Security
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Korea arrests CEO for adding DDoS feature to satellite receivers
South Korean police have arrested a CEO and five employees for manufacturing over 240,000 satellite receivers pre-loaded or later updated to include DDoS attack functionality at a purchaser’s request. While neither company has been named, the two companies have been trading since 2017. In November 2018, the purchasing company made a special request to include […]
Russia sentences Hydra dark web market leader to life in prison
Russian authorities have sentenced the leader of the criminal group behind the now-closed dark web platform Hydra Market to life in prison. Additionally, more than a dozen accomplices have been convicted for their involvement in the production and sale of nearly a ton of drugs. Stanislav Moiseyev, the group’s “organizer,” who was sentenced to life […]
Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship
The Tor Project has put out an urgent call to the privacy community asking volunteers to help deploy 200 new WebTunnel bridges by the end of the year to fight government censorship. Currently, the Tor Project operates 143 WebTunnel bridges, which help users in heavily censored regions bypass internet access restrictions and website blocks. This […]
BootKitty UEFI malware exploits LogoFAIL to infect Linux systems
Update added below about this bootkit being created by students in Korea’s Best of the Best (BoB) cybersecurity training program. The recently uncovered ‘Bootkitty’ Linux UEFI bootkit exploits the LogoFAIL flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-40238, to target computers running on vulnerable firmware. This is confirmed by firmware security firm Binarly, which discovered LogoFAIL in November 2023 […]
Novel phishing campaign uses corrupted Word documents to evade security
A novel phishing attack abuses Microsoft’s Word file recovery feature by sending corrupted Word documents as email attachments, allowing them to bypass security software due to their damaged state but still be recoverable by the application. Threat actors constantly look for new ways to bypass email security software and land their phishing emails in targets’ […]
SpyLoan Android malware on Google play installed 8 million times
A new set of 15 SpyLoan Android malware apps with over 8 million installs was discovered on Google Play, targeting primarily users from South America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. The apps were discovered by McAfee, a member of the ‘App Defense Alliance,’ and have now been removed from Android’s official app store. However, their presence on […]
New Rockstar 2FA phishing service targets Microsoft 365 accounts
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform named ‘Rockstar 2FA’ has emerged, facilitating large-scale adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. Like other AiTM platforms, Rockstar 2FA enables attackers to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA) protections on targeted accounts by intercepting valid session cookies. These attacks work by directing victims to a fake login page that mimics Microsoft […]
Russia arrests cybercriminal Wazawaka for ties with ransomware gangs
Russian law enforcement has arrested and indicted notorious ransomware affiliate Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev (also known as Wazawaka, Uhodiransomwar, m1x, and Boriselcin) for developing malware and his involvement in several hacking groups. While the prosecutor’s office has yet to release any details on the individual’s identity (described as a “programmer” in court documents), the individual is […]
Bologna FC confirms data breach after RansomHub ransomware attack
Bologna Football Club 1909 has confirmed it suffered a ransomware attack after its stolen data was leaked online by the RansomHub extortion group. The Italian football team warns not to download or disseminate any of the stolen data, claiming it is a “serious criminal offense.” “Bologna FC 1909 S.p.a. would like to communicate that a ransomware cyber […]
New Windows Server 2012 zero-day gets free, unofficial patches
Free unofficial security patches have been released through the 0patch platform to address a zero-day vulnerability introduced over two years ago in the Windows Mark of the Web (MotW) security mechanism. Windows automatically adds Mark of the Web (MotW) flags to all documents and executables downloaded from untrusted sources. These MotW labels inform the Windows […]