Cybersecurity

N-Able’s Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation

Sep 14, 2023THNVulnerability / Hacking A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able’s Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which, when successfully exploited, could be leveraged […]

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Russian Journalist’s iPhone Compromised by NSO Group’s Zero-Click Spyware

Sep 14, 2023THNSpyware / Malware The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February 10, 2023. Timchenko is […]

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US Cyber Command wrapped second ‘hunt forward’ mission to Lithuania

U.S. Cyber Command announced Tuesday that it completed its second “hunt forward” mission to uncover vulnerabilities in Lithuania’s networks. The operation is one of dozens the elite digital warfighting organization has undertaken since 2018 as part of a larger push to help the U.S. government understand weaknesses or malicious activity in foreign systems and how […]

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High-profile CVEs turn up in vulnerability exploit sales

The dark web marketplaces dedicated to the trade of credentials and vulnerabilities boasts some big names in enterprise compromises, Flashpoint research released Tuesday shows. Three reported purchases of vulnerability exploits on the dark web during the first half of the year included high profile, actively exploited CVEs, according to the threat intelligence firm. The remote […]

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Newly Discovered MetaStealer Malware Targets macOS Users | Cyware Hacker News

A new information-stealing malware named MetaStealer has appeared in the wild, targeting macOS systems. This malicious software is built using the Go programming language and can steal a variety of sensitive data from victims.  Distribution process According to SentinelOne researchers, many samples of the malware are targeting macOS business users through social engineering tactics, where […]

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Ransomware: It Takes A Village, Says NCSC

Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Ransomware UK Crime and Cybersecurity Agencies Urge ‘Holistic’ View of Ransomware Ecosystem Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • September 11, 2023     Image: Shutterstock Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British […]