Today, the Commission has opened formal proceedings against TikTok for a suspected breach of the DSA in relation to TikTok's obligation to properly assess and mitigate systemic risks linked to election integrity, notably in the context of the recent Romanian presidential elections on 24 November.

Apple rejects requests for a copy of a Harris campaign staffer's iPhone.

ConnectOnCall.com, LLC provides a product (“ConnectOnCall”) that healthcare providers purchase to improve their after-hours call process and enhance communications between the providers and their patients. ConnectOnCall discovered an incident that involved personal information related to communications between patients and healthcare providers that use ConnectOnCall.

On May 12, 2024, ConnectOnCall learned of an issue impacting ConnectOnCall and immediately began an investigation and took steps to secure the product and ensure the overall security of its environment. ConnectOnCall’s investigation revealed that between February 16, 2024, and May 12, 2024, an unknown third party had access to ConnectOnCall and certain data within the application, including certain information in provider-patient communications.

Experts say the catchall term for online fraud furthers harm against victims and could dissuade people from reporting attempts to bilk them out of their money.

Meta has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) in the European Union for a Facebook security breach that affected millions of users, which the

Guardio Labs tracked and analyzed a large-scale fake captcha campaign distributing a disastrous Lumma info-stealer malware that circumvents general security measures like Safe Browsing. Entirely reliant on a single ad network for propagation, this campaign showcases the core mechanisms of malvertising — delivering over 1 million daily “ad impressions” and causing thousands of daily victims to lose their accounts and money through a network of 3,000+ content sites funneling traffic. Our research dissects this campaign and provides insights into the malvertising industry’s infrastructure, tactics, and key players.

Through a detailed analysis of redirect chains, obfuscated scripts, and Traffic Distribution Systems (TDS) — in collaboration with our friends at Infoblox — we traced the campaign’s origins to Monetag, a part of ProepllerAds’ network previously tracked by Infoblox under the name “Vane Viper.” Further investigation reveals how threat actors leveraged services like BeMob ad-tracking to cloak their malicious intent, showcasing the fragmented accountability in the ad ecosystem. This lack of oversight leaves internet users vulnerable and enables malvertising campaigns to flourish at scale.

Discover Bishop Fox's survey on the current state of SonicWall appliances on the public internet.

Serbian authorities are using spyware and Cellebrite forensic extraction tools to hack journalists and activists in a surveillance campaign.

In Cleo Harmony before 5.8.0.24, VLTrader before 5.8.0.24, and LexiCom before 5.8.0.24, an unauthenticated user can import and execute arbitrary Bash or PowerS…

I just wanted to make you all aware of what happened over the weekend.

On Sunday afternoon, Harry Sintonenen made us aware that several security
related websites posted articles about the "CRITICAL curl security flaw".

We announced that as severity LOW earlier this week. How and why did this
massive severiy level bump happen?

• Our 2024 Dray:Break report revealed 14 new vulnerabilities in DrayTek devices
  *See our upcoming presentation at Black Hat Europe for more details
• PRODAFT shared threat intelligence from 2023 on a ransomware campaign exploiting DrayTek devices
• This is the first time this campaign is discussed publicly
• Our analysis shows sophisticated attack workflows to deploy ransomware including possible:
  • Zero-day vulnerabilities
  • Credential harvesting and password cracking
    VPN and tunneling abuse

Amnesty said it found NoviSpy, an Android spyware linked to Serbian intelligence, on the phones of several members of Serbian civil society following police stops.

An “international cybercriminal group” harvested the personal data of potentially hundreds of thousands of people from the state’s social services and health insurance systems, officials said.

In this research, we uncovered several vulnerabilities and security flaws within the Prometheus ecosystem. These findings span across three major areas: information disclosure, denial-of-service (DoS), and code execution. We found that exposed Prometheus servers or exporters, often lacking proper authentication, allowed attackers to easily gather sensitive information, such as credentials and API keys.
Additionally, we identified an alarming risk of DoS attacks stemming from the exposure of pprof debugging endpoints, which, when exploited, could overwhelm and crash Prometheus servers, Kubernetes pods and other hosts.

• Socks5Systemz, identified last year during large-scale distribution campaigns involving Privateloader, Smokeloader, and Amadey, has actually been active since 2013.
• This malware was sold as a standalone product or integrated into other malware as a SOCKS5 proxy module. Such malware included, at least, Andromeda, Smokeloader and Trickbot.
• In recent months, Bitsight TRACE investigated a Socks5Systemz botnet with 250,000 compromised systems at its peak, geographically dispersed across almost every country in the world.
• The proxy service PROXY.AM, active since 2016, exploits the botnet to provide its users with proxy exit nodes and enable them to pursue broader criminal objectives.

• Akamai security researcher Tomer Peled explored new ways to use and abuse Microsoft's UI Automation framework and discovered an attack technique that evades endpoint detection and response (EDR).

• To exploit this technique, a user must be convinced to run a program that uses UI Automation. This can lead to stealthy command execution, which can harvest sensitive data, redirect browsers to phishing websites, and more.

• Detection of this technique is challenging in several ways, including for EDR. All EDR technologies we have tested against this technique were unable to find any malicious activity.

• This technique can be used on every Windows endpoint with operating system XP and above.

• In this blog post, we provide a full write-up on how to (ab)use the UI Automation framework (including possible attacks that could leverage it) and we present a proof of concept (PoC) for each abuse vector we discuss. We also provide detection and mitigation options.

• In this post, we describe our in-depth investigation into a threat actor to which we have assigned the identifier MUT-1244.
• MUT-1224 uses two initial access vectors to compromise their victims, both leveraging the same second-stage payload: a *phishing campaign targeting thousands of academic researchers and a large number of trojanized GitHub repositories, such as proof-of-concept code for exploiting known CVEs.
• Over 390,000 credentials, believed to be for WordPress accounts, have been exfiltrated to the threat actor through the malicious code in the trojanized "yawpp" GitHub project, masquerading as a WordPress credentials checker.
• Hundreds of victims of MUT-1244 were and are still being compromised. Victims are believed to be offensive actors—including pentesters and security researchers, as well as malicious threat actors— and had sensitive data such as SSH private keys and AWS access keys exfiltrated.
• We assess that MUT-1244 has overlap with a campaign tracked in previous research reported on the malicious npm package 0xengine/xmlrpc and the malicious GitHub repository hpc20235/yawpp.

Oasis Security's research team uncovered a critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) implementation, allowing attackers to bypass it and gain unauthorized access to the user’s account, including Outlook emails, OneDrive files, Teams chats, Azure Cloud, and more. Microsoft has more than 400 million paid Office 365 seats, making the consequences of this vulnerability far-reaching.

The bypass was simple: it took around an hour to execute, required no user interaction and did not generate any notification or provide the account holder with any indication of trouble.

In the increasingly dangerous world of cybercrime, Brian Krebs faces threats, manipulation and the odd chess challenge

A technical analysis of how a malware campaign using a game cheat lure leverages Node.js to distribute XMRig, Lumma and Phemedrone Stealer.