Cyber Defense Advisors

Year: 2024

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  • August 8, 2024

New Phishing Scam Uses Google Drawings and WhatsApp Shortened Links

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a novel phishing campaign that leverages Google Drawings and shortened links generated via WhatsApp to evade detection and trick users into clicking on bogus links designed to steal sensitive information. “The attackers chose a group of the best-known websites in computing to craft the threat, including Google and WhatsApp to host […]

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  • August 8, 2024

Unlock the Future of Cybersecurity: Exclusive, Next Era AI Insights and Cutting-Edge Training at SANS Network Security 2024

The Immersive Experience Happening This September in Las Vegas! In an era of relentless cybersecurity threats and rapid technological advancement, staying ahead of the curve is not just a necessity, but critical. SANS Institute, the premier global authority in cybersecurity training, is thrilled to announce Network Security 2024, a landmark event designed to empower cybersecurity […]

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  • August 8, 2024

FBI and CISA Warn of BlackSuit Ransomware That Demands Up to $500 Million

The ransomware strain known as BlackSuit has demanded as much as $500 million in ransoms to date, with one individual ransom demand hitting $60 million. That’s according to an updated advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). “BlackSuit actors have exhibited a willingness to negotiate […]

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  • August 8, 2024

Critical Security Flaw in WhatsUp Gold Under Active Attack – Patch Now

A critical security flaw impacting Progress Software WhatsUp Gold is seeing active exploitation attempts, making it essential that users move quickly to apply the latest. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-4885 (CVSS score: 9.8), an unauthenticated remote code execution bug impacting versions of the network monitoring application released before 2023.1.3. “The WhatsUp.ExportUtilities.Export.GetFileWithoutZip allows execution of […]

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  • August 7, 2024

Cybercrime Rapper Sues Bank over Fraud Investigation

A partial selfie posted by Punchmade Dev to his Twitter account. Yes, that is a functioning handheld card skimming device, encrusted in diamonds. Underneath that are more medallions, including a diamond-studded bitcoin and payment card. In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev, whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. That story […]

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  • August 7, 2024

New Linux Kernel Exploit Technique ‘SLUBStick’ Discovered by Researchers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel Linux kernel exploitation technique dubbed SLUBStick that could be exploited to elevate a limited heap vulnerability to an arbitrary memory read-and-write primitive. “Initially, it exploits a timing side-channel of the allocator to perform a cross-cache attack reliably,” a group of academics from the Graz University of Technology […]

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  • August 7, 2024

Roundcube Webmail Flaws Allow Hackers to Steal Emails and Passwords

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of security flaws in the Roundcube webmail software that could be exploited to execute malicious JavaScript in a victim’s web browser and steal sensitive information from their account under specific circumstances. “When a victim views a malicious email in Roundcube sent by an attacker, the attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript […]

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  • August 7, 2024

Problems with Georgia’s Voter Registration Portal

It’s possible to cancel other people’s voter registrations: On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the Secretary of State’s Office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts… …the portal suffered at least two security glitches that […]

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  • August 7, 2024

New Go-based Backdoor GoGra Targets South Asian Media Organization

An unnamed media organization in South Asia was targeted in November 20233 using a previously undocumented Go-based backdoor called GoGra. “GoGra is written in Go and uses the Microsoft Graph API to interact with a command-and-control (C&C) server hosted on Microsoft mail services,” Symantec, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker […]

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