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Zoom Adopts NIST-Approved Post-Quantum End-to-End Encryption for Meetings

By: Newsroom β€” May 22nd 2024 at 04:46
Popular enterprise services provider Zoom has announced the rollout of post-quantum end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Zoom Meetings, with support for Zoom Phone and Zoom Rooms coming in the future. "As adversarial threats become more sophisticated, so does the need to safeguard user data," the company said in a statement. "With the launch of post-quantum E2EE, we are doubling down on
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Malicious Python Package Hides Sliver C2 Framework in Fake Requests Library Logo

By: Newsroom β€” May 13th 2024 at 06:18
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a malicious Python package that purports to be an offshoot of the popular requests library and has been found concealing a Golang-version of the Sliver command-and-control (C2) framework within a PNG image of the project's logo.  The package employing this steganographic trickery is requests-darwin-lite, which has been
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New Spectre-Style 'Pathfinder' Attack Targets Intel CPU, Leak Encryption Keys and Data

By: Newsroom β€” May 8th 2024 at 14:17
Researchers have discovered two novel attack methods targeting high-performance Intel CPUs that could be exploited to stage a key recovery attack against the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm. The techniques have been collectively dubbed Pathfinder by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego, Purdue University, UNC Chapel
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New Case Study: The Malicious Comment

By: The Hacker News β€” May 7th 2024 at 10:42
How safe is your comments section? Discover how a seemingly innocent 'thank you' comment on a product page concealed a malicious vulnerability, underscoring the necessity of robust security measures. Read the full real-life case study here.  When is a β€˜Thank you’ not a β€˜Thank you’? When it’s a sneaky bit of code that’s been hidden inside a β€˜Thank You’
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North Korea's Lazarus Group Deploys New Kaolin RAT via Fake Job Lures

By: Newsroom β€” April 25th 2024 at 16:47
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Lazarus Group employed its time-tested fabricated job lures to deliver a new remote access trojan called Kaolin RAT as part of attacks targeting specific individuals in the Asia region in summer 2023. The malware could, "aside from standard RAT functionality, change the last write timestamp of a selected file and load any received DLL
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TA558 Hackers Weaponize Images for Wide-Scale Malware Attacks

By: Newsroom β€” April 16th 2024 at 13:39
The threat actor tracked as TA558 has been observed leveraging steganography as an obfuscation technique to deliver a wide range of malware such as Agent Tesla, FormBook, Remcos RAT, LokiBot, GuLoader, Snake Keylogger, and XWorm, among others. "The group made extensive use of steganography by sending VBSs, PowerShell code, as well as RTF documents with an embedded exploit, inside
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Widely-Used PuTTY SSH Client Found Vulnerable to Key Recovery Attack

By: Newsroom β€” April 16th 2024 at 11:14
The maintainers of the PuTTY Secure Shell (SSH) and Telnet client are alerting users of a critical vulnerability impacting versions from 0.68 through 0.80 that could be exploited to achieve full recovery of NIST P-521 (ecdsa-sha2-nistp521) private keys. The flaw has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-31497, with the discovery credited to researchers Fabian BΓ€umer and Marcus
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Attackers Using Obfuscation Tools to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware via Invoice Phishing

By: Newsroom β€” April 9th 2024 at 07:24
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an intricate multi-stage attack that leverages invoice-themed phishing decoys to deliver a wide range of malware such as Venom RAT, Remcos RAT, XWorm, NanoCore RAT, and a stealer that targets crypto wallets. The email messages come with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file attachments that, when clicked, activate the infection sequence, Fortinet
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Google Warns: Android Zero-Day Flaws in Pixel Phones Exploited by Forensic Companies

By: Newsroom β€” April 3rd 2024 at 16:10
Google has disclosed that two Android security flaws impacting its Pixel smartphones have been exploited in the wild by forensic companies. The high-severity zero-day vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2024-29745 - An information disclosure flaw in the bootloader component CVE-2024-29748 - A privilege escalation flaw in the firmware component "There are indications that the [
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New "GoFetch" Vulnerability in Apple M-Series Chips Leaks Secret Encryption Keys

By: Newsroom β€” March 25th 2024 at 09:02
A new security shortcoming discovered in Apple M-series chips could be exploited to extract secret keys used during cryptographic operations. Dubbed GoFetch, the vulnerability relates to a microarchitectural side-channel attack that takes advantage of a feature known as data memory-dependent prefetcher (DMP) to target constant-time cryptographic implementations and capture sensitive data
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Watch Out for Spoofed Zoom, Skype, Google Meet Sites Delivering Malware

