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State Hackers’ New Malware Helped them Stay Undetected for 250 Days A state-backed Chinese APT actor tracked as ‘Antlion’ has been using a new custom backdoor called ‘xPack’ against financial organizations and manufacturing companies. The malware has been used in a campaign against targets in Taiwan that researchers believe spanned for more than 18 months,
MFA Adoption Pushes Phishing Actors to Reverse-proxy Solutions The rising adoption of multi-factor authentication (MFA) for online accounts pushes phishing actors to use more sophisticated solutions to continue their malicious operations, most notably reverse-proxy tools. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way people work forever, proving that it’s possible and sometimes even preferable to work
Wormhole Cryptocurrency Platform Hacked to Steal $326 million Hackers have exploited a vulnerability in the Wormhole cross-chain crypto platform to steal $326 million in cryptocurrency. Wormhole is a platform that allows users to transfer cryptocurrency across different blockchains. It does this by locking the original token in a smart contract and then minting a wrapped version
ESET Antivirus Bug Let Attackers Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges Slovak internet security firm ESET released security fixes to address a high severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting multiple products on systems running Windows 10 and later or Windows Server 2016 and above. The flaw (CVE-2021-37852) was reported by Michael DePlante of Trend Micro’s Zero Day