U.S., U.K. and Australia Warn of Iranian Hackers Exploiting Microsoft, Fortinet Flaws

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Cybersecurity agencies from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. on Wednesday released a joint advisory warning of active exploitation of Fortinet and Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities by Iranian state-sponsored actors to gain …

Israel’s Candiru Spyware Found Linked to Watering Hole Attacks in U.K and Middle East

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Israeli spyware vendor Candiru, which was added to an economic blocklist by the U.S. government this month, is said to have reportedly waged “watering hole” attacks against high-profile entities in the U.K. …

Facebook Bans Pakistani and Syrian Hacker Groups for Abusing its Platform

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Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, announced Tuesday that it took action against four separate malicious cyber groups from Pakistan and Syria who were found targeting people in Afghanistan, …

New Blacksmith Exploit Bypasses Current Rowhammer Attack Defenses

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Cybersecurity researchers have demonstrated yet another variation of the Rowhammer attack affecting all DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chips that bypasses currently deployed mitigations, thereby effectively compromising the security of the devices. The …

Researchers Demonstrate New Way to Detect MitM Phishing Kits in the Wild

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No fewer than 1,220 Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) phishing websites have been discovered as targeting popular online services like Instagram, Google, PayPal, Apple, Twitter, and LinkedIn with the goal of hijacking users’ …

Notorious Emotet Botnet Makes a Comeback with the Help of TrickBot Malware

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The notorious Emotet malware is staging a comeback of sorts nearly 10 months after a coordinated law enforcement operation dismantled its command-and-control infrastructure in late January 2021. According to a new report from security …

New ‘Moses Staff’ Hacker Group Targets Israeli Companies With Destructive Attacks

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A new politically-motivated hacker group named “Moses Staff” has been linked to a wave of targeted attacks targeting Israeli organizations since September 2021 with the goal of plundering and leaking …

SharkBot — A New Android Trojan Stealing Banking and Cryptocurrency Accounts

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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday took the wraps off a new Android trojan that takes advantage of accessibility features on the devices to siphon credentials from banking and cryptocurrency services in …