Friday , November 22 2024

Daily Cybersecurity update, July-3, 2023

The ever-increasing influence of Chinese threat actors in the cyber landscape is causing significant concern. As per the latest revelations, a Chinese state-linked group successfully stole data from a U.S. federal agency and targeted several European nations too. Today, we also have a Delaware county facing temporary outages due to a cyberattack from a few days back. In other news, with all these scams going around, you might think that there are lots of scammers associated with the business. However, that’s not the case. To know more about this and other highlights, read along.

The CISA and FBI issued a warning together that the Storm-0558 threat group, which is associated with China, accessed and stole unclassified Exchange Online Outlook data from an undisclosed U.S. source FCEB agency.

“Forces Penpals” exposed US and UK Military Social Network’s 1 Million Records

Renowned cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler uncovered a non-password-protected database having over 1.1 million records linked to Conduitor Limited (Forces Penpals)....
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CVE-2024-51503
Trend Micro released updates for Deep Security Agent RCE

Trend Micro released a security update for Deep Security 20 Agent Manual Scan Command Injection RCE Vulnerability (CVE-2024-51503) that resolves...
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Apple Releases Patch for two Actively Exploited Zero-Day

Apple released critical updates for its various products including for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and Safari to fix two zero-day...
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Apple Releases Patch for two Actively Exploited Zero-Day

Maxar Space Data Leak, Company admit, Investigation ongoing!

Maxar Space Systems has verified a major data breach that exposed particular information of current and former workers. The breach...
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Maxar Space Data Leak, Company admit, Investigation ongoing!

GitHub CLI Vulnerability Could Allow RCE

A security vulnerability (CVE-2024-52308) in the GitHub Command Line Interface (CLI) could allow remote code execution on users' devices. With...
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GitHub CLI Vulnerability Could Allow RCE

“Sarcoma” ransomware group
Hacker to disclose “Popular Life Insurance” 36 GB of stolen data

“Sarcoma” ransomware group attacked a well known Bangladeshi insurance company named "Popular life insurance company ltd". The threat actor keeps...
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“Sarcoma” ransomware group  Hacker to disclose “Popular Life Insurance” 36 GB of stolen data

BugHunt 2024: A Milestone Cyber security Competition held at Dhaka

Bug Hunt 2024, one of the largest cyber security competitions and conferences in Bangladesh, was successfully held at the ICT...
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BugHunt 2024: A Milestone Cyber security Competition held at Dhaka

TP-Link DHCP Vulnerability Allow Attackers Takeover Routers Remotely

A serious security flaw has been found in some TP-Link routers, potentially enabling hackers to remotely access the affected devices.The...
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TP-Link DHCP Vulnerability Allow Attackers Takeover Routers Remotely

WSJ reports
T-Mobile hacked in massive breach of telecom networks

The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter that T-Mobile’s network was among the systems...
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WSJ reports  T-Mobile hacked in massive breach of telecom networks

Palo Alto Networks Confirms critical RCE zero-day actively exploited

"Palo Alto Networks has observed threat activity exploiting an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability against a limited number of firewall...
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Palo Alto Networks Confirms critical RCE zero-day actively exploited

Kent County in Delaware is experiencing a cyberattack that has disrupted municipal services, leading to a temporary offline status of internet-based services and phone numbers.

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The Cl0p ransomware group put the data of 62 clients of Ernst & Young, including Air Canada and United Parcel Service Canada Ltd., on their leak sites. The group had exploited the MOVEit vulnerability and leaked 3TB of information belonging to the accounting firm.

Ransomware attacks have seen a significant increase in 2023, with cybercriminals extorting nearly $175.8 million more than the previous year, revealed Chainalysis.

Barracuda Networks and Columbia University studied 300,000 extortion emails and discovered that fewer than 100 scammers worldwide are behind them.

USB-delivered malware campaigns have seen a threefold increase in malware attacks in the first half of 2023, with two notable campaigns delivering Sogu and Snowydrive malware to various industries worldwide – reported Mandiant.

The hacker group Nobelium, supported by the Russian government, used fake BMW car listings to deceive Ukrainian diplomats into clicking on harmful links that install malware. The campaign has targeted at least 22 of the 80 foreign missions in Kyiv.

ZooTampa, a popular U.S. zoo, experienced a cyberattack resulting in the theft of employee and vendor information, with an affiliate of the Royal ransomware gang claiming responsibility.

Vietnamese threat actors are actively targeting Facebook business accounts using fake Ads Manager software and malicious Chrome extensions, resulting in over 800 victims worldwide losing more than $180,000 in compromised ad budgets.

In a recent finding, FortiGuard Labs uncovered a malicious operation that capitalizes on a pair of well-known vulnerabilities, including Follina, to implant the perilous LokiBot trojan on targeted devices. The campaign first came to light in May.

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