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Month: November 2024

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  • November 26, 2024

Critical WordPress Anti-Spam Plugin Flaws Expose 200,000+ Sites to Remote Attacks

Two critical security flaws impacting the Spam protection, Anti-Spam, and FireWall plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to install and enable malicious plugins on susceptible sites and potentially achieve remote code execution. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2024-10542 and CVE-2024-10781, carry a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. They were […]

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  • November 26, 2024

What Graykey Can and Can’t Unlock

This is in effect a “throw your turn” game like “snakes and ladders”. You all take one or two steps forwards in turn. In general you both progress, but sometimes you fall back down a lot. There is in effect only three ways to reliably not loose, 1, Cheat any which way you can (timeless […]

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  • November 26, 2024

Intruder Launches Intel: A Free Vulnerability Intelligence Platform For Staying Ahead of the Latest Threats

When CVEs go viral, separating critical vulnerabilities from the noise is essential to protecting your organization. That’s why Intruder, a leader in attack surface management, built Intel – a free vulnerability intelligence platform designed to help you act fast and prioritize real threats. What is Intel? Intel was created to fill a gap in the […]

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  • November 26, 2024

RomCom Exploits Zero-Day Firefox and Windows Flaws in Sophisticated Cyberattacks

The Russia-aligned threat actor known as RomCom has been linked to the zero-day exploitation of two security flaws, one in Mozilla Firefox and the other in Microsoft Windows, as part of attacks designed to deliver the eponymous backdoor on victim systems. “In a successful attack, if a victim browses a web page containing the exploit, […]

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  • November 26, 2024

Chinese Hackers Use GHOSTSPIDER Malware to Hack Telecoms Across 12+ Countries

The China-linked threat actor known as Earth Estries has been observed using a previously undocumented backdoor called GHOSTSPIDER as part of its attacks targeting Southeast Asian telecommunications companies.  Trend Micro, which described the hacking group as an aggressive advanced persistent threat (APT), said the intrusions also involved the use of another cross-platform backdoor dubbed 

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  • November 26, 2024

CISA Urges Agencies to Patch Critical “Array Networks” Flaw Amid Active Attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched critical security flaw impacting Array Networks AG and vxAG secure access gateways to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-28461 (CVSS score: 9.8), concerns a case of missing authentication that 

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  • November 25, 2024

FlipaClip animation app data breach exposes details of almost 900,000 users

Graham CLULEY November 25, 2024 Promo Protect all your devices, without slowing them down. Free 30-day trial Flipaclip, an animation creation app that is particularly popular with youngsters, has exposed the details of over 890,000 users. A vulnerability in the frame-by-frame animation app, which is available for iOS and Android, was initially discovered this month […]

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  • November 25, 2024

Google’s New Restore Credentials Tool Simplifies App Login After Android Migration

Google has introduced a new feature called Restore Credentials to help users restore their account access to third-party apps securely after migrating to a new Android device. Part of Android’s Credential Manager API, the feature aims to reduce the hassle of re-entering the login credentials for every app during the handset replacement. “With Restore Credentials, […]

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  • November 25, 2024

PyPI Python Library “aiocpa” Found Exfiltrating Crypto Keys via Telegram Bot

The administrators of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository have quarantined the package “aiocpa” following a new update that included malicious code to exfiltrate private keys via Telegram. The package in question is described as a synchronous and asynchronous Crypto Pay API client. The package, originally released in September 2024, has been downloaded 12,100 times […]

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