cybersecurity firm Sophos on Monday warned that a recently patched critical security vulnerability in its firewall product is being actively exploited in real-world attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-1040, is rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scoring system and impacts Sophos Firewall versions...
Massive Cyber Attack Knocks Down Ukrainian Government Websites
No fewer than 70 websites operated by the Ukrainian government went offline on Friday for hours in what appears to be a coordinated cyber attack amid heightened tensions with Russia. "As a result of a massive cyber attack, the websites of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a number of other...
Researchers Demonstrate New Way to Detect MitM Phishing Kits in the Wild
No fewer than 1,220 Man-in-the-Middle MitM phishing websites have been discovered as targeting popular online services like Instagram, Google, PayPal, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn with the goal of hijacking users' credentials and carrying out further follow-on attacks. The findings come from a ne...
How Companies Can Protect Themselves from Password Spraying Attacks
Attackers are using many types of attacks to compromise business-critical data. These can include zero-day attacks, supply chain attacks, and others. However, one of the most common ways that hackers get into your environment is by compromising passwords. The password spraying attack is a special...
Phony Call Centers Tricking Users Into Installing Ransomware and Data-Stealers
An ongoing malicious campaign that employs phony call centers has been found to trick victims into downloading malware capable of data exfiltration as well as deploying ransomware on infected systems. The attacks — dubbed "BazaCall" — eschew traditional social engineering techniques that rely on...
Malicious NPM Package Caught Stealing Users' Saved Passwords From Browsers
A software package available from the official NPM repository has been revealed to be actually a front for a tool that's designed to steal saved passwords from the Chrome web browser. The package in question, named "nodejsnetserver" and downloaded over 1,283 times since February 2019, was last...
FIN7 Supervisor Gets 7-Year Jail Term for Stealing Millions of Credit Cards
A Ukrainian national and a mid-level supervisor of the hacking group known as FIN7 has been sentenced to seven years in prison for his role as a "pen tester" and perpetuating a criminal scheme that enabled the gang to compromise millions of customers debit and credit cards. Andrii Kolpakov, 33,...
How Apple Gave Chinese Government Access to iCloud Data and Censored Apps
In July 2018, when Guizhou-Cloud Big Data GCBD agreed to a deal with state-owned telco China Telecom to move iCloud data belonging to Apple's China-based users to the latter's servers, the shift raised concerns that it could make user data vulnerable to state surveillance. Now, according to a...
Experts Warn About Ongoing AutoHotkey-Based Malware Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an ongoing malware campaign that heavily relies on AutoHotkey AHK scripting language to deliver multiple remote access trojans RAT such as Revenge RAT, LimeRAT, AsyncRAT, Houdini, and Vjw0rm on target Windows systems. At least four different versions of th...
Cybersecurity Webinar: Understanding the 2020 MITRE ATT&CK Results
The release of MITRE Engenuity's Carbanak+Fin7 ATT&CK evaluations every year is a benchmark for the cybersecurity industry. The organization's tests measure how well security vendors can detect and respond to threats and offers an independent metric for customers and security leaders to understan...
Researchers Unveil New Linux Malware Linked to Chinese Hackers
Cybersecurity researchers on Wednesday shed light on a new sophisticated backdoor targeting Linux endpoints and servers that's believed to be the work of Chinese nation-state actors. Dubbed "RedXOR" by Intezer, the backdoor masquerades as a polkit daemon, with similarities found between the malwa...
Google Cloud Certifications — Get Prep Courses and Practice Tests at 95% Discount
As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions. However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open for aspiring IT professionals who take the official exams. The Google Cloud Certifications Practice Tests ...
British Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years for Blackmailing U.S. Companies
A UK man who threatened to publicly release stolen confidential information unless the victims agreed to fulfill his digital extortion demands has finally pleaded guilty on Monday at U.S. federal district court in St. Louis, Missouri. Nathan Francis Wyatt , 39, who is a key member of the infamous...
Cisco Issues Warning Over IOS XR Zero-Day Flaw Being Targeted in the Wild
Cisco has warned of an active zero-day vulnerability in its router software that's being exploited in the wild and could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to carry out memory exhaustion attacks on an affected device. "An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending crafted IGMP...
HTTP Status Codes Command This Malware How to Control Hacked Systems
A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan RAT has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with "medium-to-low level of confidence"...
