Shadow Attacks Let Attackers Replace Content in Digitally Signed PDFs

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Researchers have demonstrated a novel class of attacks that could allow a bad actor to potentially circumvent existing countermeasures and break the integrity protection of digitally signed PDF documents. Called “Shadow attacks” by academics from Ruhr-University Bochum, the technique uses …

5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era

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A full-time mass work from home (WFH) workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their …

Hackers Exploit Accellion Zero-Days in Recent Data Theft and Extortion Attacks

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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved …

Chinese Hackers Had Access to a U.S. Hacking Tool Years Before It Was Leaked Online

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On August 13, 2016, a hacking unit calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” announced that it had stolen malware tools and exploits used by the Equation Group, a sophisticated threat actor believed to be affiliated to the Tailored Access Operations (TAO) …

How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?

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An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss, …

New ‘Silver Sparrow’ Malware Infected Nearly 30,000 Apple Macs

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Days after the first malware targeting Apple M1 chips was discovered in the wild, researchers have disclosed yet another previously undetected piece of malicious software that was found in about 30,000 Macs running Intel x86_64 and the iPhone maker’s M1 processors. However, …

New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting with a victim’s Mastercard contactless card while believing it to be a Visa card. The research, published by a group of academics …

Privacy Bug in Brave Browser Exposes Dark-Web Browsing History of Its Users

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Brave has fixed a privacy issue in its browser that sent queries for .onion domains to public internet DNS resolvers rather than routing them through Tor nodes, thus exposing users’ visits to dark web websites. The bug was addressed in …

Masslogger Trojan Upgraded to Steal All Your Outlook, Chrome Credentials

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A credential stealer infamous for targeting Windows systems has resurfaced in a new phishing campaign that aims to steal credentials from Microsoft Outlook, Google Chrome, and instant messenger apps. Primarily directed against users in Turkey, Latvia, and Italy starting mid-January, …

First Malware Designed for Apple M1 Chip Discovered in the Wild

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One of the first malware samples tailored to run natively on Apple’s M1 chips has been discovered, suggesting a new development that indicates that bad actors have begun adapting malicious software to target the company’s latest generation of Macs powered …