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A threat group known as Anonymous Sudan claimed that they were the ones who took down Cloudflare's website in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
Cloudflare confirmed that the outage resulted from a DDoS attack that only affected the www.cloudflare.com website without impacting other products or services. The company didn't attribute the attack to a specific threat actor.
"Cloudflare experienced a DDoS attack that caused intermittent connectivity issues to www.cloudflare.com for a few minutes. This DDoS attack did not affect any service or product capability that Cloudflare provides, and no customers were impacted by this incident," Read More..
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A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z.
"This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and VNC Viewer as seen in its infrastructure (domain names) and cloaking templates used to avoid detection," Malwarebytes' Jérôme Segura said.
While malvertising campaigns are known to set up replica sites advertising widely-used software, the latest activity marks a deviation in that the website mimics WindowsReport[.]com. Read More..
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Google is warning of multiple threat actors sharing a public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that leverages its Calendar service to host command-and-control (C2) infrastructure.
The tool, called Google Calendar RAT (GCR), employs Google Calendar Events for C2 using a Gmail account. It was first published to GitHub in June 2023.
"The script creates a 'Covert Channel' by exploiting the event descriptions in Google Calendar," according to its developer and researcher, who goes by the online alias MrSaighnal. "The target will connect directly to Google." Read More..
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The Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) has officially released CVSS v4.0, the next generation of its Common Vulnerability Scoring System standard, eight years after CVSS v3.0, and the previous major version.
CVSS is a standardized framework for assessing software security vulnerabilities' severity used to assign numerical scores or qualitative representation (such as low, medium, high, and critical) based on exploitability, impact on confidentiality, integrity, availability, and required privileges, with higher scores denoting more severe vulnerabilities.
It helps prioritize responses to security threats as it provides a consistent way to evaluate vulnerabilities' impact and compare risks across different systems and software. Read More..
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Samsung has unveiled a new security feature called 'Auto Blocker' as part of the One UI 6 update, offering enhanced malware protection on Galaxy devices.
Auto Blocker is an opt-in security feature that prevents the side-loading of risky apps (APKs) downloaded from outside the Galaxy Store and Google Play.
This is a measure to protect users from social engineering attacks that convince them to download and install APKs that infect them with malware or spyware. Read More..
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