Hackers Embed Weaponized Word File into a PDF
To avoid detection, hackers employed a new method dubbed “MalDoc in PDF” to insert a malicious Word file into a PDF file. Despite having magic numbers…
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DreamBus Botnet Exploiting execution Flaw in RocketMQ servers
A vulnerability affecting Apache RocketMQ servers was publicly disclosed in May 2023, allowing remote code execution through a gateway. RocketMQ is a cloud-native platform for…
Two Men Arrested Following Poland’s Railway Signals Hack
Authorities in Poland arrested two individuals on suspicion of planning an unlawful hack into the communication network of the national railway, which caused delays in…
Akira Claims Jasper High School Data Breach, 60GB Exposed
In a recent cyberattack, the Akira ransomware group has directed their attention and claimed the Jasper High School data breach, marking another unfortunate cyber security…
Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
Several Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities have been discovered in Notepad++ that can be exploited by threat actors for malicious purposes. The severities of these vulnerabilities vary…
Microsoft Edge Privilege Escalation Flaw
Microsoft Edge has published a release note that mentioned a Privilege escalation vulnerability with the CVE ID of CVE-2023-36741 and has a CVSS Score of…
Tor Announces Proof-of-Work to Defend Against DoS Attacks
Tor (The Onion Router) has officially introduced a Proof-of-Work (PoW) mechanism to defend from attackers doing Denial of Service attacks. Users worldwide have widely adopted…
Sponsored Ads Scam Drain $74 Million From Australians
Australia’s National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC), through its initiative Scamwatch, has drawn attention to a concerning trend of online scams that cost the nation’s residents nearly…
Japan’s JPCERT warns of new ‘MalDoc in PDF’ attack technique
Japan’s JPCERT warns of new ‘MalDoc in PDF’ attack technique Pierluigi Paganini August 29, 2023 Japan’s JPCERT warns of a new recently detected ‘MalDoc in…
Microsoft Sounds Alarm on AiTM Attacks
Aug 29, 2023THNOnline Security / Cyber Threat Microsoft is warning of an increase in adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing techniques, which are being propagated as part of…
NBN Co targets apartment blocks for next fibre upgrade wave – Telco/ISP
NBN Co is hoping to strike agreements with the body corporates of 50,000 strata buildings nationwide for a subsidised upgrade to fibre. The network builder…
Rackspace spends $10m in ransomware cleanup costs
In November of the previous year, Rackspace, a well-known company providing cloud computing services, fell victim to a cyber-attack orchestrated by the Play Ransomware group.…