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ClickFix attack delivers infostealers, RATs in fake Booking.com emails

Microsoft is warning that an ongoing phishing campaign impersonating Booking.com is using ClickFix social engineering attacks to infect hospitality workers with various malware, including infostealers and RATs. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 13 Mar 2025 160 Views

Apple patches 0-day exploited in “extremely sophisticated attack”

-day exploited by maliciously crafted Web content to break out of security sandbox.
Ars Technica 12 Mar 2025 113 Views

The Badbox botnet is back, powered by up to a million backdoored Androids

Best not to buy cheap hardware and use third-party app stores if you want to stay clear of this vast ad fraud effort Human Security’s Satori research team says it has found a new variant of the remote-controllable Badbox malware, and as...
The Register 8 Mar 2025 1091 Views

'EncryptHub' OPSEC Failures Reveal TTPs & Big Plans

Is EncryptHub the most prolific cybercriminal in recent history? Or, as new information suggests, a bumbling amateur?
Dark Reading 7 Mar 2025 3485 Views

Microsoft says malvertising campaign impacted 1 million PCs

​Microsoft has taken down an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories used in a massive malvertising campaign that impacted almost one million devices worldwide. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 7 Mar 2025 834 Views

Open-source tool 'Rayhunter' helps users detect Stingray attacks

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a free, open-source tool named Rayhunter that is designed to detect cell-site simulators (CSS), also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 6 Mar 2025 1098 Views

Microsoft Teams tactics, malware connect Black Basta, Cactus ransomware

New research has uncovered further links between the Black Basta and Cactus ransomware gangs, with members of both groups utilizing the same social engineering attacks and the BackConnect proxy malware for post-exploitation access to corporate networks.
Bleeping Computer 5 Mar 2025 1229 Views

YouTube warns of AI-generated video of its CEO used in phishing attacks

YouTube warns that scammers are using an AI-generated video featuring the company's CEO in phishing attacks to steal creators' credentials. [...]
Bleepingcomputer 5 Mar 2025 1095 Views

Phishers Wreak 'Havoc,' Disguising Attack Inside SharePoint

A complex campaign allows cyberattackers to take over Windows systems by a combining a ClickFix-style attack and sophisticated obfuscation that abuses legitimate Microsoft services.
Dark Reading 4 Mar 2025 4666 Views

12,000+ API Keys and Passwords Found in Public Datasets Used for LLM Training

A dataset used to train large language models (LLMs) has been found to contain nearly 12,000 live secrets, which allow for successful authentication. The findings once again highlight how hard-coded credentials pose a severe security risk to users and organizations alike, ...
The Hacker News 28 Feb 2025 4996 Views