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Iranian and Russian Entities Sanctioned for Election Interference Using AI and Cyber Tactics

Iranian and Russian Entities Sanctioned for Election Interference Using AI and Cyber Tactics

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Tuesday leveled sanctions against two entities in Iran and Russia for their attempts to interfere with the November 2024 presidential election. The federal agency said the entities – a subordinate organization of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and a Moscow-based affiliate of Russia’s Main

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15,000+ Four-Faith Routers Exposed to New Exploit Due to Default Credentials

15,000+ Four-Faith Routers Exposed to New Exploit Due to Default Credentials

A high-severity flaw impacting select Four-Faith routers has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-12856 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as an operating system (OS) command injection bug affecting router models F3x24 and F3x36. The severity of the shortcoming is lower due to the fact

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North Korean Hackers Deploy OtterCookie Malware in Contagious Interview Campaign

North Korean Hackers Deploy OtterCookie Malware in Contagious Interview Campaign

North Korean threat actors behind the ongoing Contagious Interview campaign have been observed dropping a new JavaScript malware called OtterCookie. Contagious Interview (aka DeceptiveDevelopment) refers to a persistent attack campaign that employs social engineering lures, with the hacking crew often posing as recruiters to trick individuals looking for potential job opportunities into downloading malware under the guise

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Cloud Atlas Deploys VBCloud Malware: Over 80% of Targets Found in Russia

Cloud Atlas Deploys VBCloud Malware: Over 80% of Targets Found in Russia

The threat actor known as Cloud Atlas has been observed using a previously undocumented malware called VBCloud as part of its cyber attack campaigns targeting “several dozen users” in 2024. “Victims get infected via phishing emails containing a malicious document that exploits a vulnerability in the formula editor (CVE-2018-0802) to download and execute malware code,” Kaspersky researcher

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