From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Malware Posing as WordPress Caching Plugin
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From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Malware Posing as WordPress Caching Plugin

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new sophisticated strain of malware that masquerades a WordPress plugin to stealthily create administrator accounts and remotely control a compromised site. "Complete with a professional looking opening comment implying it is a caching plugin, this rogue code contains numerous functions, adds filters to prevent itself from being included in the list
From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Ongoing Attacks Targeting Asian Governments and Telecom Giants
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From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Ongoing Attacks Targeting Asian Governments and Telecom Giants

High-profile government and telecom entities in Asia have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign since 2021 that's designed to deploy basic backdoors and loaders for delivering next-stage malware. Cybersecurity company Check Point is tracking the activity under the name Stayin' Alive. Targets include organizations located in Vietnam, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Kazakhstan. "The simplistic
From The Hacker News – Two High-Risk Security Flaws Discovered in Curl Library – New Patches Released
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From The Hacker News – Two High-Risk Security Flaws Discovered in Curl Library – New Patches Released

Patches have been released for two security flaws impacting the Curl data transfer library, the most severe of which could potentially result in code execution. The list of vulnerabilities is as follows - CVE-2023-38545 (CVSS score: 7.5) - SOCKS5 heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability CVE-2023-38546 (CVSS score: 5.0) - Cookie injection with none file CVE-2023-38545 is the more severe of the