Meta Platforms on Friday became the latest company after Microsoft, Google, and OpenAI to expose the activities of an Iranian state-sponsored threat actor, who it said used a set of WhatsApp accounts that attempted to target individuals in Israel, Palestine, Iran, the U.K., and the U.S. The activity cluster, which originated from Iran, “appeared to […]

Hackers are now using AppDomain Injection to drop Cobalt Strike beacons in a series of attacks that began in July 2024. This technique, known as AppDomain Manager Injection, can weaponize any Microsoft .NET application on Windows.

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges to SYSTEM level through a heap-based buffer overflow. With a CVSS score of 7.8, CVE-2024-38054 is a critical flaw patched by Microsoft in July.