Beware, crypto-scammer seeks foreigner with BLOCK CHAIN ACCOUNT
We’ve observed a 419-style scam (also known as an advance fee scam) which combines the promise of cryptocurrency riches with...
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StopRansomware.gov brings together information on stopping and surviving ransomware attacks
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ)—along with other federal partners—have launched a...
A week in security (July 12 – July 18)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: DNS-over-HTTPS takes another small step towards global dominationNope, that isn’t Elon Musk, and he isn’t...
Juniper Bug Allows RCE and DoS Against Carrier Networks
Juniper Networks' Steel-Belted Radius (SBR) Carrier Edition has a severe remote code-execution vulnerability that leaves wireless carrier and fixed operator...
Business correspondence in messengers and social networks poses a cyber threat to companies
Experts believe that screenshots of work correspondence sent by company employees to third parties may fall into the hands of...
Romanian Cryptojacking Gang Target Linux-based Machines to Install Cryptominer Malware
Romanian threat actors are employing a new brute-forcer “Diicot brute” to crack the passwords on Linux-based machines and install cryptominer...
Israeli Firm Assisted Governments Target Journalists & Activists with Zero Days and Spyware
Microsoft as part of its Patch on Tuesday fixed two of the zero-day Windows flaws weaponized by Candiru, an Israeli...
Thousands of PS4s Seized, Employed in Mining Cryptocurrency Illegally
In Vinnytsia city located along the Southern Bug river, a large-scale electricity theft was revealed and recorded by the SBU....
MANSPIDER – Spider Entire Networks For Juicy Files Sitting On SMB Shares. Search Filenames Or File Content – Regex Supported!
Crawl SMB shares for juicy information. File content searching + regex is supported! File types supported:PDF DOCX XLSX PPTX any...
Orbitaldump – A Simple Multi-Threaded Distributed SSH Brute-Forcing Tool Written In Python
A simple multi-threaded distributed SSH brute-forcing tool written in Python.How it WorksWhen the script is executed without the --proxies switch,...
Threat actor claims to have stolen 1 TB of data belonging to Saudi Aramco
A hacker claims to have stolen 1 TB of sensitive data from the Saudi Arabian petroleum and natural gas giant,...
Pegasus Project – how governments use Pegasus spyware against journalists
Pegasus Project investigation into the leak of 50,000 phone numbers of potential surveillance targets revealed the abuse of NSO Group’s...
Experts show how to bypass Windows Hello feature to login on Windows 10 PCs
Security researchers demonstrated how to bypass the Windows Hello facial recognition that is used in Windows 10 as a login...
Short Édition – 505,466 breached accounts
In June 2021, the French publishing house of short literature Short Édition suffered a data breach that exposed 505k records....
“Seven or eight” zero-days: The failed race to fix Kaseya VSA, with Victor Gevers, Lock and Code S02E13
Kaseya VSA included at least “seven or eight” privately known zero-day vulnerabilities before it suffered a widespread ransomware attack that...
THORChain Suffers $7.6 Million Loss in Latest DeFi Exploit
Popular cross-chain liquidity exchange THORChain got compromised in a new DeFi hack where $7.6 million were stolen, suffering a second...
Telegram’s Encryption Protocol Detected with Vulnerabilities
A multinational computer team claimed on Friday that the popular encrypted chat app Telegram is detected with four cryptographic vulnerabilities...
Facebook says Iranian Hackers Targeted U.S. Military Personnel
On Thursday, Facebook announced that it had shut down approximately 200 accounts operated by a group of hackers in Iran...
ARTIF – An Advanced Real Time Threat Intelligence Framework To Identify Threats And Malicious Web Traffic On The Basis Of IP Reputation And Historical Data.
ARTIF is a new advanced real time threat intelligence framework built that adds another abstraction layer on the top of...
DNSStager – Hide Your Payload In DNS
DNSStager is an open-source project based on Python used to hide and transfer your payload using DNS. DNSStager will create...
Chinese government issues new vulnerability disclosure regulations
Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) issued new vulnerability disclosure regulations that oblige experts to report zero-days to the government. The...
Instagram implements ‘Security Checkup’ to help users recover compromised accounts
Instagram introduced a new security feature dubbed “Security Checkup” to help users to recover their accounts that have been compromised....
HelloKitty ransomware gang targets vulnerable SonicWall devices
BleepingComputer became aware that the recent wave of attacks targeting vulnerable SonicWall devices was carried out by HelloKitty ransomware operators....
Security Affairs newsletter Round 323
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for...
