LokiBot Trojan Spotted Hitching a Ride Inside .PNG Files
Spam campaign features obfuscated .zipx archive that unpacks LokiBot attack. Continue reading LokiBot Trojan Spotted Hitching a Ride Inside .PNG Files
Category Archives: WinRAR
Elfin Hacking Group Targets Multiple U.S. and Saudi Arabian Firms
An Iran-linked cyber-espionage group that has been found targeting critical infrastructure, energy and military sectors in Saudi Arabia and the United States two years ago continues targeting organizations in the two nations, Symantec reported on Wedne… Continue reading Elfin Hacking Group Targets Multiple U.S. and Saudi Arabian Firms
Cybercriminals Have a Heyday with WinRAR Bug in Fresh Campaigns
With new attacks on the Israeli military and social-work educators, exploitation of the 19-year-old flaw shows no signs of slowing down. Continue reading Cybercriminals Have a Heyday with WinRAR Bug in Fresh Campaigns
Lazarus rises in Israel with attempted hack of defense company, researchers say
A notorious hacking group experts have tied to the North Korean government has targeted an Israeli defense company, according to new research outlining what appears to be one of the group’s first attacks on an Israeli entity. The unnamed company makes products used in the military and aerospace industries, and the hackers could have been after commercial secrets or more traditional espionage, according to ClearSky, the cybersecurity firm that exposed the operation. The suspected culprit is Lazarus Group, an industry term for a broad set of hackers associated with Pyongyang. “We cannot be sure what the objective of the attackers [was],” Eyal Sela, head of threat intelligence at ClearSky, told CyberScoop in an email. “[It] could be industrial/commercial espionage but could be military espionage, for example.” North Korean dictator Kim Jim Un has set ambitious economic goals, and some cybersecurity analysts have predicted he will unleash the Pyongyang-affiliated hackers to meet those deadlines by targeting multinational companies’ trade […]
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Hackers are using 19-year-old WinRar bug to install nasty malware
By Waqas
By using the bug, hackers are desperately dropping persistent malware through generic trojan on systems using the old version of WinRar. McAfee security firm’s researcher Craig Schmugar has identified that the world famous and commonly used co… Continue reading Hackers are using 19-year-old WinRar bug to install nasty malware
Patched WinRAR Bug Still Under Active Attack—Thanks to No Auto-Updates
Various cyber criminal groups and individual hackers are still exploiting a recently patched critical code execution vulnerability in WinRAR, a popular Windows file compression application with 500 million users worldwide.
Why? Because the WinRAR soft… Continue reading Patched WinRAR Bug Still Under Active Attack—Thanks to No Auto-Updates
Critical WinRAR Flaw Found Actively Being Exploited
The spam campaign is being used to spread a malicious .exe file, taking advantage of a vulnerability in WinRAR which was patched in January. Continue reading Critical WinRAR Flaw Found Actively Being Exploited
Latest WinRAR Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild to Hack Windows Computers
It’s not just the critical Drupal vulnerability that is being exploited by in the wild cybercriminals to attack vulnerable websites that have not yet applied patches already available by its developers, but hackers are also exploiting a critical WinRAR… Continue reading Latest WinRAR Flaw Being Exploited in the Wild to Hack Windows Computers
Latest WinRAR, Drupal flaws under active exploitation
CVE-2018-20250, a WinRAR vulnerability that allows attackers to extract a malicious executable to one of the Windows Startup folder to be executed every time the system is booted, and CVE-2019-6340, the remote execution flaw affecting the popular Drupa… Continue reading Latest WinRAR, Drupal flaws under active exploitation
Passwords, Splunk, & Nest Microphones – Paul’s Security Weekly #595
In the Security News, password managers leaking data in memory, security analysts are only human, Splunk changes position of Russian customers, Google admits error over hidden microphone, and a nasty code-execution bug in WinRAR threatened millions… Continue reading Passwords, Splunk, & Nest Microphones – Paul’s Security Weekly #595