Follow The Hacker News, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/thehackernews Fri, 02 Dec 2022 21:12:55 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REB5I2-6IsSzgQ Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps. The findings were first discovered and reported by Google reverse engineer Łukasz Siewierski on Thursday. "A platform certificate is the application signing certificate used to sign the 'android' application on the system image," a report filed through the]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:56:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REB5I2-6IsSzgQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECpRagPD599tw The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week released an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory warning of multiple vulnerabilities in Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 engineering software. "Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized users to gain access to the MELSEC iQ-R/F/L series CPU modules and the MELSEC iQ-R series OPC UA server]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:32:47 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECpRagPD599tw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REDH9ZeJ4xtG6w Old technology solutions – every organization has a few of them tucked away somewhere.  It could be an old and unsupported storage system or a tape library holding the still-functional backups from over 10 years ago.  This is a common scenario with software too. For example, consider an accounting software suite that was extremely expensive when it was purchased. If the vendor eventually went]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REDH9ZeJ4xtG6w https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAc41rUYHY58Q IBM has fixed a high-severity security vulnerability affecting its Cloud Databases (ICD) for PostgreSQL product that could be potentially exploited to tamper with internal repositories and run unauthorized code. The privilege escalation flaw (CVSS score: 8.8), dubbed "Hell's Keychain" by cloud security firm Wiz, has been described as a "first-of-its-kind supply-chain attack vector impacting a]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:29:30 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAc41rUYHY58Q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REDkoFOBUaWWng A previously undocumented Go-based malware is targeting Redis servers with the goal of taking control of the infected systems and likely building a botnet network. The attacks involve taking advantage of a critical security vulnerability in the open source, in-memory, key-value store that was disclosed earlier this year to deploy Redigo, according to cloud security firm Aqua. ]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 13:09:57 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REDkoFOBUaWWng https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REBiVIxfiedYEA The new Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) requires CISA to create rules regarding cyber incident reporting by critical infrastructure organizations. The RFI and hearings precede a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that CISA must publish sooner than 24 months from the enactment of CIRCIA, which the President signed into law in March. The sessions and]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 12:35:18 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REBiVIxfiedYEA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REDmhmVBCDKHow Multiple unpatched vulnerabilities have been discovered in three Android apps that allow a smartphone to be used as a remote keyboard and mouse. The apps in question are Lazy Mouse, PC Keyboard, and Telepad, which have been cumulatively downloaded over two million times from the Google Play Store. Telepad is no longer available through the app marketplace but can be downloaded from its website.]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 09:48:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REDmhmVBCDKHow https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECkxEb53PPcVg The threat actors behind Cuba (aka COLDDRAW) ransomware have received more than $60 million in ransom payments and compromised over 100 entities across the world as of August 2022. In a new advisory shared by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the agencies highlighted a "sharp increase in both the number of compromised]]> Fri, 02 Dec 2022 08:04:26 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECkxEb53PPcVg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAOYmNjSN-0_A A Barcelona-based surveillanceware vendor named Variston IT is said to have surreptitiously planted spyware on targeted devices by exploiting several zero-day flaws in Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Windows, some of which date back to December 2018. "Their Heliconia framework exploits n-day vulnerabilities in Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Defender, and provides all the tools necessary to]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:37:51 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAOYmNjSN-0_A https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REBPTuNH5enyGw Medibank on Thursday confirmed that the threat actors behind the devastating cyber attack have posted another dump of data stolen from its systems on the dark web after its refusal to pay a ransom. "We are in the process of analyzing the data, but the data released appears to be the data we believed the criminal stole," the Australian health insurer said. "While our investigation continues there]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 15:17:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REBPTuNH5enyGw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REBlcplZvCLRug A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in the Quarkus Java framework that could be potentially exploited to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-4116 (CVSS score: 9.8), the shortcoming could be trivially abused by a malicious actor without any privileges. "The vulnerability is found in the Dev UI Config Editor, which is vulnerable to drive-by]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:45:46 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REBlcplZvCLRug https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REB7A_VNZkkrpg Today's threat landscape is constantly evolving, and now more than ever, organizations and businesses in every sector have a critical need to consistently produce and maintain secure software. While some verticals - like the finance industry, for example - have been subject to regulatory and compliance requirements for some time, we are seeing a steady increase in attention on cybersecurity best]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:17:27 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REB7A_VNZkkrpg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAVLhW84Eo-gQ More than 300,000 users across 71 countries have been victimized by a new Android threat campaign called the Schoolyard Bully Trojan. Mainly designed to steal Facebook credentials, the malware is camouflaged as legitimate education-themed applications to lure unsuspecting users into downloading them. The apps, which were available for download from the official Google Play Store, have now been]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:07:36 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAVLhW84Eo-gQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REC_dug6cDkcVw An ongoing analysis into an up-and-coming cryptocurrency mining botnet known as KmsdBot has led to it being accidentally taken down. KmsdBot, as christened by the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team (SIRT), came to light mid-November 2022 for its ability to brute-force systems with weak SSH credentials. The botnet strikes both Windows and Linux devices spanning a wide range of]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:54:59 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REC_dug6cDkcVw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECUQzwkNwMGKw Popular password management service LastPass said it's investigating a second security incident that involved attackers accessing some of its customer information. "We recently detected unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service, which is currently shared by both LastPass and its affiliate, GoTo," LastPass CEO Karim Toubba said. GoTo, formerly called LogMeIn, acquired LastPass]]> Thu, 01 Dec 2022 11:35:21 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECUQzwkNwMGKw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECMywyM_XtyLQ The North Korea-linked ScarCruft group has been attributed to a previously undocumented backdoor called Dolphin that the threat actor has used against targets located in its southern counterpart. "The backdoor [...] has a wide range of spying capabilities, including monitoring drives and portable devices and exfiltrating files of interest, keylogging and taking screenshots, and stealing]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:30:45 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECMywyM_XtyLQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECfjya-sF_QCw New findings from cybersecurity firm JFrog show that malware targeting the npm ecosystem can evade security checks by taking advantage of an "unexpected behavior" in the npm command line interface (CLI) tool. npm CLI's install and audit commands have built-in capabilities to check a package and all of its dependencies for known vulnerabilities, effectively acting as a warning mechanism for]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 15:44:17 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8RECfjya-sF_QCw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REALRrTofTzSVQ A malicious Android SMS application found on the Google Play Store has been found to stealthily harvest text messages with the goal of creating accounts on a wide range of platforms like Facebook, Google, and WhatsApp. The app, named Symoo (com.vanjan.sms), had over 100,000 downloads and functioned as a relay for transmitting messages to a server, which advertises an account creation service.]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:15:44 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REALRrTofTzSVQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAoChmc5TnlbA The French data protection watchdog on Tuesday fined electricity provider Électricité de France €600,000 for violating the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements. The Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL) said the electric utility breached European regulation by storing the passwords for over 25,800 accounts by hashing them using the MD5]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 13:57:12 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAoChmc5TnlbA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAo6lnQZbIw7Q The Australian government has passed a bill that markedly increases the penalty for companies suffering from serious or repeated data breaches. To that end, the maximum fines have been bumped up from the current AU$2.22 million to AU$50 million, 30% of an entity's adjusted turnover in the relevant period, or three times the value of any benefit obtained through the misuse of information,]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2022 11:33:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/-STONiv8REAo6lnQZbIw7Q