Google Speech-to-Text API Can Help Attackers Easily Bypass Google reCAPTCHA

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A three-year-old attack technique to bypass Google’s audio reCAPTCHA by using its own Speech-to-Text API has been found to still work with 97% accuracy. Researcher Nikolai Tschacher disclosed his findings …

British Court Rejects U.S. Request to Extradite WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

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A British court has rejected the U.S. government’s request to extradite Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to the country on charges pertaining to illegally obtaining and sharing classified material related to …

AutoHotkey-Based Password Stealer Targeting US, Canadian Banking Users

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Threat actors have been discovered distributing a new credential stealer written in AutoHotkey (AHK) scripting language as part of an ongoing campaign that started early 2020. Customers of financial institutions …

A New SolarWinds Flaw Likely Had Let Hackers Install SUPERNOVA Malware

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An authentication bypass vulnerability in the SolarWinds Orion software may have been leveraged by adversaries to deploy the SUPERNOVA malware in target environments. According to an advisory published yesterday by the CERT …

Police Arrest 21 WeLeakInfo Customers Who Bought Breached Personal Data

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21 people have been arrested across the UK as part of a nationwide cyber crackdown targeting customers of WeLeakInfo[.]com, a now-defunct online service that had been previously selling access to …

Attackers Abusing Citrix NetScaler Devices to Launch Amplified DDoS Attacks

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Citrix has issued an emergency advisory warning its customers of a security issue affecting its NetScaler application delivery controller (ADC) devices that attackers are abusing to launch amplified distributed denial-of-service …