Sep 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Cryptocurrency Android device users in South Korea have emerged as a target of a new mobile malware campaign that delivers a new type of threat dubbed SpyAgent. The malware “targets mnemonic keys by scanning for images on your device that might contain them,” McAfee Labs researcher SangRyol Ryu said…

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Progress Software has issued an emergency fix for a maximum (10/10) severity vulnerability impacting its LoadMaster and LoadMaster Multi-Tenant (MT) Hypervisor products that allows attackers to remotely execute commands on the device. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-7591, is categorized as an improper input validation problem allowing an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access LoadMaster’s management interface…

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Sep 09, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Threat Intelligence A previously undocumented threat actor with likely ties to Chinese-speaking groups has predominantly singled out drone manufacturers in Taiwan as part of a cyber attack campaign that commenced in 2024. Trend Micro is tracking the adversary under the moniker TIDRONE, stating the activity is espionage-driven given the…

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The U.S. government and a coalition of international partners have officially attributed a Russian hacking group tracked as Cadet Blizzard to the General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) 161st Specialist Training Center (Unit 29155). “These cyber actors are responsible for computer network operations against global targets for the purposes of espionage, sabotage, and reputational harm…

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A novel side-channel attack dubbed  “RAMBO” (Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense) generates electromagnetic radiation from a device’s RAM to send data from air-gapped computers. Air-gapped systems, typically used in mission-critical environments with exceptionally high-security requirements, such as governments, weapon systems, and nuclear power stations, are isolated from the public internet and other networks to…

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A new variant of the ongoing sextortion email scams is now targeting spouses, saying that their husband or wife is cheating on them, with links to the alleged proof. In sextortion emails, scammers pretend to have hacked your computer to steal images or videos of you performing sexual acts and demand that you send a…

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Video The schemes disproportionately victimize senior citizens, as those aged 60 or over were more than three times as likely as younger adults to fall prey to the scams 06 Sep 2024 Consumers in the United States lost more than $114 million to scams involving Bitcoin ATMs (BTMs) last year, with the figure soaring ten-fold…

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Sep 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Security / Malware Threat actors affiliated with North Korea have been observed leveraging LinkedIn as a way to target developers as part of a fake job recruiting operation. These attacks employ coding tests as a common initial infection vector, Google-owned Mandiant said in a new report about threats faced by the…

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Sep 07, 2024Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Dark Web Two men have been indicted in the U.S. for their alleged involvement in managing a dark web marketplace called WWH Club that specializes in the sale of sensitive personal and financial information. Alex Khodyrev, a 35-year-old Kazakhstan national, and Pavel Kublitskii, a 37-year-old Russian national, have been charged…

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ESET Research ESET researchers discuss HotPage, a recently discovered adware armed with a highest-privilege, yet vulnerable, Microsoft-signed driver 05 Sep 2024  •  , 1 min. read Usually when someone mentions adware, people think of low-quality half-baked malicious code used to spam victims with sketchy ads. But as we explain in this episode of our podcast,…

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