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The latest variant of this trojan extracts email threads from Outlook, which it uses for phishing attacks, says Check Point Research. A new phishing campaign analyzed by threat intelligence provider Check Point reveals how the old Qbot trojan has been repurposed to phish people by capturing their email threads.
Microsoft on Tuesday patched a wormable hole in its Windows Server software that can be exploited remotely to completely commandeer the machine without any authorization. Some 18 of those CVE-listed security flaws are considered critical, meaning remote code execution is possible without user interaction.
Google has released a patch for CVE-2020-0096, a critical escalation of privilege vulnerability in Android that allows attackers to hijack apps on the victim's device and steal data. Dubbed StrandHogg 2.0 because its similar to the StrandHogg vulnerability exploited by hackers in late 2019, it affects all but the latest version of Android.
A critical privilege-escalation vulnerability affecting Android devices has been found that allows attackers to hijack any app on an infected phone - potentially exposing private SMS messages and photos, login credentials, GPS movements, phone conversations and more. The bug is dubbed the "StrandHogg 2.0" vulnerability by the Promon researchers who found it, due to its similarity to the original StrandHogg bug discovered last year.
Security researcher Vinoth Kumar says Facebook awarded him $20,000 after he discovered and reported a Document Object Model-based cross-site scripting vulnerability that could have been exploited to hijack accounts. The researcher says he discovered the vulnerability in the window.
Google has ousted 49 Chrome browser extensions from its Web Store that masqueraded as cryptocurrency wallets but contained malicious code to siphon off sensitive information and empty the digital currencies. "Essentially, the extensions are phishing for secrets - mnemonic phrases, private keys, and keystore files," explained Harry Denley, director of security at MyCrypto.
The attackers are changing DNS settings on Linksys routers to redirect users to a malicious website promising an informative COVID-19 app, says security provider BitDefender. Phony coronavirus maps are being created with malware as the payload. And as more people work from home, a new type of attack is targeting home routers to spread a malicious coronavirus-themed app, according to a blog post published Wednesday by BitDefender.
Hackers are commandeering victims' Windows PCs by exploiting at least one remote-code-execution flaw in the Adobe Type Manager Library included with the Microsoft operating system. Redmond today warned of two flaws, not yet assigned CVE numbers, present in the font parser - and at least one has been exploited in a "Limited number of attacks" to hijack vulnerable computers.
A new simple but dangerous strain of Android malware has been found in the wild that steals users' authentication cookies from the web browsing and other apps, including Chrome and Facebook, installed on the compromised devices. "Malware could steal cookie files of any website from other apps in the same way and achieve similar results."
European authorities managed to crack down on two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions by employing SIM hijacking. To perform SIM hijacking, hackers trick the victim's wireless operator into swapping the mobile phone number to a SIM card the attackers control.