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A Windows trojan advertised on hacking forums for as little as $150 a month promises buyers access to a victim’s webcam, microphone, keystrokes and saved passwords, and comes with a set of features made to frighten the person on the other side of the screen. The malware, called KGB RAT, was analyzed by Group-IB malware…
Help Net Security
CEO said the workers were hired in Q2 and are still helping today…
The Register
Fake CAPTCHA checks are being used to do more than hide phishing pages. Attackers are turning the familiar “prove you’re human” step into a gateway for malware downloads, malicious browser notifications, and commands that victims are tricked into running themselves, according to Barracuda. The company found CAPTCHA abuse in 43% of the phishing-kit attacks it…
Help Net Security
91% of Americans have been targeted by a scam, and 17% have fallen victim to one, according to a new survey by Consumer Reports. Notably, 20% of respondents said the latest scam they encountered was personalized, indicating that attackers are increasingly using automation and public or leaked information to craft targeted phishing attacks.
KnowBe4
NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly let an attacker run code, and each requires a specific configuration to exploit.…
The Hacker News
Not sure if a link is safe? Malwarebytes Scam Link Check scans suspicious links for signs of phishing, scams, malware, and other online threats before you click.
Malwarebytes
A critical vulnerability affecting Cisco’s Secure Email Gateway product is allowing attackers to write arbitrary files on the underlying operating system. In an advisory issued on Wednesday, the company urged customers to apply available fixes after confirming that the flaw is being exploited in the wild. The flaw affects the product’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)…
CSO Online UK
Next.js released an out-of-band security update on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw. One code-execution flaw is in React Server Components, and the other in librsvg, the open-source library Next.js uses through the sharp package to handle SVG images. The fixes are in…
The Hacker News
Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site’s server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in Drupal 11.4.10, 11.3.19, and 10.6.19. An attacker cannot reach the flaw through core alone, the Drupal Security Team said in its advisory. Several exploit paths…
The Hacker News
Attackers are exploiting a newly disclosed flaw in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS firewall software to run code with root privileges, and US federal agencies have been ordered to fix it and check for compromise by October 17. Palo Alto Networks disclosed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, in a security advisory published October 14. The flaw…
CSO Online UK
US authorities have arrested two suspects and seized nearly 190 devices in a crackdown on North Korea’s fake remote IT workers. The FBI warns that the scheme is expanding to include identity theft, extortion and even threats of physical violence. North Korean operatives have been posing as US-based workers to quietly land remote IT jobs…
Bitdefender
Delivered via phishing, the malware provides reconnaissance, remote execution, and data exfiltration capabilities.
SecurityWeek