Author: nlqip
No one’s too smart for a well-designed scam. Case in point, neuroscientist, triathlete Carina who thought the finance bro she met on Bumble was the one for her, but the only real thing was the money she lost. This week’s Tin Foil Swan dives into the sunk cost fallacy and the role it plays in…
Read MoreFortinet released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products, including OS and FortiProxy. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply necessary updates: FR-IR-23-345 FortiClientMac – Lack of configuration file validation FG-IR-23-493…
Read MoreCISA released one Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory on April 9, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisory for technical details and mitigations. Source link lol
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The implemented solution lowers the risk of data exfiltration by ensuring that, when data is processed in memory and encrypted, it remains inaccessible and unobtainable by any privileged accounts. In addition, the collaboration offers Cohesity customers a method to confirm the authenticity of their Intel SGX using the Intel Trust Authority. This system, equipped with…
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Apr 09, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Malware Human rights activists in Morocco and the Western Sahara region are the targets of a new threat actor that leverages phishing attacks to trick victims into installing bogus Android apps and serve credential harvesting pages for Windows users. Cisco Talos is tracking the activity cluster under the name Starry…
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Apr 09, 2024NewsroomBotnet / Crypto Mining A threat group of suspected Romanian origin called RUBYCARP has been observed maintaining a long-running botnet for carrying out crypto mining, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), and phishing attacks. The group, believed to be active for at least 10 years, employs the botnet for financial gain, Sysdig said in a report…
Read MoreUS Cyber Safety Review Board on the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Hack US Cyber Safety Review Board released a report on the summer 2023 hack of Microsoft Exchange by China. It was a serious attack that From the executive summary: The Board finds that this intrusion was preventable and should never have occurred. The Board also…
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Apr 09, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / IoT Security Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LG webOS running on its smart televisions that could be exploited to bypass authorization and gain root access on the devices. The findings come from Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered and reported the flaws in November 2023. The issues were fixed…
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ARC Labs recently analyzed a phishing email used in a credential harvesting campaign that leveraged a lure notifying the target they received a voice message and needed to visit a link to access it. Analysis of the payload revealed heavily obfuscated HTML data which executed JavaScript code embedded within an SVG image when the page…
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2023 CL0P Growth Emerging in early 2019, CL0P was first introduced as a more advanced version of its predecessor the ‘CryptoMix’ ransomware, brought about by its owner CL0P ransomware, a cybercrime organisation. Over the years the group remained active with significant campaigns throughout 2020 to 2022. But in 2023 the CL0P ransomware gang took itself…
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