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The release of the 2022 Falcon OverWatch Threat Hunting Report from CrowdStrike has revealed the recent trends in cyber crime from July 2021 to June 2022. According to the report, the number of cyber crime campaigns has increased by 50% with financial crime accounting for 43% of all attacks.   According to CrowdStrike’s analysis cyber crimeRead more

A Zoho ManageEngine vulnerability has been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) known exploited vulnerabilities catalog last week. This remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affects Password Manager Pro versions 12100 and below, Access Manager Plus versions 4302 and below, and PAM360 versions 5500 and below. Proof of concept (POC) code for anRead more

A new information stealing malware is being distributed as malware-as-a-service (MaaS) by threat actors under the guise of fake cheats for popular video games. The malware known as Erbium is designed to harvest the credentials from the victims, stealing passwords and other login information for a range of accounts, including cryptocurrency wallets. Threat researchers CYFIRMARead more

Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source have been targeted in a recent wave of attacks that exploit a critical vulnerability. Threat researchers at Sansec released a report this week that details the methodology of this remote access trojan attack. The vulnerability exploited in these attacks, CVE-2022-24086, was found to be actively exploited as early asRead more

The credentials of an Uber contractor were stolen and used to access multiple accounts and company files in a targeted attack. Uber released an initial security update statement that they were dealing with a cybersecurity incident when this breach was first identified and have since updated this post to give details about the attack andRead more

The latest Patch Tuesday from Microsoft included security updates released to patch a total of 63 vulnerabilities. This includes 5 vulnerabilities that have been given a ‘critical’ severity rating, due to the possibility of an exploit of these flaws resulting in remote code execution (RCE) on the target device. Two of these are zero-day flaws,Read more

A number of vulnerabilities have been exploited in Microsoft Teams by attackers through the use of GIFs. The attack technique has been named ‘GIFShell’, and allows the attackers to send malicious files, execute commands, and exfiltrate data from their victims. Affected versions of Microsoft Teams include version 1.5.00.11163 and earlier, where the exploited insecure designRead more

A large-scale phishing attack was recently launched against employees at Twilio, a global cloud-based communications and infrastructure company. Phishing text messages were sent to employees, impersonating Twilio’s IT department, with the aim of harvesting employee credentials. These stolen credentials were used to access internal systems, resulting in a breach of confidentiality in which the dataRead more

Four vulnerabilities in D-Link routers have been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog this week. Also included in this week’s catalogue updates were now-patched zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome, and Photo Station QNAP software.    Three of the D-Link vulnerabilities identified as exploited by their addition to this listRead more

A security vulnerability has been identified in HP’s in-built software HP Support Assistant, that is present on all HP and Omen laptops and desktop computers. HP Support Assistant is pre-installed on all HP and Omen devices, so all users of these devices could be at risk. A security bulletin has been released this week byRead more