Proofpoint researchers found that threat actors have been leveraging various phishing attack techniques to facilitate cryptocurrency theft, ZDNet reports.
The Hacker News reports that the popular Carrier LenelS2 HID Mercury access control system has been discovered by Trellix researchers to be impacted by up to four critical zero-day flaws, which could be exploited to obtain complete system control.
Attackers could launch a new attack dubbed "PACMAN" to compromise devices running on Apple's M1 chip, VentureBeat reports.The PACMAN attack involves successful guessing of the value of the pointer authentication code, which could then be disabled, preventing software vulnerability attack detection, according to a study from MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory researchers.
TechRepublic reports that one million Facebook account credentials have been stolen in just four months by a Colombia-based threat actor who had leveraged a fraudulent Facebook login portal used to collect victims' credentials.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint has been updated to isolate unmanaged Windows devices within organizations' networks that have been impacted or suspected to be affected by cyberattacks, BleepingComputer reports.
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