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Latrodectus malware is now being distributed in phishing campaigns using Microsoft Azure and Cloudflare lures to appear legitimate while making it harder for email security platforms to detect the emails as malicious. Latrodectus is an increasingly distributed Windows malware downloader first discovered by Walmart's security team and later analyzed by ProofPoint and Team Cymru that acts as a backdoor, downloading additional EXE and DLL payloads or executing commands.
Daily newspaper Philadelphia Inquirer revealed that attackers behind a May 2023 security breach have stolen the personal and financial information of 25,549 individuals. In May 2023, The Inquirer disclosed that its systems were breached in a cyberattack detected after its content management system went down unexpectedly.
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A new vulnerability has been discovered in the R programming language that allows arbitrary code execution upon deserializing specially crafted RDS and RDX files. [...]
Google has increased rewards for reporting remote code execution vulnerabilities within select Android apps by ten times, from $30,000 to $300,000, with the maximum reward reaching $450,000 for exceptional quality reports. The list of in-scope apps includes Google Play Services, the Android Google Search app, Google Cloud, and Gmail.
Three large-scale campaigns targeted Docker Hub users, planting millions of repositories that pushed malware and phishing sites since early 2021. As JFrog security researchers found, around 20% of the 15 million repositories hosted by Docker Hub contained malicious content, ranging from spam to dangerous malware and phishing sites.
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A new Android backdoor malware named 'Wpeeper' has been spotted in at least two unofficial app stores mimicking the Uptodown App Store, a popular third-party app store for Android devices with over 220 million downloads. Wpeeper stands out for its novel use of compromised WordPress sites to act as relays for its actual command and control servers, acting as an evasion mechanism.
The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare occurred in late February 2024, leading to severe operational disruptions on Optum's Change Healthcare platform. The healthcare org recently admitted that it paid a ransom to protect people's data post-compromise, but no details about the attack or who carried it out were officially disclosed.