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Microsoft is warning of an uptick in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it's tracking as Storm-0539 for orchestrating gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attacks is to propagate booby-trapped links that direct victims to adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM

A new botnet consisting of firewalls and routers from Cisco, DrayTek, Fortinet, and NETGEAR is being used as a covert data transfer network for advanced persistent threat actors, including the China-linked threat actor called Volt Typhoon. Dubbed KV-botnet by the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen Technologies, the malicious network is an amalgamation of two complementary activity

Multiple security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the open-source Netgate pfSense firewall solution called pfSense that could be chained by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on susceptible appliances. The issues relate to two reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs and one command injection flaw, according to new findings from Sonar. "Security inside a local network is often

Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

By Waqas Polish authorities and FortiGuard Labs have issued a warning to customers about a new wave of cyberattacks associated with TeamCity. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russian APT29 Hacked US Biomedical Giant in TeamCity-Linked Breach

Everyone's New Year's Resolution should be to stop using passwords altogether.

By Deeba Ahmed The internet's underbelly is thriving on stolen identities and fake accounts, fueling mass phishing campaigns, identity theft rings, and DDoS attacks. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Busts Black Market for 100s of Millions of Fraudulent Accounts

Ten years in, Microsoft’s DCU has honed its strategy of using both unique legal tactics and the company’s technical reach to disrupt global cybercrime and state-backed actors.

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 116 malicious packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to infect Windows and Linux systems with a custom backdoor. "In some cases, the final payload is a variant of the infamous W4SP Stealer, or a simple clipboard monitor to steal cryptocurrency, or both," ESET researchers Marc-Etienne M.Léveillé and Rene

The Microsoft Windows Kernel has an issue with bad locking in registry virtualization that can result in race conditions.