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The iPhones belonging to nearly three dozen journalists, activists, human rights lawyers, and civil society members in Jordan have been targeted with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to joint findings from Access Now and the Citizen Lab. Nine of the 35 individuals have been publicly confirmed as targeted, out of whom six had their devices compromised with the mercenary

Russian state-sponsored actors have staged NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hash relay attacks through various methods from April 2022 to November 2023, targeting high-value targets worldwide. The attacks, attributed to an "aggressive" hacking crew called APT28, have set their eyes on organizations dealing with foreign affairs, energy, defense, and transportation, as well as those involved with

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned that more than 2,000 computers in the country have been infected by a strain of malware called DirtyMoe. The agency attributed the campaign to a threat actor it calls UAC-0027. DirtyMoe, active since at least 2016, is capable of carrying out cryptojacking and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. In March

Exposed Docker API endpoints over the internet are under assault from a sophisticated cryptojacking campaign called Commando Cat. "The campaign deploys a benign container generated using the Commando project," Cado security researchers Nate Bill and Matt Muir said in a new report published today. "The attacker escapes this container and runs multiple payloads on the

Google-owned Mandiant said it identified new malware employed by a China-nexus espionage threat actor known as UNC5221 and other threat groups during post-exploitation activity targeting Ivanti Connect Secure VPN and Policy Secure devices. This includes custom web shells such as BUSHWALK, CHAINLINE, FRAMESTING, and a variant of LIGHTWIRE. "CHAINLINE is a Python web shell backdoor that is

By Deeba Ahmed The Ivanti VPN vulnerabilities have plunged into a black hole. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ivanti VPN Flaws Exploited to Spread KrustyLoader Malware

TELSAT marKoni FM Transmitter version 1.9.5 has a hidden super administrative account factory that has the hardcoded password inokram25 that allows full access to the web management interface configuration.

TELSAT marKoni FM Transmitter version 1.9.5 is susceptible to unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges. An attacker can exploit a command injection vulnerability by manipulating the Email settings' WAN IP info service, which utilizes the wget module. This allows the attacker to gain unauthorized access to the system with administrative privileges by exploiting the url parameter in the HTTP GET request to ekafcgi.fcgi.

The transmitter has a hidden super administrative account 'factory' that has the hardcoded password 'inokram25' that allows full access to the web management interface configuration. The factory account is not visible in the users page of the application and the password cannot be changed through any normal operation of the device. The backdoor lies in the /js_files/LogIn_local.js script file. Attackers could exploit this vulnerability by logging in using the backdoor credentials for the web panel gaining also additional functionalities including: unit configuration, parameter modification, EEPROM overwrite, clearing DB, and factory log modification.

Ivanti is alerting of two new high-severity flaws in its Connect Secure and Policy Secure products, one of which is said to have come under targeted exploitation in the wild. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2024-21888 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A privilege escalation vulnerability in the web component of Ivanti Connect Secure (9.x, 22.x) and Ivanti Policy Secure (9.x, 22.x) allows