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Microsoft has disabled a protocol that allowed the installation of Windows apps after finding that miscreants were abusing the mechanism to install malware. The move came just before Christmas, and seemingly mimicked issues first reported in December 2021, to address a Windows AppX Installer vulnerability in which an attacker could spoof App Installer into installing malicious software.
German law enforcement has announced the disruption of a dark web platform called Kingdom Market that specialized in the sales of narcotics and malware to "tens of thousands of users."...
A new malware campaign that emerged in March 2023 used JavaScript web injections to try to steal the banking data of over 50,000 users of 40 banks in North America, South America, Europe, and Japan. Once the victim visits the attackers' compromised or malicious sites, the malware injects a new script tag with a source attribute pointing to an externally hosted script.
Web Application Security consists of a myriad of security controls that ensure that a web application: Functions as expected. Cannot be exploited to operate out of bounds. Cannot initiate...
Despite the rising adoption of collaboration and instant messaging software, email remains a significant area of concern regarding cyber attacks, particularly the increasing threat of cybercriminals employing harmful web links in emails, according to Hornetsecurity. Its use increased by nearly 4 percentage points this year, rising from 39.6% to 43.3% of all email attacks.
This article describes why threat actors target web apps and highlights the value of continuous monitoring in securing modern web apps. One of the key attractions of web apps from a hacker's perspective is how easy they are to target.
In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, it's crucial to reevaluate how we secure web environments. Traditional antivirus-approach solutions have their merits, but they're reactive. A new report...
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An unspecified government entity in Afghanistan was targeted by a previously undocumented web shell called HrServ in what’s suspected to be an advanced persistent threat (APT) attack. The web...
CISA has added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, among them a critical vulnerability in Sophos Web Appliance that has been patched by the company in April 2023.CVE-2023-1671 is a pre-auth command injection vulnerability in the warn-proceed handler of Sophos Web Appliance that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code.