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18 Feb

The Rising Risks of Cryptocurrency Use: Exploring Enigma, Vector, and TgToxic

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Suspected Russian threat actors have been targeting Eastern European users in the crypto industry with fake job opportunities as bait to install information-stealing malware on compromised hosts. The attackers "use several highly obfuscated and under-development custom loaders in order to infect those involved in the cryptocurrency industry with Enigma stealer," Trend Micro researchers Aliakbar...

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Wireless IIoT Device Vulnerabilities Pose Risk to Critical Infrastructure
16 Feb

Wireless IIoT Device Vulnerabilities Pose Risk to Critical Infrastructure

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A set of 38 security vulnerabilities has been uncovered in wireless industrial internet of things (IIoT) devices from four different vendors that could pose a significant attack surface for threat actors looking to exploit operational technology (OT) environments. "Threat actors can exploit vulnerabilities in Wireless IIoT devices to gain initial access to internal OT networks," Israeli...

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13 Oct

New exploits can bypass Secure Boot and modern UEFI security protections

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Two teams of researchers have revealed vulnerabilities this week in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) implementations and bootloaders that could allow attackers to defeat the secure boot defenses of modern PCs and deploy highly persistent rootkits.   Researchers from firmware and hardware security firm Eclypsium published a report on vulnerabilities they found in three third-party bootloaders that are digitally signed by Microsoft's root of trust. They can...

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24 Mar

Dangerous privilege escalation bugs found in Linux package manager Snap

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Researchers found an easy-to-exploit vulnerability in Snap, a universal application packaging and distribution system developed for Ubuntu but available on multiple Linux distributions. The flaw allows a low-privileged user to execute malicious code as root, the highest administrative account on Linux.   The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44731, is part of a series of flaws that researchers from security firm Qualys found in various Linux components while investigating...

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26 Feb

Access broker found exploiting Log4j vulnerability in VMware

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A gang of cybercriminals known for breaking into computer systems and selling access to them has been discovered exploiting an Apache Log4j vulnerability, Log4Shell, in  unpatched VMware Horizon to plant cryptominers and backdoors on targeted systems.   In a blog published Wednesday, Blackberry' researchers Ryan Gibson, Codi Starks and Will Ikard revealed that Prophet Spider was behind the attacks, which could be reliably detected by monitoring ws_TomcatService.exe,...

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08 Jan

The Apache Log4j vulnerabilities: A timeline

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The Apache Log4j vulnerability has made global headlines since it was discovered in early December. The flaw has impacted vast numbers of organizations around the world as security teams have scrambled to mitigate the associated risks. Here is a timeline of the key events surrounding the Log4j vulnerability as they have unfolded.   Thursday, December 9: Apache Log4j zero-day exploit discovered Apache released details on a critical vulnerability...

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01 Dec

Half of all virtual appliances have outdated software and serious vulnerabilities

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Virtual appliances are a popular way for software vendors to distribute their products to enterprise customers as they contain all the necessary pre-configured software stacks their applications need to function and can be deployed in public clouds or private data centers with ease. Unfortunately, enterprises are at risk of deploying images that are vulnerable out-of-the-box according to a new study. It found that many vendors,...

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