How fraudsters groom their marks and move in for the kill using tricks from the playbooks of romance and investment scammers Sometimes you have to say things that go without saying: Social media and instant messaging have made staying in touch with friends easier than ever. These days, you’re never too far away from people
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed tracking over 30 commercial spyware vendors that facilitate the spread of malware by government-backed threat actors. Writing in a blog post published earlier today, TAG’s Clement Lecigne said these vendors are arming countries that would otherwise not be able to develop these tools. “While the use of surveillance
Mar 29, 2023Ravie LakshmananZero-Day / Mobile Security A number of zero-day vulnerabilities that were addressed last year were exploited by commercial spyware vendors to target Android and iOS devices, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has revealed. The two distinct campaigns were both limited and highly targeted, taking advantage of the patch gap between the release
by Naked Security writer The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has recently announced work that it’s been doing as an ongoing part of a multinational project dubbed Operation PowerOFF. The idea seems to be to use fake cybercrime-as-a-service sites to attract the attention of impressionable youngsters who are hanging around on the fringes of cybercrime
How content creators and subscribers can embrace the social media platform without (overly) exposing themselves to the potentially toxic brew of NSFW content and privacy threats By now you’ve most probably heard of, or possibly even use, OnlyFans. Launched in 2016, this subscription service for content creators gained momentum over the course of the pandemic
A malware campaign targeting cryptocurrency wallets has been recently discovered by security researchers at Kaspersky. Discussing the findings in an advisory published today, the company said the attacks were first observed in September 2022 and relied on malware replacing part of the clipboard contents with cryptocurrency wallet addresses. “Despite the attack being fundamentally simple, it
Mar 28, 2023Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Cyber Threat Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Security Copilot in preview, marking its continued push to embed AI-oriented features in an attempt to offer “end-to-end defense at machine speed and scale.” Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4 generative AI and its own security-specific model, it’s billed as a security analysis tool that
by Paul Ducklin Apple’s latest update blast is out, including an extensive range of security patches for all devices that Apple officially supports. There are fixes for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS, along with patches for all three supported flavours of macOS, and even a special update to the firmware in Apple’s super-cool external Studio
Microsoft announced a new information disclosure vulnerability on Friday, for a bug affecting its screenshot editing tools in both Windows 10 and Windows 11. The vulnerability (CVE-2023-28303) is called aCropalypse and could enable malicious actors to recover sections of screenshots, potentially revealing sensitive information. Read more on screenshot-supported malware here: New Threat Group Reviews Screenshots Before Striking
Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, the 20-year-old founder and the administrator of the now-defunct BreachForums has been formally charged in the U.S. with conspiracy to commit access device fraud. If proven guilty, Fitzpatrick, who went by the online moniker “pompompurin,” faces a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison. He was arrested on March 15,
by Paul Ducklin Last week was aCropalypse week, where a bug in the Google Pixel image cropping app made headlines, and not just because it had a funky name. (We formed the opinion that the name was a little bit OTT, but we admit that if we’d thought of it ourselves, we’d probably have wanted
The repository hosting service GitHub has announced it is replacing its existing RSA SSH host key with a new one as a precautionary measure after discovering the key was momentarily exposed in a public repository. “We immediately acted to contain the exposure and began investigating to understand the root cause and impact,” GitHub wrote in an
Mar 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Microsoft Microsoft on Friday shared guidance to help customers discover indicators of compromise (IoCs) associated with a recently patched Outlook vulnerability. Tracked as CVE-2023-23397 (CVSS score: 9.8), the critical flaw relates to a case of privilege escalation that could be exploited to steal NT Lan Manager (NTLM) hashes and
As TikTok CEO attempts to placate U.S. lawmakers, it’s time for us all to think about the wealth of personal information that TikTok and other social media giants collect about us TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew has appeared before the U.S. Congress to give his take on the app’s data security and privacy practices and
Vulnerable code has been discovered in the payment solution plugin WooCommerce for the WordPress content management system (CMS) that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain administrative privileges and take over a website. The findings come from WordPress security experts at Wordfence, who described the critical authentication bypass in a blog post published on Thursday.
