Category: AI in news
A recent attack campaign by one of North Korea’s state-run hacking groups uses a new PowerShell and VBScript-based attack chain that’s initiated from inside LNK files. Multiple attack stages are downloaded from legitimate cloud services and the final payload is an open-source remote access trojan. “All of the C2 communication is handled through legitimate services…
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A new elaborate attack campaign has been observed employing PowerShell and VBScript malware to infect Windows systems and harvest sensitive information. Cybersecurity company Securonix, which dubbed the campaign DEEP#GOSU, said it’s likely associated with the North Korean state-sponsored group tracked as Kimsuky. “The malware payloads used in the DEEP#GOSU represent a sophisticated, multi-stage threat designed…
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Fujitsu has warned that cybercriminals may have stolen files with personal and customer data after it discovering malware on its computer systems. The firm at the center of the British Post Office scandal, said in a Japanese press release that it had discovered the presence of malware on its computers, the potential theft of customer…
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malware campaign that leverages bogus Google Sites pages and HTML smuggling to distribute a commercial malware called AZORult in order to facilitate information theft. “It uses an unorthodox HTML smuggling technique where the malicious payload is embedded in a separate JSON file hosted on an external website,” Netskope Threat…
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Multiple GitHub repositories posing as cracked software codes were found attempting to drop the RisePro info-stealer onto victim systems. The campaign delivers a new variant of the RisePro info-stealing malware designed to crash malware analysis tools like IDA and ResourceHacker. G Data CyberDefense, the German cybersecurity company that made the discovery, reported that it had…
Read MoreDrones and the US Air Force Fascinating analysis of the use of drones on a modern battlefield—that is, Ukraine—and the inability of the US Air Force to react to this change. The F-35A certainly remains an important platform for high-intensity conventional warfare. But the Air Force is planning to buy 1,763 of the aircraft, which…
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Mar 18, 2024NewsroomWebsite Security / Vulnerability WordPress users of miniOrange’s Malware Scanner and Web Application Firewall plugins are being urged to delete them from their websites following the discovery of a critical security flaw. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-2172, is rated 9.8 out of a maximum of 10 on the CVSS scoring system. It impacts…
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Cost: Varies based on location of exam administration. For example, Americas and Africa, $599; United Kingdom, £479; EMEA, €555. Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) The Certified Information Security Manager, offered by ISACA, is another important certification for CISOs because it is specifically designed for professionals who are responsible for managing and overseeing information security programs,…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: Operation Squid Operation Squid found 1.3 tons of cocaine hidden in frozen fish. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. Tags: drug trade, squid Posted on March 15, 2024 at 5:08…
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This means that should an attacker gain access to this account, they now have local admin on all computers managed via SCCM and can then use that access to dump credentials and find other accounts. In one instance, penetration testers gained access to a regular user’s SharePoint, who in turn had read access to the…
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