May 2022

A New Trending Hacking Technique Called “Account Pre-Hijacking”

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According to new research, malicious actors can get illegal access to users’ online accounts via a new approach known as “account pre-hijacking.” The assault targets the account creation process, which is common on websites and other online platforms, allowing an adversary to carry out a series of operations before an unwary victim establishes an account […]

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U.S. Warns Against North Korean Hackers Posing as IT Freelancers

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Highly skilled software and mobile app developers from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) are posing as “non-DPRK nationals” in hopes of landing freelance employment in an attempt to enable the regime’s malicious cyber intrusions. That’s according to a joint advisory from the U.S. Department of State, the Department of the Treasury, and the

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Researchers Find Potential Way to Run Malware on iPhone Even When it’s OFF

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A first-of-its-kind security analysis of iOS Find My function has identified a novel attack surface that makes it possible to tamper with the firmware and load malware onto a Bluetooth chip that’s executed while an iPhone is “off.” The mechanism takes advantage of the fact that wireless chips related to Bluetooth, Near-field communication (NFC), and

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Web Trackers Caught Intercepting Online Forms Even Before Users Hit Submit

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A new research published by academics from KU Leuven, Radboud University, and the University of Lausanne has revealed that users’ email addresses are exfiltrated to tracking, marketing, and analytics domains before such is submitted and without prior consent. The study involved crawling 2.8 million pages from the top 100 websites, and found that as many

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