Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers

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Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation. The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emotet as …

3.2 Billion Leaked Passwords Contain 1.5 Million Records with Government Emails

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A staggering number of 3.28 billion passwords linked to 2.18 billion unique email addresses were exposed in what’s one of the largest data dumps of breached usernames and passwords. In addition, the leak includes 1,502,909 passwords associated with email addresses …

Critical RCE Bug Found in Homebrew Package Manager for macOS and Linux

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A recently identified security vulnerability in the official Homebrew Cask repository could have been exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code on users’ machines that have Homebrew installed. The issue, which was reported to the maintainers on April 18 …

Passwordstate Password Manager Update Hijacked to Install Backdoor on Thousands of PCs

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Click Studios, the Australian software company behind the Passwordstate password management application, has notified customers to reset their passwords following a supply chain attack. The Adelaide-based firm said a bad actor used sophisticated techniques to compromise the software’s update mechanism …

New QNAP NAS Flaws Exploited In Recent Ransomware Attacks – Patch It!

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A new ransomware strain called “Qlocker” is targeting QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices as part of an ongoing campaign and encrypting files in password-protected 7zip archives. First reports of the infections emerged on April 20, with the adversaries behind the operations …

Prometei Botnet Exploiting Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers

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Attackers are exploiting the ProxyLogon Microsoft Exchange Server flaws to co-opt vulnerable machines to a cryptocurrency botnet named Prometei, according to new research. “Prometei exploits the recently disclosed Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities associated with the HAFNIUM attacks to penetrate the network …

Researchers Find Additional Infrastructure Used By SolarWinds Hackers

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The sprawling SolarWinds cyberattack which came to light last December was known for its sophistication in the breadth of tactics used to infiltrate and persist in the target infrastructure, so much so that Microsoft went on to call the threat actor behind …

Hackers Exploit VPN to Deploy SUPERNOVA malware on SolarWinds Orion

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has disclosed details of a new advanced persistent threat (APT) that’s leveraging the Supernova backdoor to compromise SolarWinds Orion installations after gaining access to the network through a connection to a Pulse …

Cost of Account Unlocks, and Password Resets Add Up

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There are many labor-intensive tasks that the IT service desk carries out on a daily basis. None as tedious and costly as resetting passwords. Modern IT service desks spend a significant amount of time both unlocking and resetting passwords for …

Cybercriminals Using Telegram Messenger to Control ToxicEye Malware

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Adversaries are increasingly abusing Telegram as a “command-and-control” system to distribute malware into organizations that could then be used to capture sensitive information from targeted systems. “Even when Telegram is not installed or being used, the system allows hackers to …