Researchers warn of an ongoing hacking campaign targeting network routers, where attackers are exploiting a newly disclosed critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Arcadyan firmware.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/hackers-exploiting-new-auth-bypass-bug.html

Researchers have traced a string of cyberattacks against Israeli government institutions and IT providers to a Chinese cyberespionage group.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/experts-believe-chinese-hackers-are.html

Microsoft rolls out August 2021 Windows security updates to fix 44 newly discovered vulnerabilities, including one actively exploited zero-day.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/microsoft-releases-windows-updates-to.html

Adobe releases update for Magento to fix several critical pre-authentication vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of thousands of e-commerce sites.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/magento-update-released-fix-critical.html

In one of the largest heists of cryptocurrencies, hackers steal over 600 million worth of Binance Chain, Ethereum, and Polygon assets from Poly Network, a cross-chain decentralized financial platform (DeFi).

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/hacker-steal-over-600-million-worth-of.html

Researchers have uncovered a new class of vulnerabilities affecting major managed DNS providers that could allow attackers to spy on massive amount of DNS traffic and exfiltrate sensitive information from corporate networks.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/bugs-in-managed-dns-services-cloud-let.html

Microsoft warns of yet another UNPATCHED Windows Print Spooler vulnerability (CVE-2021-36958) allowing RCE attacks.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/microsoft-security-bulletin-warns-of.html

Users are advised to stop and disable the Print Spooler service to prevent malicious actors from exploiting the vulnerability.

Global IT consultancy giant Accenture has become the latest company to be hit by the LockBit ransomware gang.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/it-giant-accenture-hit-by-lockbit.html

Cybercriminals are now threatening to publish the stolen data online.

New research sheds light on a new Russian malware-as-a-service being sold and distributed on underground forums.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/experts-shed-light-on-new-russian.html

The malware is written in the Rust programming language and aims to steal passwords, crypto wallets and FTP client data.

Watch Out! Ransomware attackers are now actively exploiting vulnerabilities in Windows Print Spooler to compromise victims and spread laterally through the victim's network to distribute file-encrypting payloads to target systems.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/ransomware-gangs-exploiting-windows.html

Hackers are actively hunting for Microsoft Exchange servers with unpatched ProxyShell, ProxyOracle, and ProxyLogon vulnerabilities.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/hackers-actively-searching-for.html

Microsoft has discovered #phishing campaigns in which attackers use Morse code and other #encryption techniques to avoid detection.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/hackers-spotted-using-morse-code-in.html

#Facebook is expanding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for voice and video calls in Messenger, and is also testing an opt-in setting that will enable end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages.

Read Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/facebook-adds-end-to-end-encryption-for.html

Why Is There A Surge In Ransomware Attacks?

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/why-is-there-surge-in-ransomware-attacks.html

— Glowworm Attack —

Experts demonstrate a novel technique that uses the optical emanations from a device's power indicator LED to recover sounds from connected peripherals and spy on electronic conversations from up to 35 meters away.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/new-glowworm-attack-recovers-devices.html

New AdLoad malware variant bypasses Apple's security defenses to target macOS systems.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/new-adload-variant-bypasses-apples.html

Researchers discover dozens of STARTTLS #encryption related vulnerabilities affecting several popular email client software and services.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/dozens-of-starttls-related-flaws-found.html

Apple Mail, Gmail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Claws Mail, Mutt, Exim, Samsung Email and Yandex are some of them.

Researchers warn about weaknesses in the implementation of the TCP protocol in firewalls and middleboxes that attackers can exploit to launch reflected DoS amplification attacks.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/attackers-can-weaponize-firewalls-and.html

A new social engineering-driven malvertising campaign has been found targeting cryptocurrency users with the Cinobi banking trojan.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/malicious-ads-target-cryptocurrency.html

Rapid7 discloses a new UNPATCHED vulnerability (CVE-2021-22123) in Fortinet's Fortiweb Web Application Firewall (WAF) appliances that could be exploited by a remote, authenticated attacker to execute malicious commands on the system.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/unpatched-remote-hacking-zero-day-flaw.html