Hackers Targeting Human Rights Activists in Morocco and Western Sahara

Human rights activists in Morocco and the Western Sahara region are the targets of a new threat actor that leverages phishing attacks to trick victims into installing bogus Android apps and serve credential harvesting pages for Windows users. Cisco Talos is tracking the activity cluster under the name Starry Addax, describing it as primarily singling out activists associated […]

Researchers Discover LG Smart TV Vulnerabilities Allowing Root Access

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LG webOS running on its smart televisions that could be exploited to bypass authorization and gain root access on the devices. The findings come from Romanian cybersecurity firm Bitdefender, which discovered and reported the flaws in November 2023. The issues were fixed by LG as part of updates […]

CL0P’s Ransomware Rampage – Security Measures for 2024

2023 CL0P Growth  Emerging in early 2019, CL0P was first introduced as a more advanced version of its predecessor the ‘CryptoMix’ ransomware, brought about by its owner CL0P ransomware, a cybercrime organisation. Over the years the group remained active with significant campaigns throughout 2020 to 2022. But in 2023 the CL0P ransomware gang took itself […]

Attackers Using Obfuscation Tools to Deliver Multi-Stage Malware via Invoice Phishing

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an intricate multi-stage attack that leverages invoice-themed phishing decoys to deliver a wide range of malware such as Venom RAT, Remcos RAT, XWorm, NanoCore RAT, and a stealer that targets crypto wallets. The email messages come with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file attachments that, when clicked, activate the infection sequence, Fortinet

Critical Flaws Leave 92,000 D-Link NAS Devices Vulnerable to Malware Attacks

Threat actors are actively scanning and exploiting a pair of security flaws that are said to affect as many as 92,000 internet-exposed D-Link network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Tracked as CVE-2024-3272 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-3273 (CVSS score: 7.3), the vulnerabilities impact legacy D-Link products that have reached end-of-life (EoL) status. D-Link, in

Responsable de la sécurité des systèmes d’information : un poste sous les projecteurs

Dans un environnement où les menaces sont de plus en plus aiguisées et où les surfaces vulnérables aux attaques ne cessent de croitre, la patience des Responsables de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (RSSI) est mise à rude épreuve.

CERTFR-2024-ACT-016 : Bulletin d’actualité CERTFR-2024-ACT-016 (08 avril 2024)

Ce bulletin d’actualité du CERT-FR revient sur les vulnérabilités significatives de la semaine passée pour souligner leurs criticités. Il ne remplace pas …

Google Chrome Adds V8 Sandbox – A New Defense Against Browser Attacks

Google has announced support for what’s called a V8 Sandbox in the Chrome web browser in an effort to address memory corruption issues. The sandbox, according to V8 Security technical lead Samuel Groß, aims to prevent « memory corruption in V8 from spreading within the host process. » The search behemoth has described V8 Sandbox as a lightweight, in-process sandbox

Watch Out for ‘Latrodectus’ – This Malware Could Be In Your Inbox

Threat hunters have discovered a new malware called Latrodectus that has been distributed as part of email phishing campaigns since at least late November 2023. « Latrodectus is an up-and-coming downloader with various sandbox evasion functionality, » researchers from Proofpoint and Team Cymru said in a joint analysis published last week, adding it’s designed to retrieve

En miroir de la NIS2, l’ANSSI américaine s’interroge sur les ransomwares

Chargée d’établir un cadre de signalement des attaques par ransomware, la CISA en questionne encore de multiples aspects.