The arrest comes as the U.S. ramps up efforts to crack down on attempts by cybercriminals to use cryptocurrency to evade sanctions.
Sophos took immediate steps to remediate CVE-2022-3236 – an unauthenticated and remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Sophos Firewall Webadmin and User Portal HTTP interfaces – with an automated hotfix sent out in September 2022. Through its advisory published on September 23, 2022, it also alerted users who don't receive automatic hotfixes to apply the update themselves. The advisory stated the vulnerability had previously been used against "a small set of specific organizations, primarily in the South Asia region." In December, Sophos released v19.5 GA GA with an official fix.
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Samples of four malicious software downloaded and run on macOS 13.1. Could it detect and block them effectively? Or do you need 3rd party protection?
Stay ahead of the game with our review on macOS malware threats. Learn about the top techniques used by threat actors to deliver malware and how to build more resilient defenses.
Malicious Google Ad --> Fake Notepad++ Page --> Aurora Stealer malware
Google Ads is one of the most popular advertising platform, but it's also a target for cybercriminals. Learn how they are using it to spread malware.
NFT influencer @NFT_GOD downloaded malware through Google Ads while attempting to download OBS, an open-source video streaming software.
A newly uncovered technique to abuse Google’s ad-words powerful advertisement platform is spreading rogue promoted search results in mass. Pointing to allegedly credible advertisement sites that are fully controlled by threat actors, those are used to masquerade and redirect ad-clickers to malicious phishing pages gaining the powerful credibility and targeting capabilities of Google’s search results. Adding customized malware payloads, threat actors are raising the bar for successful malware deployments on Personal PCs with ad words like Grammarly, Malwarebytes, and Afterburner as well as with Visual Studio, Zoom, Slack, and even Dashlane to target organizations.
Les clés USB font partie du paysage informatique depuis longtemps et sont utilisées pour stocker des données ou les transférer d'un ordinateur à un autre. De nombreuses personnes ignorent toutefois que ces clés peuvent également servir d'outil de piratage.
The FortiGuard Labs team discovered an attack embedded in three PyPI packages called ‘colorslib’, ‘httpslib’, and “libhttps”. Read our blog to learn more.
The Vice Society ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the November 2022 cyberattack that forced the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) to reconstruct its IT infrastructure, a process that's still ongoing.
Gen Digital, formerly Symantec Corporation and NortonLifeLock, is sending data breach notifications to customers, informing them that hackers have successfully breached Norton Password Manager accounts in credential-stuffing attacks.
Paid Memberships Pro : CVE-2023-23488 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
Easy Digital Downloads: CVE-2023-23489 - Unauthenticated SQL Injection
Survey Maker: CVE-2023-23490 - Authenticated SQL Injection
Depuis la guerre en Ukraine, les Etat-Unis ont envoyé plusieurs équipes spécialisées pour aider les pays se sentant vulnérables aux cyberattaques russes. Du côté français, on s’inquiète que ces démarches ouvrent la voie à des opérations plus larges d’espionnage.
Google includes or removes CA certificates within the Chrome Root Store as it deems appropriate for user safety in accordance with our policies. The selection and ongoing inclusion of CA certificates is done to enhance the security of Chrome and promote interoperability.
On 2022-12-11, I decided to setup Secure Boot on my new desktop with a help of sbctl. Unfortunately I have found that my firmware was… accepting every OS image I gave it, no matter if it was trusted or not. It wasn't the first time that I have been self-signing Secure Boot, I wasn't doing it wrong.
As I have later discovered on 2022-12-16, it wasn't just broken firmware, MSI had changed their Secure Boot defaults to allow booting on security violations(!!).
How Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot Misinformation
The Nordic country is testing new ways to teach students about propaganda. Here’s what other countries can learn from its success.
CircleCI’s chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer’s laptops and stole elevated account privileges to breach the company’s systems and data late last year.
SweepWizard, an app that law enforcement used to coordinate raids, left sensitive information about hundreds of police operations publicly accessible.
