Cybersecurity researchers have warned about a Windows version of a wiper malware that was previously observed targeting Linux systems in cyber attacks aimed at Israel. Dubbed BiBi-Windows Wiper by BlackBerry, the wiper is the Windows counterpart of BiBi-Linux Wiper, which has been put to use by a pro-Hamas hacktivist group in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war last
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The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google’s Mandiant, which described the hack as a “multi-event cyber attack” leveraging a novel technique for impacting industrial control systems (ICS). “The actor first used OT-level living-off-the-land (LotL) techniques to
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Google is rolling out a new banner to highlight the “Independent security review” badge in the Play Store’s Data safety section for Android VPN apps that have undergone a Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA) audit. “We’ve launched this banner beginning with VPN apps due to the sensitive and significant amount of user data these apps handle,” Nataliya
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A new set of 48 malicious npm packages have been discovered in the npm repository with capabilities to deploy a reverse shell on compromised systems. “These packages, deceptively named to appear legitimate, contained obfuscated JavaScript designed to initiate a reverse shell on package install,” software supply chain security firm Phylum said. All the counterfeit packages have
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