Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Signal Downplays Encryption Key Flaw, Fixes it After X Drama

Signal has now taken steps to address the issue by integrating Electron's SafeStorage API to secure the data store from offline attacks. The new implementation is currently being tested and will soon be available in a Beta version.

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White House Calls for Defending Critical Infrastructure

The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memorandum outlining the administration's cybersecurity priorities for fiscal year 2026, aligning with the national cybersecurity strategy.

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CISA Urges Software Makers to Eliminate OS Command Injection Flaws

The US government is pressuring software manufacturers to address operating system command injection vulnerabilities following high-profile threat actor campaigns exploiting these flaws in 2024.

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Several DOD IT Programs Still Don’t Have a Cyber Strategy, Watchdog Finds

The U.S. Government Accountability Office's annual assessment of the Defense Department's IT spending revealed that several programs lack approved cybersecurity strategies, leaving them vulnerable to potential cyberattacks.

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Exein Raised $16.3 Million Series B to Stop Robotic Arms Going Haywire

Exein, a Rome-based startup, is addressing the critical issue of device security in the IoT space. The company recently secured €15 million (~$16.3 million) in a Series B funding round led by cybersecurity-focused VC 33N.

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Singapore Banks to Phase Out OTPs for Online Logins Within 3 Months

Retail banking institutions in Singapore have three months to phase out the use of one-time passwords (OTPs) for authentication purposes when signing into online accounts to mitigate the risk of phishing attacks. The decision was announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) on July 9, 2024. "Customers who have activated their digital

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ClickFix Deception: A Social Engineering Tactic to Deploy Malware

McAfee Labs has uncovered a unique malware delivery method called the “Clickfix” infection chain, which starts with users being directed to compromised websites and instructed to paste a script into a PowerShell terminal.

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White House to Require Increased Cybersecurity Protocols for R&D Institutions

Federal research agencies will now require covered institutions to implement cybersecurity programs for research and development security due to threats from China. The goal is to increase awareness of security threats and enable apt responses.

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Credential-Stealing OSS 'Crystalray' Attacks Jump 10X

Crystalray's attack chain involves using various OSS tools for reconnaissance, scanning, and exploiting vulnerabilities. The group was first discovered in February using the "SSH-Snake" tool to exploit vulnerabilities in Atlassian Confluence.

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New HardBit Ransomware 4.0 Uses Passphrase Protection to Evade Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new version of a ransomware strain called HardBit that comes packaged with new obfuscation techniques to deter analysis efforts. "Unlike previous versions, HardBit Ransomware group enhanced the version 4.0 with passphrase protection," Cybereason researchers Kotaro Ogino and Koshi Oyama said in an analysis. "The passphrase needs to be provided during

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New FishXProxy Phishing Kit Making Phishing Accessible to Script Kiddies

FishXProxy is designed to evade detection and maximize credential theft attempts, equipped with features like traffic management to hide link destinations and a cross-project tracking capability for persistent targeting.

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Coyote Banking Trojan Targets LATAM with a Focus on Brazilian Financial Institutions

A .NET banking Trojan named Coyote has been identified as a threat to Brazilian financial institutions. It uses a unique execution chain involving the abuse of legitimate software to harvest user financial information.

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China's APT41 Crew Adds Stealthy Malware to its Toolbox

DodgeBox deploys MoonWalk backdoor as a DAT file post-execution. The backdoor shares evasion techniques with DodgeBox and uses Google Drive for command-and-control communication.

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AT&T Confirms Data Breach Affecting Nearly All Wireless Customers

American telecom service provider AT&T has confirmed that threat actors managed to access data belonging to "nearly all" of its wireless customers as well as customers of mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) using AT&T's wireless network. "Threat actors unlawfully accessed an AT&T workspace on a third-party cloud platform and, between April 14 and April 25, 2024, exfiltrated

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Malicious NuGet Campaign Uses Homoglyphs and IL Weaving to Fool Devs

This new set of packages, consisting of approximately 60 packages and 290 versions, showcases a more sophisticated approach compared to earlier attacks revealed in October 2023, according to ReversingLabs.

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Exim Vulnerability Affecting 1.5M Servers Lets Attackers Attach Malicious Files

Security researchers have identified a critical vulnerability affecting over 1.5 million Exim email servers, making them vulnerable to attacks that can deliver executable attachments to user accounts.

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Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

AT&T Corp. disclosed today that a new data breach has exposed phone call and text message records for roughly 110 million people -- nearly all of its customers. AT&T said it delayed disclosing the incident in response to "national security and public safety concerns," noting that some of the records included data that could be used to determine where a call was made or text message sent. AT&T also acknowledged the customer records were exposed in a cloud database that was protected only by a username and password (no multi-factor authentication needed).

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DarkGate Malware Exploits Samba File Shares in Short-Lived Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a short-lived DarkGate malware campaign that leveraged Samba file shares to initiate the infections. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said the activity spanned the months of March and April 2024, with the infection chains using servers running public-facing Samba file shares hosting Visual Basic Script (VBS) and JavaScript files. Targets included North

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Japanese Space Agency Spots Unspecified Zero-Day Attacks

JAXA was targeted with zero-day exploits during its investigation with Microsoft into a 2023 cyberattack. The attack mainly affected its Active Directory system, prompting JAXA to shut down networks to prevent data compromise.

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Australian Defence Force Private and Husband Charged with Espionage for Russia

Two Russian-born Australian citizens have been arrested and charged in the country for spying on behalf of Russia as part of a "complex" law enforcement operation codenamed BURGAZADA. This includes a 40-year-old woman, an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Army Private, and her husband, a 62-year-old self-employed laborer. Media reports have identified them as Kira Korolev and Igor Korolev,