Fake WinRar Websites Distributing Malware Payloads Hosted on GitHub

A fraudulent site resembling the official WinRar distribution platform is spreading malware. The fake website, win-rar[.]co, utilizes typosquatting to trick users who mistype the URL.

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New Malware Strains Pop Up in Threat Landscape

Quorum Cyber Incident Response team recently identified a new malware called SharpRhino utilized by the threat actor group Hunters International during a ransomware incident. The malware, written in C#, was distributed through a typosquatting domain posing as Angry IP Scanner.

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EastWind Attack Deploys PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors Using Booby-Trapped LNK Files

The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed EastWind.
The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that, upon opening, activates the infection sequence, culminating in the deployment of malware such

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Rogue PyPI Library Solana Users, Steals Blockchain Wallet Keys

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new malicious package on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that masquerades as a library from the Solana blockchain platform but is actually designed to steal victims’ secrets.
“The legitimate Solana Python API project is known as ‘solana-py’ on GitHub, but simply ‘solana’ on the Python software registry, PyPI,” Sonatype researcher Ax Sharma

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Donald Trump’s Campaign Says Its Emails Were Hacked

Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung blamed the hack on “foreign sources hostile to the United States.”

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Thousands of Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All

Security researcher Bill Demirkapi found more than 15,000 hardcoded secrets and 66,000 vulnerable websites—all by searching overlooked data sources.

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The Hacker Who Hunts Video Game Speedrunning Cheaters

Allan “dwangoAC” has made it his mission to expose speedrunning phonies. At the Defcon hacker conference, he’ll challenge one record that’s stood for 15 years.

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Apple Prototypes and Corporate Secrets Are for Sale Online—If You Know Where to Look

On the hunt for corporate devices being sold secondhand, a researcher found a trove of Apple corporate data, a Mac Mini from the Foxconn assembly line, an iPhone 14 prototype, and more.

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Researchers Uncover 10 Flaws in Google’s File Transfer Tool Quick Share

As many as 10 security flaws have been uncovered in Google’s Quick Share data transfer utility for Android and Windows that could be assembled to trigger remote code execution (RCE) chain on systems that have the software installed.
“The Quick Share application implements its own specific application-layer communication protocol to support file transfers between nearby, compatible devices,”

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New Malware Hits 300,000 Users with Rogue Chrome and Edge Extensions

An ongoing, widespread malware campaign has been observed installing rogue Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions via a trojan distributed via fake websites masquerading as popular software.
“The trojan malware contains different deliverables ranging from simple adware extensions that hijack searches to more sophisticated malicious scripts that deliver local extensions to steal private data

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