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A group of academics from Tel Aviv University have disclosed details of now-patched “severe” design flaws affecting about 100 million Android-based Samsung smartphones that could have resulted in the extraction of secret cryptographic keys.
The shortc… Continue reading 100 Million Samsung Galaxy Phones Affected with Flawed Hardware Encryption Feature
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) last week published an industrial control system (ICS) advisory related to multiple vulnerabilities impacting Schneider Electric’s Easergy medium voltage protection relays.
“Successful e… Continue reading CISA Warns of High-Severity Flaws in Schneider and GE Digital’s SCADA Software
An Iranian geopolitical nexus threat actor has been uncovered deploying two new targeted malware that come with “simple” backdoor functionalities as part of an intrusion against an unnamed Middle East government entity in November 2021.
Cybersecurity … Continue reading Iranian Hackers Using New Spying Malware That Abuses Telegram Messenger API
Cybersecurity researchers have managed to build a clone of Apple Airtag that circumvents the anti-stalking protection technology built into its Find My Bluetooth-based tracking protocol.
The result is a stealth AirTag that can successfully track an iP… Continue reading Experts Create Apple AirTag Clone That Can Bypass Anti-Tracking Measures
A new malware capable of controlling social media accounts is being distributed through Microsoft’s official app store in the form of trojanized gaming apps, infecting more than 5,000 Windows machines in Sweden, Bulgaria, Russia, Bermuda, and Spain.
I… Continue reading Social Media Hijacking Malware Spreading Through Gaming Apps on Microsoft Store
Ukraine’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has warned of Belarusian state-sponsored hackers targeting its military personnel and related individuals as part of a phishing campaign mounted amidst Russia’s military invasion of the country.
“Ma… Continue reading Russia-Ukraine War: Phishing, Malware and Hacker Groups Taking Sides
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary implant on compromised Windows hosts.
“S… Continue reading New “SockDetour” Fileless, Socketless Backdoor Targets U.S. Defense Contractors
Cybersecurity agencies from the U.K. and the U.S. have laid bare a new malware used by the Iranian government-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group in attacks targeting government and commercial networks worldwide.
“MuddyWater actors are po… Continue reading Iran’s MuddyWater Hacker Group Using New Malware in Worldwide Cyber Attacks
The Russian government on Thursday warned of cyber attacks aimed at domestic critical infrastructure operators, as the country’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine enters the second day.
In addition to cautioning of the “threat of an increase in the inten… Continue reading Putin Warns Russian Critical Infrastructure to Brace for Potential Cyber Attacks
The modular Windows crimeware platform known as TrickBot formally shuttered its infrastructure on Thursday after reports emerged of its imminent retirement amid a lull in its activity for almost two months, marking an end to one of the most persistent… Continue reading Notorious TrickBot Malware Gang Shuts Down its Botnet Infrastructure