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Friday, 08 April 2022 09:49
Crypto Mining Malware Targeting Amazon Lambda Serverless Environments
Written by Sean Kalinich
Some needs to let Gordan Freeman know that the Xen aliens are attacking Lambda, time to grab a crowbar and go to work. Ok, so there are no invaders from a border dimension coming and the Lambda in question is…
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Friday, 08 April 2022 05:13
The State of Banking and Financial Malware on Google’s Play Store is Just Bad
Written by Sean Kalinich
It looks like there has been another round of malware identified on the Google Play sore and, you guessed it, the majority is focused on banks and other financial institutions. The combination of apps found totals around 515,000 downloads. 500,000…
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Thursday, 07 April 2022 08:13
Twitter Moving to Allow Manipulation of Embedded Tweets on 3rd Party Websites
Written by Sean Kalinich
Twitter has been in the new a lot over the last few years. From deleting accounts of people and groups for very flimsy reasons to censoring posts that contain factual, but non-popular information. It seems that they just cannot help…
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Tuesday, 05 April 2022 10:32
Financial Threat Group, FIN7 Shows Signs of Evolving Tools and Coordination with Ransomware Groups
Written by Sean Kalinich
For some reason, malware, attacker tools, and even the threat groups themselves tend to be viewed and talked about as static objects (outside of the security and threat analytics world). Malware is just Malware, the same with Ransomware strains. Once…
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Tuesday, 05 April 2022 05:22
New Tactic Could be Used to Impact Charging Stations for Electronic Vehicles
Written by Sean Kalinich
Imagine you are standing at a charging station charging your shiny new EV. You smugly look at all the antiquated gas-powered cars as they pay large amounts of money to keep their old, polluting, conveyances functional. Suddenly your charging station…
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Monday, 04 April 2022 15:18
Hackers Compromise MailChimp to Pivot to Crypto and Finance
Written by Sean Kalinich
Over the weekend news surfaced that indicated users of Trezor hardware crypto wallets had received emails claiming Trezor had been breached and urging the user to reset their PIN as soon as possible. The emails turned out to be a…
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So, today is April 1st and with the net full of clever ideas to play a joke on readers it can be fun to sort through what is real and what is not. Because of this, we are going to…
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Wednesday, 30 March 2022 15:01
FBI Sent out an Advisory Alleging a Targeted Campaign Against State Election Officials
Written by Sean Kalinich
The FBI, on March 29th, released a Private Industry Notification with vague details on a potential Phishing campaign targeting election officials in at least nine US states. The information in the advisory gives very broad information without really saying much.…
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Wednesday, 30 March 2022 10:19
Lapsus$ Releases 70GB Allegedly from IT Firm Globant Data Despite Recent Arrests
Written by Sean Kalinich
Just when you might have thought things were calming down with Lapsus$, they bounce back from a “vacation” and dump what they are claiming is 70GB of data from IT group Globant. The leak comes after police in London announced…
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Monday, 28 March 2022 15:42
Google Releases 2nd Patch Now Advisory of 2022 as New Actively Exploited Zero-Day Shows Up.
Written by Sean Kalinich
Google pushed out a n Out-of-band patch for Chrome due to a high-severity on Friday (March 25th, 2022). The patch was pushed out quickly as the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-1096 is being actively exploited in the wild. CVE-2022-1096 is a…
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Monday, 28 March 2022 09:17
Okta Says they “made a mistake” Over Lapsus$ Incident
Written by Sean Kalinich
Lat week we reported on the quick change in Okta’s stance on a January security incident that turned out to be much larger and have the volatile hacking group Lapsus$ behind it. The original disclosure was that a single third-party…
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Thursday, 24 March 2022 07:56
After Admitting Breach, Okta Attempted to Downplay the Impact
Written by Sean Kalinich
On the 22nd of March Okta finally confirmed that they were breached in January for a period of 5 days. The breach, according to information now disclosed, happened due to the compromise of an account of a support engineer. The…
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Wednesday, 23 March 2022 09:39
Google Message and Phone Dialer App Quietly Collecting User Data without Consent
Written by Sean Kalinich
Once again Google has been caught with their hands in the personal data collection cookie jar. It seems that their Messages and Phone Dialer Apps were sending information about your calls and messages without giving the user any chance to…
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Wednesday, 23 March 2022 08:37
Microsoft Confirms Lapsus$ Attack and Data Theft release TTPs on the Group
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft has finally acknowledged the attack and theft of source code by the Lapsus$ group (tracked as DEV-0537). According to the announcement, a single user account was compromised to gain limited access to their systems and source code. The public…
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Tuesday, 22 March 2022 12:24
Okta, like Microsoft, Is Investigating Claims by Lapsus$ that They Have Been Breached
Written by Sean Kalinich
Earlier today we covered the leak of Microsoft source code by the Lapsus$ group. The group leaked a portion of the data they claim to have stolen in the form of a 37GB dump. This dump has added to the…
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Tuesday, 22 March 2022 09:13
Lapsus$ Leaks Some of the Source Code they Claim they Stole from Microsoft
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday we reported that the source code stealing group, Lapsus$, claimed they have breached and stollen source code from Microsoft. They made the announcement on their Telegram account by posting a screenshot of the projects they claimed to have access…
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