Apple's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency
A researcher has sent one of Apple's AirTags to a mysterious "federal authority" in Germany to locate its true offices — and to help prove that it's really part of an intelligence agency.
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New DeadBolt ransomware targets QNAP devices, asks 50 BTC for master key
A new DeadBolt ransomware group is encrypting QNAP NAS devices worldwide using what they claim is a zero-day vulnerability in the device's software.
Linux-Targeted Malware Increases by 35% in 2021
CrowdStrike has observed that malware targeting Linux-based systems increased by 35% in 2021. XorDDoS, Mirai and Mozi were the most common malware families.
BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies
Over the few last hours, a dozen news stories have broken about how an attacker attempted (and perhaps managed) to steal cryptocurrencies using a BGP leak.
Twitter, Google, WhatsApp, Telegram... pourquoi la double authentification n'est finalement pas si sécurisée
La double authentification permet de sécuriser ses comptes en ligne et les données personnelles qui y sont attachées. Néanmoins, l'entreprise suisse Mitto AG, qui fournit les plus grands noms de la tech comme Twitter , Google, WhatsApp ou encore Telegram , s'en sert également pour ses activités de cybersurveillance…
Analyzing a watering hole campaign using macOS exploits
To protect our users, TAG routinely hunts for 0-day vulnerabilities exploited in-the-wild. In late August 2021, TAG discovered watering hole attacks targeting visitors to Hong Kong websites for a media outlet and a prominent pro-democracy labor and political group. The watering hole served an XNU privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2021-30869) unpatched in macOS Catalina, which led to the installation of a previously unreported backdoor.
Backdoor RAT for Windows, macOS, and Linux went undetected until now | Ars Technica
Never-before-seen, cross-platform SysJoker came from an "advanced threat actor."
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.
Le piratage d'une société américaine a des conséquences en Suisse
La société américaine iBasis a subi une attaque informatique ces derniers jours. Elle pourrait être utilisée comme transporteur de données appartenant à des opérateurs suisses.
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[LEAK] Maze + Egregor + Sekhmet keys along with m0yv (expiro) source code
Hello, Its developer. It was decided to release keys to the public for Egregor, Maze, Sekhmet ransomware families. also there is a little bit harmless source code of polymorphic x86/x64 modular EPO file infector m0yv detected in the wild as Win64/Expiro virus, but it is not expiro actually, but AV engines detect it like this, so no single thing in common with...
Why is the Zoom app listening on my microphone...
I'm running MacOS Monterey. Several times in the last few weeks, I've noticed the orange dot indicating the microphone is being used by an app, and I click on the Control Center and see that Zoom is accessing the microphone. I'm not in a meeting and simply have the Zoom app open. Why would Zoom be accessing the microphone when I'm not in a meeting?
PwnKit: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Discovered in polkit’s pkexec (CVE-2021-4034)
The Qualys Research Team has discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in polkit's pkexec, a SUID-root program that is installed by default on every major…
Utilisation de Google Analytics et transferts de données vers les États-Unis : la CNIL met en demeure un gestionnaire de site web
Google Analytics est une fonctionnalité qui peut être intégrée par les gestionnaires de sites web tels que des sites de vente en ligne afin d’en mesurer la fréquentation par les internautes. Dans ce cadre, un identifiant unique est attribué à chaque visiteur. Cet identifiant (qui constitue une donnée personnelle) et les données qui lui sont associées sont transférés par Google aux États-Unis.
Google Project Zero: Vendors are now quicker at fixing zero-days
Google's Project Zero has published a report showing that organizations took less time to address the zero-day vulnerabilities that the team reported last year.
UPnProxy: Eternal Silence
UPnProxy is alive and well. There are 277,000 devices, out of a pool of 3.5 million, running vulnerable implementations of UPnP. Of those, Akamai can confirm that more than 45,000 have been compromised in a widely distributed UPnP NAT injection campaign.
FritzFrog: P2P Botnet Hops Back on the Scene
FritzFrog is a peer-to-peer botnet, which means its command and control server is not limited to a single, centralized machine, but rather can be done from every machine in its distributed network. In other words, every host running the malware process becomes part of the network, and is capable of sending, receiving, and executing the commands to control machines in the network.
