New Bifrost RAT Variant Targets Linux Devices, Mimics VMware Domain

By Waqas
Bifrost RAT, also known as Bifrose, was originally identified two decades ago in 2004.
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How to prevent credential stealing of customers via phishing and domain squatting

Threat actors are creating lookalike domains (ex. Telecom.com to te1ecom.com), and using those to phish users for credentials (not employees). They’re getting the MFA tokens, too.
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Domain Squatting and Brand Hijacking: A Silent Threat to Digital Enterprises

By Waqas
Domain squatting can lead you to malicious websites, and it might be too late to realize what actually happened.
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Typosquatting: Legit Abquery Package Duped with Malicious Aabquerys

By Deeba Ahmed
Aabquerys use the typosquatting technique to encourage downloading malicious components, as it has been cleverly named to make it sound like the legitimate NPM module Abquery.
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Phishing PyPI users: Attackers compromise legitimate projects to push malware

PyPI, the official third-party software repository for Python packages, is warning about a phishing campaign targeting its users. “We have additionally determined that some maintainers of legitimate projects have been compromised, and malware pub… Continue reading Phishing PyPI users: Attackers compromise legitimate projects to push malware

This Week in Security: Browser in the Browser, Mass Typo-squatting, and /dev/random Upgrades

For every very clever security protocol that keeps people safe, there’s a stupid hack that defeats it in an unexpected way. Take OAuth for instance. It’s the technology that sites …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: Browser in the Browser, Mass Typo-squatting, and /dev/random Upgrades