Mar 25, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Crime / DDoS Attack In what’s a case of setting a thief to catch a thief, the U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed that it has created a network of fake DDoS-for-hire websites to infiltrate the online criminal underground. “All of the NCA-run sites, which have so far been accessed by
Here are some of the key moments from the five hours of Shou Zi Chew’s testimony and other interesting news on the data privacy front As the controversy surrounding TikTok continues, the app’s CEO Shou Zi Chew appeared before the U.S. Congress to explain the app’s data privacy and security practices. Here are some of
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC) have unveiled a new effort to aid organizations in quickly fixing vulnerabilities targeted by ransomware actors. The Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative provides businesses with early warnings, enabling them to potentially evict threat actors before they can encrypt data and systems for
Mar 24, 2023Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Software Security A malicious Python package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository has been found to use Unicode as a trick to evade detection and deploy an info-stealing malware. The package in question, named onyxproxy, was uploaded to PyPI on March 15, 2023, and comes with capabilities to harvest
by Paul Ducklin Security holes in WordPress plugins that could allow other people to poke around your WordPress site are always bad news. Even if all you’re running is a basic setup that doesn’t have customer accounts and doesn’t collect or process any personal information such as names and email addresses… …it’s worrying enough just
A Chinese cyber-espionage actor likely connected with the “Operation Soft Cell” campaign has been targeting Middle East telecom providers since the beginning of 2023. The new series of attacks are part of what SentinelOne researchers described as “Operation Tainted Love,” a cyber-espionage campaign exhibiting “a well-maintained, versioned credential theft capability” and a new dropper mechanism.
Mar 23, 2023Ravie LakshmananBrowser Security / Artificial Intelligence Google has stepped in to remove a bogus Chrome browser extension from the official Web Store that masqueraded as OpenAI’s ChatGPT service to harvest Facebook session cookies and hijack the accounts. The “ChatGPT For Google” extension, a trojanized version of a legitimate open source browser add-on, attracted
by Paul Ducklin DELETED DATA THAT JUST WON’T GO AWAY The mobile phone bugs that Google kept quiet, just in case. The mysterious case of ATM video uploads. When redacted data springs back to life. No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Paul Ducklin and Chester Wisniewski. Intro and outro music by Edith
Why your organization should consider an MDR solution and five key things to look for in a service offering The threat landscape is evolving at breakneck speed and corporate cyberattack surfaces expand, with many trends and developments kicked into overdrive as a result of the surge in digital transformation investments during and after the COVID-19
An administrator of the notorious BreachForums website has announced the forum was taken down following the arrest of its alleged founder days ago. Writing in a Telegram message within the “Breach Forums” channel on Tuesday, the BreachForums admin known as “baphomet” confirmed he would be closing the site. “I will be taking down the forum,
Mar 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananICS/SCADA Security The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released eight Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on Tuesday, warning of critical flaws affecting equipment from Delta Electronics and Rockwell Automation. This includes 13 security vulnerabilities in Delta Electronics’ InfraSuite Device Master, a real-time device monitoring software. All versions prior to
by Paul Ducklin Just yesterday, we wrote about a bug in Google Pixel phones, apparently now patched, with potentially dangerous consequences. The bug finders, understandably excited (and concerned) by what they’d found, decided to follow the BWAIN principle for maximum, turning it into a Bug With An Impressive Name: aCropalypse. In case you’re wondering, the
More than 2400 scam pages have been discovered targeting Arabic-speaking job seekers in 13 countries from January 2022 to January 2023. The findings were made public by Group-IB security researchers in an advisory published earlier today. In it, risk protection analysts Sharef Hlal and Olga Ulchenko said that firms based in Egypt (48%), Saudi Arabia
Mar 21, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber War / Cyber Threat Amid the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, government, agriculture, and transportation organizations located in Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea have been attacked as part of an active campaign that drops a previously unseen, modular framework dubbed CommonMagic. “Although the initial vector of compromise is unclear, the details
by Paul Ducklin Even if you’ve never used one, you probably know what a VCR is (or was). Short for video cassette recorder, it was how we recorded and watched back videos at home in the days when digital video stored on hard disks was the absurdly expensive privilege of huge companies, typically TV stations.
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