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Monday, 07 March 2022 09:58
Firefox Users Urged to Update to Version 97.0.2 over two Use After free Vulnerabilities Found Exploited in the Wild
Written by Sean Kalinich
Mozilla is urging users to update to the latest version of Firefox after two vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486) have been found to be actively exploited in the wild. Both vulnerabilities are listed as use-after-free vulnerabilities. This type of vulnerability relies…
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Monday, 07 March 2022 08:40
Samsung Might be the Next Victim of the Same Group that Hacked NVIDIA
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Lapsus$ group, the same ones that broke into NVIDIA and Stole corporate data and had their attack VM encrypted, appear to have also broken into Samsung. Lapsus$ has leaked what they claim to be source code for several sensitive…
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Monday, 07 March 2022 08:09
New Banking Malware in the Google Play Store Impersonates Mobile Antimalware App
Written by Sean Kalinich
As mobile devices continue to be a focus for attackers, we are hearing that there is new banking malware in the Google Play Store. The new malware belongs to a the SharkBot family and, according to researchers, is also a…
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Thursday, 03 March 2022 09:50
Large numbers of Medical IoT Devices are Vulnerable to Attack According to Unit 42
Written by Sean Kalinich
IoT devices in general are the bane of most security teams. Typically, they lack basic security features and are complicated at best to keep patched. Much of this is due to the process needed to patch them and the rest…
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Thursday, 03 March 2022 06:48
NVIDIA Confirms Breach as Details Show up Around what the Attackers Took
Written by Sean Kalinich
In one of the “odder” breaches that we have covered, NVIDIA has confirmed it was the victim of a breach that resulted in the loss of data. Information about the breach first crossed our paths about a week ago, but…
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Wednesday, 02 March 2022 09:54
1, 2, 3, 4… I Think I see a Hacker War. Just as Anonymous Declares Cyberwar on Russia, Conti Declares Cyberwar Back
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has given an insight into how modern warfare is carried out on a strategic level. We have seen how Russia used malware and specific cyber attacks to interrupt communications and to potentially wipe critical data.…
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Wednesday, 02 March 2022 08:21
More Banking Malware Slips by the Protections in the Google Play Store, Meet TeaBot
Written by Sean Kalinich
Banking malware for mobile devices is on the rise thanks to the ubiquitous use of mobile apps for personal financial tracking and transactions. This move was almost certain to attract threat actors like a moth to a porchlight. When given…
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Tuesday, 01 March 2022 10:36
Microsoft Says that Reset My PC Option Does not Work as Expected Due to a Bug
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that Microsoft shares an issue that is a bit like one that can happen in mobile devices. When you reset your device on an Android Device and you have accounts that sync data with their own internal folders,…
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Monday, 28 February 2022 08:23
Companies Prepare for Attacks as Sanctions Hit and as Russia is Blocked from SWIFT Banking System over Ukraine Invasion
Written by Sean Kalinich
US and other Western Organizations are preparing for potential cyber attacks from Russia, especially banks after a new wave of sanctions went into effect that included blocking the banks from the SWIFT system and freezing Russian assets. The goal of…
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Monday, 28 February 2022 07:01
Malware Found in Microsoft Store Gaming Apps Could Hijack Social Media Accounts
Written by Sean Kalinich
App Stores have been around for a while and pretty much everyone has one. Although they started off in the mobile device world, they quickly were bolted on to the other areas. As their usage has grown attackers have found…
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Friday, 25 February 2022 11:50
Microsoft Preps to Remove WMIC from Windows 11 and Remove an Attack Vector
Written by Sean Kalinich
WMIC or the Windows Management Instrumentation Command line is a very powerful tool. It can allow an administrator or an attacker a lot of control over a system. Because of the number of times that WMIC has been abused to…
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Friday, 25 February 2022 10:30
Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Cisco NX-OS that Could Allow Arbitrary Code Execution
Written by Sean Kalinich
Cisco has announced that a series of vulnerabilities along with the associated patches that go with them for some of the Nexus Series Switches based on NX-OS. Cisco’s NX-OS is the heart of their data center line of switches like…
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Friday, 25 February 2022 09:02
Trickbot Shuttering its Infrastructure as it moves to New Methods and Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like the group behind Trickbot, the Swiss Army Knife of Malware as service for Windows is shutting down the framework and infrastructure behind the “solution”. According to research groups that have been tracking the campaign the disappearance there…
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Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:33
IRS backs off Collecting Biometric Data as part of ID.me Account Creation
Written by Sean Kalinich
ID.me, the private identification verification company, has become a popular go-to when it comes to governmental services. We have seen it put in play at the local, state, and federal level. The idea is to have a source of truth…
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Wednesday, 23 February 2022 11:11
Vulnerabilities, Phishing, and More allow Attackers to Compromise web3 services including OpenSea and Steal $1.7 Million in virtual assets
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have another Web3 article today. This one covers a new NFT marketplace compromise though the use of phishing emails that tricked users into singing over their digital assets to an, as of yet, unknown attacker.
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Wednesday, 23 February 2022 07:55
Unpatched and Unprotected Microsoft SQL Servers Targeted for Cobalt Strike Injection
Written by Sean Kalinich
It seems that there are still some MS SQL servers that are not only exposed to the open internet but are also still using weak passwords. When this is combined with vulnerabilities and the lack of other security controls and…
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