Mortal Kombat ransomware forms tag team with crypto-stealing malware

Categories: News

Tags: mortal kombat

Tags: ransomware

Tags: laplas clipper

Tags: cryptocurrency

Tags: encrypt

Tags: network

Tags: infect

Tags: ransom

Tags: demand

Tags: BAT file

Tags: email

Tags: phish

Tags: phishing

Tags: attachment

It’s like a choose your own adventure game gone horribly wrong.

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TikTok car theft challenge: Hyundai, Kia fix flaw

Categories: News

Tags: Hyundai

Tags: Kia

Tags: car theft hack

Tags: Kia Challenge

Tags: viral TikTok challenge

Tags: TikTok

Hyundai and Kia have released a software update to fix a car theft hack that went viral on TikTok, and resulted in at least eight fatalities.

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Ransomware pushes City of Oakland into state of emergency

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Oakland

Tags: ransomware

Tags: state of emergency

The Interim City Administrator of the City of Oakland declared a state of emergency.after a ransomware attack crippled the city’s services a week ago

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Arris router vulnerability could lead to complete takeover

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Yerodin Richards

Tags: Arris

Tags: routre

Tags: CVE-2022-45701

Tags: default credentials

A security researcher found an authenticated remote code execution vulnerability in very wide-spread Arris router models.

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Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: Hogwarts Legacy

Tags: video game survey scam

Tags: survey scam

Tags: Trojan dropper

Tags: adware

With Hogwarts Legacy becoming the popular game it was expected to be, online criminals have resorted to old tricks to get users clicking.

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WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: ad fraud

Tags: popunder

Tags: ads

Tags: fraud

Tags: wordpress

Tags: plugins

Popunders are the ideal vehicle to serve ad fraud. In this case, we investigate a scheme where a webpage you can’t see is loading a bunch of ads while code mimics user activity by scrolling and visiting links.

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Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Vodafone

Tags: Orange

Tags: Deutsche Telekom

Tags: Telefónica

Tags: TrustPid

Tags: Wolfie Christl

Tags: Aram Zucker-Scharff

The EU Commission has greenlit the merge of four EU telco giants to offer millions of subscribers a different kind of targeted ads.

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Update now! February’s Patch Tuesday tackles three zero-days

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: patch Tuesday

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: Apple

Tags: Adobe

Tags: SAP

Tags: Citrix

Tags: Cisco

Tags: Atlassian

Tags: Google

Tags: Mozilla

Tags: Forta

Tags: OpenSSH

Tags: CVE-2023-21823

Tags: CVE-2023-21715

Tags: OneNote

Tags: CVE-2023-23376

Tags: CVE-2023-21706

Tags: CVE-2023-21707

Tags: CVE-2023-21529

Tags: CVE-2023-21716

Tags: CVE-2023-23378

Tags: CVE-2023-22501

Tags: CVE-2023-24486

Tags: CVE-2023-24484

Tags: CVE-2023-24484

Tags: CVE-2023-24483

Tags: CVE-2023-25136

Tags: GoAnywhere

Microsoft has released updates to patch three zero-days and lots of other vulnerabilities and so have several other vendors

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Update now! Apple patches vulnerabilities in MacOS and iOS

Categories: Apple

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Tags: Apple

Tags: macOS Ventura

Tags: 13.2.1

Tags: iOS

Tags: iPadOS

Tags: 16.3.1

Tags: CVE-2023-23514

Tags: CVE-2023-23522

Tags: CVE-2023-23529

Tags: use after free

Tags: type confusion

Apple has released patches for macOS Ventura, iPadOs, and iOS. Among the patched vulnerabilities is a WebKit vulnerability which may have been exploited in the wild.

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