The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the suspected leader of the SilverTerrier cybercrime group as a result of an international operation. The Nigeria Police Force has arrested the suspected leader of the SilverTerrier cybercrime gang (aka TMT) after a year-long investigation codenamed “Operation Delilah.” SilverTerrier has been active since at least 2014 and focuses on BEC […]
Security flaws in Zoom can be exploited to compromise another user over chat by sending specially crafted messages. A set of four security flaws in the popular video conferencing service Zoom could be exploited to compromise another user over chat by sending specially crafted Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) messages.Tracked from CVE-2022-22784 through CVE-2022-22787, […]
US Critical Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds 41 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added 41 flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, including recently addressed issues in the Android kernel (CVE-2021-1048 and CVE-2021-0920) and Cisco IOS XR (CVE-2022-20821). The Cisco IOS XR flaw (CVE-2022-20821, CVSS score: […]
Threat actors behind web skimming campaigns are using malicious JavaScript to mimic Google Analytics and Meta Pixel scripts to avoid detection. Microsoft security researchers recently observed web skimming campaigns that used multiple obfuscation techniques to avoid detection. The threat actors obfuscated the skimming script by encoding it in PHP, which, in turn, was embedded in […]
Interpol Secretary warns that nation-state malware will become available on the cybercrime underground in a couple of years. Interpol Secretary General Jurgen Stock declared that nation-state malwre will become available on the darknet in a couple of years. In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the malware developed by both nation-state actors and non […]
Researchers warn that the Fronton botnet was used by Russia-linked threat actors for coordinated disinformation campaigns. Fronton is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet that was used by Russia-linked threat actors for coordinated disinformation campaigns. In March 2020, the collective of hacktivists called “Digital Revolution” claimed to have hacked a subcontractor to the Russian FSB. The […]
A security researcher announced the discovery of an unpatched flaw in PayPal that could allow attackers to steal money from users. TheHackerNews first reported that a security researcher (that goes online with the moniker h4x0r_dz) has discovered an unpatched flaw in PayPal that could allow attackers to trick users into completing transactions controlled by the […]
Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) uncovered campaigns targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) researchers discovered three campaigns, between August and October 2021, targeting Android users with five zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks aimed at installing the surveillance spyware Predator, developed by the North Macedonian firm Cytrox. The five 0-day vulnerabilities […]
Researchers uncovered a malware campaign targeting the infoSec community with fake Proof Of Concept to deliver a Cobalt Strike beacon. Researchers from threat intelligence firm Cyble uncovered a malware campaign targeting the infoSec community. The expert discovered a post where a researcher were sharing a fake Proof of Concept (POC) exploit code for an RPC Runtime Library […]
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