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By Waqas With businesses continuing to generate a vast amount of data, from financial records to client information, understanding the… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Best Methods for Storing, Protecting Digital Company Files: Secure Strategies for Data Safety
tex-live version 944e257 suffers from a null pointer vulnerability.
CloudLinux CageFS versions 7.1.1-1 and below pass the authentication token as a command line argument. In some configurations this allows local users to view the authentication token via the process list and gain code execution as another user.
By Deeba Ahmed HP CEO Enrique Lores defended HP's practice of bricking printers when loaded with third-party ink. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: HP Claims Monopoly on Ink, Alleges 3rd-Party Cartridge Malware Risk
By Deeba Ahmed Conor Brian Fitzpatrick (Pompompurin on the forum) launched BreachForums in March 2022 after the FBI took down the then-popular cybercrime marketplace, RaidForums. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: BreachForums Admin Pompompurin Gets 20-Year Supervised Sentence
Russian state-sponsored actor Coldriver uses spear phishing attacks to install the Spica backdoor on victim systems.
The threat actor tracked as TA866 has resurfaced after a nine-month hiatus with a new large-volume phishing campaign to deliver known malware families such as WasabiSeed and Screenshotter. The campaign, observed earlier this month and blocked by Proofpoint on January 11, 2024, involved sending thousands of invoice-themed emails targeting North America bearing decoy PDF files. "The PDFs
## Summary By publishing specially crafted transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, the SPV maintainer can produce seemingly valid SPV proofs for fraudulent transactions. The issue was originally identified by Least Authority in the tBTC Bridge V2 Security Audit Report as _Issue B: Bitcoin SPV Merkle Proofs Can Be Faked_. A mitigation was believed to have been in place, but this turned out to contain an error, and the issue had not been effectively mitigated. ### Details This is achieved by creating a 64-byte transaction that the fraudulent transaction treats as a node in its merkle proof: The attacker creates the malicious transaction `E` and calculates an unusual but valid transaction `D`, so that the last 32 bytes of `D` are a part of the merkle proof of `E`: ``` D = foo | hash256(E') E' = bar | hash256(E) ``` `foo` and `bar` are arbitrary 32-byte values selected to facilitate this attack. The attacker can then publish `D` and wait for it to be mined. A valid SPV proof for `D` ...
By Deeba Ahmed Bespoke Baits for Big Brains - Mint Sandstorm Deploys New Tactics to Infiltrate Universities. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Iran’s Mint Sandstorm APT Hits Universities with Hamas-Israel Phishing Scam
The Russia-linked threat actor known as COLDRIVER has been observed evolving its tradecraft to go beyond credential harvesting to deliver its first-ever custom malware written in the Rust programming language. Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG), which shared details of the latest activity, said the attack chains leverage PDFs as decoy documents to trigger the infection sequence. The lures are