Wide-reaching phishing scams have been conducted by the Neanderthals threat operation using the malicious Telegram bot dubbed "Telekopye," reports The Hacker News.
Microsoft, Dell, and Lenovo laptops had faulty implementations of the Secure Device Connection Protocol in their fingerprint sensors, which enabled Windows Hello authentication bypass and potential app access and data exfiltration activities, SiliconAngle reports.
Threat actors have been targeting macOS devices with the Atomic Stealer information-stealing malware, also known as AMOS, through fraudulent web browser updates as part of the new "ClearFake" campaign, The Hacker News reports.
The newly discovered InfectedSlurs botnet is being built through the exploitation of two zero-day RCE vulnerabilities in routers and network video recorder devices.
Malware-free intrusions have become the leading cybersecurity threat against small- to medium-sized businesses, accounting for 56% of all cyber incidents during the third quarter, SiliconAngle reports.
New regulations have been introduced by the Federal Communications Commission to better protect consumers against increasingly prevalent SIM swapping attacks, reports BleepingComputer.
While Intel released a fix for the Reptar flaw — and that’s good — security pros say teams must keep the BIOS, OS, and drivers updated as a matter of course.
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