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Supply-chain attack on NPM Package UAParser, which has millions of daily downloads

Security Affairs

CISA warned of crypto-mining malware hidden in a popular JavaScript NPM library, named UAParser.js, which has millions of weekly downloads. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency published an advisory to warn of the discovery of a crypto-mining malware in the popular NPM Package UAParser.js. and 1.0.0. .”

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

Data breaches don’t just occur when cyber criminals hack your systems, and it’s as well to remember that sensitive information in all forms – including hard copy records – should be afforded appropriate protection. The app then still […] accesses the photo library whether the user denies access or not.”. What’s that?

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Log4Shell was in the wild at least nine days before public disclosure

Security Affairs

Threat actors are already abusing Log4Shell vulnerability in the Log4j library for malicious purposes such as deploying malware. A few hours ago, researchers at NetLab 360 reported that their Anglerfish and Apacket honeypots were already hit by attacks attempting to trigger the Log4Shell flaw in the Log4j library.

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Phishing campaign targets LATAM e-commerce users with Chaes Malware

Security Affairs

. “Chaes specifically targets the Brazilian website of e-commerce company MercadoLivre and its payment page MercadoPago to steal its customers’ financial information. information stealer that exfiltrates data using the node process.” bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. .

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Threat actors continue to exploit Log4j flaws in their attacks, Microsoft Warns

Security Affairs

Microsoft is warning of continuing attempts by nation-state actors and cybercriminals to exploit recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Apache Log4j library to deploy malware on vulnerable systems. “Microsoft has also continued to observe malicious activity performing data leakage via the vulnerability without dropping a payload.

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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

Security Affairs

. “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. It is, however, notable that the writers of the SCP library are located in China.” We could not determine any meaningful advantage for one method over the other. ” continues the report. ” concludes the report.

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Iran-linked threat actors compromise US Federal Network

Security Affairs

These files have been identified as variants of the XMRIG cryptocurrency mining software. In one attack documented by government experts, threat actors were able to move laterally inside the network and collect and exfiltrate sensitive data. ” reads the Malware Analysis Report (AR22-320A) published by CISA. Pierluigi Paganini.

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