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🖋️ SharePoint Flaw Initially Listed as Spoofing by Microsoft Enables Authenticated RCE 🖋️

A SharePoint Server vulnerability that Microsoft initially classified as a spoofing flaw with a CVSS score of 6.5 actually enables authenticated remote code execution, according to full technical details published today by Viettel Cyber Security researcher Dinh Ho Anh Khoa. The flaw, CVE202665660, affects SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition. Patches have been.

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🖋️ Malicious npm Package indexed-btree Hid Its Loader in Runtime Code Before Removal 🖋️

A malicious npm package named "indexedbtree" has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls. "Indexedbtree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sortedbtree package, an ordinary Btreeindexing utility," Checkmarx said. ".

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🖋️ SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing 🖋️

The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spearphishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. "SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spearphishing campaigns that leverage the abuse of mshta.exe to execute malicious scripts and circumvent standard security protocols," Trellix researchers.

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🖋️ One Hidden Meta Muse Setting Could Let Attackers Turn the AI Assistant Into a Backdoor 🖋️

Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proofofconcept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the user taps the microphone and dictates a prompt, the words go to the attacker instead of Meta. The flaw is in.

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🖋️ WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session 🖋️

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a loggedin administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE202693485 and called "Comment2Shell," on September 17 in version 7.1.1 and told site owners to update right away. There is.

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🖋️ Zyxel and Veeam Flaws Under Active Exploitation With Command and SYSTEM Access 🖋️

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a nowpatched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE20267273 CVSS score 8.8, is a stackbased buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary operating.

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🖋️ Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR 🖋️

A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microsoft's own hardwarecompatibility program signs the driver, scored zero detections on VirusTotal when researchers.

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🖋️ Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto 🖋️

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. The primary targets of the campaign are individual web designers, engineers, and specialists in cryptocurrency,.

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🖋️ Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data 🖋️

Google has been fined 403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission DPC, Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing comply with the law within 6 months. The DPC has not said publicly which.

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🖋️ ⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks 🖋️

A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming back, exposed systems, weak checks, fake fixes, and attack paths that look almost too easy. Even the research side is getting messy, with more findings, more automation, and not.

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🖋️ TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASKSTOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised hosts. The backdoor "automatically harvests and exfiltrates business documents, watches the filesystem for new files in real time, steals WiFi passwords and clipboard contents, takes screenshots, and accepts arbitrary.

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📔 Network Segmentation Failures Are Expanding the Corporate Attack Surface 📔

Forescout warns that incomplete network segmentation is widening the potential blast radius of attacks.

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📔 AI Drives Surge in Bot and API Threats 📔

Akamai report warns of increase in bot traffic, API threats, chatbot leaks and other AIrelated threats.

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📔 CISOs Must Update Incident Response Playbooks for Multimodal Deepfakes, Gartner Warns 📔

Gartner warns that CISOs must update incident response playbooks as AIpowered deepfakes make social engineering attacks more convincing and harder to detect.

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📔 Google Hit with €403m GDPR Fine Over Location Data Practices 📔

The Irish DPC found that Google users were unaware that their location was being used to influence them with ads.

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📔 New Exvicy ClickFix Framework Built on Rival ErrTraffic's Code 📔

Sekoia said Exvicy, a new ClickFix MaaS framework, reused code from rival service ErrTraffic.

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📔 Attackers Abuse npm Trusted Publishing in GHAPPIER Campaign 📔

CloudSEK linked GHAPPIER to a compromised npm package with valid trustedpublishing provenance.

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📔 ShinyHunters Claim Hack of Rival Ransomware Gang Clop 📔

ShinyHunters has claimed responsibility for hacking the Clop ransomware group, defacing its leak site and alleging theft of key operational data.

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📔 AI Incident Response Readiness Lags Behind AI Adoption, ISACA Finds 📔

A new report by ISACA found that 71 of orgs have not run AI incident response exercises as teams face rising pressure.

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🖋️ AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement 🖋️

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May.

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🖋️ New CVSS 10.0 VeloCloud Orchestrator Flaw Actively Exploited in Certificate-Based Setups 🖋️

Attackers are exploiting a new flaw in onpremises VeloCloud Orchestrator VCO, the server that manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SDWAN, Arista said on September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE202693952, may allow a remote attacker with no login access to privilege internal functions and affect the VCO host. Only orchestrators set up to authenticate their Edges with certificates are.

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