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The Apple Emergency Update was deployed to address a critical Zero-day vulnerability impacting iOS and iPadOS versions earlier than 17.0.3. This flaw, designated as CVE-2023-42824, could potentially allow malicious actors to escalate their privileges on compromised devices. The vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild, prompting Apple to roll out security patches. The flaw resided in the kernel and could be abused by a local attacker to elevate their privileges, which Apple sought to rectify with improved checks in the update.Read More..
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Cybercriminals orchestrated a sophisticated phishing campaign, leveraging the EvilProxy phishing framework to exploit an open redirect vulnerability on the job search platform Indeed.com. The primary objective was to harvest Microsoft 365 credentials from high-ranking executives, especially those based in the US across various sectors including Banking, Insurance, Property Management, and Manufacturing. Read More..
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The Hacker News published A new ransomware family called 3AM has emerged in the wild after it was detected in a single incident in which an unidentified affiliate deployed the strain following an unsuccessful attempt to deliver LockBit (attributed to Bitwise Spider or Syrphid) in the target network.
"3AM is written in Rust and appears to be a completely new malware family," the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, said in a report shared with The Hacker News.
"The ransomware attempts to stop multiple services on the infected computer before it begins encrypting files. Once encryption is complete, it attempts to delete Volume Shadow (VSS) copies." Read More..
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September 13, 2023 The Hacker News published Spyware masquerading as modified versions of Telegram have been spotted in the Google Play Store that's designed to harvest sensitive information from compromised Android devices.
According to Kaspersky security researcher Igor Golovin, the apps come with nefarious features to capture and exfiltrate names, user IDs, contacts, phone numbers, and chat messages to an actor-controlled server. Read More..
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September 12, 2023 The Hacker News published A new information stealer malware called MetaStealer has set its sights on Apple macOS, making the latest in a growing list of stealer families focused on the operating system after Stealer, Pureland, Atomic Stealer, and Realst.
"Threat actors are proactively targeting macOS businesses by posing as fake clients in order to socially engineer victims into launching malicious payloads," SentinelOne security researcher Phil Stokes said in a Monday analysis. Read More..
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