Cyber Defense Advisors

Month: August 2023

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  • August 21, 2023

New WinRAR Vulnerability Could Allow Hackers to Take Control of Your PC

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the WinRAR utility that could be potentially exploited by a threat actor to achieve remote code execution on Windows systems. Tracked as CVE-2023-40477 (CVSS score: 7.8), the vulnerability has been described as a case of improper validation while processing recovery volumes. “The issue results from the lack of proper […]

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  • August 21, 2023

Generative AI Is Scraping Your Data. So, Now What?

AI innovation is moving faster than our laws and regulations, making it hard to decide whether Web or content scraping activity is good or bad, and what (if anything) you should do about it.

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ExpressVPN Review (2023): Features, Pricing and Alternatives

This is a comprehensive ExpressVPN Review, covering features, pricing, and more. Use this guide to find out if it is the best VPN for you.

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  • August 20, 2023

Thousands of Android Malware Apps Using Stealthy APK Compression to Evade Detection

Threat actors are using Android Package (APK) files with unknown or unsupported compression methods to elude malware analysis. That’s according to findings from Zimperium, which found 3,300 artifacts leveraging such compression algorithms in the wild. 71 of the identified samples can be loaded on the operating system without any problems. There is no evidence that […]

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  • August 20, 2023

New Juniper Junos OS Flaws Expose Devices to Remote Attacks – Patch Now

Networking hardware company Juniper Networks has released an “out-of-cycle” security update to address multiple flaws in the J-Web component of Junos OS that could be combined to achieve remote code execution on susceptible installations. The four vulnerabilities have a cumulative CVSS rating of 9.8, making them Critical in severity. They affect all versions of Junos […]

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  • August 20, 2023

WoofLocker Toolkit Hides Malicious Codes in Images to Run Tech Support Scams

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that’s engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging JavaScript embedded in compromised websites to perform anti-bot and web traffic filtering checks to serve

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  • August 20, 2023

Learning Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity is a huge topic ~ where do you start? Free Content on Jobs in Cybersecurity | Sign up for the Email List This is a compilation of some of my post that might help someone who is trying to learn cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is a huge topic with many different paths to explore. In my case, I started […]

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  • August 20, 2023

Correlating Medium Followers and Payments

I hope the new changes more closely align with increases in followers I haven’t focused on Medium much until recently so I can’t say that I was ever trying real hard to get followers. I just wrote whatever I felt like for free and didn’t pay much attention. But lately I’ve been wishing that I […]

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  • August 20, 2023

Operating System and IoT Security

Stories on Apple Mac, iOS, Ubuntu, EC2, Amazon Linux and IoT Security Free Content on Jobs in Cybersecurity | Sign up for the Email List This is a compilation of stories on operating system and Internet of Things security. Many layers exist that need to be secured in cybersecurity and this is one of the considerations. If […]

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