Cyber criminals are abusing the Google Ads system to spread malware in what is known as ‘malvertising’ attacks. As the Google Ads display first before the search results, victims can be conned into clicking onto a fake site when searching for software via Google’s search engine. The malicious websites are designed to impersonate legitimate websites, […]
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A malware campaign using the Qbot (aka QakBot) banking trojan has been identified in the wild that is spread through malicious Microsoft OneNote .one attachments. This malware campaign has been referred to as ‘QakNote’ due to the trojan used and the method of using Microsoft OneNote files. It has been observed by security researchers at
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A legitimate Windows executable is being abused by malicious actors to stealthily infect devices with malware without raising any alarms. The Windows Error Reporting tool WerFault.exe can be exploited to load malware onto a system using a DLL sideloading technique in an attack K7 Security Labs have published an analysis for last week. This legitimate
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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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The threats faced in cyber security are constantly evolving, with state actors taking part in cyber espionage, and cyber criminal groups creating paid-for campaigns and offering services for hire. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), a part of GCHQ, and the UK government’s technical authority for cyber security, have released their annual review for 2022
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A range of malicious adware apps have been found on the Google Play store by security researchers at McAfee. It is estimated that 20 million installations across 16 different apps occurred before they were identified and subsequently removed from Google Play. These apps contained clicker malware, which runs in the background without the user’s knowledge.
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A spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric can be exploited by attackers to gain admin privileges and take over Service Fabric clusters. Although there are not currently reports of this vulnerability being exploited in the wild, proof of concept (PoC) code for this attack vector does exist. Cloud security platform Orca Security first discovered
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An actively exploited zero-day flaw that prevents Windows from properly identifying potentially malicious documents by flagging them as downloaded from the web has been given an unofficial patch. The security issue was first brought to Microsoft’s attention by a security researcher 3 month ago, however no official update to correct this has been released. Security
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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 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 CYFIRMA
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