New data-wiping malware used in destructive attacks on Ukraine
Cybersecurity firms have found a new data wiper used in destructive attacks today against Ukrainian networks just as Russia moves troops into regions of Ukraine.
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.
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.