The ‘DTPacker’ downloader used fake Liverpool Football Club sites as lures for several weeks, a report finds.
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The Internet’s Most Tempting Targets
What attracts the attackers? David “moose” Wolpoff, CTO at Randori, discusses how to evaluate your infrastructure for juicy targets.
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Merck Awarded $1.4B Insurance Payout over NotPetya Attack
Court rules ‘War or Hostile Acts’ exclusion doesn’t apply to the pharma giant’s 2017 cyberattack.
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20K WordPress Sites Exposed by Insecure Plugin REST-API
The WordPress WP HTML Mail plugin for personalized emails is vulnerable to code injection and phishing due to XSS.
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McAfee Bug Can Be Exploited to Gain Windows SYSTEM Privileges
McAfee has patched two high-severity bugs in its Agent component, one of which can allow attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges.
Spyware Blitzes Compromise, Cannibalize ICS Networks
The brief spearphishing campaigns spread malware and use compromised networks to steal credentials that can be sold or used to commit financial fraud.
2FA Bypassed in $34.6M Crypto.com Heist
In a display of 2FA’s fallibility, unauthorized transactions approved without users’ authentication bled 483 accounts of funds.
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Critical Cisco StarOS Bug Grants Root Access via Debug Mode
Cisco issued a critical fix for a flaw in its Cisco RCM for Cisco StarOS Software that could give attackers RCE on the application with root-level privileges.
Microsoft Sees Log4j Attacks Exploiting SolarWinds Serv-U Bug
SolarWinds has fixed a Serv-U bug that threat actors were exploiting to unleash Log4j attacks on networks’ internal devices.
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Pervasive Apple Safari Bug Exposes Web-Browsing Data, Google IDs
The information-disclosure issue, affecting Macs, iPhones and iPads, allows a snooping website to find out information about other tabs a user might have open.
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