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Misconfigured systems can spill data, which can be used by threat actors to breach a company’s systems and hijack communication channels.
In one instance, a misconfiguration issue in Swiss real estate agency Neho’s website exposed sensitive credentials for AWS, email services, communication tools, and review platforms to the public. This put the company’s internal systems and corporate communications at risk.
MITRE discloses 2024 CWE Top 25 critical software flaw
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/ Sunday , November 24 2024
MITRE identified Cross-site scripting as the most critical software flaw in its recent published report of the past year. The...
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Python NodeStealer: harvest credit card and Facebook Ads Manager
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/ Sunday , November 24 2024
Jan Michael Alcantara of Netskope Threat Labs reported, Python NodeStealer has resurfaced with advanced techniques and a broader target range....
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Cisco Talos
Over 60% of Emails with QR Codes are spam
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/ Saturday , November 23 2024
Generally scanning a malicious QR code from an unknown source can be harmful. Cisco Talos research shows that many people...
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CERT-In Flags Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Zoom app
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/ Saturday , November 23 2024
CERT-In issued a security advisory for multiple vulnerabilities in the Zoom app that could let attackers access sensitive information, escalate...
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Daily Security Digest Dated 11/23/24
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/ Saturday , November 23 2024
Every day a lot of cyberattack happenings around the world including ransomware, Malware attack, data breaches, website defacement and so...
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SafetyDetectives’ Research
Malware evades Microsoft Defender and 2FA, stealing $24K in crypto (video)
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/ Friday , November 22 2024
SafetyDetectives researchers found that Microsoft Defender was tricked by malware which allowed cryptocurrency theft from a user while analyzing a...
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Over 145,000 ICS Across 175 Countries Found Exposed Online
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/ Friday , November 22 2024
A study by Censys found that more than 145,000 Industrial Control Systems (ICS) are exposed online in 175 countries, highlighting...
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World to see AI powered “human washing machines”
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/ Friday , November 22 2024
Osaka-based showerhead maker Science Co. is developing a new version of human washing machine based on cutting-edge technology. The company...
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Hacker compromised over 2000 Palo Alto Networks Firewalls
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/ Friday , November 22 2024
Over 2,000 Palo Alto Networks firewalls have been compromised in a widespread attack using two recently patched vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-0012 and...
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“Forces Penpals” exposed US and UK Military Social Network’s 1 Million Records
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/ Thursday , November 21 2024
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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Threat actors are also targeting the healthcare sector.
An Idaho hospital and its partner clinics fell prey to an attack that forced it to redirect emergency services. The incident also impacted Idaho Falls Community Hospital and its partner hospitals.
The Dark Pink group has been active this year, amassing five new victims.
New research revealed that the Dark Pink group has been pretty active this year as it amassed five new victims. The group has targeted government, education, and military organizations in Belgium, Thailand, and Brunei.
Here are some other recent cyberattacks:
- Greece’s Education Ministry suffered a DDoS attack that disabled a centralized high school examination platform. This affected computers from 114 countries, causing outages and delays in high school exams.
- Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency were hacked after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a web browser bookmark.
- Scammers stole $170,000 from crypto investors by hacking the Twitter account of American DJ Steve Aoki and posting a message that promoted a new cryptocurrency token, PSYOP.
- The Anonymous Sudan threat group demanded a ransom of $3 million from Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) to stop the DDoS attacks on the airline’s websites it has been conducting since February.
- Trend Micro researchers spotted similarities between the new BlackSuit ransomware and Royal ransomware, with both employing intermittent encryption techniques to accelerate the encryption process on victims’ systems.
- Threat actors were found advertising the new SeroXen RAT, on underground forums, which combines the capabilities of Quasar RAT, r77-rootkit, and the command line NirCmd. It is mostly popular in the gaming community.
- A group of Ukrainian attackers claimed to have destroyed the infrastructure and stolen the documents and project source code belonging to Skolkovo Foundation, Russia’s ‘Silicon Valley’.
