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ENFORCEMENT VS. ENROLLMENT-BASED SECURITY: HOW TO BALANCE SECURITY AND EMPLOYEE
TRUST

Challenges with an enforcement-based approach An enforcement-based approach to
security begins with a security policy backed by security controls, often
heavy-handed and designed to prevent employees from engaging in risky behavior
or inadvertently expanding the potential attack surface of an organization. 
Most organizations exclusively use enforcement-based security controls, usually
carried

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 19:39:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

HACKERS USING STOLEN BANK INFORMATION TO TRICK VICTIMS INTO DOWNLOADING BITRAT
MALWARE

A new malware campaign has been observed using sensitive information stolen from
a bank as a lure in phishing emails to drop a remote access trojan
called BitRAT. The unknown adversary is believed to have hijacked the IT
infrastructure of a Colombian cooperative bank, using the information to craft
convincing decoy messages to lure victims into opening suspicious Excel
attachments. The discovery

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:02:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RASPBERRY ROBIN WORM EVOLVES TO ATTACK FINANCIAL AND INSURANCE SECTORS IN EUROPE

Financial and insurance sectors in Europe have been targeted by the Raspberry
Robin worm, as the malware continues to evolve its post-exploitation
capabilities while remaining under the radar. "What is unique about the malware
is that it is heavily obfuscated and highly complex to statically disassemble,"
Security Joes said in a new report published Monday. The intrusions, observed
against

Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:43:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

REDZEI CHINESE SCAMMERS TARGETING CHINESE STUDENTS IN THE U.K.

Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent
Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity
dubbed RedZei (aka RedThief). "The RedZei fraudsters have chosen their targets
carefully, researched them and realized it was a rich victim group that is ripe
for exploitation," cybersecurity researcher Will Thomas (@BushidoToken) said in
a write-up

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:40:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

PYTORCH MACHINE LEARNING FRAMEWORK COMPROMISED WITH MALICIOUS DEPENDENCY

The maintainers of the PyTorch package have warned users who have installed the
nightly builds of the library between December 25, 2022, and December 30, 2022,
to uninstall and download the latest versions following a dependency confusion
attack. "PyTorch-nightly Linux packages installed via pip during that time
installed a dependency, torchtriton, which was compromised on the Python Package

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 19:57:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

WORDPRESS SECURITY ALERT: NEW LINUX MALWARE EXPLOITING OVER TWO DOZEN CMS FLAWS

WordPress sites are being targeted by a previously unknown strain of Linux
malware that exploits flaws in over two dozen plugins and themes to compromise
vulnerable systems. "If sites use outdated versions of such add-ons, lacking
crucial fixes, the targeted web pages are injected with malicious JavaScripts,"
Russian security vendor Doctor Web said in a report published last week. "As a
result,

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 13:20:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

GOOGLE TO PAY $29.5 MILLION TO SETTLE LAWSUITS OVER USER LOCATION TRACKING

Google has agreed to pay a total of $29.5 million to settle two different
lawsuits brought by Indiana and Washington, D.C., over its "deceptive" location
tracking practices. The search and advertising giant is required to pay $9.5
million to D.C. and $20 million to Indiana after the states sued the company for
charges that the company tracked users' locations without their express consent.
The

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:45:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RESEARCHER UNCOVERS POTENTIAL WIRETAPPING BUGS IN GOOGLE HOME SMART SPEAKERS

A security researcher was awarded a bug bounty of $107,500 for identifying
security issues in Google Home smart speakers that could be exploited to install
backdoors and turn them into wiretapping devices. The flaws "allowed an attacker
within wireless proximity to install a 'backdoor' account on the device,
enabling them to send commands to it remotely over the internet, access its
microphone

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:55:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

