Bleeping Computer

MARCH 11, 2023

The Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency is seizing incoming Flipper Zero purchases due to its alleged use in criminal activity, with purchasers stating that the government agency has rejected all attempts to certify the equipment. [.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2023

A new version of the Prometei botnet has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022, experts warn. Cisco Talos researchers reported that the Prometei botnet has infected more than 10,000 systems worldwide since November 2022. The crypto-mining botnet has a modular structure and employs multiple techniques to infect systems and evade detection.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2023

I have been noodling around with ChatGPT recently and have found a nice little use case that I hope someone with more coding skills and. The post A security use case for ChatGPT: Email Scam Robo Judge appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2023

US CISA added an actively exploited vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Foundation to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability in VMware’s Cloud Foundation, tracked as CVE-2021-39144 (CVSS score: 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 11, 2023

The malware downloader known as BATLOADER has been observed abusing Google Ads to deliver secondary payloads like Vidar Stealer and Ursnif. According to cybersecurity company eSentire, malicious ads are used to spoof a wide range of legitimate apps and services such as Adobe, OpenAPI's ChatGPT, Spotify, Tableau, and Zoom.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2023

Researchers observed threat actors deploying PlugX malware by exploiting flaws in Chinese remote control programs Sunlogin and Awesun. Researchers at ASEC (AhnLab Security Emergency response Center) observed threat actors deploying the PlugX malware by exploiting vulnerabilities in the Chinese remote control software Sunlogin and Awesun. Sunlogin RCE vulnerability (CNVD-2022-10270 / CNVD-2022-03672) is known to be exploited by threat actors since an exploit code was disclosed.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 11, 2023

CISA has added an almost three-year-old high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the Plex Media Server to its catalog of security flaws exploited in attacks. [.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2023

Our thanks to USENIX for publishing their Presenter’s outstanding USENIX Security ’22 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel. Permalink The post USENIX Security ’22 – Shujiang Wu, Jianjia Yu, Min Yang, Yinzhi Cao – ‘Rendering Contention Channel Made Practical In Web Browsers’ appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 11, 2023

The Clop ransomware gang has begun extorting companies whose data was stolen using a zero-day vulnerability in the Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing solution. [.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 11, 2023

As a threat hunter, I have seen the evolution of cyber threats firsthand and the challenges that organizations face when trying to protect themselves. One threat that has been particularly persistent is the malware Emotet. Over the years, I have used both Indicators of Compromise (IOC) and behavioral analysis for hunting Emotet and other malware, […] The post Hunting Emotet: How Behavioural Hunting Trumps IOC Detection Every Time appeared first on Cyborg Security.

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