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09 May

S3 Ep132: Proof-of-concept lets anyone hack at will

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by Paul Ducklin 2FA, HACKING, AND PATCHING No audio player below? Listen directly on Soundcloud. With Doug Aamoth and Paul Ducklin. Intro and outro music by Edith Mudge. You can listen to us on Soundcloud, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and anywhere that good podcasts are found. Or just drop the URL of our RSS feed into your favourite podcatcher. READ THE TRANSCRIPT DOUG.  Remote code execution, remote code execution, and 2FA codes in the…

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09 May

Google wins court order to force ISPs to filter botnet traffic

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by Naked Security writer A US court has recently unsealed a restraining order against a gang of alleged cybercrooks operating outside the country, based on a formal legal complaint from internet giant Google. Google, it seems, decided to use its size, influence and network data to say, “No more!”, based on evidence it had collected about a cybergang known loosely as the CryptBot crew, whom Google claimed were: Ripping off Google product names, icons and…

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09 May

Low-level motherboard security keys leaked in MSI breach, claim researchers

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by Paul Ducklin About a month ago, we wrote about a data breach notification issued by major motherboard manufacturer MSI. The company said: MSI recently suffered a cyberattack on part of its information systems. […] Currently, the affected systems have gradually resumed normal operations, with no significant impact on financial business. […] MSI urges users to obtain firmware/BIOS updates only from its official website, and not to use files from sources other than the official…

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09 May

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 40 Vulnerabilities, 2 Zero-Days

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Microsoft on Tuesday announced patches for 40 newly documented vulnerabilities in its products, including two zero-day flaws. One of the zero-days, CVE-2023-29336, is described as an elevation of privilege bug in the Win32k driver. Successful exploitation could allow an attacker to gain System privileges. Microsoft has shared no information on the attacks exploiting this vulnerability, but such issues are typically combined with code execution flaws to spread malware, according to Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative…

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09 May

Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

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The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters. Booter services are advertised through a variety of methods, including Dark Web forums, chat platforms and even youtube.com. They accept…

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08 May

RSA Conference 2023 – How AI will infiltrate the world

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As all things (wrongly called) AI take the world’s biggest security event by storm, we round up of some of their most-touted use cases and applications Okay, so there’s this ChatGPT thing layered on top of AI – well, not really, it seems even the practitioners responsible for some of the most impressive machine learning (ML) based products don’t always stick to the basic terminology of their fields of expertise… At RSAC, the niceties of…

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08 May

What was hot at RSA Conference 2023? – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

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The importance of understanding – and prioritizing – the privacy and security implications of large language models like ChatGPT cannot be overstated Thousands of security professionals descended on San Francisco this week to attend RSA Conference, the world’s leading gathering of the security community. What was the hottest topic at the event? You guessed it – ChatGPT and large language models (LLMs) as such. But while these emerging technologies may have many benefits, they also…

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08 May

APT groups muddying the waters for MSPs

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A quick dive into the murky world of cyberespionage and other growing threats facing managed service providers – and their customers ESET telemetry from Q4 2022 saw the start of a new campaign by MuddyWater, a cyberespionage group linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and active since at least 2017. The group (primarily) targets victims in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, focusing on telecommunications companies, governmental organizations, and…

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08 May

Apple delivers first-ever Rapid Security Response “cyberattack” patch – leaves some users confused

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by Paul Ducklin We’ve written about the uncertainty of Apple’s security update process many times before. We’ve had urgent updates accompanied by email notifications that warned us of zero-day bugs that needed fixing right away, because crooks were already onto them… …but without even the vaguest description of what sort of criminals, and what they were up to, which would at least help to round out the story. Our approach has therefore been simply to…

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08 May

Mac malware-for-hire steals passwords and cryptocoins, sends “crime logs” via Telegram

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by Paul Ducklin Researchers at dark web monitoring company Cyble recently wrote about a data-stealing-as-a-service toolkit that they found being advertised in an underground Telegram channel. One somewhat unusual aspect of this “service” (and in this context, we don’t mean that word in any sort of positive sense!) is that it was specifically built to help would-be cybercriminals target Mac users. The malware peddlers’ focus on Apple fans was clearly reflected in the name they…

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