LilacSquid’s Cyber Espionage Tactics in IT, Energy, and Pharma
Since at least 2021, a data theft campaign involving targeted attacks across multiple industries in the United States (U.S.), Europe, and Asia has been associated with LilacSquid, a threat actor with a history of cyber espionage. In a new technical analysis released today, Cisco Talos analyst…
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Check Point Alerts on VPN Zero-Day Attacks
Check Point has issued a warning regarding a zero-day vulnerability that is currently being exploited in the wild by threat actors. This vulnerability affects the company’s Network Security gateway devices. Affected products include CloudGuard Network, Quantum Maestro, Quantum Scalable…
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WordPress Plugin Hack Steals Credit Card Info from E-Shops
WordPress code snippet plugins that are less well-known are being exploited by unknown threat actors to install malicious PHP code on victim websites. This code can harvest credit card information from customers. The campaign, discovered by Sucuri on May 11, 2024, involves the misuse of a WordPress…
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New Phishing Techniques: Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, and GenAI
Phishing efforts that exploit Cloudflare Workers to deliver phishing sites have caught the attention of cybersecurity researchers. These sites are used to collect users’ credentials associated with Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo!, and cPanel Webmail. The attack method, known as…
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Chrome Under Attack – Update ASAP
Google announced on Thursday that it has released patches to fix a significant security flaw in its Chrome browser, which has been actively exploited. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2024-5274, is a type confusion bug found in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. This issue was reported…
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A Vulnerability in Apache Flink Is Being Actively Exploited
A Security Vulnerability in Apache Flink Is Being Actively Exploited, Says the CISA The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently updated its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) list. This update includes a security flaw in Apache Flink, an open-source framework used…
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Rockwell’s Call to Disconnect ICS from Internet
Rockwell Automation has issued a strong recommendation to its customers to disconnect any industrial control systems (ICS) that are not intended for internet connectivity due to an increase in cyber threats linked to global geopolitical tensions. This measure is essential to protect these systems…
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Hackers Exploit Unicode in Cloud Services to Spread Malware
A new attack effort called CLOUD#REVERSER has been spotted using legitimate cloud storage services such as Google Drive and Dropbox to stage malicious payloads. “The VBScript and PowerShell scripts in CLOUD#REVERSER inherently involves command-and-control-like activities by using Google…
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Google Patches Active Chrome Zero-Day Exploit
Google has resolved nine security flaws in its Chrome browser, including a critical zero-day vulnerability that has been actively exploited. This specific vulnerability, identified by the CVE code CVE-2024-4947, arises from a type confusion error within the WebAssembly and JavaScript engines of…
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Google Launches AI-Enhanced Security for Android Phones
Google has unveiled a number of privacy and security enhancements for Android smartphones, including a sophisticated set of tools designed to protect users’ devices and data in the event of theft. These features are expected to be available through an update to Google Play services for…
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