CISA WARNS OF ACTIVE EXPLOITATION OF JASPERREPORTS VULNERABILITIES

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two
years-old security flaws impacting TIBCO Software's JasperReports product to its
Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active
exploitation. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2018-5430 (CVSS score: 7.7)
and CVE-2018-18809 (CVSS score: 9.9), were addressed by TIBCO in April 2018 and
March 2019,

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 11:02:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

THOUSANDS OF CITRIX SERVERS STILL UNPATCHED FOR CRITICAL VULNERABILITIES

Thousands of Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway endpoints
remain vulnerable to two critical security flaws disclosed by the company over
the last few months. The issues in question
are CVE-2022-27510 and CVE-2022-27518 (CVSS scores: 9.8), which were addressed
by the virtualization services provider on November 8 and December 13, 2022,
respectively. While CVE-2022-27510

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 15:13:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

NEW MALVERTISING CAMPAIGN VIA GOOGLE ADS TARGETS USERS SEARCHING FOR POPULAR
SOFTWARE

Users searching for popular software are being targeted by a new malvertising
campaign that abuses Google Ads to serve trojanized variants that deploy
malware, such as Raccoon Stealer and Vidar. The activity makes use of seemingly
credible websites with typosquatted domain names that are surfaced on top of
Google search results in the form of malicious ads by hijacking searches for
specific

Thu, 29 Dec 2022 13:18:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

BITKEEP CONFIRMS CYBER ATTACK, LOSES OVER $9 MILLION IN DIGITAL CURRENCIES

Decentralized multi-chain crypto wallet BitKeep on Wednesday confirmed a cyber
attack that allowed threat actors to distribute fraudulent versions of its
Android app with the goal of stealing users' digital currencies. "With
maliciously implanted code, the altered APK led to the leak of user's private
keys and enabled the hacker to move funds," BitKeep CEO Kevin Como said,
describing it as a "

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:46:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

APT HACKERS TURN TO MALICIOUS EXCEL ADD-INS AS INITIAL INTRUSION VECTOR

Microsoft's decision to block Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros by
default for Office files downloaded from the internet has led many threat actors
to improvise their attack chains in recent months. Now according to Cisco Talos,
advanced persistent threat (APT) actors and commodity malware families alike are
increasingly using Excel add-in (.XLL) files as an initial intrusion vector.

Wed, 28 Dec 2022 12:42:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

BLUENOROFF APT HACKERS USING NEW WAYS TO BYPASS WINDOWS MOTW PROTECTION

BlueNoroff, a subcluster of the notorious Lazarus Group, has been observed
adopting new techniques into its playbook that enable it to bypass Windows Mark
of the Web (MotW) protections. This includes the use of optical disk image (.ISO
extension) and virtual hard disk (.VHD extension) file formats as part of a
novel infection chain, Kaspersky disclosed in a report published today.
"BlueNoroff

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 20:27:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

FACEBOOK TO PAY $725 MILLION TO SETTLE LAWSUIT OVER CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA DATA
LEAK

Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, has
agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running class-action lawsuit filed
in 2018. The legal dispute sprang up in response to revelations that the social
media giant allowed third-party apps such as those used by Cambridge Analytica
to access users' personal information without their consent for political

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 11:48:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

GULOADER MALWARE UTILIZING NEW TECHNIQUES TO EVADE SECURITY SOFTWARE

Cybersecurity researchers have exposed a wide variety of techniques adopted by
an advanced malware downloader called GuLoader to evade security software. "New
shellcode anti-analysis technique attempts to thwart researchers and hostile
environments by scanning entire process memory for any virtual machine
(VM)-related strings," CrowdStrike researchers Sarang Sonawane and Donato
Onofri said in a

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:57:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

2022 TOP FIVE IMMEDIATE THREATS IN GEOPOLITICAL CONTEXT

As we are nearing the end of 2022, looking at the most concerning threats of
this turbulent year in terms of testing numbers offers a threat-based
perspective on what triggers cybersecurity teams to check how vulnerable they
are to specific threats. These are the threats that were most tested to validate
resilience with the Cymulate security posture management platform between
January 1st and

