In a joint statement, FBI, CISA, NSA officially blamed the Russian government for orchestrating the massive SolarWinds supply chain cyberattack.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/fbi-cisa-nsa-officially-blames-russia.html

WhatsApp updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Services, making data-sharing with Facebook mandatory for all.

IMPORTANT — You must accept it before February 8; otherwise, your account will be DELETED.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/whatsapp-will-delete-your-account-if.html

U.S. Department of Justice admits its Microsoft Office 365 email server was also compromised as part of the SolarWinds supply chain attack.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/solarwinds-hackers-also-accessed-us.html

ALERT: A North Korean hacking group is targeting the South Korean government with a new spear-phishing campaign deploying RokRat Trojan.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/alert-north-korean-hackers-targeting.html

🔥 A new side-channel attack (CVE-2021-3011) could let hackers extract your secret 2-factor authentication encryption keys from Google Titan, or other FIDO-enabled hardware security keys, and clone them for unauthorized access.

Read details — https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/new-attack-could-let-hackers-clone-your.html

NTFS Remote Code Execution (CVE-2020-17096) Analysis
https://blog.zecops.com/vulnerabilities/ntfs-remote-code-execution-cve-2020-17096-analysis/
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Android Security
Supplementary material for Android Trainings:
1) Deep Dive Android
2) Xtreme Android Hacking
3) Android Pentesting
https://github.com/anantshri/Android_Security
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Russian hacker 'Andrei Tyurin' gets 12-years of prison for the massive J.P. Morgan Chase hack & stealing a trove of personal information from several other financial institutions, brokerage firms, and financial news publishers.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/russian-hacker-gets-12-years-prison-for.html

Researchers find several similarities and code overlap between the Sunburst backdoor and a previously identified Turla group's Kazuar malware.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/researchers-find-links-between-sunburst.html

The U.S. government has also officially blamed Russian hackers for SolarWinds cyberattack

—— Unveiled ——

Researchers finally discovered how SUNBURST backdoor was inserted into the SolarWinds software.

Hackers used a 3rd malware strain, dubbed 'SUNSPOT,' that was deployed into the Orion platform's build environment.

Read details: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/unveiled-sunspot-malware-was-used-to.html

Getting root on a 4G LTE mobile hotspot (Alcatel MW41)
https://alex.studer.dev/2021/01/04/mw41-1
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In a Europol-led operation, authorities have taken down—DarkMarket—the world's largest illegal marketplace on the dark web, specialized in the sales of drugs, counterfeit money, stolen credit card data, anonymous SIM cards, and off-the-shelf malware.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/authorities-take-down-worlds-largest.html

Cybersecurity experts sound alarm on a new Android spyware sold on hacking forums—marketed by a 25-year-old #Indian vendor.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/experts-sound-alarm-on-new-android.html

It can exfiltrate photos, locations, contacts & messages from popular apps such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram

Warning — Researchers took the wraps off a new spyware operation targeting users in Pakistan that leverages trojanized versions of legitimate Android apps to carry out covert surveillance and espionage.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/warning-5-new-trojanized-android-apps.html

Patch Tuesday, Jan 2021

Microsoft releases Windows updates to patch a total of 83 newly discovered security flaws, including an actively exploited zero-day RCE vulnerability affecting Defender (CVE-2021-1647) application.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/microsoft-issues-patches-for-defender.html

⚠️ WARNING : "A sophisticated threat actor" compromised the digital certificate 'Mimecast' provided to certain customers to connect its products securely with cloud-based #Microsoft 365 Exchange.

Read details here: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/hackers-steal-mimecast-certificate-used.html

Intel adds hardware-enabled ransomware detection to its newly announced 11th generation Core vPro business-class processors.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/intel-adds-hardware-enabled-ransomware.html

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a series of attacks by a threat actor of Chinese origin (Winnti or APT41) that has targeted organizations in Russia and Hong Kong with malware — including a previously undocumented backdoor.

https://thehackernews.com/2021/01/researchers-disclose-undocumented.html