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Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware

Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware

Sep 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Mobile Security As many as 25 websites linked to the Kurdish minority have been compromised as part of a watering hole attack designed to harvest sensitive information for over… 

Cloudflare Warns of India-Linked Hackers Targeting South and East Asian Entities

Cloudflare Warns of India-Linked Hackers Targeting South and East Asian Entities

Sep 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCloud Security / Cyber Espionage An advanced threat actor with an India nexus has been observed using multiple cloud service providers to facilitate credential harvesting, malware delivery, and command-and-control (C2). Web infrastructure… 

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber Espionage Campaign

Chinese Hackers Infiltrate U.S. Internet Providers in Cyber Espionage Campaign

Sep 26, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Espionage / Hacking Nation-state threat actors backed by Beijing broke into a “handful” of U.S. internet service providers (ISPs) as part of a cyber espionage campaign orchestrated to glean sensitive information,… 

Google’s Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

Google’s Shift to Rust Programming Cuts Android Memory Vulnerabilities by 52%

Sep 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananSecure Coding / Mobile Security Google has revealed that its transition to memory-safe languages such as Rust as part of its secure-by-design approach has led to the percentage of memory-safe vulnerabilities discovered… 

Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

Mozilla Faces Privacy Complaint for Enabling Tracking in Firefox Without User Consent

Sep 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Protection / Online Tracking Vienna-based privacy non-profit noyb (short for None Of Your Business) has filed a complaint with the Austrian data protection authority (DPA) against Firefox maker Mozilla for enabling… 

Cybersecurity Researchers Warn of New Rust-Based Splinter Post-Exploitation Tool

Cybersecurity Researchers Warn of New Rust-Based Splinter Post-Exploitation Tool

Sep 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananPenetration Testing / Cyber Threat Cybersecurity researchers have flagged the discovery of a new post-exploitation red team tool called Splinter in the wild. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 shared its findings after… 

ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could’ve Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function

ChatGPT macOS Flaw Could’ve Enabled Long-Term Spyware via Memory Function

Sep 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananArtificial Intelligence / Vulnerability A now-patched security vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT app for macOS could have made it possible for attackers to plant long-term persistent spyware into the artificial intelligence (AI) tool’s… 

Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware

Transportation Companies Hit by Cyberattacks Using Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Malware

Sep 25, 2024Ravie LakshmananEmail Security / Threat Intelligence Transportation and logistics companies in North America are the target of a new phishing campaign that delivers a variety of information stealers and remote access trojans (RATs).…