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A flaw in millions of RFID cards manufactured by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics allows these contactless cards to be cloned instantly. Researchers from security firm Quarkslab discovered a backdoor in millions of RFID cards manufactured by the Chinese chip manufacturer Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics. The experts announced the discovery of a hardware backdoor and successfully cracked its […]

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis revealed that ransomware payments rose by approximately 2%, from $449.1 million to $459.8 million. Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis revealed that while overall on-chain illicit activity has decreased by nearly 20% year-to-date, stolen funds and ransomware significantly increased. Stolen funds inflows almost doubled, rising from $857 million to $1.58 billion, and ransomware […]

Experts spotted a previously undetected backdoor, dubbed Msupedge, that was employed in an attack against a university in Taiwan.  Broadcom Symantec researchers discovered a previously undetected backdoor, called Msupedge, that was employed in an attack targeting an unnamed university in Taiwan. The most notable feature of the backdoor is that it relies on DNS tunnelling […]

Researchers discovered thousands of Oracle NetSuite e-stores that are vulnerable to data leak, sensitive customer information is at risk. Cybersecurity researchers from AppOmni warn of a potential issue in Oracle NetSuite SuiteCommerce platform could allow attackers to access customer sensitive data. NetSuite is a widely used SaaS Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform, valued for its […]

Toyota has confirmed a data breach after a threat actor leaked 240GB of data stolen from its infrastructure on a cybercrime forum. Toyota disclosed a data breach after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from its systems on a cybercrime forum, BleepingComputer reported. The threat actor ZeroSevenGroup claims to have […]

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Jenkins Command Line Interface (CLI) Path Traversal vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23897 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. In January 2024, researchers […]

Team Cymru, Silent Push and Stark Industries Solutions researchers uncovered a new infrastructure linked to the cybercrime group FIN7. Researchers from Team Cymru identified two clusters potentially linked to the cybercrime group FIN7. The team collaborated with the cybersecurity experts of Silent Push and Stark Industries Solutions who shared their findings. FIN7 is a Russian criminal group (aka Carbanak) […]

Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation observed an exploit attempt based on the public PoC for Ivanti vTM bug CVE-2024-7593. Researchers at the Shadowserver Foundation observed an exploit attempt based on the public proof of concept (PoC) for the Ivanti vTM bug, CVE-2024-7593. In Mid-August, Ivanti addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7593 (CVSS […]

Microsoft addressed a zero-day vulnerability actively exploited by the North-Korea-linked Lazarus APT group. Microsoft has addressed a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), which has been exploited by the North Korea-linked Lazarus APT group. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a privilege escalation issue that resides in the Windows Ancillary Function Driver (AFD.sys) for […]

New cybercrime group Mad Liberator is targeting AnyDesk users and runs a fake Microsoft Windows update screen to conceal data exfiltrating. The Sophos X-Ops Incident Response team warned that a new ransomware group called Mad Liberator is exploiting the remote-access application Anydesk for their attacks. The group was also spotted running a fake Microsoft Windows update […]

Boffins demonstrated the vulnerability of fingerprint recognition systems to dictionary attacks using ‘MasterPrints, ‘which are fingerprints that can match multiple other prints. A team of researchers from US universities demonstrated how to deceive fingerprint recognition systems through dictionary attacks using ‘MasterPrints,’ which are fingerprints that can match multiple other prints. The experts introduced DeepMasterPrints, which […]

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A large-scale extortion campaign compromised multiple organizations by exploiting publicly accessible environment variable files (.env). Palo Alto Unit 42 researchers uncovered a large-scale extortion campaign that successfully compromised and extorted multiple victim organizations by leveraging exposed environment variable files (.env files). The exposed files contained sensitive variables such as credentials belonging to various applications. This extortion […]

OpenAI announced it had dismantled an Iranian influence operation that was producing content related to the U.S. Presidential election. OpenAI has dismantled an Iran-linked influence operation, tracked as identified as Storm-2035, that was generating content about the U.S. presidential election. The company blocked a cluster of ChatGPT accounts that were used to create AI-generated articles and […]

Background check service National Public Data confirms a data breach that exploded millions of social security numbers and other sensitive information.  Background check service National Public Data confirms that a threat actor has breached its systems and had access to millions of social security numbers and other sensitive personal information.  According to a statement published […]

FortiGuard Labs researchers uncovered an ongoing ValleyRAT malware campaign that is targeting Chinese-speaking users. ValleyRAT is a multi-stage malware that supports multiple techniques to monitor and control compromised devices. The malicious code is also used to deploy arbitrary plugins on the infected systems. A noteworthy characteristic of ValleyRAT malware is the heavy usage of shellcode […]

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a SolarWinds Web Help Desk bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added SolarWinds Web Help Desk deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-28986 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This week SolarWinds fixed the […]

A Russian national was sentenced to over three years in prison for selling stolen information and credentials on a dark web marketplace. The 27-year-old Russian national Georgy Kavzharadze (also known as “George,” “TeRorPP,” “Torqovec,” and “PlutuSS”) has been sentenced to over three years in prison for selling financial information, login credentials, and other personal data on […]

Russian cybercriminals are advertising a new macOS malware called Banshee Stealer with a monthly subscription price of $3,000. In August 2024, Russian crooks advertised a macOS malware called BANSHEE Stealer that can target both x86_64 and ARM64 architectures. The malware authors claim it can steal a broad range of data from compromised systems, including browser […]