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By Owais Sultan The world of cybersecurity is nearing a point of no return, with the number of data breaches, password… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cybersecurity Has Never Been More Unstable Than It Is Now

Apache OpenOffice supports the storage of passwords for web connections in the user's configuration database. The stored passwords are encrypted with a single master key provided by the user. A flaw in OpenOffice existed where the required initialization vector for encryption was always the same which weakens the security of the encryption making them vulnerable if an attacker has access to the user's configuration data. This issue affects: Apache OpenOffice versions prior to 4.1.13. Reference: CVE-2022-26306 - LibreOffice

Categories: A week in security Categories: News The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week. (Read more...) The post A week in security (August 8 - August 14) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

A now-removed rogue package pushed to the official third-party software repository for Python has been found to deploy cryptominers on Linux systems. The module, named "secretslib" and downloaded 93 times prior to its deletion, was released to the Python Package Index (PyPI) on August 6, 2022 and is described as "secrets matching and verification made easy." "On a closer

Categories: Podcast This week on Lock and Code, we speak with pen-tester Mike Miller about how he successfully breached a client's offices with little more than a box of donuts. (Read more...) The post Donut breach: Lessons from pen-tester Mike Miller: Lock and Code S03E17 appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

A pair of reports from cybersecurity firms SEKOIA and Trend Micro sheds light on a new campaign undertaken by a Chinese threat actor named Lucky Mouse that involves leveraging a trojanized version of a cross-platform messaging app to backdoor systems. Infection chains leverage a chat application called MiMi, with its installer files compromised to download and install HyperBro samples for the

An injection flaw allowed a researcher to access all files on a Mac. Apple issued a fix, but some machines may still be vulnerable.

Categories: News Categories: Privacy At Black Hat, a cybersecurity expert presented an anti-stalking tool they made for a friend. (Read more...) The post Anti-tracking tool tells you if you're being followed appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

The popular video meeting app makes it easy to keep the software up to date—but it also introduced vulnerabilities.

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 5 and Aug. 12. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics, indicators of compromise, and discussing how our customers are automatically protected from these threats. As a reminder, the information provided for the following threats in this post is non-exhaustive and current as of the date of publication. Additionally, please keep in mind that IOC searching is only one part of threat hunting. Spotting a single IOC does not necessarily indicate maliciousness. Detection and coverage for the following threats is subject to updates, pending additional threat or vulnerability analysis. For the most current information, please refer to your Firepower Management Center, Snort.org, or ClamAV.net. For each threat described below, this blog post only lists 25...