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A researcher managed to hack systems of over 35 major tech companies including Microsoft, Apple, PayPal, Shopify, Netflix, Tesla, Yelp, Tesla, and Uber in a novel software supply chain attack. For his ethical hacking research efforts, the researcher has been awarded over $130,000 in bug bounties.
New phishing attack uses Morse code to hide malicious URLs By 10:40 AM A new targeted phishing campaign includes the novel obfuscation technique of using Morse code to hide malicious URLs in an email attachment. Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail invented morse code as a way of transmitting messages across telegraph wire. When using Morse code, each letter and number is encoded as a series of dots (short sound) and dashes (long sound). Starting last week, a threat actor began utilizing Morse code to hide malicious URLs in their phishing form to bypass secure mail gateways and mail filters. Bleepin...
Latest macOS Big Sur also has SUDO root privilege escalation flaw By 06:00 AM A recently discovered heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Linux SUDO also impacts the latest version of Apple macOS Big Sur, with no patch available yet. Last week, BleepingComputer had reported on , a flaw in SUDO which lets local users gain root privileges. Sudo is a Unix program that enables system admins to provide limited root privileges to normal users listed in the sudoers file, while at the same time keeping a log of their activity. This helps limits the rights of standard users on an operati...
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is dealing with a ransomware incident that encrypted data and impacted two of its services that offer information to subscribers and the platform for peer review of various parts of the agency.
Here's how law enforcement's Emotet malware module works By New research released today provides greater insight into the Emotet module created by law enforcement that will uninstall the malware from infected devices in April. On January 27th, Europol announced that a joint operation between law enforcement agencies from Netherlands, Germany, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Lithuania, Canada, and Ukraine took control of the Emotet botnet's servers and disrupted the malware's operation. After the takedown, researchers noticed that the Emotet botnet began to push down a module...