Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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Unraveling Sparkling Pisces’s Tool Set: KLogEXE and FPSpy

KLogEXE is a C++ keylogger while FPSpy is a backdoor designed to collect system information and exfiltrate data from compromised devices. Both malware strains are primarily being distributed through spear-phishing emails.

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Unpatched SQLi Flaw in TI WooCommerce Wishlist Threatens 100,000+ Sites

A critical security flaw, CVE-2024-43917, with a CVSS score of 9. 3, has been found in the popular WordPress plugin TI WooCommerce Wishlist, putting over 100,000 sites at risk of SQL injection attacks.

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DCRat Targets Users with HTML Smuggling

A new HTML smuggling campaign is targeting Russian-speaking users, distributing DCRat malware. This marks the first time the malware has been deployed using this method, unlike common delivery methods like compromised sites or phishing emails.

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First Mobile Crypto Drainer Found on Google Play

The malicious app, called WalletConnect, amassed over 10,000 downloads and stole around $70,000 in cryptocurrency from Android users before being removed from the Google Play Store.

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NIST Proposes Barring Some of the Most Nonsensical Password Rules

NIST is seeking public feedback on the draft guidelines, which can be submitted via email until October 7. The goal is to promote sensible password practices that enhance security without burdening users or compromising their online identity.

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Watering Hole Attack on Kurdish Sites Distributing Malicious APKs and Spyware

A watering hole attack targeted Kurdish websites, distributing malicious APKs and spyware, compromising 25 sites for over a year. French cybersecurity firm Sekoia uncovered the campaign called SilentSelfie, delivering various info-stealers.

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Meta Fined €91 Million for Storing Millions of Facebook and Instagram Passwords in Plaintext

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of a probe into a security lapse in March 2019, when the company disclosed that it had mistakenly stored users' passwords in plaintext in its systems. The investigation, launched by the DPC the next month, found that the social media giant violated four different articles under the European Union's

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In tackling Vladimir Putin’s web of troll farms and hackers, we have one advantage: democracy | Peter Pomarantsev

By focusing on its strengths and pooling information, the west can disrupt Russia’s war machine – but there’s no time to loseRussia is a “mafia state” trying to expand into a “mafia empire”, the foreign secretary, David Lammy, told the UN, nailing the dual nature of Vladimir Putin’s political model. On one hand Russia represents something very old – a world of bullying empires that invade smaller countries, grab their resources and indoctrinate their people into thinking they are inferior. But it is also something very new, weaponising corruption, criminal networks, assassinations and tech-driven psy-ops to subvert open societies. And if democracies don’t act to stop it, this malign model will be imitated across the globe.Ukraine is resisting the older, zombie imperialism every day on the battlefield, and democracies will have to arm Ukraine and ourselves to constrain Russia properly. But how should we fight the more contemporary tools of political warfare that Russia pioneers? These are becoming ever more prevalent. Globalisation was meant to make us all so integrated that it would diminish the risk of wars. Instead, the free flow of information, money and people across borders also made subversion easier than ever. At the Labour party conference, Lammy indicated that democracies need to work together to stop Russia: “Exposing their agents, building joint capability and working with the global south to take on Putin’s lies.”Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...

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Crypto Scam App Disguised as WalletConnect Steals $70K in Five-Month Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Android app on the Google Play Store that enabled the threat actors behind it to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months. The dodgy app, identified by Check Point, masqueraded as the legitimate WalletConnect open-source protocol to trick unsuspecting users into downloading it. "Fake

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HPE Patches Three Critical Security Holes in Aruba PAPI

HPE has released patches for three critical security vulnerabilities in Aruba's networking access points, which could allow attackers to run code on the systems by sending specially crafted packets to UDP port 8211.

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BBTok Targeting Brazil Using the AppDomain Manager Injection Technique

The Brazilian-targeted threat BBTok has a complex infection chain that starts with an email containing an ISO image. The malware compiles C# code directly on the infected machine and uses the AppDomain Manager Injection technique.

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Critical RCE Vulnerability Found in OpenPLC

The most severe issue is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2024-34026) that allows an attacker to execute remote code. Users are advised to update to the latest version of OpenPLC to protect against these security risks.

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Kia Dealer Portal Flaw Could Let Attackers Hack Millions of Cars

The vulnerabilities could be exploited to remotely control Kia vehicles equipped with remote hardware in under 30 seconds, exposing the sensitive personal information of car owners.

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China-linked APT group Salt Typhoon compromised some US ISPs

Experts are investigating whether the hackers gained access to Cisco Systems routers, a key component of ISP infrastructures, but Cisco has not found any indication of router involvement.

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U.S. Charges Three Iranian Nationals for Election Interference and Cybercrimes

U.S. federal prosecutors on Friday unsealed criminal charges against three Iranian nationals who are allegedly employed with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their targeting of current and former officials to steal sensitive data. The Department of Justice (DoJ) accused Masoud Jalili, 36, Seyyed Ali Aghamiri, 34, and Yasar (Yaser) Balaghi, 37, of participating in a conspiracy

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

SloppyLemming has been active since at least July 2021 and has targeted the government, law enforcement, energy, education, telecommunications, and technology sectors in countries such as Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China, Nepal, and Indonesia.

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Hackers Deploy AI-Written Malware in Targeted Attacks

Hackers are now using AI-generated malware in targeted attacks. In a recent email campaign in France, researchers found malicious code crafted with the help of generative AI to distribute the AsyncRAT malware.

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

A security flaw in OpenAI's ChatGPT app for macOS, now patched, could have allowed attackers to implant persistent spyware into the AI tool's memory. This could lead to continuous data exfiltration of user information across chat sessions.

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UK and US issue alert over cyber actors working on behalf of Iranian state

Joint advisory encourages individuals at higher risk of targeted phishing to follow mitigation advice and sign up for NCSC's cyber defence services.

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Progress Software Releases Patches for 6 Flaws in WhatsUp Gold – Patch Now

Progress Software has released another round of updates to address six security flaws in WhatsUp Gold, including two critical vulnerabilities. The issues, the company said, have been resolved in version 24.0.1 released on September 20, 2024. The company has yet to release any details about what the flaws are other than listing their CVE identifiers - CVE-2024-46905 (CVSS score: 8.8)