By: Newsroom β€” March 7th 2024 at 06:11
Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023. β€œThe threat actor is distributing Remote Access Trojans (RATs) including SpyNote RAT for Android platforms, and NjRAT and DCRat for Windows
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New IDAT Loader Attacks Using Steganography to Deploy Remcos RAT

By: The Hacker News β€” February 26th 2024 at 14:54
Ukrainian entities based in Finland have been targeted as part of a malicious campaign distributing a commercial remote access trojan known as Remcos RAT using a malware loader called IDAT Loader. The attack has been attributed to a threat actor tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) under the moniker UAC-0184. "The attack, as part of the IDAT Loader, used
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Apple Unveils PQ3 Protocol - Post-Quantum Encryption for iMessage

By: Newsroom β€” February 22nd 2024 at 16:25
Apple has announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 that it said will be integrated into iMessage to secure the messaging platform against future attacks arising from the threat of a practical quantum computer. "With compromise-resilient encryption and extensive defenses against even highly sophisticated quantum attacks, PQ3 is the first messaging protocol to reach
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Hackers Exploiting MS Excel Vulnerability to Spread Agent Tesla Malware

By: Newsroom β€” December 21st 2023 at 07:22
Attackers are weaponizing an old Microsoft Office vulnerability as part of phishing campaigns to distribute a strain of malware called Agent Tesla. The infection chains leverage decoy Excel documents attached in invoice-themed messages to trick potential targets into opening them and activate the exploitation of CVE-2017-11882 (CVSS score: 7.8), a memory corruption vulnerability in Office's
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Researchers Unveil GuLoader Malware's Latest Anti-Analysis Techniques

By: Newsroom β€” December 9th 2023 at 07:16
Threat hunters have unmasked the latest tricks adopted by a malware strain called GuLoader in an effort to make analysis more challenging. "While GuLoader's core functionality hasn't changed drastically over the past few years, these constant updates in their obfuscation techniques make analyzing GuLoader a time-consuming and resource-intensive process," Elastic Security Labs
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How Multi-Stage Phishing Attacks Exploit QRs, CAPTCHAs, and Steganography

By: The Hacker News β€” November 21st 2023 at 10:40
Phishing attacks are steadily becoming more sophisticated, with cybercriminals investing in new ways of deceiving victims into revealing sensitive information or installing malicious software. One of the latest trends in phishing is the use of QR codes, CAPTCHAs, and steganography. See how they are carried out and learn to detect them. Quishing Quishing, a phishing technique resulting from the
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LummaC2 Malware Deploys New Trigonometry-Based Anti-Sandbox Technique

By: Newsroom β€” November 20th 2023 at 10:49
The stealer malware known asΒ LummaC2Β (aka Lumma Stealer) now features a new anti-sandbox technique that leverages the mathematical principle of trigonometry to evade detection and exfiltrate valuable information from infected hosts. The method is designed to "delay detonation of the sample until human mouse activity is detected," Outpost24 security researcher Alberto MarΓ­nΒ saidΒ in a technical
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Randstorm Exploit: Bitcoin Wallets Created b/w 2011-2015 Vulnerable to Hacking

By: Newsroom β€” November 20th 2023 at 09:16
Bitcoin wallets created between 2011 and 2015 are susceptible to a new kind of exploit calledΒ RandstormΒ that makes it possible to recover passwords and gain unauthorized access to a multitude of wallets spanning several blockchain platforms. "Randstorm() is a term we coined to describe a collection of bugs, design decisions, and API changes that, when brought in contact with each other, combine
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27 Malicious PyPI Packages with Thousands of Downloads Found Targeting IT Experts

By: Newsroom β€” November 17th 2023 at 09:56
An unknown threat actor has been observed publishing typosquat packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository for nearly six months with an aim to deliver malware capable of gaining persistence, stealing sensitive data, and accessing cryptocurrency wallets for financial gain. The 27 packages, which masqueraded as popular legitimate Python libraries, attracted thousands of downloads,
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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Finally Real in Consumer Apps?

By: The Hacker News β€” September 29th 2023 at 11:48
Most people are barely thinking about basic cybersecurity, let alone post-quantum cryptography. But the impact of a post-quantum world is coming for them regardless of whether or not it's keeping them up tonight.Β  Today, many rely on encryption in their daily lives to protect their fundamental digital privacy and security, whether for messaging friends and family, storing files and photos, or
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