Pegasus spyware scandal uncovered by fake image file on an iPhone
The scandal over NSO Group's Pegasus spyware was uncovered by a single fake image file mistakenly left on an activist's iPhone, a report states, a discovery that prompted international outcry over privacy.
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.
VMware Horizon servers are under active exploit by Iranian state hackers
Hackers aligned with the government of Iran are exploiting the critical Log4j vulnerability to infect unpatched VMware users with ransomware, researchers said on Thursday.
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.
CrowdStrike has observed that malware targeting Linux-based systems increased by 35% in 2021. XorDDoS, Mirai and Mozi were the most common malware families.
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.
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.
[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...
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 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 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.
Reconstructing the Attack from a 4th party collector’s point of view Hamid Kashfi 18th December, Predator Sparrows launched a second attack against the fuel distribution system in Iran, similar to their previous operation in 2021. Since 2021, Iranian officials or third-party security vendors have not published any analysis or technical details about the original attack, which is not unusual. Their screenshots from the latest attacks provide some clues that only confirm our previous work, indicating connections to the “Yaas Arghavani” company, a VSAT and POS service provider for the fuel distribution system. The following is an old draft from December 2021, which I wrote for peer eyes rather than public view. The original draft focused on the first attack against the fuel distribution system. Still, some remarks remain valid and relevant to the recent attack on 18 Dec 2023, as little has changed regarding how the system works. The same infrastructure, same suppliers, and same 3rd party vendors, so we are likely just talking about a different attack vector and entry point from the previous case. I will probably draft a new note about the recent attack from scratch soon and when more details are gathered rather than updating the old speculative work.
Sophos has patched EOL Firewall versions against a critical flaw exploited in the wild, after identifying a new exploit.
UK-based cybersecurity firm Sophos this week announced patches for an exploited vulnerability in Firewall versions that have reached End-of-Life (EOL). The critical-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-3236, was found to impact versions 19.0 MR1 (19.0.1) and older of the product. It was originally patched in September 2022, but only in supported versions of Sophos Firewall. Sophos describes the security defect as a code injection issue in the Firewall’s User Portal and Webadmin components, allowing attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE).
7 December 2023 - Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 General Availability
7 December 2023 - Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 General Availability The Apache Struts group is pleased to announce that Apache Struts version 6.3.0.2 is available as a “General Availability” release. The GA designation is our highest quality grade. The Apache Struts is an elegant, extensible framework for creating enterprise-ready Java web applications. The framework has been designed to streamline the full development cycle, from building, to deploying, to maintaining applications over time. This version addresses a potential security vulnerability identified as CVE-2023-50164 and described in S2-066 - please read the mentioned security bulletins for more details. This is a drop-in replacement and upgrade should be straightforward.