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Social engineering: 'low-cost, hard to patch, and scales well' North Korean criminals set on stealing Apple users' credentials and cryptocurrency are using a combination of social engineering and a fake Zoom software update to trick people into manually running malware on their own computers, according to Microsoft.…
Exploit hasn't been picked up by any malware detection engines, CEO tells The Reg A Microsoft zero-day vulnerability that allows an unprivileged user to crash the Windows Remote Access Connection Manager (RasMan) service now has a free, unofficial patch - with no word as to when Redmond plans to release an official one - along with a working exploit circulating online.…
PAN-PAN! Intruders inject web shell backdoors, crypto-coin miners, more Thousands of Palo Alto Networks firewalls were compromised by attackers exploiting two recently patched security bugs. The intruders were able to deploy web-accessible backdoors to remotely control the equipment as well as cryptocurrency miners and other malware.…
Plus a bonus hard-coded local API key A now-patched, high-severity bug in Fortinet's FortiClient VPN application potentially allows a low-privilege rogue user or malware on a vulnerable Windows system to gain higher privileges from another user, execute code and possibly take over the box, and delete log files.…
Like keeping your camera and microphone private? Patch up In revealing details about a vulnerability that threatens the privacy of Apple fans, Microsoft urges all macOS users to update their systems.…
What kind of OS can be hijacked by clicking a link at just the right time? Microsoft's In this week's Patch Tuesday Microsoft alerted users to, among other vulnerabilities, a flaw in Windows Installer that can be exploited by malware or a rogue user to gain SYSTEM-level privileges to hijack a PC.…
Kernel mode not good enough for you? Maybe you'll like SMM of this Some AMD processors dating back to 2006 have a security vulnerability that's a boon for particularly underhand malware and rogue insiders, though the chip designer is only patching models made since 2020.…
Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion Russian spies are exploiting a years-old Windows print spooler vulnerability and using a custom tool called GooseEgg to elevate privileges and steal credentials across compromised networks, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
ALSO: Viasat hack wiper malware is back, users are the number one cause of data loss, and critical vulns Infosec in brief If your Windows domain controllers have been crashing since a security update was installed earlier this month, there's no longer any need to speculate why: Microsoft has admitted it introduced a memory leak in its March patches and fixed the issue.…
Infecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now Crooks are exploiting years-old vulnerabilities to deploy Androxgh0st malware and build a cloud-credential stealing botnet, according to the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).…
Got a Confluence server? Listen up. Malware said to have wide-ranging capabilities A new backdoor was this week found implanted in the environments of organizations to exploit the recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence.…
Kaspersky first found this software nasty on its own phones Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops.…
Initial fall in infected devices indicates evolution, not extinction, of attack code After a six-day wait, Cisco started rolling out a patch for a critical bug that miscreants had exploited to install implants in thousands of devices. Alas, it seems to have been largely useless.…
Zen 2 flaw more simple than Spectre, exploit code already out there – get patching when you can AMD has started issuing some patches for its processors affected by a serious silicon-level bug dubbed Zenbleed that can be exploited by rogue users and malware to steal passwords, cryptographic keys, and other secrets from software running on a vulnerable system.…
Act now: Sea-themed backdoor malware injected via .tar-based hole A critical remote command injection vulnerability in some Barracuda Network devices that the vendor patched 11 days ago has been exploited by miscreants – for at least the past seven months.…
AuKill abuses a deprecated tool to disable security processes ahead of the attack Ransomware gangs are abusing an out-of-date Microsoft software driver to disable security defenses before dropping malware into the targeted systems.…
Workaround: Throw away kit? If you're still using post-support DrayTek Vigor routers it may be time to junk them, or come up with some other workaround, as a cunning malware variant is setting up shop in the kit.…
$4,500 Monero per worker as they slave away while we devotin' full time to floatin' under the patch sea A sneaky botnet dubbed HeadCrab that uses bespoke malware to mine for Monero has infected at least 1,200 Redis servers in the last 18 months.…
Upgraded threat, time to patch The Zerobot botnet, first detected earlier this month, is expanding the types of Internet of Things (IoT) devices it can compromise by going after Apache systems.…
Meanwhile Microsoft still hasn't patched the fatal flaw While enterprises are still waiting for Microsoft to issue a fix for the critical "Follina" vulnerability in Windows, yet more malware operators are moving in to exploit it.…