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:50:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

PRIVATELOADER PPI SERVICE FOUND DISTRIBUTING INFO-STEALING RISEPRO MALWARE

The pay-per-install (PPI) malware downloader service known as PrivateLoader is
being used to distribute a previously documented information-stealing malware
dubbed RisePro. Flashpoint spotted the newly identified stealer on December 13,
2022, after it discovered "several sets of logs" exfiltrated using the malware
on an illicit cybercrime marketplace called Russian Market. A C++-based malware,

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 17:42:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

W4SP STEALER DISCOVERED IN MULTIPLE PYPI PACKAGES UNDER VARIOUS NAMES

Threat actors have published yet another round of malicious packages to Python
Package Index (PyPI) with the goal of delivering information-stealing malware on
compromised developer machines. Interestingly, while the malware goes by a
variety of names like ANGEL Stealer, Celestial Stealer, Fade Stealer, Leaf
$tealer, PURE Stealer, Satan Stealer, and @skid Stealer, cybersecurity company
Phylum

Sat, 24 Dec 2022 18:21:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

FRODOPIR: NEW PRIVACY-FOCUSED DATABASE QUERYING SYSTEM

The developers behind the Brave open-source web browser have revealed a new
privacy-preserving data querying and retrieval system called FrodoPIR. The idea,
the company said, is to use the technology to build out a wide range of use
cases such as safe browsing, scanning passwords against breached databases,
certificate revocation checks, and streaming, among others. The scheme is
called FrodoPIR

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 19:07:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RESEARCHERS WARN OF KAVACH 2FA PHISHING ATTACKS TARGETING INDIAN GOVT. OFFICIALS

A new targeted phishing campaign has zoomed in on a two-factor authentication
solution called Kavach that's used by Indian government officials. Cybersecurity
firm Securonix dubbed the activity STEPPY#KAVACH, attributing it to a threat
actor known as SideCopy based on tactical overlaps with prior attacks. ".LNK
files are used to initiate code execution which eventually downloads and runs a

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:44:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

ACCELERATE YOUR INCIDENT RESPONSE

Tis the season for security and IT teams to send out that company-wide email:
“No, our CEO does NOT want you to buy gift cards.”  As much of the workforce
signs off for the holidays, hackers are stepping up their game. We’ll no doubt
see an increase in activity as hackers continue to unleash e-commerce scams and
holiday-themed phishing attacks. Hackers love to use these tactics to trick end

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:30:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

VICE SOCIETY RANSOMWARE ATTACKERS ADOPT ROBUST ENCRYPTION METHODS

The Vice Society ransomware actors have switched to yet another custom
ransomware payload in their recent attacks aimed at a variety of sectors. "This
ransomware variant, dubbed 'PolyVice,' implements a robust encryption scheme,
using NTRUEncrypt and ChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithms," SentinelOne researcher
Antonio Cocomazzi said in an analysis. Vice Society, which is tracked by
Microsoft under the

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 15:35:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

FRANCE FINES MICROSOFT €60 MILLION FOR USING ADVERTISING COOKIES WITHOUT USER
CONSENT

France's privacy watchdog has imposed a €60 million ($63.88 million) fine
against Microsoft's Ireland subsidiary for dropping advertising cookies in
users' computers without their explicit consent in violation of data protection
laws in the European Union. The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des
libertés (CNIL) noted that users visiting the home page of its Bing search
engine did not

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 13:16:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

LASTPASS ADMITS TO SEVERE DATA BREACH, ENCRYPTED PASSWORD VAULTS STOLEN

The August 2022 security breach of LastPass may have been more severe than
previously disclosed by the company. The popular password management service on
Thursday revealed that malicious actors obtained a trove of personal information
belonging to its customers that include their encrypted password vaults by using
data siphoned from the earlier break-in. Among the data stolen are "basic

