HTML Attachments Remain Popular Among Phishing Actors in 2022 HTML files remain one of the most popular attachments used in phishing attacks for the first four months of 2022, showing that the technique remains effective against antispam engines and works well on the victims themselves. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is Read more…
Third-party Web Trackers Log What you Type Before Submitting An extensive study looking into the top 100k ranking websites has revealed that many are leaking information you enter in the site forms to third-party trackers before you even press submit. This leaked data includes personal identifiers, email addresses, usernames, passwords, Read more…
US Links Thanos and Jigsaw Ransomware to 55-year-old Doctor The US Department of Justice today said that Moises Luis Zagala Gonzalez (Zagala), a 55-year-old cardiologist with French and Venezuelan citizenship residing in Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela, created and rented Jigsaw and Thanos ransomware to cybercriminals. Zagala (aka Nosophoros, Aesculapius, and Nebuchadnezzar) also offered support to cybercriminals Read more…
Apple Emergency Update Fixes zero-day Used to Hack Macs, Watches Apple has released security updates to address a zero-day vulnerability that threat actors can exploit in attacks targeting Macs and Apple Watch devices. Zero-days are security flaws that the software vendor is unaware of and hasn’t yet patched. In some Read more…
CISA Warns Not to Install May Windows Updates on Domain Controllers The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has removed a Windows security flaw from its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities due to Active Directory (AD) authentication issues caused by the May 2022 updates that patch it. This security Read more…
Kali Linux 2022.2 Released with 10 New Tools, WSL Improvements, and More Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2022.2, the second version in 2022, with desktop enhancements, a fun April Fools screensaver, WSL GUI improvements, terminal tweaks, and best of all, new tools to play with! Kali Linux is a Linux Read more…
Sophos Antivirus Driver Caused BSODs After Windows KB5013943 Update Sophos has released a fix for a known issue triggering blue screens of death (aka BSODs) on Windows 11 systems running Sophos Home antivirus software after installing the KB5013943 update. “Customers on Windows 11 running Sophos Home may encounter a BSOD/Stop error after Read more…
Engineering Firm Parker Discloses Data Breach After Ransomware Attack The Parker-Hannifin Corporation announced a data breach exposing employees’ personal information after the Conti ransomware gang began publishing allegedly stolen data last month. Parker is an Ohio-based corporation specializing in advanced motion and control technologies, with a strong focus in aerospace hydraulic Read more…
What’s New and Improved in Windows 11 22H2, Coming Soon Windows 11 version 22H2 aka Sun Valley 2 is set to launch later this year. Unlike the original Windows 11 release, it won’t be a massive update with radical design changes. Instead, Sun Valley 2 will be similar to Windows Read more…
Hackers are Exploiting Critical Bug in Zyxel Firewalls and VPNs Hackers have started to exploit a recently patched critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-30525, that affects Zyxel firewall and VPN devices for businesses. Successful exploitation allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary commands remotely without authentication, which can enable setting up Read more…
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