by Beck Bailey | Mar 29, 2024 | RSS
Details have emerged about a vulnerability impacting the “wall” command of the util-linux package that could be potentially exploited by a bad actor to leak a user’s password or alter the clipboard on certain Linux distributions. The bug, tracked as...
by Beck Bailey | Mar 29, 2024 | RSS
The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. It said “new project creation and new user registration” was...
by Beck Bailey | Mar 28, 2024 | RSS
Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. These missives draw on the recipient’s natural curiosity about being copied...
by Beck Bailey | Mar 28, 2024 | RSS
A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also known as XDealer, is a C++-based malware that offers the ability to...
by Beck Bailey | Mar 28, 2024 | RSS
The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country’s Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and...
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