The loader-as-a-service (LaaS) known as FakeBat has become one of the most widespread loader malware families distributed using the drive-by download technique this year, findings from Sekoia reveal.
"FakeBat primarily aims to download and ******** the next-stage payload, such as IcedID, Lumma, RedLine, SmokeLoader, SectopRAT, and Ursnif," the company said in a Tuesday analysis.
Drive-by attacksView the full article
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an ******* campaign that targets various ******** entities with publicly-available frameworks like Donut and Sliver.
The campaign, believed to be highly targeted in nature, "leverage target-specific infrastructure and custom WordPress websites as a payload delivery mechanism, but affect a variety of entities across unrelated verticals, and rely onView the full article
An unnamed South Korean enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor's product update server has been found to be compromised to deliver a Go-based ********* dubbed Xctdoor.
The AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC), which identified the ******* in May 2024, did not attribute it to a known threat actor or group, but noted that the tactics overlap with that of Andariel, a sub-cluster within theView the full article
The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual "State of Ransomware 2024" report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year with organizations that paid a ransom reporting an average payment of $2 million, up fromView the full article
Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel ******* that could be exploited to ***** sensitive information from the processors.
The *******, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen, leverages shortcomings identified in Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and the Branch Target Buffer (BTBView the full article
Meta's decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the ********* 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 ********* Commission said the company's "pay or consent" advertising model is in contravention of the Digital Markets Act (DMA).View the full article
A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection that allows an authenticated, local attacker to ******** arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of an affectedView the full article
An *********** man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data.
The unnamed 42-year-old "allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them," the *********** Federal Police (AFP) said in a pressView the full article
A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting downstream customers at severe risks.
The vulnerabilities allow "any malicious actor to claim ownership over thousands of unclaimed pods and insert malicious code into many of the most popular iOS andView the full article
The threat actor known as Transparent Tribe has continued to unleash malware-laced Android apps as part of a social engineering campaign to target individuals of interest.
"These APKs continue the group's trend of embedding spyware into curated video browsing applications, with a new expansion targeting mobile gamers, weapons enthusiasts, and TikTok fans," SentinelOne security researcher AlexView the full article
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 chain compromise on June 18, 2024. The issue has since been remediated by Conceptworld as of June 24View the full article
At the heart of every application are secrets. Credentials that allow human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication. Machine identities outnumber human identities by a factor of 45-to-1 and represent the majority of secrets we need to worry about. According to CyberArk's recent research, 93% of organizations had two or more identity-related breaches in the past year. It is clear that weView the full article
OpenSSH maintainers have released security updates to contain a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code ********** with root privileges in glibc-based Linux systems.
The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-6387. It resides in the OpenSSH server component, also known as sshd, which is designed to listen for connections from any of the clientView the full article
Juniper Networks has released out-of-band security updates to address a critical security flaw that could lead to an authentication bypass in some of its routers.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-2973, carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity.
“An Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel vulnerability in Juniper Networks Session Smart Router or ConductorView the full article
Google has announced that it's going to start blocking websites that use certificates from Entrust starting around November 1, 2024, in its Chrome browser, citing compliance failures and the certificate authority's inability to address security issues in a timely manner.
"Over the past several years, publicly disclosed incident reports highlighted a pattern of concerning behaviors by EntrustView the full article
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious Google Chrome extension that's designed to steal sensitive information as part of an ongoing intelligence collection effort.
Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in early March 2024, has codenamed the extension TRANSLATEXT, highlighting its ability to gather email addresses, usernames,View the full article
GitLab has released security updates to address 14 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited to run continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as any user.
The weaknesses, which affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), have been addressed in versions 17.1.1, 17.0.3, and 16.11.5.
The most severe of theView the full article
Security researchers have shed more light on the cryptocurrency mining operation conducted by the 8220 Gang by exploiting known security flaws in the Oracle WebLogic Server.
"The threat actor employs fileless ********** techniques, using DLL reflective and process injection, allowing the malware code to run solely in memory and avoid disk-based detection mechanisms," Trend Micro researchers AhmedView the full article
The modern ***** chain is eluding enterprises because they aren’t protecting the infrastructure of modern business: SaaS.
SaaS continues to dominate software adoption, and it accounts for the greatest share of public cloud spending. But enterprises and SMBs alike haven’t revised their security programs or adopted security tooling built for SaaS.
Security teams keep jamming on-premView the full article
A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel ******* known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user's web activity.
"SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet connections," the researchers said in a study released this week.
"This bottleneck influences the latency of network packets, allowing an attackerView the full article
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 ******** arbitrary commands.
The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and reside in versions 4.1.5 and prior.
According to operational technology (OT) security firm Claroty, theView the full article
TeamViewer on Thursday disclosed it detected an "irregularity" in its internal corporate IT environment on June 26, 2024.
"We immediately activated our response team and procedures, started investigations together with a team of globally renowned cyber security experts and implemented necessary remediation measures," the company said in a statement.
It further noted that its corporate ITView the full article
The peer-to-peer malware botnet known as P2PInfect has been found targeting misconfigured Redis servers with ransomware and cryptocurrency miners.
The development marks the threat's transition from what appeared to be a dormant botnet with unclear motives to a financially motivated operation.
"With its latest updates to the crypto miner, ransomware payload, and rootkit elements, it demonstratesView the full article
While some SaaS threats are clear and visible, others are hidden in plain sight, both posing significant risks to your organization. Wing's research indicates that an astounding 99.7% of organizations utilize applications embedded with AI functionalities. These AI-driven tools are indispensable, providing seamless experiences from collaboration and communication to work management andView the full article
Did you know it’s now possible to build blockchain applications, known also as decentralized applications (or “dApps” for short) in native Python? Blockchain development has traditionally required learning specialized languages, creating a barrier for many developers… until now. AlgoKit, an all-in-one development toolkit for Algorand, enables developers to build blockchain applications in pureView the full article
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