Malicious Android apps posing as file managers have been identified and removed from the Google Play Store recently after infecting tens of thousands of users with a SharkBot banking trojan. This is not the only time the Google Play Store has been in the news recently for distributing malicious apps of different types. At the […]
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A new ransomware tool called AXLocker is being used by attackers to encrypt files and steal Discord account tokens. A large community of cryptocurrency and NFT owners use Discord to connect with others who have a similar interest or portfolio. Discord uses authentication tokens which are saved to the computer when a user logs in,
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Two critical severity vulnerabilities have been identified in Atlassian products Crowd, and Bitbucket Server and Data Center. Security advisories were released by Atlassian for each product detailing the severity, affected versions, and mitigation steps. The Atlassian Crowd Server and Data Center vulnerability affects all versions released after Crowd 3.0.0, however version 3.0.0 itself is an
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A critical vulnerability is being exploited in Magento 2 and Adobe Commerce sites for online retailers. Attackers are sending trojan orders to the target website and are hiding their attacks by using the increase in online purchases around the time of Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, and in the holiday shopping period in general.
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A security advisory has been released by VMware this week detailing 5 security vulnerabilities that have been addressed in the recent update of VMware Workspace ONE Assist, a remote screen sharing and command execution tool used by help desk and IT staff. Three of these vulnerabilities have been assigned a critical severity rating, and a
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Two new high severity vulnerabilities have been identified in the OpenSSL Software Foundation cryptographic library version 3.0.0. This open-source library is used to encrypt HTTPS connections and other communication channels, so has been relied upon by many as a security measure. These new vulnerabilities could cause denial of service or possible remote code execution to
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The threat group tracked as DEV-0832 by Microsoft’s security threat intelligence analysts, also known as Vice Society, are a group of cyber criminals that are thought to have been active since at least June 2021. They have been credited for ransomware and extortion campaigns across the world but have mainly focused on US-based targets. The
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A remote code execution vulnerability has been found in the Apache Commons Text library, an open-source Java library used by developers. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-42889 has been given a CVSS base score of 9.8, and a critical severity rating. A GitHub threat analyst discovered this flaw back in March and reported it to Apache.
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A fake Phantom security update scam has been sent in the form of phishing NFTs to Solana cryptocurrency owners. The NFTs were airdropped into the cryptowallets of users, claiming to be from the developers of Phantom with names such as ‘PHANTOMUPDATE.COM’ or ‘UPDATEPHANTOM.COM’, and descriptions that gave instructions on how to apply this fake update.
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A communication has been sent by Fortinet to their customers confirming a critical severity vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy. The global cyber security company have warned administrators to update FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies to the latest available versions to address this vulnerability. Although a full security advisory has not been released yet for
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