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Zanubis Android Banking Trojan Poses as Peruvian Government App to Target Users [email protected] (The Hacker News)
An emerging Android banking trojan called Zanubis is now masquerading as a Peruvian government app to trick unsuspecting users into installing the malware. “Zanubis’s main infection path is through impersonating legitimate Peruvian Android applications and then tricking the user into enabling the Accessibility permissions in order to take full control of the device,” Kaspersky said in anRead…
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FBI Warns of Rising Trend of Dual Ransomware Attacks Targeting U.S. Companies [email protected] (The Hacker News)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is warning of a new trend of dual ransomware attacks targeting the same victims, at least since July 2023. “During these attacks, cyber threat actors deployed two different ransomware variants against victim companies from the following variants: AvosLocker, Diamond, Hive, Karakurt, LockBit, Quantum, and Royal,” the FBI said in an…
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Iranian APT Group OilRig Using New Menorah Malware for Covert Operations [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Sophisticated cyber actors backed by Iran known as OilRig have been linked to a spear-phishing campaign that infects victims with a new strain of malware called Menorah. “The malware was designed for cyberespionage, capable of identifying the machine, reading and uploading files from the machine, and downloading another file or malware,” Trend Micro researchers Mohamed Fahmy and…
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New Critical Security Flaws Expose Exim Mail Servers to Remote Attacks [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the Exim mail transfer agent that, if successfully exploited, could result in information disclosure and remote code execution. The list of flaws, which were reported anonymously way back in June 2022, is as follows – CVE-2023-42114 (CVSS score: 3.7) – Exim NTLM Challenge Out-Of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure VulnerabilityRead More
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Bankrupt IronNet Shuts Down Operations Ryan Naraine
Bankrupt and out of financing options, IronNet has terminated all employees and plan to file for Chapter 7 protection. The post Bankrupt IronNet Shuts Down Operations appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Cybercriminals Using New ASMCrypt Malware Loader Flying Under the Radar [email protected] (The Hacker News)
Threat actors are selling a new crypter and loader called ASMCrypt, which has been described as an “evolved version” of another loader malware known as DoubleFinger. “The idea behind this type of malware is to load the final payload without the loading process or the payload itself being detected by AV/EDR, etc.,” Kaspersky said in an analysis published…
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AWS Using MadPot Decoy System to Disrupt APTs, Botnets Ryan Naraine
AWS says an internal threat intel decoy system called MadPot has successfully trapped nation state-backed APTs like Volt Typhoon and Sandworm. The post AWS Using MadPot Decoy System to Disrupt APTs, Botnets appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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Generative AI Startup Nexusflow Raises $10.6 Million Ionut Arghire
Nexusflow scores funding to build an open-source LLM that can deliver high accuracy when retrieving data from multiple security sources. The post Generative AI Startup Nexusflow Raises $10.6 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
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In Other News: RSA Encryption Attack, Meta AI Privacy, ShinyHunters Hacker Guilty Plea SecurityWeek News
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: new RSA encryption attack, Meta’s AI privacy safeguards, and ShinyHunters hackers’ guilty plea. The post In Other News: RSA Encryption Attack, Meta AI Privacy, ShinyHunters Hacker Guilty Plea appeared first on SecurityWeek. Read More
