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EA: 50 High-profile FIFA 22 Accounts Taken Over by Phishing Actors Electronic Arts (EA) has published an official response to numerous reports about hacked player accounts, confirming the problem and attributing it to phishing actors. As the notice explains, hackers used social engineering against EA’s customer experience team to bypass two-factor authentication and take over
Hackers Take Over Diplomat’s Email, Target Russian Deputy Minister Hackers believed to work for the North Korean government have compromised the email account of a staff member of Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MID) and deployed spear-phishing attacks against the country’s diplomats in other regions. One of the targets was Sergey Alexeyevich Ryabko, the deputy
State Hackers Use New PowerShell Backdoor in Log4j Attacks Hackers believed to be part of the Iranian APT35 state-backed group (aka ‘Charming Kitten’ or ‘Phosphorus’) has been observed leveraging Log4Shell attacks to drop a new PowerShell backdoor. The modular payload can handle C2 communications, perform system enumeration, and eventually receive, decrypt, and load additional modules. Log4Shell
Microsoft: New Critical Windows HTTP Vulnerability is Wormable Microsoft has patched a critical flaw tagged as wormable and found to impact the latest desktop and server Windows versions, including Windows 11 and Windows Server 2022. The bug, tracked as CVE-2022-21907 and patched during this month’s Patch Tuesday, was discovered in the HTTP Protocol Stack (HTTP.sys) used as a protocol listener for