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerability listed in the table below. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors of all types and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise.
Zimbra 0-day used to target international government organizations
TAG’s discovery of a 0-day exploit used to steal email data from international government organizations.
European Telecom Body to Open-Source Radio Encryption System
The European telecom standards body behind a widely used radio encryption system will soon open-source its encryption protocols. The European Telecommunications
Uncovering thousands of unique secrets in PyPI packages
Security Researcher Tom Forbes worked with the GitGuardian team to analyze all the code committed to PyPi packages and surfaced thousands of hardcoded credentials.
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack | Ars Technica
An error as small as a single flipped memory bit is all it takes to expose a private key. The vulnerability occurs when there are errors during the signature generation that takes place when a client and server are establishing a connection. It affects only keys using the RSA cryptographic algorithm, which the researchers found in roughly a third of the SSH signatures they examined. That translates to roughly 1 billion signatures out of the 3.2 billion signatures examined. Of the roughly 1 billion RSA signatures, about one in a million exposed the private key of the host.
Google’s new Titan Security Keys let you store passkeys
Google has sold its own line of Titan Security Keys for several years now, and new USB-C and USB-A models with NFC let you store passkeys...
Intel fixes high-severity CPU bug that causes “very strange behavior”
Among other things, bug allows code running inside a VM to crash hypervisors.
A Closer Look at ChatGPT's Role in Automated Malware Creation
As the use of ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence (AI) technologies becomes more widespread, it is important to consider the possible risks associated with their use. One of the main concerns surrounding these technologies is the potential for malicious use, such as in the development of malware or other harmful software. Our recent reports discussed how cybercriminals are misusing the large language model’s (LLM) advanced capabilities: We discussed how ChatGPT can be abused to scale manual and time-consuming processes in cybercriminals’ attack chains in virtual kidnapping schemes. We also reported on how this tool can be used to automate certain processes in harpoon whaling attacks to discover “signals” or target categories.
The Mirai Confessions: Three Young Hackers Who Built a Web-Killing Monster Finally Tell Their Story | WIRED
Netflix, Spotify, Twitter, PayPal, Slack. All down for millions of people. How a group of teen friends plunged into an underworld of cybercrime and broke the internet—then went to work for the FBI.
LockBit ransomware group assemble strike team to breach banks, law firms and governments.
Recently, I’ve been tracking LockBit ransomware group as they’ve been breaching large enterprises: I thought it would be good to break down what is happening and how they’re doing it, since LockBit are breaching some of the world’s largest organisations — many of whom have incredibly large security budgets. Through data allowing the tracking of ransomware operators, it has been possible to track individual targets. Recently, it has become clear they have been targeting a vulnerability in Citrix Netscaler, called CitrixBleed. Prior reading:
C3RB3R Ransomware | Ongoing Exploitation of CVE-2023-22518 Targets Unpatched Confluence Servers - SentinelOne
Learn how threat actors are exploiting Confluence CVE-2023-22518 to deploy Cerber ransomware on Linux and Windows hosts.
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.
Google researchers discover 'Reptar,’ a new CPU vulnerability
A new CPU vulnerability, ‘Reptar,’ found by Google researchers, has been patched by Google and Intel. Here’s what you need to know. ... The impact of this vulnerability is demonstrated when exploited by an attacker in a multi-tenant virtualized environment, as the exploit on a guest machine causes the host machine to crash resulting in a Denial of Service to other guest machines running on the same host. Additionally, the vulnerability could potentially lead to information disclosure or privilege escalation.
District of Puerto Rico | Russian and Moldovan National Pleads Guilty to Operating Illegal Botnet Proxy Service that Infected Tens of Thousands of Internet-Connected Devices Around the World | United States Department of Justice
A Russian and Moldovan national pled guilty to three counts of violating 18 U.S.C. § 1030(a)(5)(A) Fraud and Related Activity in Connection with Computers. The FBI today revealed US law enforcement’s dismantlement of a botnet proxy network and its infrastructure associated with the IPStorm malware. According to online reports, the botnet infrastructure had infected Windows systems then further expanded to infect Linux, Mac, and Android devices, victimizing computers and other electronic devices around the world, including in Asia, Europe, North America and South America.