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17-Year-Old Arrested in Connection with Cyber Attack Affecting Transport for London

17-Year-Old Arrested in Connection with Cyber Attack Affecting Transport for London

Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Crime British authorities on Thursday announced the arrest of a 17-year-old male in connection with a cyber attack affecting Transport for London (TfL). “The 17-year-old male was detained on… 

TrickMo Android Trojan Exploits Accessibility Services for On-Device Banking Fraud

TrickMo Android Trojan Exploits Accessibility Services for On-Device Banking Fraud

Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananFinancial Fraud / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new variant of an Android banking trojan called TrickMo that comes packed with new capabilities to evade analysis and display fake login… 

Progress WhatsUp Gold Exploited Just Hours After PoC Release for Critical Flaw

Progress WhatsUp Gold Exploited Just Hours After PoC Release for Critical Flaw

Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananSoftware Security / Threat Intelligence Malicious actors are likely leveraging publicly available proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for recently disclosed security flaws in Progress Software WhatsUp Gold to conduct opportunistic attacks. The activity is… 

New Linux Malware Campaign Exploits Oracle Weblogic to Mine Cryptocurrency

New Linux Malware Campaign Exploits Oracle Weblogic to Mine Cryptocurrency

Sep 13, 2024Ravie LakshmananEnterprise Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new malware campaign targeting Linux environments to conduct illicit cryptocurrency mining. The activity, which specifically singles out the Oracle Weblogic server, is designed… 

New Android Malware ‘Ajina.Banker’ Steals Financial Data and Bypasses 2FA via Telegram

New Android Malware ‘Ajina.Banker’ Steals Financial Data and Bypasses 2FA via Telegram

Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananMobile Security / Financial Fraud Bank customers in the Central Asia region have been targeted by a new strain of Android malware codenamed Ajina.Banker since at least November 2024 with the goal… 

GitLab Patches Critical Flaw Allowing Unauthorized Pipeline Job Execution

GitLab Patches Critical Flaw Allowing Unauthorized Pipeline Job Execution

Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananDevSecOps / Vulnerability GitLab on Wednesday released security updates to address 17 security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that allows an attacker to run pipeline jobs as an arbitrary user. The issue,… 

Exposed Selenium Grid Servers Targeted for Crypto Mining and Proxyjacking

Exposed Selenium Grid Servers Targeted for Crypto Mining and Proxyjacking

Sep 12, 2024Ravie LakshmananCryptocurrency / Network Security Internet-exposed Selenium Grid instances are being targeted by bad actors for illicit cryptocurrency mining and proxyjacking campaigns. “Selenium Grid is a server that facilitates running test cases in…