A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
Hertzbleed attack targets power-conservation feature found on virtually all modern CPUs.
PyPI package 'ctx' and PHP library 'phpass' compromised to steal environment variables
This week, immensely popular PyPI package 'ctx' has been compromised and altered to steal environment variables from its users. Additionally, a forked PHP project 'phpass' also suffered a repo-hijacking attack with the project tained with identical malicious payload.
How the French fiber optic cable attacks accentuate critical infrastructure vulnerabilities
The pictures show neatly trimmed fiber optic cables dug up from underground behind what appears to be a well-hidden grate. The apparent simplicity of the sabotage is all the more harrowing in light of how extensively it disrupted Internet service in France, experts said.
Ongoing phishing attacks on Trezor users
Trezor users have reported being targeted by a malicious phishing attack on April 3.
Cyberattack targets Vodafone Portugal, disrupts services
Vodafone Portugal, one of the country’s leading telecommunications companies, said Tuesday it had been hacked though no confidential customer data was compromised
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s taken precautions to avoid being targeted by hackers, keeping an eye out for suspicious messages and avoiding clicking on links or opening attachments from people she doesn’t know.
Google Docs Comment Exploit Allows for Distribution of Phishing and Malware
An exploit in the Google Docs comment feature allows hackers to easily spread malware and phishing.
CacheWarp
CacheWarp is a new software fault attack on AMD SEV-ES and SEV-SNP. It allows attackers to hijack control flow, break into encrypted VMs, and perform privilege escalation inside the VM.
Surge in QR Code Quishing: Check Point Records 587% Attack Spike
Check Point’s Harmony Email team has reported a startling increase of 587% in QR code phishing or Quishing attacks.
New GPU Side-Channel Attack Allows Malicious Websites to Steal Data
GPUs from AMD, Apple, Arm, Intel, Nvidia and Qualcomm are vulnerable to a new type of side-channel attack named GPU.zip.
When MFA isn't actually MFA
Due to a recent Google change, MFA isn't truly MFA.
“MrTonyScam” — Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business Accounts
Facebook’s Messenger platform has been heavily abused in the past month to spread endless messages with malicious attachments from a swarm of fake and hijacked personal accounts. These threat actors are targeting millions of business accounts on Facebook’s platform — from highly-rated marketplace sellers to large corporations, with fake business inquiries, achieving a staggering “success rate” with approximately 1 out of 70 infected!
Guarding the Bridge: New Attack Vectors in Azure AD Connect
By researching Azure AD Connect components, Sygnia was able to discover several attack vectors for extracting Connector credentials and domain users’ NT hashes, while avoiding common security solutions.
The five-day job: A BlackByte ransomware intrusion case study
In a recent investigation by Microsoft Incident Response of a BlackByte 2.0 ransomware attack, we found that the threat actor progressed through the full attack chain, from initial access to impact, in less than five days, causing significant business disruption for the victim organization.
NCSC marks 20th anniversary of first response to state-sponsored cyber attack
In June 2003, GCHQ experts were involved in responding to a cyber attack against the UK Government for the first time.
Schools hit by cyber attack and documents leaked
Confidential details including child passport scans and SEN data is published online, the BBC finds.
Comprehensive Threat Intelligence: Cisco Talos shares insights related to recent cyber attack on Cisco
- On May 24, 2022, Cisco became aware of a potential compromise. Since that point, Cisco Security Incident Response (CSIRT) and Cisco Talos have been working to remediate. * During the investigation, it was determined that a Cisco employee’s credentials were compromised after an attacker gained control of a personal Google account where credentials saved in the victim’s browser were being synchronized.
Cloudflare mitigates 26 million request per second DDoS attack
Last week, Cloudflare automatically detected and mitigated a 26 million request per second DDoS attack — the largest HTTPS DDoS attack on record.
A new vulnerability in Intel and AMD CPUs lets hackers steal encryption keys
Hertzbleed attack targets power-conservation feature found on virtually all modern CPUs.
PyPI package 'ctx' and PHP library 'phpass' compromised to steal environment variables
This week, immensely popular PyPI package 'ctx' has been compromised and altered to steal environment variables from its users. Additionally, a forked PHP project 'phpass' also suffered a repo-hijacking attack with the project tained with identical malicious payload.
How the French fiber optic cable attacks accentuate critical infrastructure vulnerabilities
The pictures show neatly trimmed fiber optic cables dug up from underground behind what appears to be a well-hidden grate. The apparent simplicity of the sabotage is all the more harrowing in light of how extensively it disrupted Internet service in France, experts said.
Ongoing phishing attacks on Trezor users
Trezor users have reported being targeted by a malicious phishing attack on April 3.
Cyberattack targets Vodafone Portugal, disrupts services
Vodafone Portugal, one of the country’s leading telecommunications companies, said Tuesday it had been hacked though no confidential customer data was compromised
‘Zero-Click’ Hacks Are Growing in Popularity. There’s Practically No Way to Stop Them
As a journalist working for the Arab news network Alaraby, Rania Dridi said she’s taken precautions to avoid being targeted by hackers, keeping an eye out for suspicious messages and avoiding clicking on links or opening attachments from people she doesn’t know.
Google Docs Comment Exploit Allows for Distribution of Phishing and Malware
An exploit in the Google Docs comment feature allows hackers to easily spread malware and phishing.
Here’s how long it takes new BrutePrint attack to unlock 10 different smartphones
Researchers have devised a low-cost smartphone attack that cracks the authentication fingerprint used to unlock the screen and perform other sensitive actions on a range of Android devices in as little as 45 minutes.
Water controllers for irrigating fields in the Jordan Valley were damaged, as were control systems for the Galil Sewage Corporation.
Several water monitors – which monitor irrigation systems and wastewater treatment systems – were left dysfunctional on Sunday after a cyber attack targeted the monitoring systems. Specifically, water controllers for irrigating fields in the Jordan Valley were damaged, as were control systems for the Galil Sewage Corporation.
New victims come forward after mass-ransomware attack
The number of victims affected by a mass-ransomware attack, caused by a bug in a popular data transfer tool used by businesses around the world, continues to grow as another organization tells TechCrunch that it was also hacked. The City of Toronto told TechCrunch in a revised statement on March 23: “Today, the City of Toronto has confirmed that unauthorized access to City data did occur through a third party vendor. The access is limited to files that were unable to be processed through the third party secure file transfer system.”
No Pineapple! –DPRK Targeting of Medical Research and Technology Sector
During Q4 2022, WithSecure™ detected and responded to a cyber attack conducted by a threat actor that WithSecure™ have attributed with high confidence to an intrusion set referred to as Lazarus Group. Attribution with high confidence was based off of overlapping techniques tactics and procedures as well as an operational security mistake by the threat actor. Amongst technical indications, the incident observed by WithSecure™ also contains characteristics of recent campaigns attributed to Lazarus Group by other researchers.
NortonLifeLock warns that hackers breached Password Manager accounts
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.