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New Mobile Phone Forensics Tool

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china, forensics, hacking, malware, privacy, Security technology, smartphones, Uncategorized

The Chinese have a new tool called Massistant. Massistant is the presumed successor to Chinese forensics tool, “MFSocket”, reported in 2019 and attributed to publicly traded cybersecurity company, Meiya Pico. The forensics tool works in tandem with a corresponding desktop software. Massistant gains access to device GPS location data, SMS messages, images, audio, contacts and … Read More “New Mobile Phone Forensics Tool” »

Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections

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cyberattack, malware, operating systems, Security technology, Uncategorized

A whole class of speculative execution attacks against CPUs were published in 2018. They seemed pretty catastrophic at the time. But the fixes were as well. Speculative execution was a way to speed up CPUs, and removing those enhancements resulted in significant performance drops. Now, people are rethinking the trade-off. Ubuntu has disabled some protections, … Read More “Ubuntu Disables Spectre/Meltdown Protections” »

Thousands of WordPress Websites Infected with Malware

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backdoors, malware, Security technology, Uncategorized, web

The malware includes four separate backdoors: Creating four backdoors facilitates the attackers having multiple points of re-entry should one be detected and removed. A unique case we haven’t seen before. Which introduces another type of attack made possibly by abusing websites that don’t monitor 3rd party dependencies in the browser of their users. The four … Read More “Thousands of WordPress Websites Infected with Malware” »

Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews

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cybersecurity, malware, North Korea, Security technology, social engineering, threat models, Uncategorized

Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, … Read More “Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews” »

The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet

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botnets, courts, COVID-19, crime, cybercrime, malware, Security technology, Uncategorized

The US Justice Department has dismantled an enormous botnet: According to an indictment unsealed on May 24, from 2014 through July 2022, Wang and others are alleged to have created and disseminated malware to compromise and amass a network of millions of residential Windows computers worldwide. These devices were associated with more than 19 million … Read More “The Justice Department Took Down the 911 S5 Botnet” »

Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware

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malware, open source, Security technology, social engineering, Uncategorized

Interesting social-engineering attack vector: McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS,” known as vcpkg. The attacker is exploiting a property of GitHub: comments to a particular repo can contain files, and … Read More “Using Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware” »

Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened

Posted on By infossl
backdoors, cybersecurity, economics of security, hacking, linux, malware, open source, Security technology, social engineering, ssh, Uncategorized

Last week, the internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention—but it should. There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery: The security of the global internet depends on countless obscure pieces … Read More “Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened” »