Tag: malicious
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Effective Bot Management and E-Commerce Security: Protecting Retailers from Online Fraud
E-commerce thrives on real customer engagement, yet malicious bots regularly threaten to disrupt this digital ecosystem. To combat these ever-evolving attacks, retail businesses must implement modern bot management. Bot management refers to the deployment of security measures to detect, mitigate, and prevent malicious bot activity. Without robust bot defense, businesses suffer revenue loss, compromised security,……
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New Steganographic Malware Hides in JPEG Files to Spread Infostealers
A recent cybersecurity threat has been identified, where steganographic malware is being distributed through seemingly innocuous JPEG image files. This sophisticated campaign involves luring users into downloading obfuscated JPEG files that contain hidden malicious scripts and executables. Once these files are executed, the malware targets the extraction of sensitive credentials and data from browsers, email…
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Veeam Update Patches Critical Backup Software Vulnerability
‘Real Danger’ Alert for Unpatched Veeam Servers Attached to a Production Domain. Widely used Veeam Backup & Replication software has been patched to fix a critical vulnerability that could be abused to remotely exploit malicious code. Security experts recommend rapid patching, given ransomware and other groups’ repeated targeting of the software. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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New Windows zero-day feared abused in widespread espionage for years
.The zero-day vulnerability, tracked as ZDI-CAN-25373, has yet to be publicly acknowledged and assigned a CVE-ID by Microsoft. ZDI-CAN-25373 has to do with the way Windows displays the contents of .lnk files, a type of binary file used by Windows to act as a shortcut to a file, folder, or application, through the Windows UI.A…
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The State of Digital Trust in 2025 Consumers Still Shoulder the Responsibility
Tags: access, ai, authentication, banking, breach, captcha, cloud, compliance, control, cyber, data, deep-fake, encryption, finance, fintech, framework, GDPR, government, healthcare, identity, india, insurance, law, login, malicious, metric, mfa, mitigation, password, privacy, regulation, resilience, risk, service, software, strategy, switch, technology, threat, toolThe State of Digital Trust in 2025 – Consumers Still Shoulder the Responsibility madhav Thu, 03/20/2025 – 04:52 Trust remains the cornerstone of digital interactions, yet its foundations are increasingly fragile in an era of sophisticated cyber threats and evolving consumer expectations. The 2024 Digital Trust Index gave us extremely important insights into the expectations…
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300 Malicious ‘Vapor’ Apps Hosted on Google Play Had 60 Million Downloads
Over 300 malicious applications displaying intrusive full-screen interstitial video ads amassed more than 60 million downloads on Google Play. The post 300 Malicious ‘Vapor’ Apps Hosted on Google Play Had 60 Million Downloads appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/300-malicious-vapor-apps-hosted-on-google-play-had-60-million-downloads/
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CISA Alerts on Edimax IP Camera OS Command Injection Exploit
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent alert regarding a critical vulnerability found in Edimax IC-7100 IP cameras. The alert centers on an OS command injection vulnerability due to improper input sanitization, which allows malicious actors to send specially crafted requests and achieve remote code execution on affected devices. This severe…
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How CISOs are approaching staffing diversity with DEI initiatives under pressure
Staffing diversity can help avoid homogenous thinking: Similarly, Sam McMahon, senior manager of IT and security at Valimail, underscores the necessity of representing different backgrounds and mindsets.”In my experience, even small security teams benefit greatly from the variety of perspectives that come with different backgrounds and skill sets,” he says. “We know that the majority…
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Critical Veeam Backup Replication Vulnerability Allows Remote Execution of Malicious Code
Tags: backup, cve, cvss, cyber, malicious, remote-code-execution, risk, software, veeam, vulnerabilityA critical vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication software has been disclosed, posing a significant risk to users. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-23120, allows remote code execution (RCE) by authenticated domain users. The severity of this issue is underscored by a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.9, indicating a high level of risk. The vulnerability has…
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CERT-UA Warns: Dark Crystal RAT Targets Ukrainian Defense via Malicious Signal Messages
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) is warning of a new campaign that targets the defense sectors with Dark Crystal RAT (aka DCRat).The campaign, detected earlier this month, has been found to target both employees of enterprises of the defense-industrial complex and individual representatives of the Defense Forces of Ukraine.The activity involves First…
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Stadtverwaltung in Virginia, USA von Cyberangriff betroffen
This past weekend, the Town of Chilhowie suffered a malicious cyberattack … First seen on facebook.com Jump to article: www.facebook.com/Chilhowie/posts/pfbid0xum4fNUxzTHL2hyJ3At3qSz3fipWCibHvuMvr7xCXAuujjYTjHJ156VusjjZV7uol
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Malware campaign ‘DollyWay’ breached 20,000 WordPress sites
A malware operation dubbed ‘DollyWay’ has been underway since 2016, compromising over 20,000 WordPress sites globally to redirect users to malicious sites. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malware-campaign-dollyway-breached-20-000-wordpress-sites/
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Hackers Exploit Unpatched ChatGPT Bug
Over 10K Exploit Attempts Recorded in a Week From a Single Malicious IP. Hackers are exploiting a vulnerability in ChatGPT’s infrastructure to redirect users to malicious websites, with security researchers recording more than 10,000 exploit attempts in a week from a single malicious IP address. The financial sector has borne the brunt of the attacks.…
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Stealthy Apache Tomcat Critical Exploit Bypasses Security Filters: Are You at Risk?
