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The Nitro PDF Pro application uses a .msi installer file (embedded into an executable .exe installer file) for installation. The MSI installer uses custom actions in repair mode in an unsafe way. Attackers with low-privileged system access to a Windows system where Nitro PDF Pro is installed, can exploit the cached MSI installer's custom actions to effectively escalate privileges and get a command prompt running in context of NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Versions prior to 14.26.1.0 and 13.70.8.82 and affected.
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a new cryptojacking campaign targeting the Docker Engine API with the goal of co-opting the instances to join a malicious Docker Swarm controlled by the threat actor. This enabled the attackers to "use Docker Swarm's orchestration features for command-and-control (C2) purposes," Datadog researchers Matt Muir and Andy Giron said in an analysis. The attacks
A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man's alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.
NOYB, a European privacy group has filed a complaint with Austrian authorities, alleging that Mozilla breached GDPR by…
A new set of security vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the OpenPrinting Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) on Linux systems that could permit remote command execution under certain conditions. "A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers' (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary command execution (on the computer) when a print
Russian-speaking users have been targeted as part of a new campaign distributing a commodity trojan called DCRat (aka DarkCrystal RAT) by means of a technique known as HTML smuggling. The development marks the first time the malware has been deployed using this method, a departure from previously observed delivery vectors such as compromised or fake websites, or phishing emails bearing PDF
The United States today unveiled sanctions and indictments against the alleged proprietor of Joker's Stash, a now-defunct cybercrime store that peddled tens of millions of payment cards stolen in some of the largest data breaches of the past decade. The government also indicted a top Russian cybercriminal known as Taleon, whose cryptocurrency exchange Cryptex has evolved into one of Russia's most active money laundering networks.
Researchers have uncovered one of the first examples of threat actors using artificial intelligence chatbots for malware creation, in a phishing attack spreading the open source remote access Trojan.
The state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) is going after high-value communications service provider networks in the US, potentially with a dual set of goals.
Dell faces its third data leak in a week as hacker “grep” continues targeting the tech giant. Sensitive…