Feb 06, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Endpoint Security E-commerce industries in South Korea and the U.S. are at the receiving end of an ongoing GuLoader malware campaign, cybersecurity firm Trellix disclosed late last month. The malspam activity is notable for transitioning away from malware-laced Microsoft Word documents to NSIS executable files for loading the malware.
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The developer of several stalkerware apps has been handed a fine of nearly half a million dollars and told to modify the software. A consortium of 16 companies owned by Patrick Hinchy produced snooping apps Auto Forward, Easy Spy, DDI Utilities, Highster Mobile, PhoneSpector, Surepoint and TurboSpy. These enabled customers to secretly monitor a comprehensive
When SaaS applications started growing in popularity, it was unclear who was responsible for securing the data. Today, most security and IT teams understand the shared responsibility model, in which the SaaS vendor is responsible for securing the application, while the organization is responsible for securing their data. What’s far murkier, however, is where the
Atlassian has released multiple patches to fix a critical security vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center. The flaw (tracked CVE-2023-22501) has a CVSS score of 9.4 and can reportedly be exploited by attackers to impersonate other users and obtain unauthorized access to affected instances. “With write access to a User Directory and
A new Android banking trojan has set its eyes on Brazilian financial institutions to commit fraud by leveraging the PIX payments platform. Italian cybersecurity company Cleafy, which discovered the malware between the end of 2022 and the beginning of 2023, is tracking it under the name PixPirate. “PixPirate belongs to the newest generation of Android
Threat actors have been observed using malvertising attacks to distribute virtualized .NET malware loaders dubbed “MalVirt.” According to a Thursday advisory by SentinelOne, the new loaders leverage obfuscated virtualization techniques to avoid detection. “The loaders are implemented in .NET and use virtualization, based on the KoiVM virtualizing protector of .NET applications, in order to obfuscate
by Paul Ducklin The open source operating system distribution OpenBSD is well-known amongst sysadmins, especially those who manage servers, for its focus on security over speed, features and fancy front-ends. Fittingly, perhaps, its logo is a puffer fish – inflated, with its spikes ready to repel any wily hackers who might come along. But the
As our latest APT Activity Report makes abundantly clear, the threat of cyberespionage and stealthy attacks remains very real The threat of cyberespionage and stealthy cyberattacks remains very real, and the data from ESET’s T3 2022 APT Activity Report released this week backs this up. In this video, Tony shares some of the key takeaways
Feb 04, 2023Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Ransomware VMware ESXi hypervisors are the target of a new wave of attacks designed to deploy ransomware on compromised systems. “These attack campaigns appear to exploit CVE-2021-21974, for which a patch has been available since February 23, 2021,” the Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of France said in an
The UK’s data protection and privacy regulator will no longer fine public electronic communications service providers (CSPs) if they fail to report a data breach within 24 hours. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said that as long as CSPs – including mobile carriers and ISPs – report any incidents to it within 72 hours they
by Paul Ducklin WHY DID THAT TAKE SO LONG? Latest epidode – listen now. Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts,
“Can I tell a legitimate survey apart from a fake one?” is the single most important question you need to answer for yourself before taking any surveys online Online surveys and quizzes are all over the internet. They’re quick and cheap to set up, easy for recipients to fill out, and simple for researchers to
Feb 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Vulnerability Atlassian has released fixes to resolve a critical security flaw in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center that could be abused by an attacker to pass off as another user and gain unauthorized access to susceptible instances. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-22501 (CVSS score: 9.4) and
North Korean state-backed hackers and insecure decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols helped to make 2022 a record year for cryptocurrency heists, according to Chainalysis. The blockchain analysis company teased the figures ahead of an upcoming annual crypto crime report. A total of $3.8bn was stolen from cryptocurrency firms last year, 82% of which resulted from targeting
by Paul Ducklin It’s been a newsworthy few weeks for password managers – those handy utilities that help you come up with a different password for every website you use, and then to keep track of them all. At the end of 2022, it was the turn of LastPass to be all over the news,
