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Hackers Hijack GitHub Accounts in Supply Chain Attack Affecting Top-gg and Others

admin8 months ago07 mins

[ad_1] Mar 25, 2024NewsroomSupply Chain Attack / Cryptocurrency Unidentified adversaries orchestrated a sophisticated attack campaign that has impacted several individual developers as well as the GitHub organization account associated with Top.gg, a Discord bot discovery site. “The threat actors used multiple TTPs in this attack, including account takeover via stolen browser cookies, contributing malicious code…

Mastodon Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Hijack Any Decentralized Account

admin10 months ago03 mins

[ad_1] Feb 03, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Social Media The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious actors to impersonate and take over any account. “Due to insufficient origin validation in all Mastodon, attackers can impersonate and take over any remote account,” the maintainers said in a terse advisory. The vulnerability,…

China-backed Hackers Hijack Software Updates to Implant “NSPX30” Spyware

admin10 months ago08 mins

[ad_1] A previously undocumented China-aligned threat actor has been linked to a set of adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) attacks that hijack update requests from legitimate software to deliver a sophisticated implant named NSPX30. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET is tracking the advanced persistent threat (APT) group under the name Blackwood. It’s said to be active since at least…

MavenGate Attack Could Let Hackers Hijack Java and Android via Abandoned Libraries

admin10 months ago08 mins

[ad_1] Several public and popular libraries abandoned but still used in Java and Android applications have been found susceptible to a new software supply chain attack method called MavenGate. “Access to projects can be hijacked through domain name purchases and since most default build configurations are vulnerable, it would be difficult or even impossible to…

Orange Spain Faces BGP Traffic Hijack After RIPE Account Hacked by Malware

admin11 months ago05 mins

[ad_1] Jan 05, 2024NewsroomNetwork Security / Malware Mobile network operator Orange Spain suffered an internet outage for several hours on January 3 after a threat actor used administrator credentials captured by means of stealer malware to hijack the border gateway protocol (BGP) traffic. “The Orange account in the IP network coordination center (RIPE) has suffered…