Month: August 2022

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Five imposter extensions for the Google Chrome web browser masquerading as Netflix viewers and others have been found to track users’ browsing activity and profit of retail affiliate programs. “The extensions offer various functions such as enabling users to watch Netflix shows together, website coupons, and taking screenshots of a website,” McAfee researchers Oliver Devane
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A new hacking campaign is exploiting the notorious deep field image taken from the James Webb telescope alongside obfuscated Go programming language payloads to infect systems. The malware was spotted by the Securonix Threat research team, who is tracking the campaign as GO#WEBBFUSCATOR. “Initial infection begins with a phishing email containing a Microsoft Office attachment,”
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Three connected campaigns delivered a variety of threats, including the ModernLoader bot, RedLine information-stealer and cryptocurrency-mining malware to victims between March and June 2022. The association between the three apparently unrelated campaigns was made by security researchers at Cisco Talos, who said the aforementioned threat actors compromised vulnerable web applications to deliver threats via fake Amazon
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Nearly half of breaches during the first six months of 2022 involved stolen credentials, Switzerland-based cybersecurity company Acronis reported in its Mid-Year Cyberthreat Report, published on August 24, 2022. It will come as no surprise to learn that the cybercriminals’ prime goal in using these credentials is to launch ransomware attacks, which “continue to be
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A Turkish-speaking entity called Nitrokod has been attributed to an active cryptocurrency mining campaign that involves impersonating a desktop application for Google Translate to infect over 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019. “The malicious tools can be used by anyone,” Maya Horowitz, vice president of research at Check Point, said in a statement shared
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Our phones store a lot of personal data, including contacts, social media account details, and bank account logins. We use our smartphones for everything under the sun, from work-related communication to online shopping.  However, like computer viruses, our phones can be vulnerable to malware. Viruses are a type of malware that replicate themselves and spread
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Security researchers have revealed a new phishing campaign targeting Okta identity credentials and connected two-factor authentication (2FA) codes.  The analysis comes from the Group-IB, who said it was particularly interesting because despite using low-skill methods, the campaign was able to compromise a large number of well-known companies. In fact, attackers sent employees of the targeted companies text
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Doxing can happen to anyone – here’s how you can reduce the odds that your personal information will be weaponized against you How harmful can it be to have your social media accounts set to public? Or to tag the restaurant where you’re having that delicious meal? Almost everyone does it! Let’s turn the questions
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Iranian state-sponsored actors are leaving no stone unturned to exploit unpatched systems running Log4j to target Israeli entities, indicating the vulnerability’s long tail for remediation. Microsoft attributed the latest set of activities to the umbrella threat group tracked as MuddyWater (aka Cobalt Ulster, Mercury, Seedworm, or Static Kitten), which is linked to the Iranian intelligence
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In this career-journey series, Internal Audit Manager Chris shares his recent journey joining the McAfee finance team and why he is always learning something new in his role. A typical day I’m an Internal Audit Manager. Essentially, I work with my McAfee colleagues to understand the processes we follow and run tests to confirm everything
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Iran-based threat actor MuddyWater (tracked by Microsoft as MERCURY) has been leveraging the exploitation of Log4j 2 vulnerabilities in SysAid applications to target organizations in Israel. The news comes from a new advisory from Microsoft’s security researchers, who said on Thursday they could assess with high confidence that MERCURY’s observed activity was affiliated with Iran’s Ministry
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by Paul Ducklin Recent updates to Apple Safari and Google Chrome made big headlines because they fixed mysterious zero-day exploits that were already being used in the wild. But this week also saw the latest four-weekly Firefox update, which dropped as usual on Tuesday, four weeks after the last scheduled full-version-number-increment release. We haven’t written
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Password management service LastPass confirmed a security incident that resulted in the theft of certain source code and technical information. The security breach is said to have occurred two weeks ago, targeting its development environment. No customer data or encrypted passwords were accessed. “An unauthorized party gained access to portions of the LastPass development environment
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Cybersecurity researchers from Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC)  have discovered a new, post-compromise capability allowing a threat actor to maintain persistent access to compromised environments. Dubbed ‘MagicWeb’ by the tech giant, the capability has been attributed to Nobelium, a group commonly associated with the SolarWinds and USAID attacks. “Nobelium remains highly active, executing multiple campaigns in parallel