Researchers Uncover Hacker Group Behind Organized Financial-Theft Operation

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Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps of an organized financial-theft operation undertaken by a discreet actor to target transaction processing systems and siphon funds from entities primarily located in Latin …

Hackers Target Real Estate Websites with Skimmer in Latest Supply Chain Attack

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Threat actors leveraged a cloud video hosting service to carry out a supply chain attack on more than 100 real estate websites operated by Sotheby’s Realty that involved injecting malicious skimmers to …

Microsoft Warns of Continued Attacks Exploiting Apache Log4j Vulnerabilities

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Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state adversaries and commodity attackers to take advantage of security vulnerabilities uncovered in the Log4j open-source logging framework to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Exploitation …

Beware of Fake Telegram Messenger App Hacking PCs with Purple Fox Malware

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Trojanized installers of the Telegram messaging application are being used to distribute the Windows-based Purple Fox backdoor on compromised systems. That’s according to new research published by Minerva Labs, describing …

Researchers Detail New HomeKit ‘doorLock’ Bug Affecting Apple iOS

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A persistent denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in Apple’s iOS mobile operating system that’s capable of sending affected devices into a crash or reboot loop upon connecting to an …

SAILFISH System to Find State-Inconsistency Bugs in Smart Contracts

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A group of academics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, has demonstrated what it calls a “scalable technique” to vet smart contracts and mitigate state-inconsistency bugs, discovering 47 zero-day …

Detecting Evasive Malware on IoT Devices Using Electromagnetic Emanations

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Cybersecurity researchers have proposed a novel approach that leverages electromagnetic field emanations from the Internet of Things (IoT) devices as a side-channel to glean precise knowledge about the different kinds …

Are Medical Devices at Risk of Ransomware Attacks?

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In May 2017, the first documented ransomware assault on networked medical equipment happened. The worldwide ransomware assault WannaCry compromised radiological and other instruments in several hospitals during its height, after …