By simply sending HTTP requests, attackers can trigger the deserialisation of malicious data in Tomcat’s session storage and gain control. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-apache-tomcat-vulnerability/
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CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in GitHub Action Supply Chain Compromise
Tags: breach, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, github, infrastructure, kev, malicious, supply-chain, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a vulnerability linked to the supply chain compromise of the GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-30066 (CVSS score: 8.6), involves the breach of the GitHub Action to inject malicious code that enables a remote First…
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Critical vulnerability in AMI MegaRAC BMC allows server’ takeover
Tags: access, advisory, api, apt, attack, authentication, control, credentials, cve, cyberespionage, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, firewall, firmware, flaw, group, infrastructure, Internet, linux, malicious, malware, network, ransomware, supply-chain, technology, training, update, vulnerabilityth vulnerability that Eclypsium researchers found in MegaRAC, the BMC firmware implementation from UEFI/BIOS vendor American Megatrends (AMI). BMCs are microcontrollers present on server motherboards that have their own firmware, dedicated memory, power, and network ports and are used for out-of-band management of servers when their main operating systems are shut down.Administrators can access BMCs…
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Poisoned Windows shortcuts found to be a favorite of Chinese, Russian, N. Korean state hackers
The Zero Day Initiative measured the prevalence of manipulated Windows shortcut files in campaigns attributed to nation-state hacking groups, finding at least 11 exploited a bug that allows malicious use of the files. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/windows-lnk-files-nation-state-hacking-campaigns
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Nation-state actors and cybercrime gangs abuse malicious .lnk files for espionage and data theft
11 state-sponsored APTs exploit malicious .lnk files for espionage and data theft, with ZDI uncovering 1,000 such files used in attacks. At least 11 state-sponsored threat groups have been abusing Windows shortcut files for espionage and data theft, according to an analysis by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI). Trend ZDI researchers discovered 1,000 malicious…
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Malicious Android ‘Vapor’ apps on Google Play installed 60 million times
Over 300 malicious Android applications downloaded 60 million items from Google Play acted as adware or attempted to steal credentials and credit card information. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malicious-android-vapor-apps-on-google-play-installed-60-million-times/
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Actively Exploited ChatGPT Bug Puts Organizations at Risk
A server-side request forgery vulnerability in OpenAI’s chatbot infrastructure can allow attackers to direct users to malicious URLs, leading to a range of threat activity. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/actively-exploited-chatgpt-bug-organizations-risk
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Second GitHub Actions Supply Chain Attack Discovered
Malicious Code Injected in reviewdog Just Hours Before tj-actions Backdoored. Just days after researchers discovered an attack that subverted a widely used tool for software development platform GitHub, they discovered a second, prior attack, as part of what one expert said may be a chain of supply chain attacks eventually leading to a specific high-value…
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MirrorGuard: Adaptive Defense Mechanism Against Jailbreak Attacks for Secure Deployments
A novel defense strategy, MirrorGuard, has been proposed to enhance the security of large language models (LLMs) against jailbreak attacks. This approach introduces a dynamic and adaptive method to detect and mitigate malicious inputs by leveraging the concept of >>mirrors.
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New ClearFake Variant Uses Fake reCAPTCHA to Deploy Malicious PowerShell Code
A recent variant of the ClearFake malware framework has been identified, leveraging fake reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare Turnstile verifications to deceive users into executing malicious PowerShell code. This evolution marks a significant shift in how ClearFake exploits Web3 capabilities to deliver malware through compromised websites. Technical Analysis of the New Variant ClearFake, first detected in July…
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New ‘Rules File Backdoor’ Attack Lets Hackers Inject Malicious Code via AI Code Editors
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new supply chain attack vector dubbed Rules File Backdoor that affects artificial intelligence (AI)-powered code editors like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, causing them to inject malicious code.”This technique enables hackers to silently compromise AI-generated code by injecting hidden malicious instructions into seemingly innocent First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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11 State-Sponsored APTs Exploiting LNK Files for Espionage, Data Theft
ZDI has uncovered 1,000 malicious .lnk files used by state-sponsored and cybercrime threat actors to execute malicious commands. The post 11 State-Sponsored APTs Exploiting LNK Files for Espionage, Data Theft appeared first on SecurityWeek. First seen on securityweek.com Jump to article: www.securityweek.com/11-state-sponsored-apts-exploiting-lnk-files-for-espionage-data-theft/
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Hackers Use DLL Side-Loading to Deploy Malicious Python Code
A recent discovery by Xavier Mertens, a senior handler at the Internet Storm Center, has highlighted a sophisticated attack where hackers utilize DLL side-loading to deploy malicious Python code. This technique involves tricking an application into loading a malicious DLL instead of a legitimate one, allowing attackers to execute malicious code while evading detection by…
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Squid Werewolf Mimics Recruiters to Target Job Seekers and Steal Personal Data
In a sophisticated phishing campaign uncovered by the BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence team, the Squid Werewolf group, also known as APT37, has been impersonating recruiters to target key employees in various organizations. This espionage cluster uses fake job opportunities to lure victims into opening malicious attachments, which ultimately lead to system compromise and data theft. Phishing…
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New Ad Fraud Campaign Exploits 331 Apps with 60M+ Downloads for Phishing and Intrusive Ads
Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a large-scale ad fraud campaign that has leveraged hundreds of malicious apps published on the Google Play Store to serve full-screen ads and conduct phishing attacks.”The apps display out-of-context ads and even try to persuade victims to give away credentials and credit card information in phishing attacks,” Bitdefender said in…
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Large-Scale Malicious App Campaign Bypassing Android Security
Bitdefender said the malicious app campaign has resulted in more than 60 million downloads of malicious apps from the Google Play Store First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malicious-app-bypass-android/