US Hacker Group Indicted For Million-Dollar RICO Conspiracy
The group banded together to engage in a sophisticated cybercrime and tax fraud scheme
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsAndroid Apps With a Million Downloads Led Users to Phishing Sites
Chrome tabs remained open in the background, even while the smartphone was locked
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsDropbox Suffers Breach, 130 GitHub Repositories Compromised
Dropbox believes the actors behind the attack are the same that targeted GitHub users in September
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- November 2, 2022
Multiple Vulnerabilities Reported in Checkmk IT Infrastructure Monitoring Software
Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Checkmk IT Infrastructure monitoring software that could be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to fully take over affected servers. “These vulnerabilities can be chained together by an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain code execution on the server running Checkmk version 2.1.0p10 and lower,” SonarSource researcher
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- November 2, 2022
WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED!
ACM.99 Verifying that you are making an SSH connection to the host you think you are This is a continuation of my series of posts on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Have you ever been logging into an host and seen this error message and wondered what it meant? Or maybe this one? There are many good posts o this […]
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- November 2, 2022
Inside Raccoon Stealer V2
Raccoon Stealer is back on the news again. US officials arrested Mark Sokolovsky, one of the malware actors behind this program. In July 2022, after several months of the shutdown, a Raccoon Stealer V2 went viral. Last week, the Department of Justice’s press release stated that the malware collected 50 million credentials. This article will […]
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- November 2, 2022
These Android Apps with a Million Play Store Installations Redirect Users to Malicious Sites
A set of four Android apps released by the same developer has been discovered directing victims to malicious websites as part of an adware and information-stealing campaign. The apps, published by a developer named Mobile apps Group and currently available on the Play Store, have been collectively downloaded over one million times. According to Malwarebytes, the websites are […]
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- November 2, 2022
Experts Warn of SandStrike Android Spyware Infecting Devices via Malicious VPN App
A previously undocumented Android spyware campaign has been found striking Persian-speaking individuals by masquerading as a seemingly harmless VPN application. Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky is tracking the campaign under the moniker SandStrike. It has not been attributed to any particular threat group. “SandStrike is distributed as a means to access resources about the Bahá’í religion
Cyber News, Cyber Threat TrendsMobile Phishing Attacks on Government Staff Soar
Lookout report finds over-reliance on unmanaged devices
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