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By Waqas Nitrokod crypto miner mines Monero (XMR) coin on infected devices and so far it has targeted 111,000 unsuspecting users in 11 countries. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nitrokod Crypto Miner Hiding in Fake Microsoft and Google Translate Apps

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 6.0, .NET 5.0 and .NET Core 3.1. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. A vulnerability exists in .NET 6.0, .NET 5.0 and .NET core 3.1 where a malicious client can can cause a denial of service when HTML forms are parsed. ### Affected software * Any .NET 6.0 application running on .NET 6.0.4 or earlier. * Any .NET 5.0 application running .NET 5.0.16 or earlier. * Any .NET Core 3.1 application running on .NET Core 3.1.24 or earlier. #### Affected packages **.NET Core 3.1** | Package name | Affected version | Patched version | |---------------------------------------------------|---------------------|---------------| | Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 | >=3.0.0,3.1.24 | 3.1.25 | | Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.linux-x64 | >=3.0.0,3....

Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information about a vulnerability in .NET 6.0, .NET 5.0 and .NET Core 3.1. This advisory also provides guidance on what developers can do to update their applications to remove this vulnerability. A vulnerability exists in .NET 6.0, .NET 5.0 and .NET core 3.1 where a malicious client can manipulate cookies and cause a Denial of Service. ### Affected software * Any .NET 6.0 application running on .NET 6.0.4 or earlier. * Any .NET 5.0 application running .NET 5.0.16 or earlier. * Any .NET Core 3.1 application running on .NET Core 3.1.24 or earlier. #### Affected packages **.NET Core 3.1** | Package name | Affected versions | Patched versions | |---------------------------------------------------|-------------------|------------------| | Microsoft.Owin.Security.Cookies | <=4.21 | 4.22 | | Microsoft.Owin.Security | <=4.21 ...

The phishing campaign deploying a ScanBox reconnaissance framework has targeted the Australian government and companies maintaining wind turbines in the South China Sea.

Aaron Adams discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly handle the removal of stateful expressions in some situations, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. Ziming Zhang discovered that the netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel did not properly validate sets with multiple ranged fields. It was discovered that the implementation of POSIX timers in the Linux kernel did not properly clean up timers in some situations. Various other vulnerabilities were also discovered.

By Vanja Svajcer Cisco Talos recently observed three separate, but related, campaigns between March and June 2022 delivering a variety of threats, including the ModernLoader bot, RedLine information-stealer and cryptocurrency-mining malware to victims. The actors use PowerShell, .NET assemblies, and HTA and VBS files to spread across a targeted network, eventually dropping other pieces of malware, such as the SystemBC trojan and DCRAT, to enable various stages of their operations. The attackers' use of a variety of off-the-shelf tools makes it difficult to attribute this activity to a specific adversary. The final payload appears to be ModernLoader, which acts as a remote access trojan (RAT) by collecting system information and deploying various modules. In the earlier campaigns from March, we also observed the attackers delivering the cryptocurrency mining malware XMRig. The March campaigns appeared to be targeting Eastern European users, as the constructor utility we analyzed had...

By Deeba Ahmed HelloTalk, GoogleClassroom, ClassDojo, and Duolingo turned out to be the top 3 educational apps that collect the most user data from Android devices. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: What Are the Top 10 Android Educational Apps That Collect Most User Data?

Low/no-code tools allow citizen developers to design creative solutions to address immediate problems, but without sufficient training and oversight, the technology can make it easy to make security mistakes.

Citizen development allows users to design creative solutions for immediate problems, but it requires training and oversight to avoid security holes.

A Turkish-speaking entity called Nitrokod has been attributed to an active cryptocurrency mining campaign that involves impersonating a desktop application for Google Translate to infect over 111,000 victims in 11 countries since 2019.  "The malicious tools can be used by anyone," Maya Horowitz, vice president of research at Check Point, said in a statement shared with The Hacker News. "They can