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‘Malsmoke’ Exploits Microsoft’s E-Signature Verification

The info-stealing campaign using ZLoader malware – previously used to deliver Ryuk and Conti ransomware – already has claimed more than 2,000 victims across 111 countries. Threat actors are exploiting ...
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‘Elephant Beetle’ Lurks for Months in Networks

The group blends into an environment before loading up trivial, thickly stacked, fraudulent financial transactions too tiny to be noticed but adding up to millions of dollars. Researchers have ...
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data released by ...
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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed. New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras in ...
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Unpatched DNS Bug Puts Millions of Routers, IoT Devices at Risk

A flaw in all versions of the popular C standard libraries uClibc and uClibc-ng can allow for DNS poisoning attacks against target devices. An unpatched Domain Name System (DNS) bug in a popular ...
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Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool. A China-based threat actor has ramped up efforts ...
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Ryuk Ransomware Gang Uses Zerologon Bug for Lightning-Fast Attack

Researchers said the group was able to move from initial phish to full domain-wide encryption in just five hours. The Ryuk threat actors have struck again, moving from sending a phishing email to ...
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Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

‘Summer Camp’ for hackers features a compromised satellite, a homecoming for hackers and cyberwarfare warnings. There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known ...
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Microsoft Faces Wormable, Critical RCE Bug & 6 Zero-Days

The large January 2022 Patch Tuesday update covers nine critical CVEs, including a self-propagator with a 9.8 CVSS score. Microsoft has addressed a total of 97 security vulnerabilities in its January ...
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Tentacles of ‘0ktapus’ Threat Group Victimize 130 Firms

Over 130 companies tangled in sprawling phishing campaign that spoofed a multi-factor authentication system. Targeted attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare employees are tied to a massive phishing campaign ...
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‘Ultimate’ MiTM Attack Steals $1M from Israeli Startup

Researchers uncovers “ultimate man-in-the-middle attack” that used an elaborate spoofing campaign to fool a Chinese VC firm and rip off an emerging business. Hackers pulled off an elaborate man-in-the ...
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Verizon Report: Ransomware, Human Error Among Top Security Risks

2022’s DBIR also highlighted the far-reaching impact of supply-chain breaches and how organizations and their employees are the reasons why incidents occur. Ransomware, supply-chain threats and how ...