The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The campaign, observed earlier this month and blocked by Proofpoint on January 11, 2024,…
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Experts Warn of macOS Backdoor Hidden in Pirated Versions of Popular Software
Pirated applications targeting Apple macOS users have been observed containing a backdoor capable of granting attackers remote control to infected machines. “These applications are being hosted on Chinese pirating websites in order to gain victims,” Jamf Threat Labs researchers Ferdous…
Preventing Data Loss: Backup and Recovery Strategies for Exchange Server Administrators
In the current digital landscape, data has emerged as a crucial asset for organizations, akin to currency. It’s the lifeblood of any organization in today’s interconnected and digital world. Thus, safeguarding the data is of paramount importance. Its importance is…
Npm Trojan Bypasses UAC, Installs AnyDesk with “Oscompatible” Package
A malicious package uploaded to the npm registry has been found deploying a sophisticated remote access trojan on compromised Windows machines. The package, named “oscompatible,” was published on January 9, 2024, attracting a total of 380 downloads before it was…
U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Warns of Actively Exploited Ivanti EPMM Vulnerability
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched critical flaw impacting Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and MobileIron Core to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, stating it’s being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in…
New Docker Malware Steals CPU for Crypto & Drives Fake Website Traffic
Vulnerable Docker services are being targeted by a novel campaign in which the threat actors are deploying XMRig cryptocurrency miner as well as the 9Hits Viewer software as part of a multi-pronged monetization strategy. “This is the first documented case…
Russian COLDRIVER Hackers Expand Beyond Phishing with Custom Malware
The Russia-linked threat actor known as COLDRIVER has been observed evolving its tradecraft to go beyond credential harvesting to deliver its first-ever custom malware written in the Rust programming language. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which shared details of the…
MFA Spamming and Fatigue: When Security Measures Go Wrong
In today’s digital landscape, traditional password-only authentication systems have proven to be vulnerable to a wide range of cyberattacks. To safeguard critical business resources, organizations are increasingly turning to multi-factor authentication (MFA) as a more robust security measure. MFA requires…
TensorFlow CI/CD Flaw Exposed Supply Chain to Poisoning Attacks
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) misconfigurations discovered in the open-source TensorFlow machine learning framework could have been exploited to orchestrate supply chain attacks. The misconfigurations could be abused by an attacker to “conduct a supply chain compromise of TensorFlow releases on GitHub…
PixieFail UEFI Flaws Expose Millions of Computers to RCE, DoS, and Data Theft
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the TCP/IP network protocol stack of an open-source reference implementation of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification used widely in modern computers. Collectively dubbed PixieFail by Quarkslab, the nine issues reside in the TianoCore EFI Development…
Iranian Hackers Masquerade as Journalists to Spy on Israel-Hamas War Experts
High-profile individuals working on Middle Eastern affairs at universities and research organizations in Belgium, France, Gaza, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S. have been targeted by an Iranian cyber espionage group called Mind Sandstorm since November 2023. The threat actor “used bespoke…
Combating IP Leaks into AI Applications with Free Discovery and Risk Reduction Automation
Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better protect their intellectual property (IP) and data against the growing and…
PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions
The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber R&D team, which reverse engineered the Android-based devices manufactured by the…
Webinar: The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins
In the digital age, the battleground for security professionals is not only evolving, it’s expanding at an alarming rate. The upcoming webinar, “The Art of Privilege Escalation – How Hackers Become Admins,” offers an unmissable opportunity for IT security experts…
Feds Warn of AndroxGh0st Botnet Targeting AWS, Azure, and Office 365 Credentials
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that threat actors deploying the AndroxGh0st malware are creating a botnet for “victim identification and exploitation in target networks.” A Python-based malware, AndroxGh0st was first documented by Lacework in December…
New iShutdown Method Exposes Hidden Spyware Like Pegasus on Your iPhone
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a “lightweight method” called iShutdown for reliably identifying signs of spyware on Apple iOS devices, including notorious threats like NSO Group’s Pegasus, QuaDream’s Reign, and Intellexa’s Predator. Kaspersky, which analyzed a set of iPhones that were compromised with Pegasus, said the…
GitHub Rotates Keys After High-Severity Vulnerability Exposes Credentials
GitHub has revealed that it has rotated some keys in response to a security vulnerability that could be potentially exploited to gain access to credentials within a production container. The Microsoft-owned subsidiary said it was made aware of the problem…
Citrix, VMware, and Atlassian Hit with Critical Flaws — Patch ASAP!
Citrix is warning of two zero-day security vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC (formerly Citrix ADC) and NetScaler Gateway (formerly Citrix Gateway) that are being actively exploited in the wild. The flaws are listed below – CVE-2023-6548 (CVSS score: 5.5) – Authenticated…
Zero-Day Alert: Update Chrome Now to Fix New Actively Exploited Vulnerability
Google on Tuesday released updates to fix four security issues in its Chrome browser, including an actively exploited zero-day flaw. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-0519, concerns an out-of-bounds memory access in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine, which can be…
Alert: Over 178,000 SonicWall Firewalls Potentially Vulnerable to Exploits – Act Now
Over 178,000 SonicWall firewalls exposed over the internet are exploitable to at least one of the two security flaws that could be potentially exploited to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition and remote code execution (RCE). “The two issues are fundamentally…