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Credit card stealing malware bundles backdoor for easy reinstall

An almost impossible to remove malware set to automatically activate on Black Friday was deployed on multiple Magento-powered online stores by threat actors according to researchers at Dutch cyber-security company Sansec. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/credit-card-stealing-malware-bundles-backdoor-for-easy-reinstall/
Norway: Russian APT28 state hackers likely behind Parliament attack

Russian-backed hacking group APT28 has likely brute-forced multiple Norwegian Parliament (Stortinget) email accounts on August 24, 2020, according to the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST, short for Politiets Sikkerhetstjeneste). [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/norway-russian-apt28-state-hackers-likely-behind-parliament-attack/
Microsoft December 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 58 vulnerabilities

Today is Microsoft's December 2020 Patch Tuesday, and Windows administrators will be scrambling to put out fires, so be kind to them. As part of this Patch Tuesday, Microsoft fixed 58 security vulnerabilities and release a DNS cache poisoning vulnerability advisory. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-december-2020-patch-tuesday-fixes-58-vulnerabilities/
Credit card stealer hides in CSS files of hacked online stores

Credit card stealer scripts are evolving and become increasingly harder to detect due to novel hiding tactics. The latest example is a web skimmer that uses CSS code to blend within the pages of a compromised store and to steal customers' personal and payment information. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/credit-card-stealer-hides-in-css-files-of-hacked-online-stores/
DHS-CISA urges admins to patch OpenSSL DoS vulnerability

This week OpenSSL has released fixes for a high severity Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability, CVE-2020-1971. U.S. DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has warned admins to upgrade their vulnerable OpenSSL instances immediately. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dhs-cisa-urges-admins-to-patch-openssl-dos-vulnerability/
Cisco fixes new Jabber for Windows critical code execution bug

Cisco has addressed a new critical severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting several versions of Cisco Jabber for Windows, macOS, and mobile platforms after patching a related security bug in September. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-fixes-new-jabber-for-windows-critical-code-execution-bug/
Windows Kerberos Bronze Bit attack gets public exploit, patch now

Proof-of-concept exploit code and full details on a Windows Kerberos security bypass vulnerability have been published earlier this week by Jake Karnes, the NetSPI security consultant and penetration tester who reported the security bug to Microsoft. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/windows-kerberos-bronze-bit-attack-gets-public-exploit-patch-now/