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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

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Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Google announces V8 Sandbox to protect Chrome users

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Google has announced support for what’s called a V8 Sandbox in the Chrome web browser. Almost every Chrome exploits observed in the wild between 2021 and 2023 triggered a memory corruption issue in a Chrome renderer process that was exploited for remote code execution (RCE). ” reads the announcement.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 460 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

Krebs on Security

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. A typical engagement begins with a series of phone calls to employees working remotely at a targeted organization.

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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

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Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh , which claims to be based in the United States. A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. Pushwoosh says it is a U.S. regulatory filings present it as a U.S.

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US CISA adds MS Exchange bug CVE-2022-41080 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

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The issue can be chained with CVE-2022-41082 (ProxyNotShell) to achieve remote code execution. The ransomware attack took place on December 2, 2022, threat actors exploited a previously unknown security exploit , dubbed OWASSRF by Crowdstrike , to gain initial access to the Rackspace Hosted Microsoft Exchange.

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Balada Injector still at large – new domains discovered

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This revealed to us the injected exploit code responsible for remote access to infected machines and redirect-based malvertising scheme control. Within the file, there were seven brackets of PHP tags and each of them contained an obfuscated piece of code within.

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