How Does DMARC Prevent Phishing?

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DMARC is a global standard for email authentication. It allows senders to verify that the email really comes from whom it claims to come from. This helps curb spam and phishing attacks, which are among the most prevalent cybercrimes of today. …

A New Jupyter Malware Version is Being Distributed via MSI Installers

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Cybersecurity researchers have charted the evolution of Jupyter, a .NET infostealer known for singling out healthcare and education sectors, which make it exceptional at defeating most endpoint security scanning solutions. The new delivery chain, spotted by Morphisec on September 8, underscores that …

SonicWall Issues Patches for a New Critical Flaw in SMA 100 Series Devices

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Network security company SonicWall has addressed a critical security vulnerability affecting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances that can permit remote, unauthenticated attackers to gain administrator access on targeted devices remotely. Tracked as CVE-2021-20034, the arbitrary file deletion flaw …

Urgent Chrome Update Released to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability

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Google on Friday rolled out an emergency security patch to its Chrome web browser to address a security flaw that’s known to have an exploit in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-37973, the vulnerability has been described as use after free in Portals API, a …

A New APT Hacker Group Spying On Hotels and Governments Worldwide

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A new advanced persistent threat (APT) has been behind a string of attacks against hotels across the world, along with governments, international organizations, engineering companies, and law firms. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET codenamed the cyber espionage group FamousSparrow, which it said …

Cisco Releases Patches 3 New Critical Flaws Affecting IOS XE Software

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Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems has rolled out patches to address three critical security vulnerabilities in its IOS XE network operating system that remote attackers could potentially abuse to execute arbitrary code with administrative privileges and trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) …

Google Warns of a New Way Hackers Can Make Malware Undetectable on Windows

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel technique adopted by a threat actor to deliberately evade detection with the help of malformed digital signatures of its malware payloads. “Attackers created malformed code signatures that are treated as valid by Windows but are …

Apple’s New iCloud Private Relay Service Leaks Users’ Real IP Addresses

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A new as-yet unpatched weakness in Apple’s iCloud Private Relay feature could be circumvented to leak users’ true IP addresses from iOS devices running the latest version of the operating system. Introduced as a beta with iOS 15, which was …

Urgent Apple iOS and macOS Updates Released to Fix Actively Exploited Zero-Days

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Apple on Thursday released security updates to fix multiple security vulnerabilities in older versions of iOS and macOS that it says have been detected in exploits in the wild, in addition to expanding patches for a previously plugged security weakness abused by NSO Group’s …

A New Bug in Microsoft Windows Could Let Hackers Easily Install a Rootkit

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Security researchers have disclosed an unpatched weakness in Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table (WPBT) affecting all Windows-based devices since Windows 8 that could be potentially exploited to install a rootkit and compromise the integrity of devices. “These flaws make every …