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Banshee 2.0 Malware Steals Apple's Encryption to Hide on Macs

The most recent iteration of the open source infostealer skates by antivirus programs on Macs, using an encryption mechanism stolen from Apple's own antivirus product.
Dark Reading 10 Jan 2025 2140 Views

Crims backdoored the backdoors they supplied to other miscreants. Then the domains lapsed

Here's what $20 gets you these days More than 4,000 unique backdoors are using expired domains and/or abandoned infrastructure, and many of these expose government and academia-owned hosts – thus setting these hosts up for hijacking by criminals who...
The Register 9 Jan 2025 7880 Views

Green Bay Packers' Online Pro Shop Sacked by Payment Skimmer

Cyberattackers injected the NFL Wild Card team's online Pro Shop with malicious code to steal credit-card data from 8,500 fans.
Dark Reading 9 Jan 2025 2343 Views

CISA warns of critical Oracle, Mitel flaws exploited in attacks

CISA has warned U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against critical vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic Server and Mitel MiCollab systems that are actively exploited in attacks. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 8 Jan 2025 2223 Views

MediaTek rings in the new year with a parade of chipset vulns

Manufacturers should have had ample time to apply the fixes MediaTek kicked off the first full working week of the new year by disclosing a bevy of security vulnerabilities, including a critical remote code execution bug affecting 51 chipsets.…
The Register 6 Jan 2025 8259 Views

Windows 10 users urged to upgrade to avoid "security fiasco"

​Cybersecurity firm ESET is urging Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11 or Linux to avoid a "security fiasco" as the 10-year-old operating system nears the end of support in October 2025. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 6 Jan 2025 2363 Views

Cryptocurrency wallet drainers stole $494 million in 2024

Scammers stole $494 million worth of cryptocurrency in wallet drainer attacks last year that targeted more than 300,000 wallet addresses. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 5 Jan 2025 2079 Views

Hackers exploit Four-Faith router flaw to open reverse shells

Threat actors are exploiting a post-authentication remote command injection vulnerability in Four-Faith routers tracked as CVE-2024-12856 to open reverse shells back to the attackers.
Bleeping Computer 31 Dec 2024 2437 Views

16 Chrome Extensions Hacked, Exposing Over 600,000 Users to Data Theft

A new attack campaign has targeted known Chrome browser extensions, leading to at least 16 extensions being compromised and exposing over 600,000 users to data exposure and credential theft. The attack targeted publishers of browser extensions on the Chrome Web Store via a phishing campaign and...
The Hacker News 30 Dec 2024 13416 Views

It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

'The greatest concern is with spear phishing and social engineering' Interview  Now that criminals have realized there's no need to train their own LLMs for any nefarious purposes - it's much cheaper and easier to steal credentials and then jailbreak existing ones - ...
The Register 30 Dec 2024 7075 Views