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October 1, 2024Ravi LakshmananCorporate Security / Financial Fraud The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a 39-year-old British national with running a trade fraud scheme that netted him nearly $3.75 million in illegal profits. Robert Westbrook, of London, was arrested last week and is expected to be extradited to the U.S. to face charges of securities fraud, wire fraud and five counts of computer fraud. According to court documents, Westbrook allegedly ran a fraudulent scheme between January 2019 and May 2020 that allowed him to gain millions by gaining unauthorized access to Microsoft 365 accounts belonging to corporate executives.…
September 30, 2024Ravi LakshmananCyber Security / Weekly Summary Hold on to your hats folks, because the world of cyber security is far from quiet! We dodged a bullet last week when we discovered vulnerabilities in CUPS that could open the door to remote attacks. Google’s move to Rust is yielding big results by addressing memory-related vulnerabilities in Android. But it wasn’t all good news – Kaspersky’s forced exit from the US market left users with more questions than answers. And don’t even get me started on the Kia cars that could be stolen with just a license plate! Let’s unpack…
Six different automatic capacitance sensor (ATG) systems from five manufacturers were found to have critical security vulnerabilities that could expose them to remote attacks. “These vulnerabilities pose a significant real-world risk as they can be exploited by attackers to cause widespread damage, including physical damage, environmental hazards, and economic losses,” Bitsight researcher Pedro Umbelino said in a report published last week. To make matters worse, the analysis found that thousands of ATGs are exposed to the Internet, making them a lucrative target for attackers looking to launch disruptive and disruptive attacks on gas stations, hospitals, airports, military bases and other…
September 30, 2024Ravi LakshmananGDPR / data privacy Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) fined Meta €91 million ($101.56 million) as part of an investigation into a security breach in March 2019, when the company revealed it had mistakenly stored user passwords in clear text on its systems. investigation, DPC is started next month found that the social media giant violated four different articles of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To that end, the DPC accused Meta of failing to notify the DPC of the data breach in a timely manner, to document the breach of personal data relating…
September 28, 2024Ravi LakshmananCryptocurrency / Mobile Security Cybersecurity researchers discovered a malicious Android app in the Google Play Store that allowed threat actors to steal approximately $70,000 in cryptocurrency from victims over a period of nearly five months. The malicious program identified by Check Point appeared to be legitimate WalletConnect open source protocol to force unsuspecting users to download it. “Fake reviews and consistent branding have helped the app get over 10,000 downloads, ranking high in search results,” the cybersecurity firm said. said in the analysis, adding that this is the first time a cryptocurrency drain program has targeted mobile…
The US federal prosecutor’s office on Friday dropped criminal charges against three Iranian citizens who are believed to be working with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to target current and former officials in order to steal sensitive data. The Department of Justice (DoJ) charged 36-year-old Masoud Jalili, 34-year-old Seyed Ali Aghamiri, and 37-year-old Yasser (Yasser) Balaghi in a conspiracy with other known and unknown figures undermine the US electoral process. Supposedly they have hacked in accounts current and former US officials, members of the media, non-governmental organizations and individuals associated with political campaigns in the US. None of the…
September 27, 2024Ravi LakshmananSoftware Security / Vulnerability Progress Software has released another round of updates to address six security flaws in WhatsUp Gold, including two critical vulnerabilities. Problems, company saidwere resolved in version 24.0.1, released on September 20, 2024. The company has not yet released any details about the flaws, other than listing their CVE IDs – CVE-2024-46905 (CVSS score: 8.8) CVE-2024-46906 (CVSS score: 8.8) CVE-2024-46907 (CVSS score: 8.8) CVE-2024-46908 (CVSS score: 8.8) CVE-2024-46909 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2024-8785 (CVSS score: 9.8) Security researcher Sina Heirkach of the Summoning Team is credited with discovering and reporting the first four flaws.…
September 27, 2024Ravi LakshmananGenAI / Cybercrime Russian-speaking users have become the target of a new campaign to distribute a commercial Trojan named DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT) using a technique known as Contraband HTML. This development marks the first time malware has been deployed using this method, a departure from previously observed delivery vectors such as compromised or spoofed websites or phishing emails with PDF attachments or Microsoft Excel documents with macro firmware. “HTML smuggling is primarily a payload delivery mechanism,” – Nikhil Hegde, researcher at Netskope said in an analysis published Thursday. “The payload can be embedded in the HTML…
September 27, 2024Ravi LakshmananLinux / Vulnerability A new set of security vulnerabilities has been discovered in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that may allow remote command execution under certain conditions. “A remote, unauthenticated attacker can silently replace the IPP URL of existing printers (or install new ones) with a malicious one, causing an arbitrary command to be executed (on a computer) when a print job (from that computer) is initiated,” – Security Researcher Simone. Margaritelli said. CUPS is a standards-based, open-source printing system for Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, including ArchLinux, Debian, Fedora, Red…
The threat actor known as Storm-0501 has targeted the government, manufacturing, transportation and law enforcement sectors in the US to launch ransomware attacks. The multi-stage attack campaign is designed to breach hybrid cloud environments and perform lateral migration from on-premises to cloud environments, ultimately leading to data theft, credential theft, spoofing, persistent backdoor access and ransomware deployment, Microsoft said. “Storm-0501 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group that uses open source products and tools to conduct ransomware operations,” respectively to the tech giant’s threat intelligence team. The threat actor, which has been active since 2021, already had a history of attacking…