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Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware
The cybersecurity world is constantly evolving to new forms of threats and vulnerabilities. But ransomware proves to be a different animal—most destructive, persistent, notoriously challenging to prevent, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Falling victim to a...
Critical RCE Flaws Affect VMware ESXi and vSphere Client — Patch Now
VMware has addressed multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi and vSphere Client virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take control of affected systems. "A malicious...
Experts Find a Way to Learn What You’re Typing During Video Calls
A new attack framework aims to infer keystrokes typed by a target user at the opposite end of a video conference call by simply leveraging the video feed to correlate observable body movements to the text being typed. The research was undertaken by Mohd Sabra, and...
5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era
A full-time mass work from home (WFH) workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their 3-year long...
Shadow Attacks Let Attackers Replace Content in Digitally Signed PDFs
Researchers have demonstrated a novel class of attacks that could allow a bad actor to potentially circumvent existing countermeasures and break the integrity protection of digitally signed PDF documents. Called "Shadow attacks" by academics from Ruhr-University...
Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks
Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in...
How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?
An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss,...
Chinese Hackers Had Access to a U.S. Hacking Tool Years Before It Was Leaked Online
On August 13, 2016, a hacking unit calling itself "The Shadow Brokers" announced that it had stolen malware tools and exploits used by the Equation Group, a sophisticated threat actor believed to be affiliated to the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) unit of the...
New ‘Silver Sparrow’ Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs
Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs running Intel x86_64 and the iPhone maker's M1 processors....
Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users
Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users' visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in a hotfix release (V1.20.108)...
New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting with a victim's Mastercard contactless card while believing it to be a Visa card. The research, published by a group of academics from...
Masslogger Trojan Upgraded to Steal All Your Outlook, Chrome Credentials
A credential stealer infamous for targeting Windows systems has resurfaced in a new phishing campaign that aims to steal credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, and instant messenger apps. Primarily directed against users in Turkey, Latvia, and Italy...
SolarWinds Hackers Stole Some Source Code for Microsoft Azure, Exchange, Intune
Microsoft on Thursday said it concluded its probe into the SolarWinds hack, finding that the attackers stole some source code but confirmed there's no evidence that they abused its internal systems to target other companies or gained access to production services or...
First Malware Designed for Apple M1 Chip Discovered in the Wild
One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple's M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company's latest generation of Macs powered by its own...
U.S. Charges 3 North Korean Hackers Over $1.3 Billion Cryptocurrency Heist
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday indicted three suspected North Korean hackers for allegedly conspiring to steal and extort over $1.3 billion in cash and cryptocurrencies from financial institutions and businesses. The three defendants — Jon Chang...
Agora SDK Bug Left Several Video Calling Apps Vulnerable to Snooping
A severe security vulnerability in a popular video calling software development kit (SDK) could have allowed an attacker to spy on ongoing private video and audio calls. That's according to new research published by the McAfee Advanced Threat Research (ATR) team...
Researchers Unmask Hackers Behind APOMacroSploit Malware Builder
Cyber-security researchers have disclosed a new kind of Office malware distributed as part of a malicious email campaign that targeted more than 80 customers worldwide in an attempt to control victim machines and steal information remotely. The tool — dubbed...
Malvertisers Exploited WebKit 0-Day to Redirect Browser Users to Scam Sites
A malvertising group known as "ScamClub" exploited a zero-day vulnerability in WebKit-based browsers to inject malicious payloads that redirected users to fraudulent websites gift card scams. The attacks, first spotted by ad security firm Confiant in late June 2020,...