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Attackers check the victims’ Office 365 credentials in real time as they are typed into the phishing landing page, by using authentication APIs.
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Big tech companies have faced no shortage of scrutiny on their influence in politics, especially since 2016 elections. One complaint sometimes levied at Google, for instance, is that search suggestions favor a particular candidate. While the company said that search “does not favor any candidate or cause” during the 2016 elections, now the company has a better…
The Russia-linked threat group is harvesting credentials for Microsoft’s cloud offering, and targeting mainly election-related organizations.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an entirely new kind of Linux malware dubbed “CDRThief” that targets voice over IP (VoIP) softswitches in an attempt to steal phone call metadata. “The primary goal of the malware is to exfiltrate various private data from a compromised softswitch, including call detail records (CDR),” ESET researchers said in a Thursday…
Oh, hiding away, eh? The solar wind delivers hydrogen, usually discouraging the oxidation of iron into hematite on the lunar surface. However, each full moon finds our planetary companion behind the Earth, where it is protected from the solar wind. These monthly reprieves from the bombardment of hydrogen creates periodic times when oxygen can react with…
A group of researchers has detailed a new timing vulnerability in Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol that could potentially allow an attacker to break the encryption and read sensitive communication under specific conditions. Dubbed “Raccoon Attack,” the server-side attack exploits a side-channel in the cryptographic protocol (versions 1.2 and lower) to extract the shared secret…
Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. Portland, Oregon has become the first US city to ban the use of facial recognition tech by private businesses. Other cities like Boston, San Francisco, and Oakland have…
Bluetooth SIG—an organization that oversees the development of Bluetooth standards—today issued a statement informing users and vendors of a newly reported unpatched vulnerability that potentially affects hundreds of millions of devices worldwide. Discovered independently by two separate teams of academic researchers, the flaw resides in the Cross-Transport Key Derivation (CTKD) of devices supporting both —…