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:37:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

FIN7 CYBERCRIME SYNDICATE EMERGES AS A MAJOR PLAYER IN RANSOMWARE LANDSCAPE

An exhaustive analysis of FIN7 has unmasked the cybercrime syndicate's
organizational hierarchy, alongside unraveling its role as an affiliate for
mounting ransomware attacks. It has also exposed deeper associations between the
group and the larger threat ecosystem comprising the now-defunct
ransomware DarkSide, REvil, and LockBit families. The highly active threat
group, also known as Carbanak,

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:43:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

THE ERA OF CYBER THREAT INTELLIGENCE SHARING

We spent forty years defending ourselves as individuals. Trying to outsmart
cybercriminals, outpower them, and when all our efforts failed, only then we
considered banding together with our peers to outnumber them. Cybercriminals
don't reinvent themselves each time. Their resources are limited, and they have
a limited budget. Therefore they use playbooks to attack many people. Meaning
most of

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 18:09:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

CRITICAL SECURITY FLAW REPORTED IN PASSWORDSTATE ENTERPRISE PASSWORD MANAGER

Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Passwordstate
password management solution that could be exploited by an unauthenticated
remote adversary to obtain a user's plaintext passwords. "Successful
exploitation allows an unauthenticated attacker to exfiltrate passwords from an
instance, overwrite all stored passwords within the database, or elevate their
privileges within

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 17:32:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

TWO NEW SECURITY FLAWS REPORTED IN GHOST CMS BLOGGING SOFTWARE

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed two security flaws in the
JavaScript-based blogging platform known as Ghost, one of which could be abused
to elevate privileges via specially crafted HTTP requests. Ghost is an open
source blogging platform that's used in more than 52,600 live websites, most of
them located in the U.S., the U.K., German, China, France, Canada, and India.
Tracked as

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:39:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

ZEROBOT BOTNET EMERGES AS A GROWING THREAT WITH NEW EXPLOITS AND CAPABILITIES

The Zerobot DDoS botnet has received substantial updates that expand on its
ability to target more internet-connected devices and scale its network.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) is tracking the ongoing threat
under the moniker DEV-1061, its designation for unknown, emerging, or developing
activity clusters. Zerobot, first documented by Fortinet FortiGuard Labs earlier
this month,

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 15:09:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

HACKERS BREACH OKTA'S GITHUB REPOSITORIES, STEAL SOURCE CODE

Okta, a company that provides identity and access management services, disclosed
on Wednesday that some of its source code repositories were accessed in an
unauthorized manner earlier this month. "There is no impact to any customers,
including any HIPAA, FedRAMP, or DoD customers," the company said in a public
statement. "No action is required by customers." The security event, which
was first

Thu, 22 Dec 2022 09:19:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RASPBERRY ROBIN WORM STRIKES AGAIN, TARGETING TELECOM AND GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS

The Raspberry Robin worm has been used in attacks against telecommunications and
government office systems across Latin America, Australia, and Europe since at
least September 2022. "The main payload itself is packed with more than 10
layers for obfuscation and is capable of delivering a fake payload once it
detects sandboxing and security analytics tools," Trend Micro researcher
Christopher So

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:53:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

THE RISE OF THE ROOKIE HACKER - A NEW TREND TO RECKON WITH

More zero knowledge attacks, more leaked credentials, more Gen-Z cyber crimes -
2022 trends and 2023 predictions. Cybercrime remains a major threat to
individuals, businesses, and governments around the world. Cybercriminals
continue to take advantage of the prevalence of digital devices and the internet
to perpetrate their crimes. As the internet of things continues to develop,
cybercriminals

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 17:07:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

