Latest Cybersecurity News and Articles

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N-Able's Take Control Agent Vulnerability Exposes Windows Systems to Privilege Escalation

A high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in N-Able's Take Control Agent that could be exploited by a local unprivileged attacker to gain SYSTEM privileges. Tracked as CVE-2023-27470 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue relates to a Time-of-Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability, which, when successfully exploited, could be leveraged to delete arbitrary files on a Windows

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Microsoft Warns of New Phishing Campaign Targeting Corporations via Teams Messages

"The actor's email chains are highly evasive, making use of traffic distribution systems (TDS) like BlackTDS and Keitaro, which provide identification and filtering capabilities to tailor user traffic," Microsoft said.

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Court Convicts Portuguese Hacker in Football Leaks Trial and Gives Four-Year Suspended Sentence

A Portuguese hacker whose bombshell revelations on the “Football Leaks” website rocked European soccer was convicted Monday by a Lisbon court of nine crimes and given a suspended prison sentence of four years.

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Airbus Investigates Data Leak Allegedly Involving Thousands of Suppliers

According to the Hudson Rock, the threat actor — who appears to be linked to a December 2022 breach of the FBI’s InfraGard system — posted the leaked information publicly without making any demands.

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Russian Journalist's iPhone Compromised by NSO Group's Zero-Click Spyware

The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around February 10, 2023. Timchenko is the executive editor and owner of Meduza, an independent news publication

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Record Number of Cyberattacks Targeting Critical IT Infrastructure Reported to UK Government This Year

While the total count of attacks might seem low — just 13 that affected organizations operating critical technology services — the number marks a significant increase from the four disruptions the sector recorded in 2022 and 2021.

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Researchers Detail Eight Vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight Analytics Service

More details have emerged about a set of now-patched cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Microsoft Azure HDInsight open-source analytics service that could be weaponized by a threat actor to carry out malicious activities.

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‘Our health data is about to flow more freely, like it or not’: big tech’s plans for the NHS

The government is about to award a £480m contract to build a vast new database of patient data. But if people don’t trust it, they’ll opt out – I know, because I felt I had toLast December, I had an abortion. Most unwanted pregnancies set a panic-timer ticking, but I was almost counting down the seconds until I had to catch a flight from London, where I live, to Texas, where I grew up, and where the provision of abortion care was recently made a felony. You bleed for a while after most abortions, and I was still bleeding when I boarded the plane home for Christmas.Going to Texas so soon after the procedure made me consider where the record of my abortion – my health data – would end up. When I phoned an abortion clinic in late November to book an appointment, one of the first questions staff asked was: “May we share a record of your treatment with your GP?” Continue reading...

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FBI Hacker Dropped Stolen Airbus Data on 9/11

In December 2022, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that a cybercriminal using the handle "USDoD" had infiltrated the FBI's vetted information sharing network InfraGard, and was selling the contact information for all 80,000 members. The FBI responded by reverifying all InfraGard members and by seizing the cybercrime forum where the data was being sold. But on Sept. 11, 2023, USDoD resurfaced after a lengthy absence to leak sensitive employee data stolen from the aerospace giant Airbus, while promising to visit the same treatment on top U.S. defense contractors.

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US Cyber Command Wrapped Second ‘Hunt Forward’ Mission to Lithuania

Members of the command’s Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF) worked for months alongside experts from Lithuania’s Information Technology and Communications Department, which is part of the country’s Ministry of the Interior.

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High-Profile CVEs Turn up in Vulnerability Exploit Sales

Three reported purchases of vulnerability exploits on the dark web during the first half of the year included high-profile, actively exploited CVEs, according to research by Flashpoint.

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Newly Discovered MetaStealer Malware Targets macOS Users

A new MetaStealer malware has surfaced in the wild, targeting macOS business users. Written in Golang, the malware is distributed via social engineering tactics, where attackers pose as fake design clients and lure victims into executing malicious payloads. Apple’s XProtect update v2170 contains a detection signature for some versions of MetaStealer, for others, IOCs are to be utilized.

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Ransomware: It Takes A Village, Says the UK NCSC

Stopping the ransomware epidemic is less about tackling individual crypto-locking malware variants and more about combating the entire ecosystem of bad actors underpinning digital extortion, the British government said Monday.

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Alert: New Kubernetes Vulnerabilities Enable Remote Attacks on Windows Endpoints

Three interrelated high-severity security flaws discovered in Kubernetes could be exploited to achieve remote code execution with elevated privileges on Windows endpoints within a cluster. The issues, tracked as CVE-2023-3676, CVE-2023-3893, and CVE-2023-3955, carry CVSS scores of 8.8 and impact all Kubernetes environments with Windows nodes. Fixes for the vulnerabilities were released on August

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Nearly 15,000 Accounts Raided at Automaker Sites to Harvest Vehicle IDs

Attackers appear to have deployed bots to break into customer accounts at several large automakers, then harvested important information about thousands of individual vehicles and offered it for sale in private Telegram channels, researchers said.

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49% of survey respondents were fooled by ChatGPT

A recent Beyond Identity survey analyzed how convincing generative artificial intelligence (AI) software ChatGPT was at tricking individuals.

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CertifID, Which Develops Products To Prevent Wire Fraud, Raises $20M

The real estate fraud prevention startup CertifID has raised $20 million in a funding round led by Arthur Ventures, bringing its valuation to over double its previous value.

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Researchers Detail 8 Vulnerabilities in Azure HDInsight Analytics Service

More details have emerged about a set of now-patched cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the Microsoft Azure HDInsight open-source analytics service that could be weaponized by a threat actor to carry out malicious activities. "The identified vulnerabilities consisted of six stored XSS and two reflected XSS vulnerabilities, each of which could be exploited to perform unauthorized actions,

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44% of IT leaders describe their organization as secure

A report found that IT leaders believe cybersecurity concerns are negatively impacting their organization’s willingness to invest in innovative tech.

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Stealthy Remcos Malware Attack Campaign Takes Aim at Colombian Firms

The attackers employed highly obfuscated BAT files and multi-layered obfuscation techniques to evade detection and load the Remcos malware into memory, bypassing traditional antivirus and endpoint security solutions.