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Cybersecurity

Mirai Botnet Variant ‘Pandora’ Hijacks Android TVs for Cyberattacks

Sep 07, 2023THNBotnet / Cyber Threat A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for […]

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Outlook Breach: Microsoft Reveals How a Crash Dump Led to a Major Security Breach

Sep 07, 2023THNCyber Attack / Email Hacking Microsoft on Wednesday revealed that a China-based threat actor known as Storm-0558 acquired the inactive consumer signing key to forge tokens and access Outlook by compromising an engineer’s corporate account. This enabled the adversary to access a debugging environment that contained information pertaining to a crash of the […]

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Zero-Day Alert: Latest Android Patch Update Includes Fix for Newly Actively Exploited Flaw

Sep 06, 2023THNZero Day / Mobile Security Google has rolled out monthly security patches for Android to address a number of flaws, including a zero-day bug that it said may have been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2023-35674, the high-severity vulnerability is described as a case of privilege escalation impacting the Android Framework. “There […]

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Crypto Casino Stake.com Back Online After $40m Heist

Hackers have stolen over $40m in cryptocurrency from the self-styled “world’s leading betting platform,” the firm has revealed. Curaçao-headquartered Stake.com offers casino and sports betting for players using cryptocurrency. However, the firm flagged on Monday that it had spotted unauthorized transactions being made from its Ethereum (ETH) and Binance Smart Chain (BSC) hot wallets. “We […]

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Threat Actors Target NPM, PyPI, and RubyGems Developers | Cyware Hacker News

Not one, not two, but three open-source software registries have come under attack at once in an organized cybercrime operation aimed at macOS users. A criminal group has uploaded harmful packages to PyPI, NPM, and RubyGems repositories to target respective developers. What happened? While scrutinizing the source code and metadata of registry-pushed packages, cybersecurity experts […]

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Researchers Discover Critical Vulnerability in PHPFusion CMS

Security researchers have discovered what they described as a critical vulnerability in the relatively widely used PHPFusion open source content management system (CMS). The authenticated local file inclusion flaw, identified as CVE-2023-2453, allows for remote code execution if an attacker can upload a maliciously crafted “.php” file to a known path on a target system. […]