Report: The Dark Side of Phishing Protection
The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks. But despite sincere efforts by security stakeholders to mitigate them - through email protection, firewall rules and employee education - phishing attacks are still a very risky attack vector. A new report by LayerX explores the state of
New Tricks in the Phishing Playbook: Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, GenAI
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers to serve phishing sites that are used to harvest users' credentials associated with Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo!, and cPanel Webmail. The attack method, called transparent phishing or adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing, "uses Cloudflare Workers to act as a reverse proxy server for a
Pakistan-linked Hackers Deploy Python, Golang, and Rust Malware on Indian Targets
The Pakistan-nexus Transparent Tribe actor has been linked to a new set of attacks targeting Indian government, defense, and aerospace sectors using cross-platform malware written in Python, Golang, and Rust. "This cluster of activity spanned from late 2023 to April 2024 and is anticipated to persist," the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team said in a technical report
Experts Find Flaw in Replicate AI Service Exposing Customers’ Models and Data
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in an artificial intelligence (AI)-as-a-service provider Replicate that could have allowed threat actors to gain access to proprietary AI models and sensitive information. "Exploitation of this vulnerability would have allowed unauthorized access to the AI prompts and results of all Replicate's platform customers,"
Hackers Created Rogue VMs to Evade Detection in Recent MITRE Cyber Attack
The MITRE Corporation has revealed that the cyber attack targeting the not-for-profit company towards late December 2023 by exploiting zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) involved the actor creating rogue virtual machines (VMs) within its VMware environment. "The adversary created their own rogue VMs within the VMware environment, leveraging compromised vCenter Server access," MITRE
Fake Antivirus Websites Deliver Malware to Android and Windows Devices
Threat actors have been observed making use of fake websites masquerading as legitimate antivirus solutions from Avast, Bitdefender, and Malwarebytes to propagate malware capable of stealing sensitive information from Android and Windows devices. "Hosting malicious software through sites which look legitimate is predatory to general consumers, especially those who look to protect their devices
Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits Mitel (24 mai 2024) (CERT-FR)
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans les produits Mitel. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance et une élévation de privilèges.
Vulnérabilité dans Google Chrome (24 mai 2024) (CERT-FR)
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Google Chrome. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur. Google indique que la vulnérabilité CVE-2024-5274 est activement exploitée.
Multiples vulnérabilités dans le noyau Linux de Red Hat (24 mai 2024) (CERT-FR)
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans le noyau Linux de Red Hat. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire, une élévation de privilèges et un déni de service à distance.