Critical Flaws Discovered in Azure App That Microsoft Secretly Installs on Linux VMs

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Microsoft on Tuesday addressed a quartet of security flaws as part of its Patch Tuesday updates that could be abused by adversaries to target Azure cloud customers and elevate privileges as well as allow for remote takeover of vulnerable systems. The list …

3 Former U.S. Intelligence Officers Admit to Hacking for UAE Company

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday disclosed it fined three intelligence community and military personnel $1.68 million in penalties for their role as cyber-mercenaries working on behalf of a U.A.E.-based cybersecurity company. The trio in question — Marc …

Microsoft Releases Patch for Actively Exploited Windows Zero-Day Vulnerability

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A day after Apple and Google rolled out urgent security updates, Microsoft has pushed software fixes as part of its monthly Patch Tuesday release cycle to plug 66 security holes affecting Windows and other components such as Azure, Office, BitLocker, and Visual Studio, including an actively exploited …

New Stealthier ZLoader Variant Spreading Via Fake TeamViewer Download Ads

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Users searching for TeamViewer remote desktop software on search engines like Google are being redirected to malicious links that drop ZLoader malware onto their systems while simultaneously embracing a stealthier infection chain that allows it to linger on infected devices and evade …

HP OMEN Gaming Hub Flaw Affects Millions of Windows Computers

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details about a high-severity flaw in the HP OMEN driver software that impacts millions of gaming computers worldwide, leaving them open to an array of attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-3437 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerabilities could allow threat …

Zero Trust Requires Cloud Data Security with Integrated Continuous Endpoint Risk Assessment

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Every once in a while, an industry term will get overused by marketing to the point of becoming a cliche. “Zero Trust” may have reached this threshold. In some ways, we understand why this is happening. Security perimeters have become …

Apple Issues Urgent Updates to Fix New Zero-Day Linked to Pegasus Spyware

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Apple has released iOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.8, watchOS 7.6.2, macOS Big Sur 11.6, and Safari 14.1.2 to fix two actively exploited vulnerabilities, one of which defeated extra security protections built into the operating system. The list of two flaws is as follows – CVE-2021-30858 (WebKit) – …

Update Google Chrome to Patch 2 New Zero-Day Flaws Under Attack

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Google on Monday released security updates for Chrome web browser to address a total of 11 security issues, two of which it says are actively exploited zero-days in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2021-30632 and CVE-2021-30633, the vulnerabilities concern an out of bounds write in V8 …

Linux Implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon Targeting Organizations Worldwide

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Researchers on Monday took the wraps off a newly discovered Linux and Windows re-implementation of Cobalt Strike Beacon that’s actively set its sights on government, telecommunications, information technology, and financial institutions in the wild. The as-yet undetected version of the penetration testing …

Critical Bug Reported in NPM Package With Millions of Downloads Weekly

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A widely used NPM package called ‘Pac-Resolver’ for the JavaScript programming language has been remediated with a fix for a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability that could be abused to run malicious code inside Node.js applications whenever HTTP requests are …