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Russian Courts Targeted by New CryWiper Data Wiper Malware Posing as Ransomware

A new data wiper malware called CryWiper has been found targeting Russian government agencies, including mayor's offices and courts. "Although it disguises itself as a ransomware and extorts money from the victim for 'decrypting' data, [it] does not actually encrypt, but purposefully destroys data in the affected system," Kaspersky researchers Fedor Sinitsyn and Janis Zinchenko said in a

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North Korean Hackers Spread AppleJeus Malware Disguised as Cryptocurrency Apps

The Lazarus Group threat actor has been observed leveraging fake cryptocurrency apps as a lure to deliver a previously undocumented version of the AppleJeus malware, according to new findings from Volexity. "This activity notably involves a campaign likely targeting cryptocurrency users and organizations with a variant of the AppleJeus malware by way of malicious Microsoft Office documents,"

A week in security (November 28 - December 4)

Categories: News Tags: week in security Tags: iSpoof Tags: Cyber Monday threats Tags: TikTok malware Tags: TikTok Tags: MDR Tags: fake Friendster Tags: South Dakota Tags: Cuba ransomware Tags: ransomware Tags: FCC The most interesting security related news from the week of November 28 to December 4. (Read more...) The post A week in security (November 28 - December 4) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

North Korean APT37 Unleashes Dolphin Backdoor on South Korea

By Habiba Rashid The backdoor is equipped with a wide range of spying capabilities, including exfiltrating files, keylogging, and stealing browser data, etc. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: North Korean APT37 Unleashes Dolphin Backdoor on South Korea

CVE-2022-44721: GitHub - purplededa/CVE-2022-44721-CsFalconUninstaller

CrowdStrike Falcon 6.44.15806 allows an administrative attacker to uninstall Falcon Sensor, bypassing the intended protection mechanism in which uninstallation requires possessing a one-time token. (The sensor is managed at the kernel level.)

Google Rolls Out New Chrome Browser Update to Patch Yet Another Zero-Day Vulnerability

Search giant Google on Friday released an out-of-band security update to fix a new actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Chrome web browser. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-4262, concerns a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript engine. Clement Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been credited with reporting the issue on November 29, 2022. Type confusion

Schoolyard Bully Malware Stealing Facebook Credentials on Android

By Deeba Ahmed The campaign is ongoing, and so far, Schoolyard Bully Malware has victimized over 300,000 Facebook users on Android devices across 71 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Schoolyard Bully Malware Stealing Facebook Credentials on Android

GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq: GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted PyPI package

### Impact Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed. This is due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the `.tar.gz` file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the `tarfile.TarFile.extractall` function. See also https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile.TarFile.extractall ### Remediation Upgrade to GuardDog v0.1.5 or more recent. ### References * https://semgrep.dev/r?q=trailofbits.python.tarfile-extractall-traversal.tarfile-extractall-traversal * https://www.trellix.com/en-us/about/newsroom/stories/research/tarfile-exploiting-the-world.html * https://docs.python.org/3/library/tarfile.html#tarfile.TarFile.extractall

8 Reasons Why Enterprises Use Java

By Owais Sultan Java is one of the most well-known programming languages and software platforms that is used on countless devices… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 8 Reasons Why Enterprises Use Java