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"Hackers Figured Out 3 separate Ways to Break Into US Air Force Satellites, And Won up to $50K For Doing it"Hackers recently managed to break into a US Air Force satellite in orbit and took home prizes of up to $50,000 for exposing the vulnerabilities. Italian team "mHACKeroni" were the winners of the US Space Force annual "Hack-A-Sat" competition, which…
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"Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Enterprise Applications"Cisco recently announced security updates for several enterprise applications to patch high-severity vulnerabilities leading to privilege escalation, SQL injection, directory traversal, and denial-of-service (DoS). The most severe of these impacts…
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"Zimbra Users in Europe, Latin America Face Phishing Threat"Researchers at ESET have discovered a widespread phishing campaign designed to steal the credentials of Zimbra account holders. The collaborative software platform Zimbra Collaboration is a popular alternative to enterprise email solutions. At least…
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"Thousands of Android APKs Use Compression Trick to Thwart Analysis"Threat actors are increasingly distributing malicious Android APKs (packaged app installers) that can resist decompilation through unsupported, unknown, or highly adjusted compression algorithms. The main benefit of this strategy is evading detection by…
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"Bronze Starlight Targets the Southeast Asian Gambling Sector"SentinelOne observed Bronze Starlight, also known as APT10, Emperor Dragonfly, and Storm-0401, an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group with ties to China, targeting the Southeast Asian gambling sector. The malware and infrastructure used in the…
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"Jenkins Patches High-Severity Vulnerabilities in Multiple Plugins"Open source software development automation server Jenkins recently announced patches for high and medium severity vulnerabilities impacting multiple plugins. The patches address three high severity cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and cross-site…
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"New BlackCat Ransomware Variant Adopts Advanced Impacket and RemCom Tools"Microsoft disclosed a new variant of the BlackCat ransomware, also known as ALPHV and Noberus, which incorporates tools such as Impacket and RemCom to facilitate lateral movement and Remote Code Execution (RCE). The Impacket tool has modules for…
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"Researchers Trick an iPhone Into Faking Airplane Mode"Researchers have discovered how to manipulate the iPhone's user interface to fake airplane mode while secretly maintaining Internet connectivity. Jamf Threat Labs detailed in a new report how the code controlling the different elements of iOS 16's…
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"North Korean Cybercriminals Have Already Stolen $200 Million in Crypto Hacks in 2023"According to security researchers at TRM Labs, North Korea has stolen around $200 million in cryptocurrencies across 30 hacks so far in 2023, less than in 2022 but still a sum "10 times larger than attacks by other actors." The researchers noted that…
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"Federally Insured Credit Unions Required to Report Cyber Incidents Within 3 Days"The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) recently announced that it is updating its cyberattack reporting rules, requiring all federally insured credit unions to report incidents within 72 hours of discovery. The new policy, NCUA announced,…
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"Down the Tubes: Common PVC Pipes Can Hack Voice Identification Systems"Researchers are trying to keep up with hackers and prevent data theft. Some standard tools include multi-factor authentication (MFA) systems, fingerprint technology, and retinal scans. Automatic speaker identification, which uses a person's voice as a…
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"Alarming Lack of Cybersecurity Practices on World's Most Popular Websites"The Cybernews research team has explored an issue that developers often overlook: HTTP security headers. They analyzed the top 100 most-visited websites, such as PayPal, Wikipedia, and AliExpress. HTTP security headers provide instructions on how the…