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Pirated applications targeting Apple macOS users have been observed containing a backdoor capable of granting attackers remote control to infected machines. "These applications are being hosted on Chinese pirating websites in order to gain victims," Jamf Threat Labs researchers Ferdous Saljooki and Jaron Bradley said. "Once detonated, the malware will download and execute multiple payloads

By Waqas Bitdefender's latest research reveals that crypto scams on YouTube are at an all-time high, with no sign of slowing down in the near future. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: YouTube Crypto Con: Scammers Rake in $600K with Deepfakes and QR Codes

A malicious package uploaded to the npm registry has been found deploying a sophisticated remote access trojan on compromised Windows machines. The package, named "oscompatible," was published on January 9, 2024, attracting a total of 380 downloads before it was taken down. oscompatible included a "few strange binaries," according to software supply chain security firm Phylum, including a single

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Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-0267-03 - An update for java-17-openjdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support. Issues addressed include code execution and out of bounds access vulnerabilities.

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

Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) misconfigurations discovered in the open-source TensorFlow machine learning framework could have been exploited to orchestrate supply chain attacks. The misconfigurations could be abused by an attacker to "conduct a supply chain compromise of TensorFlow releases on GitHub and PyPi by compromising TensorFlow's build agents via

In many science fiction movies, the crew asks a computer to solve a problem. The computer comes on with a calm voice to introduce possible solutions. The crew listens carefully and continues the conversation as if talking to a colleague. This was a scientific fantasy not too long ago. Many kids dreamed about the ability to have a computer help them navigate the spaceship in uncharted territories. Fast forward to 2023, and this is no longer a sci-fi imagining but rather a reality. Yes, we are talking about the introduction and wide adoption of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).This tec

By Waqas Kaspersky has recently launched a tool called iShutdown, designed not only to detect the notorious Pegasus spyware but also to identify other malware threats on iOS devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Kaspersky’s iShutdown Tool Detects Pegasus Spyware on iOS Devices

There are also multiple vulnerabilities in AVideo, an open-source video broadcasting suite, that could lead to arbitrary code execution.