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26 May

Zyxel Firewalls Hacked by Mirai Botnet

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A Mirai botnet variant has been exploiting a recently patched vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-28771 to hack many Zyxel firewalls.  The Taiwan-based networking device manufacturer informed customers about the security hole on April 25, when it announced the availability of patches for impacted ATP, VPN, USG Flex and ZyWALL/USG firewalls. The OS command injection vulnerability, found by Trapa Security, is caused by improper error message handling in some firewalls, and it could allow an unauthenticated attacker…

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26 May

Watch Now: Threat Detection and Incident Response Virtual Summit

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All sessions from SecurityWeek’s Threat Detection & Incident Response Summit  are now available to watch on demand. This fully immersive online event brought together security practitioners from around the world to share war stories on breaches and the murky world of high-end cyberattacks. Gain insights and learn strategies as we discuss threat hunting tools and frameworks, and explore value of threat intelligence data in the defender’s security stack. Agenda sessions available to watch on demand include…

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25 May

Digital security for the self‑employed: Staying safe without an IT team to help

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Nobody wants to spend their time dealing with the fallout of a security incident instead of building up their business Approximately one in seven people in Europe and the United States are self-employed, often realizing their dream to be in charge of their own destiny and having more freedom and control over their careers. But with nominally more freedom to shape the trajectory of their future comes extra jeopardy. This often means little or no…

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25 May

Ransomware tales: The MitM attack that really had a Man in the Middle

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by Paul Ducklin It’s taken more than five years for justice to be served in this case, but the cops and the courts got there in the end. The UK law enforcement office SEROCU, short for South East Regional Organised Crime Unit, this week reported the peculiar tale of one Ashley Liles, the literal Man in the Middle whom we referred to in the headline. These days, we usually expand the jargon term MitM to…

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25 May

Drop in Insider Breaches Drives Decline in Intrusions at OT Organizations

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The 2023 State of Operational Technology and Cybersecurity Report published on Wednesday by Fortinet shows a drop in the number of intrusions at OT organizations. The report is based on a survey of 570 OT professionals, representing the manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, oil and gas, energy, chemical, and water sectors in countries such as the US, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, India, South Africa, and Egypt. A vast majority of the respondents…

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24 May

Android app breaking bad: From legitimate screen recording to file exfiltration within a year

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ESET researchers discover AhRat – a new Android RAT based on AhMyth – that exfiltrates files and records audio ESET researchers have discovered a trojanized Android app that had been available on the Google Play store with over 50,000 installs. The app, named iRecorder – Screen Recorder, was initially uploaded to the store without malicious functionality on September 19th, 2021. However, it appears that malicious functionality was later implemented, most likely in version 1.3.8, which…

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24 May

PyPI open-source code repository deals with manic malware maelstrom

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by Paul Ducklin Public source code repositories, from Sourceforge to GitHub, from the Linux Kernel Archives to ReactOS.org, from PHP Packagist to the Python Package Index, better known as PyPI, are a fantastic source (sorry!) of free operating systems, applications, programming libraries, and developers’ toolkits that have done computer science and software engineering a world of good. Most software projects need “helper” code that isn’t a fundamental part of the problem that the project itself…

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24 May

White House Unveils New Efforts to Guide Federal Research of AI

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The White House on Tuesday announced new efforts to guide federally backed research on artificial intelligence as the Biden administration looks to get a firmer grip on understanding the risks and opportunities of the rapidly evolving technology. Among the moves unveiled by the administration was a tweak to the United States’ strategic plan on artificial intelligence research, which was last updated in 2019, to add greater emphasis on international collaboration with allies. White House officials…

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23 May

Phone scamming kingpin gets 13 years for running “iSpoof” service

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by Naked Security writer In November 2022, we wrote about a multi-country takedown against a Cybercrime-as-a-Service (CaaS) system known as iSpoof. Although iSpoof advertised openly for business on a non-darkweb site, reachable with a regular browser via a non-onion domain name, and even though using its services might technically have been legal in your country (if you’re a lawyer, we’d love to hear your opinion on that issue once you’ve seen the historical website screenshots…

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22 May

Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

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Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code. Renaud…

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