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Experts Identify 3 Chinese-Linked Clusters Behind Cyberattacks in Southeast Asia [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A trio of threat activity clusters linked to China has been observed compromising more government organizations in Southeast Asia as part of a renewed state-sponsored operation codenamed Crimson Palace, indicating an expansion in the scope of the espionage effort. Cybersecurity firm Sophos, which has been monitoring the cyber offensive, said it comprises three intrusion sets…
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Shining a Light on Shadow Apps: The Invisible Gateway to SaaS Data Breaches [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Shadow apps, a segment of Shadow IT, are SaaS applications purchased without the knowledge of the security team. While these applications may be legitimate, they operate within the blind spots of the corporate security team and expose the company to attackers. Shadow apps may include instances of software that the company is already using. For…
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Wisconsin Insurer Discloses Data Breach Impacting 950,000 Individuals Ionut Arghire
Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corporation says the personal information of 950,000 people was stolen in the MOVEit hack last year. The post Wisconsin Insurer Discloses Data Breach Impacting 950,000 Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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China-Linked Hackers Target Drone Makers Ionut Arghire
A Chinese-speaking threat actor tracked as Tidrone has been targeting military and satellite industries in Taiwan. The post China-Linked Hackers Target Drone Makers appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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New PIXHELL Attack Exploits Screen Noise to Exfiltrates Data from Air-Gapped Computers [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A new side-channel attack dubbed PIXHELL could be abused to target air-gapped computers by breaching the “audio gap” and exfiltrating sensitive information by taking advantage of the noise generated by the pixels on the screen. “Malware in the air-gap and audio-gap computers generates crafted pixel patterns that produce noise in the frequency range of 0…
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Mustang Panda Deploys Advanced Malware to Spy on Asia-Pacific Governments [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The threat actor tracked as Mustang Panda has refined its malware arsenal to include new tools in order to facilitate data exfiltration and the deployment of next-stage payloads, according to new findings from Trend Micro. The cybersecurity firm, which is monitoring the activity cluster under the name Earth Preta, said it observed “the propagation of…
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Slim CD Data Breach Impacts 1.7 Million Individuals Ionut Arghire
Slim CD says the personal and credit card information of 1.7 million was compromised in a ten-month-long data breach. The post Slim CD Data Breach Impacts 1.7 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Poland’s Cybersecurity Experts Foil Russian and Belarussian Attacks Associated Press
Poland’s security officials said they have foiled cyberattacks and online blackmail attempts by groups acting for Russian and Belarusian services. The post Poland’s Cybersecurity Experts Foil Russian and Belarussian Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Google Pushes Rust in Legacy Firmware to Tackle Memory Safety Flaws Ryan Naraine
Google’s adoption of memory safe programming languages now includes the deployment of Rust in legacy low-level firmware codebases. The post Google Pushes Rust in Legacy Firmware to Tackle Memory Safety Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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New RAMBO Attack Uses RAM Radio Signals to Steal Data from Air-Gapped Networks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
A novel side-channel attack has been found to leverage radio signals emanated by a device’s random access memory (RAM) as a data exfiltration mechanism, posing a threat to air-gapped networks. The technique has been codenamed RAMBO by Dr. Mordechai Guri, the head of the Offensive Cyber Research Lab in the Department of Software and Information…