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Fourth time's a charm - OGUsers hacking forum hacked again
2021-04-28 18:35

Popular hacking forum OGUsers has been hacked for its fourth time in two years, with hackers now selling the site's database containing user records and private messages. OGUsers is a hacking forum known for the sale of stolen social media accounts hacked through SIM-swapping attacks, credential stuffing attacks, and other means.

Passwordstate password manager hacked in supply chain attack
2021-04-23 20:18

Click Studios, the company behind the Passwordstate enterprise password manager, notified customers that attackers compromised the app's update mechanism to deliver malware in a supply-chain attack after breaching its networks. Passwordstate is an on-premises password management solution used by over 370,000 security and IT professionals at 29,000 companies worldwide, as the company claims.

Signal Says Cellebrite Mobile Device Analysis Products Can Be Hacked
2021-04-22 13:10

Cellebrite's forensic applications do not include the type of security protections one would expect from a parsing software, which renders them susceptible to attacks, according to privacy-focused messaging service Signal. Cellebrite claims to have thousands of customers in over 140 countries.

Signal CEO gives mobile-hacking firm a taste of being hacked
2021-04-21 23:13

Software developed by data extraction company Cellebrite contains vulnerabilities that allow arbitrary code execution on the device, claims Moxie Marlinspike, the creator of the encrypted messaging app Signal. The researcher found that Cellebrite's software had outdated open-source code that had not been updated in almost a decade, despite security updates being available.

Hundreds of networks reportedly hacked in Codecov supply-chain attack
2021-04-20 07:49

In new reporting by Reuters, investigators have stated that hundreds of customer networks have been breached in the incident, expanding the scope of this system breach beyond just Codecov's systems. As reported by BleepingComputer last week, Codecov had suffered a supply-chain attack that went undetected for over 2-months.

Hundreds of customer networks hacked in Codecov supply-chain attack
2021-04-20 07:49

In new reporting by Reuters, investigators have stated that hundreds of customer networks have been breached in the incident, expanding the scope of this system breach beyond just Codecov's systems. As reported by BleepingComputer last week, Codecov had suffered a supply-chain attack that went undetected for over 2-months.

Popular Codecov code coverage tool hacked to steal dev credentials
2021-04-16 14:44

Codecov online platform for hosted code testing reports and statistics announced on Thursday that a threat actor had modified its Bash Uploader script, exposing sensitive information in customers' continuous integration environment. Codecov provides tools that help developers measure how much of the source code executes during testing, a process known as code coverage, which indicates the potential for undetected bugs being present in the code.

Industry Reactions to FBI Cleaning Up Hacked Exchange Servers: Feedback Friday
2021-04-16 13:31

U.S. authorities revealed this week that the FBI executed a court-authorized cyber operation to remove malicious web shells from hundreds of compromised Microsoft Exchange servers located in the United States. "The effort by the FBI, as described in the Justice Department press release, amounts to the FBI gaining access to private servers. Just that should be a full stop that the action is not ok. While I understand the good intention - the FBI wants to remove the backdoor - this sets a dangerous precedent where law enforcement is given broad permission to access private servers."

FBI removes web shells from hacked Microsoft Exchange servers
2021-04-14 07:56

Authorities have executed a court-authorized operation to copy and remove malicious web shells from hundreds of vulnerable on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server software in the United States. Through January and February 2021, certain hacking groups exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server software to access email accounts and place web shells for continued access.

FBI Agents Secretly Deleted Web Shells From Hacked Microsoft Exchange Servers
2021-04-14 04:03

FBI agents executed a court-authorized cyber operation to delete malicious web shells from hundreds of previously hacked Microsoft Exchange servers in the United States, unbeknownst to their owners, the U.S. Department of Justice said Tuesday. After a wave of major in-the-wild zero-day attacks against Exchange Server installations that occurred globally in January, savvy organizations scrambled to lock down vulnerable Microsoft email servers and remove web shells that were installed by attackers.