Category: Attack Feeds

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities – Why Remediating Credentials Takes Longer Than You Think – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75% in the previous year’s report. At the same time, the number of leaked credentials has never been higher, with over 12.7 million hardcoded credentials in public GitHub repositories alone. One of the more troubling aspects of this report is...

New Stealthy BabbleLoader Malware Spotted Delivering WhiteSnake and Meduza Stealers – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new stealthy malware loader called BabbleLoader that has been observed in the wild delivering information stealer families such as WhiteSnake and Meduza. BabbleLoader is an “extremely evasive loader, packed with defensive mechanisms, that is designed to bypass antivirus and sandbox environments to deliver stealers into memory,” Intezer security”}]]  – Read More  –...

The Problem of Permissions and Non-Human Identities – Why Remediating Credentials Takes Longer Than You Think – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– According to research from GitGuardian and CyberArk, 79% of IT decision-makers reported having experienced a secrets leak, up from 75% in the previous year’s report. At the same time, the number of leaked credentials has never been higher, with over 12.7 million hardcoded credentials in public GitHub repositories alone. One of the more troubling aspects of this report is...

Battling Teen Sextortion on the Net – cyberpro

– [[{“value”:” All social media platforms, messaging apps, and websites are an open invitation to threat actors for the worst behavior. Most teens lack the critical thinking abilities to differentiate between what might be friend or foe and are perfect to be “played” by those that have bad intentions. Sextortion arrives in a number of ways and […] The post...

Gmail’s New Shielded Email Feature Lets Users Create Aliases for Email Privacy – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”Google appears to be readying a new feature called Shielded Email that allows users to create email aliases when signing up for online services and better combat spam. The feature was first reported by Android Authority last week following a teardown of the latest version of Google Play Services for Android. The idea is to create unique, single-use email...

THN Recap: Top Cybersecurity Threats, Tools, and Practices (Nov 11 – Nov 17) – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”What do hijacked websites, fake job offers, and sneaky ransomware have in common? They’re proof that cybercriminals are finding smarter, sneakier ways to exploit both systems and people. This week makes one thing clear: no system, no person, no organization is truly off-limits. Attackers are getting smarter, faster, and more creative—using everything from human trust to hidden flaws in”}]] ...

Beyond Compliance: The Advantage of Year-Round Network Pen Testing – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”IT leaders know the drill—regulators and cyber insurers demand regular network penetration testing to keep the bad guys out. But here’s the thing: hackers don’t wait around for compliance schedules. Most companies approach network penetration testing on a set schedule, with the most common frequency being twice a year (29%), followed by three to four times per year (23%)...

Fake Discount Sites Exploit Black Friday to Hijack Shopper Information – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”A new phishing campaign is targeting e-commerce shoppers in Europe and the United States with bogus pages that mimic legitimate brands with the goal of stealing their personal information ahead of the Black Friday shopping season. “The campaign leveraged the heightened online shopping activity in November, the peak season for Black Friday discounts. The threat actor used fake discounted...

NSO Group Exploited WhatsApp to Install Pegasus Spyware Even After Meta’s Lawsuit – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”Legal documents released as part of an ongoing legal tussle between Meta’s WhatsApp and NSO Group have revealed that the Israeli spyware vendor used multiple exploits targeting the messaging app to deliver Pegasus, including one even after it was sued by Meta for doing so. They also show that NSO Group repeatedly found ways to install the invasive surveillance...

Urgent: Critical WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exposes Over 4 Million Sites – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”A critical authentication bypass vulnerability has been disclosed in the Really Simple Security (formerly Really Simple SSL) plugin for WordPress that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker to remotely gain full administrative access to a susceptible site. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10924 (CVSS score: 9.8), impacts both free and premium versions of the plugin. The”}]]  – Read More ...

PAN-OS Firewall Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation – IoCs Released – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a new zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has been actively exploited in the wild. To that end, the company said it observed malicious activity originating from below IP addresses and targeting PAN-OS management web interface IP”}]]  –...

Warning: DEEPDATA Malware Exploiting Unpatched Fortinet Flaw to Steal VPN Credentials – [email protected] (The Hacker News)

– [[{“value”:”A threat actor known as BrazenBamboo has exploited an unresolved security flaw in Fortinet’s FortiClient for Windows to extract VPN credentials as part of a modular framework called DEEPDATA. Volexity, which disclosed the findings Friday, said it identified the zero-day exploitation of the credential disclosure vulnerability in July 2024, describing BrazenBamboo as the developer behind DEEPDATA,”}]]  – Read More ...