Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Others Hacked at Tianfu Cup Competition

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Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. “Many mature and hard …

North Korean Hackers Used ‘Torisma’ Spyware in Job Offers-based Attacks

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A cyberespionage campaign aimed at aerospace and defense sectors in order to install data gathering implants on victims’ machines for purposes of surveillance and data exfiltration may have been more sophisticated than previously thought. The attacks, which targeted IP-addresses belonging …

Update Your iOS Devices Now — 3 Actively Exploited 0-Days Discovered

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Apple on Thursday released multiple security updates to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities that were revealed as being actively exploited in the wild. Rolled out as part of its iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS updates, the flaws reside in the FontParser …

Deception Technology: No Longer Only A Fortune 2000 Solution

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A cyber-attacker successfully breaks into your environment and begins sneaking around to find something valuable – intellectual property, bank account credentials, company plans, whatever. The attacker makes his way to a certain host on a network node to browse the …

Premium-Rate Phone Fraudsters Hack VoIP Servers of 1200 Companies

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Cybersecurity researchers today took the wraps off an on-going cyber fraud operation led by hackers in Gaza, West Bank, and Egypt to compromise VoIP servers of more than 1,200 organizations across 60 countries over the past 12 months. According to …

If You Don’t Have A SASE Cloud Service, You Don’t Have SASE At All

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The Secure Access Service Edge (or SASE) has been a very hot buzzword in the past year. A term and category created by Gartner 2019, SASE states that the future of networking and security lies in the convergence of these categories …

New Kimsuky Module Makes North Korean Spyware More Powerful

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A week after the US government issued an advisory about a “global intelligence gathering mission” operated by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, new findings have emerged about the threat group’s spyware capabilities. The APT — dubbed “Kimsuky” (aka Black Banshee or Thallium) …

New Chrome Zero-Day Under Active Attacks – Update Your Browser

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Google has patched a second actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser in two weeks, along with addressing nine other security vulnerabilities in its latest update. The company released 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which it said will be rolling …

How to Prevent Pwned and Reused Passwords in Your Active Directory

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Many businesses are currently looking at how to bolster security across their organization as the pandemic and remote work situation continues to progress towards the end of the year. As organizations continue to implement security measures to protect business-critical data, …

New NAT/Firewall Bypass Attack Lets Hackers Access Any TCP/UDP Service

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A new research has demonstrated a technique that allows an attacker to bypass firewall protection and remotely access any TCP/UDP service on a victim machine. Called NAT Slipstreaming, the method involves sending the target a link to a malicious site (or …