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An all-time hall-of-fame NSFW spam event occurred this week: a hacker broke into a school messaging app to send a picture of a guy’s gaping asshole to the parents of young school children across the country

School Messaging App Hacked to Spam Parents Nationwide With the Goatse Meme

gizmodo.com/seesaw-goatse-hack

State-backed Chinese hackers have developed a Linux variant for the SideWalk backdoor used against Windows systems belonging to targets in the academic sector

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Next-Gen Malware Takes Over Devices With Unique Tool Set

The Shikitega malware takes over IoT and endpoint devices, exploits vulnerabilities, uses advanced encoding, abuses cloud services for C2, installs a cryptominer, and allows full remote control

Article by Tara Seals

twitter.com/wirelesswench

darkreading.com/vulnerabilitie

Samsung is warning customers about a cybersecurity incident in July, where “an unauthorized third party acquired information from some of Samsung’s U.S. systems,” including things like names, birthdays, contact info, and product registration information

news.samsung.com/us/notice-us-

Ah, nothing like a classic Trojan horse

Watch out: someone is spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware disguised as legitimate-looking applications, such as Google Translate, on free software download sites and through Google searches

theregister.com/AMP/2022/08/30

Newly Uncovered PyPI Package Drops Fileless Cryptominer to Linux Systems

A now-removed rogue package pushed to the official third-party software repository for Python has been found to deploy cryptominers on Linux systems. The module, named "secretslib" and downloaded 93 times prior to its deletion

thehackernews.com/2022/08/newl

The SOVA Android banking trojan continues to evolve with new features, code improvements, and the addition of a new ransomware feature that encrypts files on mobile devices

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Android banking Trojan spotted in the wild AGAIN

Trojan SOVA is not just been spotted but it also has new features

SOVA V4 With new capabilities of targeting banking apps as well as over 200 other apps including crypto exchange wallets

infosecurity-magazine.com/news

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned US organizations today that attackers deploying Zeppelin ransomware might encrypt their files multiple times.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

CISA warns of Windows and UnRAR flaws exploited in the wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two more flaws to its catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, based on evidence of active exploitation.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Why You Need To Stop Using Instant Apps On Your Android Phone

Security concerns might deter you from instant apps

More concerning is speculation that, given the opportunity, a hacker could find a way to inject malicious code onto an unsuspecting user's device by exploiting vulnerabilities in Chrome and Android

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This high-severity vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to steal email account credentials in cleartext form from Zimbra Collaboration instances without user interaction.

In short, a hacker can perform Memcache poisoning via CRLF injection and trick the software into forwarding all IMAP traffic to the attacker when legitimate users attempt to log in

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2

Attackers are exploiting a well-known open redirect flaw to phish people’s credentials and personally identifiable information (PII) using American Express and Snapchat domains, researchers have found.

Separate phishing campaigns targeting thousands of victims impersonate FedEx and Microsoft, among others, to trick victims.

threatpost.com/open-redirect-f

Slack notified roughly 0.5% of its users that it reset their passwords after fixing a bug exposing salted password hashes when creating or revoking shared invitation links for workspaces.

When a user performed either of these actions, Slack transmitted a hashed version of their password (not plaintext) to other workspace members, Slack told BleepingComputer.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Chromium Browsers Allow Data Exfiltration via Bookmark Syncing

"Bruggling" emerges as a novel technique for pilfering data out from a compromised environment — or for sneaking in malicious code and attack tools.

darkreading.com/cloud/chromium

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