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Cybersecurity researchers have observed a surge in phishing campaigns leveraging QR codes to deliver malicious payloads. This emerging threat, often dubbed “quishing,” exploits the opaque nature of QR codes to conceal harmful URLs that redirect victims to credential-harvesting sites or malware downloads. Unlike traditional phishing links that can be flagged by email gateways, QR codes […]

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A threat group linked to the Russian Federal Security Service’s (FSB) Center 16 unit has been compromising unpatched and end-of-life Cisco networking devices via an old vulnerability (CVE-2018-0171), the FBI and Cisco warned on Wednesday. “Primary targets include organizations in telecommunications, higher education and manufacturing sectors across North America, Asia, Africa and Europe, with victims selected based on their strategic interest to the Russian government,” Cisco Talos researchers noted. “In the past year, the FBI … More →

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Researchers have discovered a complex campaign using trojanized software that uses authentic code-signing certificates to avoid detection and turn compromised machines into unintentional residential proxies, according to a recent threat intelligence notice from Expel Security. The operation begins with files bearing the code-signing signature of “GLINT SOFTWARE SDN. BHD.,” a seemingly legitimate entity whose credentials […]

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