State-backed Hackers Increasingly Use RTF Injection for Phishing Three APT hacking groups from India, Russia, and China, were observed using a novel RTF (rich text format) template injection technique in their recent phishing campaigns. This technique is a simple yet effective method to retrieve malicious content from a remote URL, Read more…
Microsoft Defender Scares Admins with Emotet False Positives Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is currently blocking Office documents from being opened and some executables from launching due to a false positive tagging the files as potentially bundling an Emotet malware payload. Windows system admins are reporting [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] that this is happening Read more…
FBI Seized $2.3M from Affiliate of REvil, Gandcrab Ransomware Gangs The FBI seized $2.3 million in August from a well-known REvil and GandCrab ransomware affiliate, according to court documents seen by BleepingComputer. In a complaint unsealed today, the FBI seized 39.89138522 bitcoins worth approximately $2.3 million at current prices ($1.5 Read more…
Finland Warns of Flubot Malware Heavily Targeting Android Users Finland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-FI) has issued a “severe alert” to warn of a massive campaign targeting the country’s Android users with Flubot banking malware pushed via text messages sent from compromised devices. This is the second large-scale Flubot campaign that hit Read more…
Smartwatches for Children are a Privacy and Security Nightmare Researchers analyzed the security of four popular smartwatches for children and found pre-installed downloaders, weak passwords, and unencrypted data transmissions. The analysis demonstrates that most of these devices arbitrarily collect and periodically transmit sensitive data to remote servers without the user Read more…
EwDoor Botnet Targets AT&T Network Edge Devices at US Firms A recently discovered botnet is attacking unpatched AT&T enterprise network edge devices using exploits for a four-year-old critical severity Blind Command Injection security flaw. The botnet, dubbed EwDoor by researchers at Qihoo 360’s Network Security Research Lab (360 Netlab), targets AT&T customers Read more…
Android Banking Malware Infects 300,000 Google Play Users Malware campaigns distributing Android trojans that steals online bank credentials have infected almost 300,000 devices through malicious apps pushed via Google’s Play Store. The Android banking trojans delivered onto compromised devices attempt to steal users’ credentials when they log in to an Read more…
DNA Testing Firm Discloses Data Breach Affecting 2.1 Million People DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC), an Ohio-based DNA testing company, has disclosed a hacking incident that affects 2,102,436 persons. The incident resulted in a confirmed data breach that occurred between May 24, 2021, and July 28, 2021, and the firm concluded Read more…
8-year-old HP Printer Vulnerability Affects 150 Printer Models Researchers have discovered several vulnerabilities affecting at least 150 multi-function (print, scan, fax) printers made by Hewlett Packard. Since the flaws discovered by F-Secure security researchers Alexander Bolshev and Timo Hirvonen date back to at least 2013, they’ve likely exposed a large Read more…
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