Chrome Zero-day Used to Infect Journalists with Candiru Spyware The Israeli spyware vendor Candiru was found using a zero-day vulnerability in Google Chrome to spy on journalists and other high-interest individuals in the Middle East with the ‘DevilsTongue’ spyware. The flaw tracked as CVE-2022-2294 is a high-severity heap-based buffer overflow Read more…
Google Blocks Site of Largest Computing Society for Being ‘harmful’ Google Search and Drive are erroneously flagging links to Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) research papers and websites as malware. BleepingComputer has successfully reproduced the issue, first reported by researcher Maximilian Golla. Founded in 1947 and headquartered in NYC as a non-profit, The Association Read more…
How Conti Ransomware Hacked and Encrypted the Costa Rican Government Details have emerged on how the Conti ransomware gang breached the Costa Rican government, showing the attack’s precision and the speed of moving from initial access to the final stage of encrypting devices. This is the last attack from the Read more…
Windows 11 Now Blocks RDP Brute-force Attacks by Default Recent Windows 11 builds come with the Account Lockout Policy policy enabled by default which will automatically lock user accounts (including Administrator accounts) after 10 failed sign-in attempts for 10 minutes. The account brute forcing process commonly requires guessing the passwords Read more…
Microsoft Teams Outage Also Takes Down Microsoft 365 Services What initially started like a minor Microsoft Teams outage has also taken down multiple Microsoft 365 services with Teams integration, including Exchange Online, Windows 365, and Office Online. “We’ve received reports of users being unable to access Microsoft Teams or leverage any features,” the Read more…
New ‘Lightning Framework’ Linux Malware Installs Rootkits, Backdoors A previously undetected malware dubbed ‘Lightning Framework’ that targets Linux systems can be used to backdoor infected devices using SSH and deploy rootkits to cover the attackers’ tracks. Described as a “Swiss Army Knife” in a report published today by Intezer, Lightning Framework is Read more…
Microsoft Starts Blocking Office Macros by Default, Once Again Microsoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback. The change comes after the company improved its user and admin support documentation to make Read more…
New Redeemer Ransomware Version Promoted on Hacker Forums A threat actor is promoting a new version of their free-to-use ‘Redeemer’ ransomware builder on hacker forums, offering unskilled threat actors an easy entry to the world of encryption-backed extortion attacks. According to its author, the new version 2.0 release was written Read more…
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