HeartCrypt’s wholesale impersonation effort
How the notorious Packer-as-a-Service operation built itself into a hydra
Bill Toulas reports: Automotive giant Scania confirmed it suffered a cybersecurity incident where threat actors used compromised credentials to breach its Financial Services systems and steal insurance claim documents. Scania told BleepingComputer that the attackers emailed several Scania employees, threatening to leak the data online unless their demands were met. … Late last week, threat…
Kaspersky has disclosed the details of over a dozen vulnerabilities discovered in a Mercedes-Benz MBUX infotainment system. The post Details Disclosed for Mercedes-Benz Infotainment Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Meta on Tuesday said it has made available a tool called WhatsApp Research Proxy to some of its long-time bug bounty researchers to help improve the program and more effectively research the messaging platform’s network protocol. The idea is to make it easier to delve into WhatsApp-specific technologies as the application continues to be a…
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an “auto-propagating” cryptocurrency mining botnet called Outlaw (aka Dota) that’s known for targeting SSH servers with weak credentials. “Outlaw is a Linux malware that relies on SSH brute-force attacks, cryptocurrency mining, and worm-like propagation to infect and maintain control over systems,” Elastic Security Labs said in a new analysis
Abdelaziz Fathi reports: Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said the $285 million exploit of Solana-based Drift Protocol shows multiple indicators associated with North Korea’s state-sponsored hacking groups. The firm’s assessment is based on onchain behavior, laundering patterns, and network-level signals that align with previous incidents attributed to DPRK-linked actors. The attack is the largest crypto exploit……
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious packages in the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerade as spellcheckers but contain functionality to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT). The packages, named spellcheckerpy and spellcheckpy, are no longer available for download, but not before they were collectively downloaded a little over 1,000 times. “Hidden inside the