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Watering Hole Attacks Push ScanBox Keylogger

Researchers uncover a watering hole attack likely carried out by APT TA423, which attempts to plant the ScanBox JavaScript-based reconnaissance tool. A China-based threat actor has ramped up efforts ...
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Ransomware Attacks are on the Rise

Lockbit is by far this summer’s most prolific ransomware group, trailed by two offshoots of the Conti group. After a recent dip, ransomware attacks are back on the rise. According to data released by ...
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Cybercriminals Are Selling Access to Chinese Surveillance Cameras

Tens of thousands of cameras have failed to patch a critical, 11-month-old CVE, leaving thousands of organizations exposed. New research indicates that over 80,000 Hikvision surveillance cameras in ...
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Fake Reservation Links Prey on Weary Travelers

Fake travel reservations are exacting more pain from the travel weary, already dealing with the misery of canceled flights and overbooked hotels. A longtime threat group identified as TA558 has ramped ...
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APT Lazarus Targets Engineers with macOS Malware

The North Korean APT is using a fake job posting for Coinbase in a cyberespionage campaign targeting users of both Apple and Intel-based systems. North Korean APT Lazarus is up to its old tricks with ...
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Xiaomi Phone Bug Allowed Payment Forgery

Mobile transactions could’ve been disabled, created and signed by attackers. Smartphone maker Xiaomi, the world’s number three phone maker behind Apple and Samsung, reported it has patched a ...
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Black Hat and DEF CON Roundup

‘Summer Camp’ for hackers features a compromised satellite, a homecoming for hackers and cyberwarfare warnings. There was nothing typical this year at BSides LV, Black Hat USA and DEF CON – also known ...
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Microsoft Patches ‘Dogwalk’ Zero-Day and 17 Critical Flaws

August Patch Tuesday tackles 121 CVEs, 17 critical bugs and one zero-day bug exploited in the wild. Microsoft is urging users to patch a zero-day vulnerability dubbed Dogwalk that is actively being ...
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Phishing Attacks Skyrocket with Microsoft and Facebook as Most Abused Brands

Instances of phishing attacks leveraging the Microsoft brand increased 266 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior. The bloom is back on phishing attacks with criminals doubling down on fake messages ...
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Sneaky Orbit Malware Backdoors Linux Devices

The novel threat steals data and can affect all processes running on the OS, stealing information from different commands and utilities and then storing it on the affected machine. A sneaky malware ...
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U.S. Healthcare Orgs Targeted with Maui Ransomware

State-sponsored actors are deploying the unique malware–which targets specific files and leaves no ransomware note–in ongoing attacks. Several federal agencies are warning healthcare organizations ...
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Human Error Blamed for Leak of 1 Billion Records of Chinese Citizens

A developer appears to have divulged credentials to a police database on a popular developer forum, leading to a breach and subsequent bid to sell 23 terabytes of ...