Lose what you don’t use and other easy ways to limit your digital footprint and strengthen your online privacy and security In case you missed it, last week was Data Privacy Week, an awareness campaign to remind everybody that any of our online activities creates a trail of data and that, therefore, we need to
Over the past few years, cybersecurity has become a major concern for businesses around the globe. With the total cost of cybercrime in 2023 forecasted to reach $8 Trillion – with a T, not a B – it’s no wonder that cybersecurity is top of mind for leaders across all industries and regions. However, despite
Security researchers have discovered underground cybercrime sites selling cheating services, leaked courses and fake certificates to help unscrupulous individuals gain security qualifications and/or a leg up in their careers. Dov Lerner, head of threat research at Cybersixgill, said in a new report out today that his team found fake CompTIA CySA+ diplomas, among other security-related
by Paul Ducklin Another day, another access-token-based database breach. This time, the victim (and in some ways, of course, also the culprit) is Microsoft’s GitHub business. GitHub claims that it spotted the breach quickly, the day after it happened, but by then the damage had been done: On December 6, 2022, repositories from our atom,
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in T3 2022 ESET APT Activity Report T3 2022 summarizes the activities of selected advanced persistent threat (APT) groups that were observed, investigated, and analyzed by ESET researchers from September until the end of December 2022. In the monitored timespan,
Feb 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananPayment Security / Risk The Brazilian threat actors behind an advanced and modular point-of-sale (PoS) malware known as Prilex have reared their head once again with new updates that allow it to block contactless payment transactions. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said it detected three versions of Prilex (06.03.8080, 06.03.8072, and 06.03.8070) that
Russian hacktivists appear to have been busy again after reports suggested several hospital websites across the US and the Netherlands were downed by distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. University of Michigan Hospital and Stanford Health Care Center were among the targeted facilities in the current campaign, which hit a handful of hospitals in the
by Paul Ducklin Samba, simply put, is a super-useful, mega-popular, open-source reimplementation of the networking protocols used in Microsoft Windows, and its historical importance in internetworking (connecting two different sorts of network together) cannot be underestimated. In the late 1990s, Microsoft networking shed its opaque, proprietary nature and became an open standard known as CIFS,
Jan 31, 2023Ravie LakshmananData Security / Vulnerability Taiwanese company QNAP has released updates to remediate a critical security flaw affecting its network-attached storage (NAS) devices that could lead to arbitrary code injection. Tracked as CVE-2022-27596, the vulnerability is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS scoring scale. It affects QTS 5.0.1
Security experts have warned of several new apps available on Google Play which purport to help the user develop healthy habits in return for rewards, but in reality just bombard them with irritating ads. Lucky Habit: health tracker, Lucky Step-Walking Tracker and WalkingJoy have garnered over 20 million downloads for what appears to be the same
Jan 30, 2023Ravie LakshmananInternet of Things / Malware Researchers are warning about a spike in exploitation attempts weaponizing a critical remote code execution flaw in Realtek Jungle SDK since the start of August 2022. According to Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, the ongoing campaign is said to have recorded 134 million exploit attempts as of
An operation responding to a Black Basta ransomware compromise has revealed the use of a new PlugX malware variant that can automatically infect any attached removable USB media devices. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 shared the findings with Infosecurity earlier today, adding that the new PlugX variant is “wormable” and can infect USB devices in
by Paul Ducklin BREACHES, PATCHES, LEAKS AND TWEAKS Latest epidode – listen now. Click-and-drag on the soundwaves below to skip to any point. You can also listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify,
Sandworm continues to conduct attacks against carefully chosen targets in the war-torn country ESET researchers have uncovered a new wiper attack in Ukraine that they attribute to the Sandworm APT group. Dubbed SwiftSlicer, the destructive malware was spotted on the network of a targeted organization on January 25th. It was deployed through Group Policy, which suggests
Jan 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Threat / Malware The threat actors associated with the Gootkit malware have made “notable changes” to their toolset, adding new components and obfuscations to their infection chains. Google-owned Mandiant is monitoring the activity cluster under the moniker UNC2565, noting that the usage of the malware is “exclusive to this group.” Gootkit,
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