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Financially motivated Earth Lusca threat actors targets organizations worldwide

Security Affairs

Trend Micro researchers spotted an elusive threat actor, called Earth Lusca, that targets organizations worldwide via spear-phishing and watering hole attacks. . The Winnti group was first spotted by Kaspersky in 2013, but according to the researchers the gang has been active since 2007. Both clusters served as a C&C server.

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Critical flaws in NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin still impact over 500K installs

Security Affairs

The developers behind the NextGen Gallery plugin have fixed two critical Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities, their exploitation could lead to a site takeover, malicious redirects, spam injection, phishing, and other malicious activities. The plugin receives over 1.5 ” reads the post published by Wordfence.

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Cyber Pearl Harbor Is Happening Right Now — It’s Ransomware

Daniel Miessler

Since 2007 the InfoSec industry has been talking about TheBigOne™—the event that would change cyber threats from annoyances to existential concerns. Once they get in— via RDP or Phishing or Drive-bys —they are not only extorting people who want to get their data back. They called it Cyber Pearl Harbor.

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The Life and Death of Passwords: Improving Security With Passwords and People

Duo's Security Blog

Street, a self-described “hacker-helper-human,” contemplates bad password advice, investing in human behavior, and why social engineering continues to work. Humans are not the weakest link in information security. They’re the least invested in for security. I’ve fallen for a phish. Today: Jayson E.