Is there a connection between XLoader and Formbook? Checkpoint says it's seen evidence.
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For $49, you can get a one-month trial of the malware. Last October a very similar bit of malware, dubbed XLoader, appeared for sale seemingly from someone else, and even works on macOS.
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The software nasty was sold on underground forums by a character known as ng-Coder in 2016, and its code became rather prevalent.
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Formbook malware menaces macOS machinesįormbook, a keylogger and data exfiltrator that's one of the more common pieces of Windows malware, has been ported to Apple Macs.
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The Photoshop giant hasn't said that the flaws are under active attack in the wild, though the timing of the release, so soon after Patch Tuesday, suggests a level of urgency is needed in any case. A Media Encoder patch also fixed critical code-execution flaws. On Tuesday, Adobe After Effects for Windows and macOS got a fix for four critical flaws that can be exploited to achieve arbitrary malicious code execution. It wouldn't be a normal month without some Adobe out-of-schedule emergency patches. This bill goes a long way in starting to solve the problem." More critical Adobe patches
"We can't track, or have any hope of stopping, foreign or domestic sources of cyber maliciousness unless we can find out about cyber problems quickly. The benefit for businesses is that "the bill would grant limited immunity to companies that come forward to report a breach, and instruct CISA to implement data protection procedures to anonymize personally identifiable information and safeguard privacy," the senators said. On Thursday, Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL), the chair and vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, respectively, introduced the Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021 that would require federal agencies, government contractors, and critical infrastructure owners and operators to notify the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of an attack within 24 hours. The Republican-Democrat deadlock in Congress seems insurmountable at times, but there's one thing both sides may agree on – security. Another proposed cybersecurity law for America We'll take a closer look at PetitPotam this week. "PetitPotam is a classic NTLM relay attack, and such attacks have been previously documented by Microsoft along with numerous mitigation options to protect customers," the Windows giant said. Administrators are instead urged to take all necessary steps to thwart NTLM relay attacks. Microsoft has responded to the emergence of a technique dubbed PetitPotam that can be used to gain over-the-network unauthorized access to Windows servers typically in corporate environments, depending on their configuration. While some people will be attending in person in Las Vegas, the bulk of the conference attendees will be done online as COVID-19 variants rip through some parts of America. Mayorkas is a lawyer who ran Uncle Sam's US Citizenship and Immigration Services under President Obama, and some speakers are mulling cancelling their talks.ĭEF CON and Black Hat are hybrid conferences this year. While it's not uncommon these days to have government folks at DEF CON, it's usually people with technical chops. What were y'all thinking? I'm so disappointed in you The news has left some DEF CON veterans perturbed.Īs a main stage speaker this year I can't say I'm terribly excited to be sharing a stage with this man. On Friday, the infosec conference organizers confirmed Alejandro Mayorkas will give a talk on Friday, August 6. In brief DEF CON's "Spot the Fed" game is going to be a little easier than usual this year: the head of the US government's Homeland Security is giving a keynote.
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