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Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new phishing campaign that has been identified as targeting people in Pakistan using a custom backdoor. Dubbed PHANTOM#SPIKE by Securonix, the unknown threat actors behind the activity have leveraged military-related phishing documents to activate the infection sequence. "While there are many methods used today to deploy malware, the threat actors

The new remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed SpiceRAT was used by the threat actor SneakyChef in a recent campaign targeting government agencies in EMEA and Asia.

A malvertising campaign is leveraging trojanized installers for popular software such as Google Chrome and Microsoft Teams to drop a backdoor called Oyster (aka Broomstick and CleanUpLoader). That's according to findings from Rapid7, which identified lookalike websites hosting the malicious payloads that users are redirected to after searching for them on search engines like Google and Bing. The

An issue was discovered in the events2 (aka Events 2) extension before 8.3.8 and 9.x before 9.0.6 for TYPO3. Missing access checks in the management plugin lead to an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability with the potential to activate or delete various events for unauthenticated users.

An issue was discovered in the friendlycaptcha_official (aka Integration of Friendly Captcha) extension before 0.1.4 for TYPO3. The extension fails to check the requirement of the captcha field in submitted form data, allowing a remote user to bypass the captcha check. This only affects the captcha integration for the ext:form extension.

IntelBroker is offering source code from major companies for sale. Are they demonstrating the value of a zero-day they are also selling?

ClassGraph before 4.8.112 was not resistant to XML eXternal Entity (XXE) attacks.

The notorious cyber espionage group has been harrying French interests for years, and isn't flagging now as the Paris Olympics approach.

### Impact A parsing vulnerability in lnd's onion processing logic led to a DoS vector due to excessive memory allocation. ### Patches The issue was patched in lnd [v0.17.0](https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.17.0-beta). Users should update to a version >= v0.17.0 to be protected. ### References Detailed blog post: https://morehouse.github.io/lightning/lnd-onion-bomb/ Developer discussion: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/dos-disclosure-lnd-onion-bomb/979

On March 8, 2024, KrebsOnSecurity published a deep dive on the consumer data broker Radaris, showing how the original owners are two men in Massachusetts who operated multiple Russian language dating services and affiliate programs, in addition to a dizzying array of people-search websites. The subjects of that piece are threatening to sue KrebsOnSecurity for defamation unless the story is retracted. Meanwhile, their attorney has admitted that the person Radaris named as the CEO from its inception is a fabricated identity.