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FBI warns about scams that lure you in as a mobile beta-tester

by Paul Ducklin The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has just published an official public service announcement headlined with with a very specific warning: Cybercriminals Targeting Victims through Mobile Beta-Testing Applications. The Feds didn’t go as far as naming any specific vendors or services here, but one of the main reasons that crooks go down the “beta-testing” route is to lure users of Apple iPhones into installing software that didn’t come from the App…

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Exploitation of Citrix ShareFile Vulnerability Spikes as CISA Issues Warning 

Exploitation attempts targeting a remote code execution flaw in Citrix’s ShareFile product have spiked just as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.  The vulnerability affecting the ShareFile file sharing and collaboration product is tracked as CVE-2023-24489 and it has been assigned a ‘critical’ severity rating. It can allow an unauthenticated attacker to upload arbitrary files and possibly achieve remote code execution. When details of the…

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2,000 Citrix NetScaler Instances Backdoored via Recent Vulnerability

A threat actor has automated the exploitation of a recent Citrix vulnerability and has infected roughly 2,000 NetScaler instances with a backdoor, British information assurance firm NCC Group reports. Tracked as CVE-2023-3519, the critical vulnerability was disclosed last month as a zero-day, being exploited since June 2023, including in attacks against critical infrastructure organizations. The issue allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway appliances that…

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Crimeware server used by NetWalker ransomware seized and shut down

by Paul Ducklin It’s taken nearly ten years, but the US Department of Justice (DOJ) has just announced the court-approved seizure of a web domain called LolekHosted.net that was allegedly connected to a wide range of crimeware-as-a-service activities. The DOJ also charged a 36-year-old Polish man named Artur Karol Grabowski in connection with running the service, but his current whereabouts are unknown. In the DOJ’s blunt words, “Grabowski remains a fugitive.” The downed site is…

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“Grab hold and give it a wiggle” – ATM card skimming is still a thing

by Paul Ducklin It’s been a while since we’ve written about card skimmers, which used to play a big part in global cybercrime. These days, many if not most cyber-breach and cybercrime stories revolve around ransomware, the darkweb and the cloud, or some unholy combination of the three. In ransomware attacks, the criminals don’t actually need to approach the scene of the crime in person, and their payoffs are extracted online, typically using pseudoanonymous technologies…

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Diligere, Equity-Invest Are New Firms of U.K. Con Man

John Clifton Davies, a convicted fraudster estimated to have bilked dozens of technology startups out of more than $30 million through phony investment schemes, has a brand new pair of scam companies that are busy dashing startup dreams: A fake investment firm called Equity-Invest[.]ch, and Diligere[.]co.uk, a scam due diligence company that Equity-Invest insists all investment partners use. A native of the United Kingdom, Mr. Davies absconded from justice before being convicted on multiple counts…

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Colorado Health Agency Says 4 Million Impacted by MOVEit Hack

The Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) has revealed that the personal information of millions of individuals was compromised in a data breach resulting from the recent MOVEit cyberattack. On Friday, HCPF informed the Maine Attorney General’s office that it has started informing close to 4.1 million individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in the incident. In a sample notification letter submitted to authorities, HCPF revealed that, on May…

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Don’t Expect Quick Fixes in ‘Red-Teaming’ of AI Models. Security Was an Afterthought

White House officials concerned by AI chatbots’ potential for societal harm and the Silicon Valley powerhouses rushing them to market are heavily invested in a three-day competition ending Sunday at the DefCon hacker convention in Las Vegas. Some 2,200 competitors tapped on laptops seeking to expose flaws in eight leading large-language models representative of technology’s next big thing. But don’t expect quick results from this first-ever independent “red-teaming” of multiple models. Findings won’t be made…

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In Other News: macOS Security Reports, Keyboard Spying, VPN Vulnerabilities

SecurityWeek is publishing a weekly cybersecurity roundup that provides a concise compilation of noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar. We provide a valuable summary of stories that may not warrant an entire article, but are nonetheless important for a comprehensive understanding of the cybersecurity landscape. Each week, we will curate and present a collection of noteworthy developments, ranging from the latest vulnerability discoveries and emerging attack techniques to significant policy changes and…

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