Researchers Find 3 New Malware Strains Used by SolarWinds Hackers

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FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a “sophisticated second-stage backdoor,” as the investigation into the sprawling espionage campaign continues to yield fresh clues about the threat actor’s tactics …

Google Will Use ‘FLoC’ for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead

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Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it begins phasing out third-party tracking cookies from its Chrome browser …

Extortion Gang Breaches Cybersecurity Firm Qualys Using Accellion Exploit

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Enterprise cloud security firm Qualys has become the latest victim to join a long list of entities to have suffered a data breach after zero-day vulnerabilities in its Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) server were exploited to steal sensitive business …

CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws

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Following Microsoft’s release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive warning of “active exploitation” of the vulnerabilities. The alert comes on …

Replacing EDR/NGAV with Autonomous XDR Makes a Big Difference for Small Security Teams

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The attack surface is virtually expanding before our eyes. Protecting assets across multiple locations, with multiple solutions from different vendors, has become a daily concern for CISOs globally.  In a new e-book recently published (download here), CISOs with small security …

Hackers Now Hiding ObliqueRAT Payload in Images to Evade Detection

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Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans (RATs) under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their attack methods are discovered and exposed publicly. New research released …

A $50,000 Bug Could’ve Allowed Hackers Access Any Microsoft Account

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Microsoft has awarded an independent security researcher $50,000 as part of its bug bounty program for reporting a flaw that could have allowed a malicious actor to hijack users’ accounts without their knowledge. Reported by Laxman Muthiyah, the vulnerability aims …

URGENT — 4 Actively Exploited 0-Day Flaws Found in Microsoft Exchange

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Microsoft has released emergency patches to address four previously undisclosed security flaws in Exchange Server that it says are being actively exploited by a new Chinese state-sponsored threat actor with the goal of perpetrating data theft. Describing the attacks as “limited and …

New Chrome 0-day Bug Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser ASAP!

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Exactly a month after patching an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome, Google today rolled out fixes for yet another zero-day vulnerability in the world’s most popular web browser that it says is being abused in the wild. Chrome 89.0.4389.72, released by …

Researchers Unearth Links Between SunCrypt and QNAPCrypt Ransomware

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SunCrypt, a ransomware strain that went on to infect several targets last year, may be an updated version of the QNAPCrypt ransomware, which targeted Linux-based file storage systems, according to new research. “While the two ransomware [families] are operated by …