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Threat hunters have identified a new campaign that delivers the ZLoader malware, resurfacing nearly two years after the botnet's infrastructure was dismantled in April 2022. A new variant of the malware is said to have been in development since September 2023, Zscaler ThreatLabz said in an analysis published this month. "The new version of Zloader made significant changes to the loader

Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Wei, VictorV! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.

**According to the CVSS metric, a successful exploitation could lead to a scope change (S:C). What does this mean for this vulnerability?** This vulnerability could lead to a browser sandbox escape.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise revealed in a filing that it was breached by Russian group Cozy Bear, similar to Microsoft.

A now-patched security flaw in Microsoft Outlook could be exploited by threat actors to access NT LAN Manager (NTLM) v2 hashed passwords when opening a specially crafted file. The issue, tracked as CVE-2023-35636 (CVSS score: 6.5), was addressed by the tech giant as part of its Patch Tuesday updates for December 2023. "In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the

Cybersecurity researchers have detected in the wild yet another variant of the Phobos ransomware family known as Faust. Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, which detailed the latest iteration of the ransomware, said it's being propagated by means of an infection that delivers a Microsoft Excel document (.XLAM) containing a VBA script. "The attackers utilized the Gitea service to store several files

Disk Clean-up is a utility which is part of Windows operating systems and can free up hard drive disk space by deleting mainly cache and… Continue reading → Persistence – Disk Clean-up

Disk Clean-up is a utility which is part of Windows operating systems and can free up hard drive disk space by deleting mainly cache and… Continue reading → Persistence – Disk Clean-up

Plus: North Korean hackers get into generative AI, a phone surveillance tool that can monitor billions of devices gets exposed, and ambient light sensors pose a new privacy risk.

By Uzair Amir While cybercriminals create their toolbox, as a user you should also keep yourself ready for unsuspecting cyberattacks and keep a safety toolbox for your defence. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Building Your Defense Toolbox: Tools and Tactics to Combat Cyber Threats