Now, even Russia's most elite hackers are using Clickfix to infect devices
… In other cases, the hacking group engaged targets in extended conversations over Signal. …
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Max-severity Exchange server flaw under active exploitation by Kremlin hackers
… Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. …
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
… The actions to date are little more than whack-a-mole exercises as the operators simply replace their botnets with new ones. …
Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel
… Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. …
Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
… Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. …
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
… 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 to further tamper with the BMC. …
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
… Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords. …
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
… The prospect that attackers have had the means to bypass Secure Boot for more than a decade through what amounts to hack-by-numbers scripts isn’t much of an endorsement of the mechanism proposed by Microsoft in partnership with hardware makers. …
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
… Microsoft has said it has spotted signs that hackers are experimenting with Dirty Frag in the wild. …
Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near
… Bootkits survive OS reinstallations as well. …