From The Hacker News – OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection

From The Hacker News – OBSCURE#BAT Malware Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deploy Rootkit r77 and Evade Detection

A new malware campaign has been observed leveraging social engineering tactics to deliver an open-source rootkit called r77. The activity, condemned OBSCURE#BAT by Securonix, enables threat actors to establish persistence and evade detection on compromised systems. It's currently not known who is behind the campaign. The rootkit "has the ability to cloak or mask any file, registry key or task
From The Hacker News – Hackers Exploited Krpano Framework Flaw to Inject Spam Ads on 350+ Websites

From The Hacker News – Hackers Exploited Krpano Framework Flaw to Inject Spam Ads on 350+ Websites

A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a virtual tour framework has been weaponized by malicious actors to inject malicious scripts across hundreds of websites with the goal of manipulating search results and fueling a spam ads campaign at scale. Security researcher Oleg Zaytsev, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said the campaign – dubbed 360XSS – affected over 350 websites,