…The text contains scripts that, once entered, perform malicious actions, typically by installing malware or exfiltrating sensitive data. Ukraine’s CERT said Wednesday that Sandworm , an advanced hacking unit inside the GRU…
Russian state hackers are using a maximum-severity vulnerability in Microsoft’s Outlook’s Exchange Server to backdoor unpatched machines and steal credentials and other confidential information from them, security researchers said…
The federal government is warning users of home and small office routers to secure their devices as Russia state hackers continue to mass-compromise them for use in obscuring nefarious actions against…
… Most, but not all, of the packages had been taken down in the hours following the incident. “Organizations should treat any system that installed one of the affected @redhat-cloud-services package versions as potentially compromised,” Socket researchers wrote. “The payload executes during npm insta… …
…The text contains an instruction for the app to install a reverse shell on the LLM user’s machine. Alternatively, the attacker can simply include the code required to install the shell…
…In other cases, hackers who gain limited access to a BMC can use it to install an old, unpatched, or backdoored firmware image. Then the hacker can use control of the OS…
…install malware that steals credentials or performs other more nefarious activities. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption…
…Without Secure Boot, attackers with brief physical access to a device—even when it’s turned off—can install bootkits similar to LoJax used by Russia state hackers in 2018, MosaicRegressor found…
…Microsoft has said it has spotted signs that hackers are experimenting with Dirty Frag in the wild. Immediate and significant threat The leaked exploit is deterministic, meaning it works precisely the same…
… Bootkits survive OS reinstallations as well. …