Providing Security Updates to Automobile Software Auto manufacturers are just starting to realize the problems of supporting the software in older models: Today’s phones are able to receive updates six to eight years after their purchase date. Samsung and Google provide Android OS updates and security updates for seven years. Apple halts servicing products seven…
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Jul 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Malware The nation-state threat actor known as SideWinder has been attributed to a new cyber espionage campaign targeting ports and maritime facilities in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team, which discovered the activity, said targets of the spear-phishing campaign include countries like Pakistan,…
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Moreover, experts say this kind of software error will almost certainly occur again. “We should expect it to happen again, and you need to protect against it,” Ranjan Singh, chief product officer at Kaseya, tells CSO. “There are humans involved in the entire chain of development, so invariably, there’s always room for error. But it’s…
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Jul 30, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Email Security Cybersecurity researchers are warning about a new phishing campaign that targets Microsoft OneDrive users with the aim of executing a malicious PowerShell script. “This campaign heavily relies on social engineering tactics to deceive users into executing a PowerShell script, thereby compromising their systems,” Trellix security researcher Rafael Pena…
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A recently patched security flaw impacting VMware ESXi hypervisors has been actively exploited by “several” ransomware groups to gain elevated permissions and deploy file-encrypting malware. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2024-37085 (CVSS score: 6.8), an Active Directory integration authentication bypass that allows an attacker to obtain administrative access to the host. “A malicious actor…
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Generative AI (GenAI) is making waves across the world. Its popularity and widespread use has also attracted the attention of cybercriminals, leading to various cyberthreats. Yet much discussion around threats associated with tools like ChatGPT has focused on how the technology can be misused to help fraudsters create convincing phishing messages, produce malicious code or…
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A new version of the Android spyware ‘Mandrake’ has been found in five applications downloaded 32,000 times from Google Play, the platform’s official app store. Bitdefender first documented Mandrake in 2020, with the researchers highlighting the malware’s sophisticated spying capabilities and noting that it has operated in the wild since at least 2016. Kaspersky now…
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Microsoft Outlook can be turned into a C2 beacon to remotely execute code, as demonstrated by a new red team post-exploitation framework named “Specula,” released today by cybersecurity firm TrustedSec. This C2 framework works by creating a custom Outlook Home Page using WebView by exploiting CVE-2017-11774, an Outlook security feature bypass vulnerability patched in October 2017.…
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Security researchers at Microsoft have discovered a vulnerability in VMware ESXi hypervisors that has been exploited by ransomware operators to gain full administrative access to a domain-joined hypervisor. The problem, identified as CVE-2024-37085, granted full admin privileges to members of a domain group, without proper validation. It has been used by several ransomware groups such…
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