100 Million Samsung Galaxy Phones Affected with Flawed Hardware Encryption Feature

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A group of academics from Tel Aviv University have disclosed details of now-patched “severe” design flaws affecting about 100 million Android-based Samsung smartphones that could have resulted in the extraction …

CISA adds recently disclosed Zimbra bug to its Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expanded its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog to include a recently disclosed zero-day flaw in the Zimbra email platform citing evidence of active exploitation in …

Experts Create Apple AirTag Clone That Can Bypass Anti-Tracking Measures

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Cybersecurity researchers have managed to build a clone of Apple Airtag that circumvents the anti-stalking protection technology built into its Find My Bluetooth-based tracking protocol. The result is a stealth …

CISA Warns of High-Severity Flaws in Schneider and GE Digital’s SCADA Software

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week published an industrial control system (ICS) advisory related to multiple vulnerabilities impacting Schneider Electric’s Easergy medium voltage protection relays. “Successful exploitation of …

Iranian Hackers Using New Spying Malware That Abuses Telegram Messenger API

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An Iranian geopolitical nexus threat actor has been uncovered deploying two new targeted malware that come with “simple” backdoor functionalities as part of an intrusion against an unnamed Middle East …

Social Media Hijacking Malware Spreading Through Gaming Apps on Microsoft Store

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A new malware capable of controlling social media accounts is being distributed through Microsoft’s official app store in the form of trojanized gaming apps, infecting more than 5,000 Windows machines …

Putin Warns Russian Critical Infrastructure to Brace for Potential Cyber Attacks

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The Russian government on Thursday warned of cyber attacks aimed at domestic critical infrastructure operators, as the country’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine enters the second day. In addition to cautioning …

Iran’s MuddyWater Hacker Group Using New Malware in Worldwide Cyber Attacks

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Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. have laid bare a new malware used by the Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks targeting government and commercial …

New “SockDetour” Fileless, Socketless Backdoor Targets U.S. Defense Contractors

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Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary …