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Category: Cyber Security

Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware

Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware

A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection that allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system of

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Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights

Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights

An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them,” the Australian Federal

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Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks

Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks

A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting downstream customers at severe risks. The vulnerabilities allow “any malicious actor to claim ownership over thousands of unclaimed pods and insert malicious code into many of the

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Indian Software Firm’s Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware

Indian Software Firm’s Products Hacked to Spread Data-Stealing Malware

Installers for three different software products developed by an Indian company named Conceptworld have been trojanized to distribute information-stealing malware. The installers correspond to Notezilla, RecentX, and Copywhiz, according to cybersecurity firm Rapid7, which discovered the supply chain compromise on June 18, 2024. The issue has since been remediated by Conceptworld as of June 24

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