Mar 23, 2024NewsroomCyber Espionage / Cyber Warfare The WINELOADER backdoor used in recent cyber attacks targeting diplomatic entities with wine-tasting phishing lures has been attributed as the handiwork of a hacking group with links to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which was responsible for breaching SolarWinds and Microsoft. The findings come from Mandiant, which said…
Read MoreFriday Squid Blogging: New Species of Squid Discovered A new species of squid was discovered, along with about a hundred other species. 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: squid Posted on March…
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Security researchers have released technical details and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a critical vulnerability patched last week in Fortinet’s FortiClient Enterprise Management Server (FortiClient EMS), an endpoint security management solution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-48788, was reported to Fortinet as a zero-day by the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) and was actively exploited…
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The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he…
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Cybersecurity researchers have detected a new wave of phishing attacks that aim to deliver an ever-evolving information stealer referred to as StrelaStealer. The campaigns impact more than 100 organizations in the E.U. and the U.S., Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said in a new report published today. “These campaigns come in the form of…
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Mar 22, 2024NewsroomWeb Security / Vulnerability A massive malware campaign dubbed Sign1 has compromised over 39,000 WordPress sites in the last six months, using malicious JavaScript injections to redirect users to scam sites. The most recent variant of the malware is estimated to have infected no less than 2,500 sites over the past two months…
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Mar 22, 2024NewsroomCyber Defense / Vulnerability A China-linked threat cluster leveraged security flaws in Connectwise ScreenConnect and F5 BIG-IP software to deliver custom malware capable of delivering additional backdoors on compromised Linux hosts as part of an “aggressive” campaign. Google-owned Mandiant is tracking the activity under its uncategorized moniker UNC5174 (aka Uteus or Uetus), describing…
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Mar 22, 2024NewsroomAmazon Web Services / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shared details of a now-patched security vulnerability in Amazon Web Services (AWS) Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA) that could be potentially exploited by a malicious actor to hijack victims’ sessions and achieve remote code execution on underlying instances. The vulnerability, now addressed by AWS,…
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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI, and the multistate information sharing, and analysis center (MS-ISAC) have, in a joint effort, released an advisory to defend against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Especially popular with Russia-backed hacktivists and nation-state actors, DDoS attacks refer to malicious attempts to disrupt the normal traffic…
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The ThreatLocker® Zero Trust Endpoint Protection Platform implements a strict deny-by-default, allow-by-exception security posture to give organizations the ability to set policy-based controls within their environment and mitigate countless cyber threats, including zero-days, unseen network footholds, and malware attacks as a direct result of user error. With the capabilities of the ThreatLocker® Zero Trust Endpoint…
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