Lazarus APT conceals malicious code within BMP image to drop its RAT

Cisco Systems said it will not fix a critical vulnerability found in three of its SOHO router models. The bug, rated 9.8 in severity out of 10, could allow unauthenticated remote users to hijack targeted equipment and gain elevated privileges within effected systems.

Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime ‘Pegasus Project’ Says List Used to Coordinate Attacks Using NSO Group’s Spyware Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 19, 2021     Countries where journalists were selected as targets (Source: Forbidden Stories) A leak of 50,000 telephone numbers and email addresses led to…

Facebook cut off access to NYU researchers studying political ads and COVID misinformation, saying their work violated its terms of service. Josh Edelson / AFP via Getty Images Facebook has blocked a team of New York University researchers studying political ads and COVID misinformation from accessing its site, a move that critics say is meant…

Application Security , Cybercrime , Fraud Management & Cybercrime Intel, Adobe Roll Out Security Fixes Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • August 11, 2021     Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday rollout addressed two additional security issues within Windows Print Spooler, including one zero day, . See Also: Automating Security Operations Microsoft’s August security update covers 44 vulnerabilities,…

Stanford University’s Internet Observatory reported the incident first, but the programme’s chief technology officer David Thiel stressed that the data spill was not malicious or a “hack”. Instead, he said it was more that a user had decided to violate Clubhouse’s terms of service.

New malware with extensive spyware capabilities steals data from infected Android devices and is designed to automatically trigger whenever new info is ready for exfiltration. The spyware can only be installed as a ‘System Update‘ app via third-party Android app stores as it was never available on Google’s Play Store. This drastically limits the number…