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Crickets from Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak

Krebs on Security

“Chirp Access improperly stores credentials within its source code, potentially exposing sensitive information to unauthorized access,” CISA’s alert warned, assigning the bug a CVSS (badness) rating of 9.1 (out out of a possible 10). A smart lock enabled with Chirp.

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Google: China dominates government exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023

Security Affairs

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) and Mandiant reported a surge in the number of actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in 2023. In 2023, Google (TAG) and Mandiant discovered 29 out of 97 vulnerabilities exploited in the wild. ” reads the report published by Google TAG. ” concludes the report.

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Burger King forgets to put a password on their systems, again

Security Affairs

Publicly accessible credentials On June 1st, 2023, the Cybernews research team discovered a publicly accessible environment file (.env) Another piece of sensitive information that the research team observed included a Google Tag Manager ID. Cybernews reached out to the company, and it fixed the issue.

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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. Most targeted employees are working from home or can be reached on a mobile device. Image: urlscan.io. Image: urlscan.io. SCHOOL OF HACKS.

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

Krebs on Security

A recent scoop by Reuters revealed that mobile apps for the U.S. But that story omitted an important historical detail about Pushwoosh: In 2013, one of its developers admitted to authoring the Pincer Trojan , malware designed to surreptitiously intercept and forward text messages from Android mobile devices. “Pushwoosh Inc.

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GUEST ESSAY: Sure steps to achieve a robust employee cybersecurity awareness training regimen

The Last Watchdog

As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. Cybercriminals are constantly searching for ways to gain access to an organization. Sensitive data may be stored on different media, including discs, tapes, mobile devices, or websites. Cybercriminals view employees as a path of least resistance.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 428 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Russia-linked APT Gamaredon starts stealing data from victims between 30 and 50 minutes after the initial compromise The source code of the BlackLotus UEFI Bootkit was leaked on GitHub US CISA warns of Rockwell Automation ControlLogix flaws Indexing Over 15 Million WordPress Websites with PWNPress New AVrecon botnet remained under the radar for two (..)