New Mirai-Inspired Botnet Could Be Using Your KGUARD DVRs in Cyber Attacks

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Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday revealed details about a new Mirai-inspired botnet called “mirai_ptea” that leverages an undisclosed vulnerability in digital video recorders (DVR) provided by KGUARD to propagate and carry …

Mongolian Certificate Authority Hacked to Distribute Backdoored CA Software

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In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, unidentified hackers breached the website of MonPass, one of Mongolia’s major certificate authorities, to backdoor its installer software with Cobalt Strike binaries. …

NSA, FBI Reveal Hacking Methods Used by Russian Military Hackers

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An ongoing brute-force attack campaign targeting enterprise cloud environments has been spearheaded by the Russian military intelligence since mid-2019, according to a joint advisory published by intelligence agencies in the …

New Google Scorecards Tool Scans Open-Source Software for More Security Risks

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Google has launched an updated version of Scorecards, its automated security tool that produces a “risk score” for open source initiatives, with improved checks and capabilities to make the data generated …

Microsoft Warns of Critical “PrintNightmare” Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild

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Microsoft on Thursday officially confirmed that the “PrintNightmare” remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting Windows Print Spooler is different from the issue the company addressed as part of its Patch …

IndigoZebra APT Hacking Campaign Targets the Afghan Government

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Cybersecurity researchers are warning of ongoing attacks coordinated by a suspected Chinese-speaking threat actor targeting the Afghanistan government as part of an espionage campaign that may have had its provenance …

Microsoft Discloses Critical Bugs Allowing Takeover of NETGEAR Routers

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Cybersecurity researchers have detailed critical security vulnerabilities affecting NETGEAR DGN2200v1 series routers, which they say could be reliably abused as a jumping-off point to compromise a network’s security and gain unfettered …