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New peer-to-peer botnet infects Linux servers with cryptominers

A new peer-to-peer botnet named Panchan appeared in the wild around March 2022,  targeting Linux servers in the education sector to mine cryptocurrency.  [...]
Bleepingcomputer 16 Jun 2022 1664 Views

New Hertzbleed side-channel attack affects Intel, AMD CPUs

A new side-channel attack known as Hertzbleed allows remote attackers to steal full cryptographic keys by observing variations in CPU frequency enabled by dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS).
BleepingComputer 15 Jun 2022 1667 Views

New Zimbra Email Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Steal Your Login Credentials

A new high-severity vulnerability has been disclosed in the Zimbra email suite that, if successfully exploited, enables an unauthenticated attacker to steal cleartext passwords of users sans any user interaction.
The Hacker News 15 Jun 2022 1539 Views

Kaiser Permanente data breach exposes health data of 69K people

Kaiser Permanente, one of America's leading not-for-profit health plans and health care providers, has recently disclosed a data breach that exposed the health information of more than 69,000 individuals. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 14 Jun 2022 1725 Views

PyPI package 'keep' mistakenly included a password stealer

PyPI packages 'keep,' 'pyanxdns,' 'api-res-py' were found to contain a password-stealer and a backdoor due to the presence of malicious 'request' dependency within some versions. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 13 Jun 2022 1573 Views

New Privacy Framework for IoT Devices Gives Users Control Over Data Sharing

A newly designed privacy-sensitive architecture aims to enable developers to create smart home apps in a manner that addresses data sharing concerns and puts users in control over their personal information.  Dubbed Peekaboo by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, the system "leverages...
The Hacker News 11 Jun 2022 1499 Views

Researchers Find Bluetooth Signals Can be Fingerprinted to Track Smartphones

A new research undertaken by a group of academics from the University of California San Diego has revealed for the first time that Bluetooth signals can be fingerprinted to track smartphones (and therefore, individuals). The identification, at its core, hinges on imperfections in the Bluetooth...
The Hacker News 10 Jun 2022 1494 Views

Qbot malware now uses Windows MSDT zero-day in phishing attacks

A critical Windows zero-day vulnerability, known as Follina and still waiting for an official fix from Microsoft, is now being actively exploited in ongoing phishing attacks to infect recipients with Qbot malware.
Bleepingcomputer 9 Jun 2022 1568 Views

Critical PHP flaw exposes QNAP NAS devices to RCE attacks

QNAP has warned customers today that some of its Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices (with non-default configurations) are vulnerable to attacks that would exploit a three-year-old critical PHP vulnerability allowing remote code execution.  [...]
Bleepingcomputer 8 Jun 2022 712 Views

MEGA fixes critical flaws that allowed the decryption of user data

MEGA has released a security update to address a set of severe vulnerabilities that could have exposed user data, even if the data had been stored in encrypted form.  [...]
Bleepingcomputer 8 Jun 2022 806 Views