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Unpatched Pixel devices are at risk for escalation of privileges, Google warns.

The threat-intelligence and cyberdefense company company will join Google Cloud and retain its brand name.

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed GIFShell; the technique allows attackers to create a reverse shell to facilitate malicious command delivery via base64-encoded GIFs in MS Teams. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers Leveraging Microsoft Team GIFs in Phishing Attacks

Categories: News The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week. (Read more...) The post A week in security (September 5 – 11) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

A state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) actor newly christened APT42 (formerly UNC788) has been attributed to over 30 confirmed espionage attacks against individuals and organizations of strategic interest to the Iranian government at least since 2015. Cybersecurity firm Mandiant said the group operates as the intelligence gathering arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (

By Waqas When it comes to the best dark web search engines, first and foremost, you want a search engine that is private and secure, as well as one that can be used anonymously. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8 Online Best Dark Web Search Engines for Tor Browser (2022)

By Deeba Ahmed According to local media, this is an "extremely serious" leak because EMGFA, Portugal's armed forces' central unit, stores secret NATO information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Sensitive NATO Data Stolen in Cyberattack on Portugal’s Armed Forces

By Jon Munshaw.  Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter.  It seems like there’s at least one major password breach every month — if not more. Most recently, there was an incident at Plex where all users had to reset their passwords.   Many users pay for a password management service — which is something I’ve talked about a ton for Talos. But even those aren’t a one-size-fits-all solution. LastPass, one of the most popular password management services, recently suffered a breach of their own internal development environment, though as of right now, it doesn’t appear like any users’ primary passwords were compromised.  This got me curious about how people prefer to manage their passwords, so I threw up a poll on our Twitter asking our readers how they managed their passwords. Paid password management services like LastPass and 1Password were the most popular response, followed by web browser-based managers like the ones Chrome and Safari offer. Several o...

bilde2910 Hauk v1.6.1 requires a hardcoded password which by default is blank. This hardcoded password is hashed but stored within the config.php file server-side as well as in clear-text on the android client device by default.

Bminusl IHateToBudget v1.5.7 employs a weak password policy which allows attackers to potentially gain unauthorized access to the application via brute-force attacks. Additionally, user passwords are hashed without a salt or pepper making it much easier for tools like hashcat to crack the hashes.