14 New XS-Leaks (Cross-Site Leaks) Attacks Affect All Modern Web Browsers

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Researchers have discovered 14 new types of cross-site data leakage attacks against a number of modern web browsers, including Tor Browser, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, and Opera, among others. Collectively known as “XS-Leaks,” the browser bugs …

Researchers Detail How Pakistani Hackers Targeting Indian and Afghan Governments

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A Pakistani threat actor successfully socially engineered a number of ministries in Afghanistan and a shared government computer in India to steal sensitive Google, Twitter, and Facebook credentials from its targets and stealthily obtain access to government portals. Malwarebytes’ latest …

Warning: Yet Another Zoho ManageEngine Product Found Under Active Attacks

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Enterprise software provider Zoho on Friday warned that a newly patched critical flaw in its Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP is being actively exploited by malicious actors, marking the third security vulnerability in its products to be abused in …

Pegasus Spyware Reportedly Hacked iPhones of U.S. State Department and Diplomats

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Apple reportedly notified several U.S. Embassy and State Department employees that their iPhones may have been targeted by an unknown assailant using state-sponsored spyware created by the controversial Israeli company NSO Group, according to multiple reports from Reuters and The Washington Post. At …

New Payment Data Stealing Malware Hides in Nginx Process on Linux Servers

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E-commerce platforms in the U.S., Germany, and France have come under attack from a new form of malware that targets Nginx servers in an attempt to masquerade its presence and slip past detection by security solutions. “This novel code injects …

Why Everyone Needs to Take the Latest CISA Directive Seriously

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Government agencies publish notices and directives all the time. Usually, these are only relevant to government departments, which means that nobody else really pays attention. It’s easy to see why you would assume that a directive from CISA just doesn’t …

New Malvertising Campaigns Spreading Backdoors, Malicious Chrome Extensions

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A series of malicious campaigns have been leveraging fake installers of popular apps and games such as Viber, WeChat, NoxPlayer, and Battlefield as a lure to trick users into downloading a new backdoor and an undocumented malicious Google Chrome extension …

Meta Expands Facebook Protect Program to Activists, Journalists, Government Officials

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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, on Thursday announced an expansion of its Facebook Protect security program to include human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and government officials who are more likely to be targeted by bad actors across its …

CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Critical Zoho ManageEngine ServiceDesk Vulnerability

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) are warning of active exploitation of a newly patched flaw in Zoho’s ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus product to deploy web shells and carry out an array …

Researches Detail 17 Malicious Frameworks Used to Attack Air-Gapped Networks

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Four different malicious frameworks designed to attack air-gapped networks were detected in the first half of 2020 alone, bringing the total number of such toolkits to 17 and offering adversaries a pathway to cyber espionage and exfiltrate classified information. “All …