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Ransomware group AvosLocker made use of unpatched VMWare Horizon applications to hack into an unidentified organization’s systems, says analysis from Cisco Talos. The race between systems administrators working to patch the Log4j vulnerability and hackers trying to exploit it is ongoing.
Belgian and Dutch police with the support of Europol dismantled an organized crime gang involved in carrying out phishing, money laundering and other scams. Nine suspects are in detention after stealing several million euros, authorities say.
Siemens is advising its SINEC NMS customers to update to version V1.0 SP2 or newer in order to prevent exploitation of vulnerabilities that could allow remote execution of malicious code. As an alternative, customers could just restrict access to affected systems to trusted IP addresses only.
A new Android malware that can steal financial data, credentials, crypto wallets, personal data and cookies; bypass multifactor authentication codes; and remotely control infected devices is targeting online banking customers and financial institutions, cybersecurity researchers at F5 Labs say.
A "technically sophisticated" threat campaign is cloning cryptocurrency apps to steal funds from web3 wallet users, security researchers at Confiant say. The campaign, dubbed SeaFlower, uses cloned wallet apps offered by MetaMask, Coinbase, imToken and TokenPocket to carry out the theft.
Microsoft’s June rollout of security flaw fixes includes patching Follina, a zero-day exploit launched via malicious Office documents which has been spotted being exploited in the wild. From July users with E3 licenses and above will have the option of automatic updates instead of manual Patch Tuesday fixes.
Unit 42 researchers have uncovered a new remote access Trojan dubbed PingPull being used by the persistent threat actor Gallium, a group suspected of Chinese state sponsorship and known for targeting telecommunications, finance and government organizations across Southeast Asia, Europe and Africa.
Top Russian diplomat Andrei Krutskikh is pressuring the U.S. to back down in cyberspace after the director of U.S. Cyber Command, Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, acknowledged America has conducted a "full spectrum" of virtual operations in support of Ukraine.
A recently identified Chinese hacking group dubbed Aoqin Dragon has been targeting government, education and telecommunication organizations in Southeast Asia and Australia since 2013 as part of an ongoing cyberespionage campaign, according to research from SentinelLabs.
New malware called Symbiote is affecting Linux operating systems by infecting other running processes to inflict damage on machines, say Intezer security researcher Joakim Kennedy and the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence Team, who jointly conducted the research.
A phishing campaign used stolen credentials to log into Facebook user accounts and send links leading to phishing pages to the victims' friends to harvest their credentials. Researchers detail the evasion techniques the threat actor allegedly used to likely make millions from the scam.
CISA says Chinese state-sponsored threat actors are exploiting known vulnerabilities to target public and private companies in the United States, and a related joint advisory from CISA, the FBI and the NSA describes how major telcos and network service providers have been exploited since 2020.
A cyberattack on the municipality of Palermo, which began on Thursday, reportedly continues to cripple the southern Italian city on Monday. The attack caused the municipality's systems and dependent services to be shut down and isolated, and local citizens and tourists alike have been affected.
Undisclosed attackers have likely stolen $1.7 million by deploying Clipminer, a cryptomining and clipboard hijacking malware, on compromised systems, says the Symantec Threat Hunter Team. According to the team, Clipminer is a copycat or an evolved version of cryptomining Trojan KryptoCibule.
The U.S. Department of Justice and FBI announced the seizure of three domains after an investigation that found these domains selling stolen personal information and providing access to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks. The domain includes weleakinfo.to, ipstress.in and ovh-booter.com.
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