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Cisco Talos will be well-represented at BlackHat and DEF CON over the course of the next few weeks with a slew of presentations, demos and appearances to speak to the security community.

A hacktivist group known as Mysterious Team Bangladesh has been linked to over 750 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and 78 website defacements since June 2022. "The group most frequently attacks logistics, government, and financial sector organizations in India and Israel," Singapore-headquartered cybersecurity firm Group-IB said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "The group is

By Waqas Cado Security Labs' 2023 Cloud Threat Findings Report dives deep into the world of cybercrime, cyberattacks, and vulnerabilities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: SSH Remains Most Targeted Service in Cado’s Cloud Threat Report

By Habiba Rashid The culprits behind the cyber attacks call themselves the Cyber Avengers, with an apparent connection from Iran. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Israeli Oil Refinery Giant BAZAN Hit by Fresh Wave of Cyber Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed CherryBlos and FakeTrade by researchers, these two malware campaigns have been identified as potentially related by Trend Micro. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FakeTrade Android Malware Attack Steals Crypto Wallet Data

By Deeba Ahmed The servers for classic games like Modern Warfare 2, Modern Warfare 3, and Call of Duty Black Ops 1 and 2 were recently brought back online by Activision due to increasing demand from gamers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Modern Warfare 2 Servers Were Offline Amid Malware Attack

Discourse is an open source discussion platform. Prior to version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches, in multiple controller actions, Discourse accepts limit params but does not impose any upper bound on the values being accepted. Without an upper bound, the software may allow arbitrary users to generate DB queries which may end up exhausting the resources on the server. The issue is patched in version 3.0.6 of the `stable` branch and version 3.1.0.beta7 of the `beta` and `tests-passed` branches. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

By Habiba Rashid So far, Spyhide app collected 3.3 million texts and 1.2 million call logs from compromised Android devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iranian Stalkerware ‘Spyhide’ Steals Data from 60,000 Android Devices

Misconfigured and poorly secured Apache Tomcat servers are being targeted as part of a new campaign designed to deliver the Mirai botnet malware and cryptocurrency miners. The findings come courtesy of Aqua, which detected more than 800 attacks against its Tomcat server honeypots over a two-year time period, with 96% of the attacks linked to the Mirai botnet. Of these attack attempts, 20% (or

A severe privilege escalation issue impacting MikroTik RouterOS could be weaponized by remote malicious actors to execute arbitrary code and seize full control of vulnerable devices. Cataloged as CVE-2023-30799 (CVSS score: 9.1), the shortcoming is expected to put approximately 500,000 and 900,000 RouterOS systems at risk of exploitation via their web and/or Winbox interfaces, respectively,