GODFATHER ANDROID BANKING TROJAN TARGETING USERS OF OVER 400 BANKING AND CRYPTO
APPS

An Android banking trojan known as GodFather is being used to target users of
more than 400 banking and cryptocurrency apps spanning across 16 countries. This
includes 215 banks, 94 crypto wallet providers, and 110 crypto exchange
platforms serving users in the U.S., Turkey, Spain, Italy, Canada, and Canada,
among others, Singapore-headquartered Group-IB said in a report shared with The
Hacker

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 14:46:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RANSOMWARE HACKERS USING NEW WAY TO BYPASS MS EXCHANGE PROXYNOTSHELL MITIGATIONS

Threat actors affiliated with a ransomware strain known as Play are leveraging a
never-before-seen exploit chain that bypasses blocking rules for ProxyNotShell
flaws in Microsoft Exchange Server to achieve remote code execution (RCE)
through Outlook Web Access (OWA). "The new exploit method bypasses URL rewrite
mitigations for the Autodiscover endpoint," CrowdStrike researchers Brian
Pitchford,

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:11:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

UKRAINE'S DELTA MILITARY SYSTEM USERS UNDER ATTACK FROM INFO STEALING MALWARE

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) this
week disclosed that users of the Delta situational awareness program received
phishing emails from a compromised email account belonging to the Ministry of
Defense. The attacks, which have been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed
UAC-0142, aimed to infect systems with two pieces of data-stealing malware
referred to as FateGrab and

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 12:42:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

BEWARE: CYBERCRIMINALS LAUNCH NEW BRASDEX ANDROID TROJAN TARGETING BRAZILIAN
BANKING USERS

The threat actors behind the Windows banking malware known as Casbaneiro has
been attributed as behind a novel Android trojan called BrasDex that has been
observed targeting Brazilian users as part of an ongoing multi-platform
campaign. BrasDex features a "complex keylogging system designed to abuse
Accessibility Services to extract credentials specifically from a set of
Brazilian targeted apps,

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:03:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RUSSIAN HACKERS TARGETED PETROLEUM REFINERY IN NATO COUNTRY DURING UKRAINE WAR

The Russia-linked Gamaredon group attempted to unsuccessfully break into a large
petroleum refining company within a NATO member state earlier this year amid the
ongoing Russo-Ukrainian war. The attack, which took place on August 30, 2022, is
just one of multiple intrusions orchestrated by the advanced persistent threat
(APT) that's attributed to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:25:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

A GUIDE TO EFFICIENT PATCH MANAGEMENT WITH ACTION1

It's no secret that keeping software up to date is one of the key best practices
in cybersecurity. Software vulnerabilities are being discovered almost weekly
these days. The longer it takes IT teams to apply updates issued by developers
to patch these security flaws, the more time attackers have to exploit the
underlying vulnerability. Once threat actors gain access to corporate IT
ecosystems,

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 18:12:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

KMSDBOT BOTNET SUSPECTED OF BEING USED AS DDOS-FOR-HIRE SERVICE

An ongoing analysis of the KmsdBot botnet has raised the possibility that it's a
DDoS-for-hire service offered to other threat actors. This is based on the
different industries and geographies that were attacked, web infrastructure
company Akamai said. Among the notable targets included FiveM and RedM, which
are game modifications for Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2, as well
as

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:54:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

FTC FINES FORTNITE MAKER EPIC GAMES $275 MILLION FOR VIOLATING CHILDREN'S
PRIVACY LAW

Epic Games has reached a $520 million settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) over allegations that the Fortnite creator violated online
privacy laws for children and tricked users into making unintended purchases in
the video game. To that end, the company will pay a record $275 million monetary
penalty for breaching the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 12:03:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

MICROSOFT DETAILS GATEKEEPER BYPASS VULNERABILITY IN APPLE MACOS SYSTEMS

Microsoft has disclosed details of a now-patched security flaw in Apple macOS
that could be exploited by an attacker to get around security protections
imposed to prevent the execution of malicious applications. The shortcoming,
dubbed Achilles (CVE-2022-42821, CVSS score: 5.5), was addressed by the iPhone
maker in macOS Ventura 13, Monterey 12.6.2, and Big Sur 11.7.2, describing it as
a logic

Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:22:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

RESEARCHERS DISCOVER MALICIOUS PYPI PACKAGE POSING AS SENTINELONE SDK TO STEAL
DATA

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python
Package Index (PyPI) repository that impersonates a software development kit
(SDK) for SentinelOne, a major cybersecurity company, as part of a campaign
dubbed SentinelSneak. The package, named SentinelOne and now taken down, is said
to have been published between December 8 and 11, 2022, with nearly two dozen

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 23:35:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

GLUPTEBA BOTNET CONTINUES TO THRIVE DESPITE GOOGLE'S ATTEMPTS TO DISRUPT IT

The operators of the Glupteba botnet resurfaced in June 2022 as part of a
renewed and "upscaled" campaign, months after Google disrupted the malicious
activity. The ongoing attack is suggestive of the malware's resilience in the
face of takedowns, cybersecurity company Nozomi Networks said in a write-up. "In
addition, there was a tenfold increase in TOR hidden services being used as C2
servers

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:39:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

CYBERCRIME (AND SECURITY) PREDICTIONS FOR 2023

Threat actors continue to adapt to the latest technologies, practices, and even
data privacy laws—and it's up to organizations to stay one step ahead by
implementing strong cybersecurity measures and programs.  Here's a look at how
cybercrime will evolve in 2023 and what you can do to secure and protect your
organization in the year ahead.  Increase in digital supply chain attacks  With
the

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:22:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

NEW AGENDA RANSOMWARE VARIANT, WRITTEN IN RUST, AIMING AT CRITICAL
INFRASTRUCTURE

A Rust variant of a ransomware strain known as Agenda has been observed in the
wild, making it the latest malware to adopt the cross-platform programming
language after BlackCat, Hive, Luna, and RansomExx. Agenda, attributed to an
operator named Qilin, is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group that has been
linked to a spate of attacks primarily targeting manufacturing and IT industries
across

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:35:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

FACEBOOK CRACKS DOWN ON SPYWARE VENDORS FROM U.S., CHINA, RUSSIA, ISRAEL, AND
INDIA

Meta Platforms disclosed that it took down no less than 200 covert influence
operations since 2017 spanning roughly 70 countries across 42 languages. The
social media conglomerate also took steps to disable accounts and block
infrastructure operated by spyware vendors, including in China, Russia, Israel,
the U.S. and India, that targeted individuals in about 200 countries. "The
global

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:16:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

GOOGLE TAKES GMAIL SECURITY TO THE NEXT LEVEL WITH CLIENT-SIDE ENCRYPTION

Google on Friday announced that its client-side encryption for Gmail is in beta
for Workspace and education customers as part of its efforts to secure emails
sent using the web version of the platform. The development comes at a time when
concerns about online privacy and data security are at an all-time high, making
it a welcome change for users who value the protection of their personal data.

Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:11:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

SAMBA ISSUES SECURITY UPDATES TO PATCH MULTIPLE HIGH-SEVERITY VULNERABILITIES

Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that,
if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to take control of affected
systems. The high-severity flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966,
CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, have been patched in versions 4.17.4, 4.16.8
and 4.15.13 released on December 15, 2022. Samba is an open source Windows

Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:24:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)

TROJANIZED WINDOWS 10 INSTALLER USED IN CYBERATTACKS AGAINST UKRAINIAN
GOVERNMENT ENTITIES

Government entities in Ukraine have been breached as part of a new campaign that
leveraged trojanized versions of Windows 10 installer files to conduct
post-exploitation activities. Mandiant, which discovered the "socially
engineered supply chain" attack around mid-July 2022, said the malicious ISO
files were distributed via Ukrainian- and Russian-language Torrent websites.
It's tracking the

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:30:00 +0530 | info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)