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About 79 percent of public-facing Juniper SRX firewalls remain vulnerable to a single security flaw can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code on the devices, according to threat intelligence platform provider VulnCheck. Juniper revealed and addressed five flaws, which affect all versions of Junos OS on SRX firewalls and EX Series switches, in an out-of-cycle security bulletin on August 17.
A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part of a botnet to perform distributed denial-of-service attacks. Doctor Web said the compromises are likely to occur either during malicious firmware updates or when applications for viewing pirated video content are installed.
A threat actor known as W3LL developed a phishing kit that can bypass multi-factor authentication along with other tools that compromised more than 8,000 Microsoft 365 corporate accounts. In ten months, security researchers discovered that W3LL's utilities and infrastructure were used to set up about 850 phishing that targeted credentials for more than 56,000 Microsoft 365 accounts.
Bluefield University is a small private university in Bluefield, Virginia, with roughly 900 students. The incident took a nasty turn on May 1st, 2023, with the Avos threat actors still having access to the University's RamAlert system, an emergency alert system used to warn students and staff via email and text of campus emergencies or threats.
The researcher reached out to BleepingComputer stating that by hijacking these packages he hopes to get a job. Yesterday, a researcher with the pseudonym 'neskafe3v1' reached out to BleepingComputer stating he had taken over fourteen Packagist packages, with one of them having over 500 million installs.
A new QBot malware campaign is leveraging hijacked business correspondence to trick unsuspecting victims into installing the malware, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. QBot is a banking trojan that's known to be active since at least 2007.
A new Chrome extension promising to augment users' Google searches with ChatGPT also leads to hijacked Facebook accounts, Guardio Labs researchers have found. In this case, when searching for ChatGPT via Google Search, users are served with a malicious sponsored ad that first redirects them to a fake ChatGPT for Google landing page, and then to the malicious extension on the official Chrome Store.
A widespread malicious cyber operation has hijacked thousands of websites aimed at East Asian audiences to redirect visitors to adult-themed content since early September 2022. The ongoing campaign entails injecting malicious JavaScript code to the hacked websites, often connecting to the target web server using legitimate FTP credentials the threat actor previously obtained via an unknown method.
Researchers have discovered malware that "Can hijack a computer's boot process even when Secure Boot and other advanced protections are enabled and running on fully updated versions of Windows." Dubbed BlackLotus, the malware is what's known as a UEFI bootkit.
An ongoing malware campaign targets YouTube and Facebook users, infecting their computers with a new information stealer that will hijack their social media accounts and use their devices to mine for cryptocurrency. Security researchers with Bitdefender's Advanced Threat Control team discovered the new malware and dubbed it S1deload Stealer due to its extensive use of DLL sideloading for evading detection.