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3CX has released an interim report about Mandiant's findings related to the compromise the company suffered last month, which resulted in a supply chain attack targeting cryptocurrency companies. The attackers infected targeted 3CX systems with TAXHAUL malware, which decrypts and executes shellcode containee in a file with a name and location aimed to make it to blend into standard Windows installations.

A digitally signed and trojanized version of the 3CX Voice Over Internet Protocol desktop client is reportedly being used to target the company's customers in an ongoing supply chain attack. 3CX is a VoIP IPBX software development company whose 3CX Phone System is used by more than 600,000 companies worldwide and has over 12 million daily users.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning companies in the U.S. of threat actors using tactics similar to business email compromise that allow less technical actors to steal various goods from vendors. Typical business email compromise attacks focus on stealing money by tricking the victim into diverting funds to the fraudster's account.

Several vulnerabilities in Samsung's Exynos chipsets may allow attackers to remotely compromise specific Samsung Galaxy, Vivo and Google Pixel mobile phones with no user interaction."With limited additional research and development, we believe that skilled attackers would be able to quickly create an operational exploit to compromise affected devices silently and remotely," Google Project Zero researchers have noted.

Microsoft's Security Intelligence team recently investigated a business email compromise attack and found that attackers move rapidly, with some steps taking mere minutes. BEC attacks are a type of cyberattack where the attacker gains access to an email account of the target organization through phishing, social engineering, or buying account credentials on the dark web.

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Australian software maker Atlassian has released patches for CVE-2023-22501, a critical authentication vulnerability in Jira Service Management Server and Data Center, and is urging users to upgrade quickly. "Installing a fixed version of Jira Service Management is the recommended way to remediate this vulnerability. If you are unable to immediately upgrade Jira Service Management, you can manually upgrade the version-specific servicedesk-variable-substitution-plugin JAR file as a temporary workaround," they advised.

Data compromises steadily increased in the second half of 2022. Data breach notices suddenly lacked details, resulting in increased risk for individuals and businesses, as well as uncertainty about the number of data breaches and victims.

The researchers explain that attackers using search engine optimization poisoning are generally more successful "When they SEO poison the results of popular downloads associated with organizations that do not have extensive internal brand protection resources." SEO poisoning attacks consist of altering search engines results so that the first advertised links actually lead to attacker controlled sites, generally to infect visitors with malware or to attract more people on ad fraud.

A critical vulnerability in FortiOS SSL-VPN that Fortinet has issued patches for in November 2022 has been exploited by attackers to compromise governmental or government-related targets, the company has shared.They also pointed out that the malware can manipulate log files so it can avoid detection.