Month: December 2023

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

Ukrainian cyber defenders report that fast-acting Russian military intelligence hackers have been targeting government agencies as well as organizations in Poland using backdoor malware tied to phishing lures based on a fake letter from the Ukrainian deputy prime minister. The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine on Thursday detailed a spear-phishing campaign that it has…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Affairs

Experts warn of an authentication bypass zero-day flaw that affects Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-51467, to bypass authentication to achieve a simple Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) The issue resides in the login functionality and results from an incomplete patch for the Pre-auth…

Mobile Security

Issued by: Security Affairs

McAfee Mobile Research Team discovered a new Android backdoor dubbed Xamalicious that can take full control of the device and perform fraudulent actions. The malware has been implemented with Xamarin, an open-source framework that allows building Android and iOS apps with .NET and C#. Xamalicious relies on social engineering to gain accessibility privileges, then it…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: The Hacker News

A new zero-day security flaw has been discovered in Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system that could be exploited to bypass authentication protections. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-51467, resides in the login functionality and is the result of an incomplete patch for another critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-49070, CVSS score: 9.8) that was released…

News

Issued by: DataBreach Today

A Russian man accused by the United States of trafficking in a hacked database of online credentials will apparently evade American courts after the Russian government said it had succeeded in extraditing him. Russian prosecutors said authorities in Kazakhstan will transfer the man, Nikita Kislitsin, to face charges related to an October 2022 hacking incident…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: SecurityWeek

Active since early 2023, the malware initially targeted mobile banking applications in Australia and Poland, but has since expanded its reach to the UK and Italy. When initially uncovered, ThreatFabric explains, Chameleon used multiple loggers, had limited malicious functionality, and contained various unused commands, suggesting that it was still under development. Employing a proxy feature…

Network Security

Issued by: SecurityWeek

The company said the new equity round was led by L2 Point Management and brings the total raised to $70 million. SimSpace is marketing a so-called “Cyber Force Platform” that provides technology for organizations to stand up pre-defined or customized cyber range simulations that are secure and scalable “SimSpace’s internal threat intelligence teams and partners,…

Network Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

Cyberattackers can exploit access control measures installed on supposedly secure facility doors to gain unauthorized building access to sensitive locations — as well as breach internal IP networks directly from these systems, researchers are warning. In a closed-door session at Black Hat Europe 2023 this month, analysts at Otorio demonstrated how attackers can easily subvert…