Security News

OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln
2023-11-24 15:32

The owner of the e-commerce store management system OpenCart has responded with hostility to a security researcher disclosing a vulnerability in the product. Penetration tester Mattia Brollo brought a static code injection vulnerability to the attention of OpenCart by opening a GitHub issue on October 14, only to be met with numerous dismissive and offensive responses from Daniel Kerr, OpenCart's owner.

Researchers extract RSA keys from SSH server signing errors
2023-11-19 15:01

A team of academic researchers from universities in California and Massachusetts demonstrated that it's possible under certain conditions for passive network attackers to retrieve secret RSA keys from naturally occurring errors leading to failed SSH connection attempts. A paper published by university researchers Keegan Ryan, Kaiwen He, Nadia Heninger, and George Arnold Sullivan, shows that it's possible for a passive network attacker to obtain a private RSA key from SSH servers experiencing faults during signature computation.

Fraudsters make $50,000 a day by spoofing crypto researchers
2023-11-15 15:02

Multiple fake accounts impersonating cryptocurrency scam investigators and blockchain security companies are promoting phishing pages to drain wallets in an ongoing campaign on X. To lure potential victims, the scammer uses a breach on major cryptocurrency exchange platforms. The scammers impersonate accounts on X belonging to blockchain analytics or crypto fraud investigation firms and researchers, like CertiK, ZachXBT, and Scam Sniffer, to promote fabricated security breaches on Uniswap and Opensea.

Fraud researchers impersonated on X to push crypto-stealing sites
2023-11-15 15:02

The scammers impersonate accounts on X belonging to blockchain analytics or crypto fraud investigation firms and researchers, like CertiK, ZachXBT, and Scam Sniffer, to promote fabricated security breaches on Uniswap and Opensea. To impersonate the legitimate accounts, the threat actors created new X accounts with similar account names.

Researchers Uncover Undetectable Crypto Mining Technique on Azure Automation
2023-11-08 14:19

Cybersecurity researchers have developed what's the first fully undetectable cloud-based cryptocurrency miner leveraging the Microsoft Azure Automation service without racking up any charges. Developed by Microsoft, it's a cloud-based automation service that allows users to automate the creation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of resources in Azure.

Researchers Find 34 Windows Drivers Vulnerable to Full Device Takeover
2023-11-02 08:59

As many as 34 unique vulnerable Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF) drivers could be exploited by non-privileged threat actors to gain full control of the devices and...

Researchers Expose Prolific Puma's Underground Link Shortening Service
2023-11-01 14:55

A threat actor known as Prolific Puma has been maintaining a low profile and operating an underground link shortening service that's offered to other threat actors for at least over the past four...

Researchers Uncover Wiretapping of XMPP-Based Instant Messaging Service
2023-10-28 07:20

New findings have shed light on what's said to be a lawful attempt to covertly intercept traffic originating from jabber[.]ru (aka xmpp[.]ru), an XMPP-based instant messaging service, via servers...

YoroTrooper: Researchers Warn of Kazakhstan's Stealthy Cyber Espionage Group
2023-10-26 04:25

A relatively new threat actor known as YoroTrooper is likely made of operators originating from Kazakhstan. The assessment, which comes from Cisco Talos, is based on their fluency in Kazakh and...

Researchers uncover DarkGate malware’s Vietnamese connection
2023-10-20 10:58

WithSecure researchers have tracked attacks using DarkGate malware to an active cluster of cybercriminals operating out of Vietnam. DarkGate is a remote access trojan that has been used in attacks since at least 2018 and is currently available to cybercriminals as Malware-as-a-Service.