The three zero-day flaws addressed by Apple on September 21, 2023, were leveraged as part of an iPhone exploit chain in an attempt to deliver a spyware strain called Predator targeting former Egyptian member of parliament Ahmed Eltantawy between May and September 2023.
"The targeting took place after Eltantawy publicly stated his plans to run for President in the 2024 Egyptian elections," the Citizen Lab said, attributing the attack with high confidence to the Egyptian government owing to it being a known customer of the commercial spying tool.
Netskope Threat Labs is tracking a campaign that uses malicious Python scripts to steal Facebook users’ credentials and browser data. This campaign targets Facebook business accounts with bogus Facebook messages with a malicious file attached. The attacks are reaching victims mainly in Southern Europe and North America across different segments, led by the manufacturing services and technology sectors.
The UK's Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that crooks have got their mitts on some of its data after a third-party supplier responsible for ID badges was attacked.
According to the Manchester Evening News the stolen data included the names and pictures of police officers held by the supplier for use on thousands of ID badges.
This is a fun bug I found while poking around at weird Windows file formats. It's a kind of classic Windows style vulnerability featuring broken signing, sketchy DLL loads, file races, cab files, and Mark-of-the-Web silliness. It was also my first experience submitting to the MSRC Windows bug bounty since leaving Microsoft in April of 2022.