New Glowworm Attack Recovers Device’s Sound from Its LED Power Indicator

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A novel technique leverages optical emanations from a device’s power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from a distance of as much as …

Hackers Spotted Using Morse Code in Phishing Attacks to Evade Detection

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Microsoft has disclosed details of an evasive year-long social engineering campaign wherein the operators kept changing their obfuscation and encryption mechanisms every 37 days on average, including relying on Morse …

Facebook Adds End-to-End Encryption for Audio and Video Calls in Messenger

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Facebook on Friday said it’s extending end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls in Messenger, along with testing a new opt-in setting that will turn on end-to-end encryption for …

Hackers Actively Searching for Unpatched Microsoft Exchange Servers

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Threat actors are actively carrying out opportunistic scanning and exploitation of Exchange servers using a new exploit chain leveraging a trio of flaws affecting on-premises installations, making them the latest set of bugs after …

Experts Shed Light On New Russian Malware-as-a-Service Written in Rust

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A nascent information-stealing malware sold and distributed on underground Russian underground forums has been written in Rust, signalling a new trend where threat actors are increasingly adopting exotic programming languages to bypass …

Ransomware Gangs Exploiting Windows Print Spooler Vulnerabilities

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Ransomware operators such as Magniber and Vice Society are actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler to compromise victims and spread laterally across a victim’s network to deploy file-encrypting payloads …