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A Chinese state-sponsored hacking outfit has resurfaced with a new campaign targeting government, healthcare, technology, and manufacturing entities based in Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines, and Fiji after more than six months of no activity. Trend Micro attributed the intrusion set to a cyber espionage group it tracks under the name Earth Longzhi, which is a subgroup within APT41 (aka HOODOO

The tech industry’s transition to passkeys gets its first massive boost with the launch of the alternative login scheme for Google’s billions of users.

A sprawling online company based in Georgia that has made tens of millions of dollars purporting to sell access to jobs at the United States Postal Service (USPS) has exposed its internal IT operations and database of nearly 900,000 customers. The leaked records indicate the network's chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016.

By Waqas The raid took place at the Gothenburg office of Mullvad VPN on April 18th, 2023. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Mullvad VPN’s Office Raided By Police for User Data

The attackers were in thousands of corporate and government networks. They might still be there now. Behind the scenes of the SolarWinds investigation.

Mattermost Desktop App fails to validate a mattermost server redirection and navigates to an arbitrary website

In yet another instance of how threat actors are abusing Google Ads to serve malware, a threat actor has been observed leveraging the technique to deliver a new Windows-based financial trojan and information stealer called LOBSHOT. "LOBSHOT continues to collect victims while staying under the radar," Elastic Security Labs researcher Daniel Stepanic said in an analysis published last week. "One

The North Korean threat actor known as ScarCruft began experimenting with oversized LNK files as a delivery route for RokRAT malware as early as July 2022, the same month Microsoft began blocking macros across Office documents by default. "RokRAT has not changed significantly over the years, but its deployment methods have evolved, now utilizing archives containing LNK files that initiate

In affected versions of Octopus Deploy it is possible to unmask variable secrets using the variable preview function

3CX before 18 Hotfix 1 build 18.0.3.461 on Windows allows unauthenticated remote attackers to read %WINDIR%\system32 files via /Electron/download directory traversal in conjunction with a path component that has a drive letter and uses backslash characters. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2022-28005.