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Analyzing attacks conducted by North Korea-linked ARCHIPELAGO APT group

Security Affairs

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns of a North Korea-linked cyberespionage group tracked as ARCHIPELAGO. TAG believes that the ARCHIPELAGO group is a subset of a threat actor tracked by Mandiant as APT43. ” reads the analysis published by Google TAG.

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China-linked APT41 group spotted using open-source red teaming tool GC2

Security Affairs

Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) team reported that the China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool Google Command and Control ( GC2 ) in an attack against an unnamed Taiwanese media organization. China-linked APT41 group used the open-source red teaming tool GC2 in an attack against a Taiwanese media organization.

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Threat actors found a way to bypass mitigation F5 BIG-IP CVE-2020-5902 flaw

Security Affairs

US Cyber Command posted a message on Twitter urging organizations using the F5 product to immediately patch their installs. ” Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware. ” reported NCC.

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Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter

Troy Hunt

The victim, through no fault of their own, has been the target of numerous angry tweets designed to ridicule their role in internet security and suggest they are incapable of performing their duty. If I'm completely honest, I had no idea what the correct answer would be because frankly, I'm bad at reading URLs. That’s how [link] became [link].

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IoT Cybersecurity: 5 Major Vulnerabilities and How to Tackle Them

Security Affairs

Some of the major social media platforms, including Twitter, were down for a couple of hours. Simple or reused passwords are still a problem. While the cybersecurity industry has presented options for every netizen, the recommendation to use original and complex passwords continues to be disregarded. Poor credentials.

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US CISA warns of attacks exploiting CVE-2020-5902 flaw in F5 BIG-IP

Security Affairs

Immediately after the disclosure of the issue, the US Cyber Command posted a message on Twitter urging organizations using the F5 product to immediately patch their installs. Threat actors exploited the CVE-2020-5902 flaw to obtain passwords, create web shells, and infect systems with various malware. ” continues the alert.

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Moodle flaw exposed users to account takeover

Security Affairs

Moodle is an open-source educational platform used by 179,000 sites and has 242 million users. When viewing what was posted by a user in the server response, contents of the processed result is placed in a script tag with the type MathJax/TeX to be rendered on the client’s browser. which was released on the 10th of November, 2014.

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