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Pulse Secure VPN zero-day used to hack defense firms, govt orgs

Pulse Secure has shared mitigation measures for a zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability in the Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) SSL VPN appliance actively exploited against US Defense Industrial base (DIB) networks and worldwide organizations. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pulse-secure-vpn-zero-day-used-to-hack-defense-firms-govt-orgs/
WhatsApp Pink malware can now auto-reply to your Signal, Telegram texts

WhatsApp malware dubbed WhatsApp Pink has now been updated with advanced capabilities that let this counterfeit Android app automatically respond to your Signal, Telegram, Viber, and Skype messages. WhatsApp Pink refers to a counterfeit app that appeared this week, primarily targeting WhatsApp users in the Indian subcontinent.  [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/whatsapp-pink-malware-can-now-auto-reply-to-your-signal-telegram-texts/
CISA orders federal orgs to mitigate Pulse Secure VPN bug by Friday

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a new emergency directive ordering federal agencies to mitigate an actively exploited vulnerability in Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) VPN appliances on their networks by Friday. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-federal-orgs-to-mitigate-pulse-secure-vpn-bug-by-friday/
Linux bans University of Minnesota for committing malicious code

Linux kernel project maintainers have imposed a ban on the University of Minnesota (UMN) from contributing to the open-source Linux project after a group of UMN researchers were caught submitting a series of malicious code commits, or patches that deliberately introduced security vulnerabilities in the official Linux project. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-bans-university-of-minnesota-for-committing-malicious-code/
Attackers can hide 'external sender' email warnings with HTML and CSS

The "external sender" warnings shown to email recipients by clients like Microsoft Outlook can be hidden by the sender, as demonstrated by a researcher. Turns out, all it takes for attackers to alter the "external sender" warning, or remove it altogether from emails is just a few lines of HTML and CSS code. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/attackers-can-hide-external-sender-email-warnings-with-html-and-css/