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Mastodon Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Hijack Any Decentralized Account

By Newsroom — February 3rd 2024 at 06:51
The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious actors to impersonate and take over any account. "Due to insufficient origin validation in all Mastodon, attackers can impersonate and take over any remote account," the maintainers said in a terse advisory. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-23832, has a severity rating of 9.4 out of
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Mandiant's Twitter Account Restored After Six-Hour Crypto Scam Hack

By Newsroom — January 4th 2024 at 06:29
American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam. As of writing, the account has been restored on the social media platform. It's currently not clear how the account was breached. But the hacked Mandiant account was initially renamed to "@
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New 5G Modem Flaws Affect iOS Devices and Android Models from Major Brands

By Newsroom — December 8th 2023 at 17:22
A collection of security flaws in the firmware implementation of 5G mobile network modems from major chipset vendors such as MediaTek and Qualcomm impact USB and IoT modems as well as hundreds of smartphone models running Android and iOS. Of the 14 flaws – collectively called 5Ghoul (a combination of "5G" and "Ghoul") – 10 affect 5G modems from the two companies, out of which three
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Meta Launches Default End-to-End Encryption for Chats and Calls on Messenger

By The Hacker News — December 7th 2023 at 05:52
Meta has officially begun to roll out support for end-to-end encryption (E2EE) in Messenger for personal calls and one-to-one personal messages by default in what it called the "most significant milestone yet." "This isn't a routine security update: we rebuilt the app from the ground up, in close consultation with privacy and safety experts," Loredana Crisan, vice president of
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Russia's AI-Powered Disinformation Operation Targeting Ukraine, U.S., and Germany

By Newsroom — December 5th 2023 at 14:58
The Russia-linked influence operation called Doppelganger has targeted Ukrainian, U.S., and German audiences through a combination of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts. These campaigns are designed to amplify content designed to undermine Ukraine as well as propagate anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment, U.S. military competence, and Germany's economic and social issues, according to a new
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Vietnamese Hackers Using New Delphi-Powered Malware to Target Indian Marketers

By Newsroom — November 14th 2023 at 08:03
The Vietnamese threat actors behind the Ducktail stealer malware have been linked to a new campaign that ran between March and early October 2023, targeting marketing professionals in India with an aim to hijack Facebook business accounts. "An important feature that sets it apart is that, unlike previous campaigns, which relied on .NET applications, this one used Delphi as the programming
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New S1deload Malware Hijacking Users' Social Media Accounts and Mining Cryptocurrency

By Ravie Lakshmanan — February 23rd 2023 at 10:45
An active malware campaign has set its sights on Facebook and YouTube users by leveraging a new information stealer to hijack the accounts and abuse the systems' resources to mine cryptocurrency. Bitdefender is calling the malware S1deload Stealer for its use of DLL side-loading techniques to get past security defenses and execute its malicious components. "Once infected, S1deload Stealer steals
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Australian Healthcare Sector Targeted in Latest Gootkit Malware Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — January 11th 2023 at 14:24
A recent wave of Gootkit malware loader attacks has targeted the Australian healthcare sector by leveraging legitimate tools like VLC Media Player. Gootkit, also called Gootloader, is known to employ search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics (aka spamdexing) for initial access. It typically works by compromising and abusing legitimate infrastructure and seeding those sites with common
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Hackers Sign Android Malware Apps with Compromised Platform Certificates

By Ravie Lakshmanan — December 2nd 2022 at 13:56
Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps. The findings were first discovered and reported by Google reverse engineer Łukasz Siewierski on Thursday. "A platform certificate is the application signing certificate used to sign the 'android' application on the system image," a report filed through the
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Xiaomi Phones with MediaTek Chips Found Vulnerable to Forged Payments

By Ravie Lakshmanan — August 12th 2022 at 12:20
Security flaws have been identified in Xiaomi Redmi Note 9T and Redmi Note 11 models, which could be exploited to disable the mobile payment mechanism and even forge transactions via a rogue Android app installed on the devices. Check Point said it found the flaws in devices powered by MediaTek chipsets during a security analysis of the Chinese handset maker's Trusted Execution Environment (TEE)
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