Cynet Offers IR Specialists Grants up to $1500 for each IR Engagement
In the past, the autonomous breach protection company Cynet announced that it is making Cynet 360 threat detection and response platform available at no charge for IR incident response service providers and consultants. Today Cynet takes another step and announces a $500 grant for Incident...
Google, Mozilla, Apple Block Kazakhstan's Root CA Certificate to Prevent Spying
In a move to protect its users based in Kazakhstan from government surveillance, Google, Apple and Mozilla finally today came forward and blocked Kazakhstan's government-issued root CA certificate within their respective web browsing software. Starting today, Chrome, Safari and Firefox users in...
Over Dozen Popular Email Clients Found Vulnerable to Signature Spoofing Attacks
A team of security researchers has discovered several vulnerabilities in various implementations of OpenPGP and S/MIME email signature verification that could allow attackers to spoof signatures on over a dozen of popular email clients. The affected email clients include Thunderbird, Microsoft...
Europol Now Going After People Who Bought DDoS-for-Hire Services
If you were a buyer of any online DDoS-for-hire service, you might be in trouble. After taking down and arresting the operators of the world's biggest DDoS-for-hire service last year, the authorities are now in hunt for customers who bought the service that helped cyber criminals launch millions ...
Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Critical Flaws in Photoshop CC
Adobe released an out-of-band security update earlier today to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting Adobe Photoshop CC for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS machines. According to the security advisory published Wednesday by Adobe, its Photoshop CC software is...
CoinHive URL Shortener Abused to Secretly Mine Cryptocurrency Using Hacked Sites
Security researchers have been warning about a new malicious campaign that leverages an alternative scheme to mine cryptocurrencies without directly injecting the infamous CoinHive JavaScript into thousands of hacked websites. Coinhive is a popular browser-based service that offers website owners...
Another Critical Flaw Found In Drupal Core—Patch Your Sites Immediately
It's time to update your Drupal websites, once again. For the second time within a month, Drupal has been found vulnerable to another critical vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to pull off advanced attacks including cookie theft, keylogging, phishing and identity theft. Discovered b...
Serious Crypto-Flaw Lets Hackers Recover Private RSA Keys Used in Billions of Devices
If you think KRACK attack for WiFi is the worst vulnerability of this year, then hold on… ...we have got another one for you which is even worse. Microsoft, Google, Lenovo, HP and Fujitsu are warning their customers of a potentially serious vulnerability in widely used RSA cryptographic library...
Game of Thrones (Season 7) Episode 5 Script Leaked — Hacker Demands Millions in Ransom
The hacking group that recently hacked HBO has just dropped its second trove of documents, including a month emails of one of the company's executives, and a detailed script of the upcoming fifth episode of "Game of Thrones" Season 7, set to be aired on August 13. The latest release is the second...
Remotely Exploitable Flaw Puts Millions of Internet-Connected Devices at Risk
Security researchers have discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in an open-source software development library used by major manufacturers of the Internet-of-Thing devices that eventually left millions of devices vulnerable to hacking. The vulnerability CVE-2017-9765, discovere...
Security updates for available for Adobe Flash Player and ColdFusion vulnerabilities
Adobe released critical security patches for its ColdFusion web application server and Adobe Flash Player for Mac, Windows and Linux. Adobe AIR and the AIR SDK and Compiler are also being updated. These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to...
Millions of WordPress sites exploitable for DDoS Attacks using Pingback mechanism
Distributed Denial of Service attacks have increased in scale, intensity and frequency. The wide range of motives for these attacks political , criminal, or social makes every merchant or organization with an online presence a potential target. Over the weekend Incapsula mitigated a unique DDoS...
Phoenix exploit kit 2.5 leaked, Download Now !
Phoenix exploit kit 2.5 leaked, Download Now ! Phoenix exploit kit 2.5 has been leaked . Now U can dowload from given link.. At below here is a some define about Phoenix Exploit Kit. The Phoenix Exploit Kit is a good example of exploit packs used to exploit vulnerable software on the computers of...
148 npm Packages Disguised as Student Proxies Turned Browsers Into a DDoS Botnet
A campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies turned visitors' browsers into a distributed denial-of-service botnet for roughly two weeks in May, according to new research from JFrog. The packages did not go after the developers who might install them. The operators used the...
New Atomic macOS Stealer Campaign Exploits ClickFix to Target Apple Users
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting to a new malware campaign that employs the ClickFix social engineering tactic to trick users into downloading an information stealer malware known as Atomic macOS Stealer AMOS on Apple macOS systems. The campaign, according to CloudSEK, has been found to...
