Hackers are implanting multiple backdoors at industrial targets in Japan

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Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed details of a sophisticated campaign that deploys malicious backdoors for the purpose of exfiltrating information from a number of industry sectors located in Japan. Dubbed …

New Bugs Could Let Hackers Bypass Spectre Attack Mitigations On Linux Systems

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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday disclosed two new vulnerabilities in Linux-based operating systems that, if successfully exploited, could let attackers circumvent mitigations for speculative attacks such as Spectre and obtain sensitive information from …

Flaws in Ovarro TBox RTUs Could Open Industrial Systems to Remote Attacks

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As many as five vulnerabilities have been uncovered in Ovarro’s TBox remote terminal units (RTUs) that, if left unpatched, could open the door for escalating attacks against critical infrastructures, like …

PHP’s Git Server Hacked to Insert Secret Backdoor to Its Source code

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In yet another instance of a software supply chain attack, unidentified actors hacked the official Git server of the PHP programming language and pushed unauthorized updates to insert a secret backdoor …

Watch Out! That Android System Update May Contain A Powerful Spyware

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Researchers have discovered a new information-stealing trojan, which targets Android devices with an onslaught of data-exfiltration capabilities — from collecting browser searches to recording audio and phone calls. While malware …

OpenSSL Releases Patches for 2 High-Severity Security Vulnerabilities

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The maintainers of OpenSSL have released a fix for two high-severity security flaws in its software that could be exploited to carry out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and bypass certificate verification. …