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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.
Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.
Microsoft has discovered a new malware used by the Russian hacker group APT29 that enables authentication as anyone in a compromised network. Dubbed 'MagicWeb', the new malicious tool is an evolution of 'FoggyWeb', which allowed hackers to exfiltrate the configuration database of compromised Active Directory Federation Services servers, decrypt token-signing and token-decryption certificates, and fetch additional payloads from the command and control server.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a set of 3,207 mobile apps that are exposing Twitter API keys to the public, potentially enabling a threat actor to take over users' Twitter accounts that are associated with the app. The discovery belongs to cybersecurity firm CloudSEK, which scrutinized large app sets for potential data leaks and found 3,207 leaking a valid Consumer Key and Consumer Secret for the Twitter API. When integrating mobile apps with Twitter, developers will be given special authentication keys, or tokens, that allow their mobile apps to interact with the Twitter API. When a user associates their Twitter account with this mobile app, the keys also will enable the app to act on behalf of the user, such as logging them in via Twitter, creating tweets, sending DMs, etc.
A new malware is hijacking high-profile Meta Facebook Business and advertising platform accounts through a phishing campaign that targets LinkedIn accounts. "The malware is designed to steal browser cookies and take advantage of authenticated Facebook sessions to steal information from the victim's Facebook account and ultimately hijack any Facebook Business account that the victim has sufficient access to," researchers wrote in a blog post accompanying the report.
Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new and entirely undetected Linux threat dubbed OrBit, signally a growing trend of malware attacks geared towards the popular operating system. The malware gets its name from one of the filenames that's utilized to temporarily store the output of executed commands, according to cybersecurity firm Intezer.
The popular Screencastify Chrome extension has fixed a vulnerability that allowed malicious sites to hijack users' webcams and steal recorded videos. Screencastify is a screen recorder, video editor, and media sharing browser extension with over 10,000,000 installs on the Chrome web store.
A financially-motivated malware campaign has compromised over 800 WordPress websites to deliver a banking trojan dubbed Chaes targeting Brazilian customers of Banco do Brasil, Loja Integrada, Mercado Bitcoin, Mercado Livre, and Mercado Pago. "Chaes is characterized by the multiple-stage delivery that utilizes scripting frameworks such as JScript, Python, and NodeJS, binaries written in Delphi, and malicious Google Chrome extensions," Avast researchers Anh Ho and Igor Morgenstern said.