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10 Oct

Your family, home and small business need a cyber-resilience strategy, too!

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Digital Security Your preparedness to deal with cyberattacks is key for lessening the impact of a successful incident – even in home and small business environments Tony Anscombe 09 Oct 2023  •  , 3 min. read Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CSAM) is upon us again. Much like European Cyber Security Month (ECSM), this important initiative is focused on raising awareness of the risks associated with the digital world we live in, and, hopefully, initiate changes in…

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10 Oct

Microsoft Fixes Exploited Zero-Days in WordPad, Skype for Business

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Microsoft’s security response team on Tuesday pushed out a massive batch of software and OS updates to cover more than 100 vulnerabilities across the Windows ecosystem and warned that three of the flaws are already being exploited in the wild. As part of the scheduled batch of Patch Tuesday fixes, Microsoft joined with tech giants AWS, Google and Cloudflare to address the ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ zero-day (see separate SecurityWeek coverage) that exposed the internet to…

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09 Oct

Phishers Spoof USPS, 12 Other Natl’ Postal Services

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The fake USPS phishing page. Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. Postal Service (USPS) customers. Here’s a look at an extensive SMS phishing operation that tries to steal personal and financial data by spoofing the USPS, as well as postal services in at least a dozen other countries. KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader who received an SMS purporting to have been sent by the USPS,…

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09 Oct

Recently Patched TagDiv Plugin Flaw Exploited to Hack Thousands of WordPress Sites

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A recently patched vulnerability affecting a plugin associated with the Newspaper and Newsmag themes has been exploited to hack thousands of WordPress websites as part of a long-running campaign named Balada Injector, GoDaddy-owned web security firm Sucuri warned on Friday. The exploited vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-3169, was discovered by a Vietnamese researcher in the TagDiv Composer front-end page builder plugin of the Newspaper and Newsmag premium themes, which have been sold nearly 140,000 times. The…

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07 Oct

Fake friends and followers on social media – and how to spot them

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Social Media One of the biggest threats to watch out for on social media is fraud perpetrated by people who aren’t who they claim to be. Here’s how to recognize them. Phil Muncaster 06 Oct 2023  •  , 5 min. read Some 4.5 billion people worldwide, or almost 55 percent of the global population, have at least one account with one of the big players. And global internet users spend around two-and-a-half hours each day…

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07 Oct

DinodasRAT used against governmental entity in Guayana – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

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Video The backdoor can exfiltrate files, manipulate Windows registry keys, and execute commands that are capable of performing various actions on a victim’s machine 06 Oct 2023 This week, ESET researchers released their findings about a cyberespionage campaign that took aim at a Guyanese governmental entity. Named Operation Jacana by ESET, the campaign deployed a previously undocumented backdoor, DinodasRAT, that can exfiltrate files, manipulate Windows registry keys, and execute commands that are capable of performing…

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07 Oct

Taiwan Probes Firms Suspected of Selling Chip Equipment to China’s Huawei Despite US Sanctions

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Taiwan authorities are investigating four Taiwan-based companies suspected of helping China’s Huawei Technologies to build semiconductor facilities. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua said Friday that the investigation will determine if the companies have violated regulations prohibiting sales of sensitive technologies and equipment to China. The Ministry of Economic Affairs summoned the semiconductor and factory services suppliers for questioning after a report by Bloomberg said they were working with Huawei as it builds a network…

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06 Oct

Operation Jacana: Foundling hobbits in Guyana

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In February 2023, ESET researchers detected a spearphishing campaign targeting a governmental entity in Guyana. While we haven’t been able to link the campaign, which we named Operation Jacana, to any specific APT group, we believe with medium confidence that a China-aligned threat group is behind this incident. In the attack, the operators used a previously undocumented C++ backdoor that can exfiltrate files, manipulate Windows registry keys, execute CMD commands, and more. We named the…

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06 Oct

MGM Resorts Says Ransomware Hack Cost $110 Million

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Hospitality and entertainment giant MGM Resorts said costs from last month’s debilitating ransomware infection has exceeded $110 million, including $10 million in one-time consulting clean-up fees. In an SEC 8-K filing, MGM Resorts said the data-extortion attack caused operational disruptions, especially in its Las Vegas properties, and an estimated financial toll that includes about $100 million in lost revenue. MGM Resorts, which manages prominent hotels like Mandalay Bay (site of the Black Hat security conference),…

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06 Oct

Android Devices With Backdoored Firmware Found in US Schools

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Tens of thousands of Android devices have been shipped to end-users with backdoored firmware, according to a warning from cybersecurity vendor Human Security. As part of the global cybercriminal operation called BadBox (PDF), Human Security found a threat actor relied on supply chain compromise to infect the firmware of more than 70,000 Android smartphones, CTV boxes, and tablet devices with the Triada malware. The infected devices come from at least one Chinese manufacturer but, before…

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