From The Hacker News – New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Content and Online Risks to Children on the Rise
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From The Hacker News – New Report: Child Sexual Abuse Content and Online Risks to Children on the Rise

Certain online risks to children are on the rise, according to a recent report from Thorn, a technology nonprofit whose mission is to build technology to defend children from sexual abuse. Research shared in the Emerging Online Trends in Child Sexual Abuse 2023 report, indicates that minors are increasingly taking and sharing sexual images of themselves. This activity may occur consensually or
From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Grayling APT’s Ongoing Attack Campaign Across Industries
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From The Hacker News – Researchers Uncover Grayling APT’s Ongoing Attack Campaign Across Industries

A previously undocumented threat actor of unknown provenance has been linked to a number of attacks targeting organizations in the manufacturing, IT, and biomedical sectors in Taiwan. The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, part of Broadcom, attributed the attacks to an advanced persistent threat (APT) it tracks under the name Grayling. Evidence shows that the campaign began in February 2023 and
From The Hacker News – New Magecart Campaign Alters 404 Error Pages to Steal Shoppers’ Credit Cards
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From The Hacker News – New Magecart Campaign Alters 404 Error Pages to Steal Shoppers’ Credit Cards

A sophisticated Magecart campaign has been observed manipulating websites' default 404 error page to conceal malicious code in what's been described as the latest evolution of the attacks. The activity, per Akamai, targets Magento and WooCommerce websites, with some of the victims belonging to large organizations in the food and retail industries. "In this campaign, all the victim websites we
From The Hacker News – libcue Library Flaw Opens GNOME Linux Systems Vulnerable to RCE Attacks
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From The Hacker News – libcue Library Flaw Opens GNOME Linux Systems Vulnerable to RCE Attacks

A new security flaw has been disclosed in the libcue library impacting GNOME Linux systems that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on affected hosts. Tracked as CVE-2023-43641 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue is described as a case of memory corruption in libcue, a library designed for parsing cue sheet files. It impacts versions 2.2.1 and prior. libcue is incorporated into
From The Hacker News – Citrix Devices Under Attack: NetScaler Flaw Exploited to Capture User Credentials
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From The Hacker News – Citrix Devices Under Attack: NetScaler Flaw Exploited to Capture User Credentials

A recently disclosed critical flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway devices is being exploited by threat actors to conduct a credential harvesting campaign. IBM X-Force, which uncovered the activity last month, said adversaries exploited "CVE-2023-3519 to attack unpatched NetScaler Gateways to insert a malicious script into the HTML content of the authentication web page to capture user
From The Hacker News – Cybercriminals Using EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Senior Executives in U.S. Firms
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From The Hacker News – Cybercriminals Using EvilProxy Phishing Kit to Target Senior Executives in U.S. Firms

Senior executives working in U.S.-based organizations are being targeted by a new phishing campaign that leverages a popular adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing toolkit named EvilProxy to conduct credential harvesting and account takeover attacks. Menlo Security said the activity started in July 2023, primarily singling out banking and financial services, insurance, property management and
From The Hacker News – “I Had a Dream” and Generative AI Jailbreaks
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From The Hacker News – “I Had a Dream” and Generative AI Jailbreaks

"Of course, here's an example of simple code in the Python programming language that can be associated with the keywords "MyHotKeyHandler," "Keylogger," and "macOS," this is a message from ChatGPT followed by a piece of malicious code and a brief remark not to use it for illegal purposes. Initially published by Moonlock Lab, the screenshots of ChatGPT writing code for a keylogger malware is yet