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A new phishing campaign uses HTML attachments that abuse the Windows search protocol to push batch files hosted on remote servers that deliver malware. The Windows Search protocol is a Uniform Resource Identifier that enables applications to open Windows Explorer to perform searches using specific parameters.
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As announced last October, the internet company reminds us that 'root' AWS accounts must enable MFA by the end of July 2024. Passkeys on AWS. FIDO2 passkeys are physical or software-based authentication solutions that leverage public key cryptography to sign a challenge sent by the server used for verifying the authentication attempt.
A new report from Mandiant, part of Google Cloud, reveals that a financially motivated threat actor named UNC5537 collected and exfiltrated data from about 165 organizations' Snowflake customer instances. Snowflake is a cloud data platform used for storing and analyzing large volumes of data.
Google added a new CVE ID to track the Pixel fix for CVE-2024-29748, a vulnerability exploited by several forensics companies, as BleepingComputer reported in April. "It's fixed on Pixels with the June update and will be fixed on other Android devices when they eventually update to Android 15. If they don't update to Android 15, they probably won't get the fix, since it has not been backported. Not all patches are backported."
Google has released patches for 50 security vulnerabilities impacting its Pixel devices and warned that one of them had already been exploited in targeted attacks as a zero-day. Google tagged 44 other security bugs in this month's Pixel update bulletin, seven of which are privilege escalation vulnerabilities considered critical and impact various subcomponents.
Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned that criminals are impersonating its employees in phone calls and attempting to deceive potential victims into transferring money. Those who suspect they're on the receiving end of a scam phone call where a criminal claims to be a CISA employee should never give in to their demands to send money, write down their phone number, and immediately hang up.
A new phishing kit has been released that allows red teamers and cybercriminals to create progressive web Apps that display convincing corporate login forms to steal credentials. D0x demonstrates how to create PWA apps to display corporate login forms, even with a fake address bar showing the normal corporate login URL to make it look more convincing.