New EDDIESTEALER Malware Bypasses Chrome's App-Bound Encryption to Steal Browser Data
A new malware campaign is distributing a novel Rust-based information stealer dubbed EDDIESTEALER using the popular ClickFix social engineering tactic initiated via fake CAPTCHA verification pages. "This campaign leverages deceptive CAPTCHA verification pages that trick users into executing a...
Chinese Hackers Deploy MarsSnake Backdoor in Multi-Year Attack on Saudi Organization
Threat hunters have exposed the tactics of a China-aligned threat actor called UnsolicitedBooker that targeted an unnamed international organization in Saudi Arabia with a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MarsSnake. ESET, which first discovered the hacking group's intrusions targeting the...
⚡ Weekly Recap: Zero-Day Exploits, Insider Threats, APT Targeting, Botnets and More
Cybersecurity leaders aren't just dealing with attacks—they're also protecting trust, keeping systems running, and maintaining their organization's reputation. This week's developments highlight a bigger issue: as we rely more on digital tools, hidden weaknesses can quietly grow. Just fixing...
Samsung Patches CVE-2025-4632 Used to Deploy Mirai Botnet via MagicINFO 9 Exploit
Samsung has released software updates to address a critical security flaw in MagicINFO 9 Server that has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-4632 CVSS score: 9.8, has been described as a path traversal flaw. "Improper limitation of a pathname to a restricte...
Nebulous Mantis Targets NATO-Linked Entities with Multi-Stage Malware Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a Russian-speaking cyber espionage group called Nebulous Mantis that has deployed a remote access trojan known as RomCom RAT since mid-2022. RomCom "employs advanced evasion techniques, including living-off-the-land LOTL tactics and encrypted command a...
Phishers Exploit Google Sites and DKIM Replay to Send Signed Emails, Steal Credentials
In what has been described as an "extremely sophisticated phishing attack," threat actors have leveraged an uncommon approach that allowed bogus emails to be sent via Google's infrastructure and redirect message recipients to fraudulent sites that harvest their credentials. "The first thing to no...
Critical Veeam Vulnerability Exploited to Spread Akira and Fog Ransomware
Threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a now-patched security flaw in Veeam Backup & Replication to deploy Akira and Fog ransomware. Cybersecurity vendor Sophos said it has been tracking a series of attacks in the past month leveraging compromised VPN credentials and CVE-2024-40711 to...
Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Cisco Switch Flaw to Gain System Control
Details have emerged about a China-nexus threat group's exploitation of a recently disclosed, now-patched security flaw in Cisco switches as a zero-day to seize control of the appliances and evade detection. The activity, attributed to Velvet Ant, was observed early this year and involved the...
CISA Warns of Actively Exploited RCE Flaw in GeoServer GeoTools Software
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. GeoServer is an open-source software server written in Java that...
Indian Software Firm's Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware
Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to distribute information-stealing malware. The installers correspond to Notezilla, RecentX, and Copywhiz, according to cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which discovered the supply...
Dormakaba Locks Used in Millions of Hotel Rooms Could Be Cracked in Seconds
Security vulnerabilities discovered in Dormakaba's Saflok electronic RFID locks used in hotels could be weaponized by threat actors to forge keycards and stealthily slip into locked rooms. The shortcomings have been collectively named Unsaflok by researchers Lennert Wouters, Ian Carroll, rqu,...
China-Linked Group Breaches Networks via Connectwise, F5 Software Flaws
A China-linked threat cluster leveraged security flaws in Connectwise ScreenConnect and F5 BIG-IP software to deliver custom malware capable of delivering additional backdoors on compromised Linux hosts as part of an "aggressive" campaign. Google-owned Mandiant is tracking the activity under its...
Secrets Sensei: Conquering Secrets Management Challenges
In the realm of cybersecurity, the stakes are sky-high, and at its core lies secrets management — the foundational pillar upon which your security infrastructure rests. We're all familiar with the routine: safeguarding those API keys, connection strings, and certificates is non-negotiable. Howeve...
New BIFROSE Linux Malware Variant Using Deceptive VMware Domain for Evasion
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Linux variant of a remote access trojan RAT called BIFROSE aka Bifrost that uses a deceptive domain mimicking VMware. "This latest version of Bifrost aims to bypass security measures and compromise targeted systems," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42...