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Stealthy BatLoader Malware Seen in Dozens of Attacks

VMware researchers said the malware has appeared in at least 43 infections that have primarily targeted business services, financial services, manufacturing and education organizations.

Malware

U.S. Justice Department Charges LockBit Ransomware Suspect

A 33-year-old dual Russian and Canadian national was arrested this week for allegedly participating in LockBit ransomware attacks.

Lockbit, Ransomware

GitHub Launches Private Vulnerability Reporting

GitHub has launched a new feature that enables researchers to privately report vulnerabilities to repository maintainers.

Github

Threat Actors Abuse InterPlanetary File System Protocol to Spread Malware

Threat actors leveraged an emerging distributed file storage protocol in attacks deploying a Python-based information stealer called Hannabi Grabber.

Malware

Citrix Warns of Critical Authentication Bypass Flaw in Gateway, ADC

Attackers have historically exploited vulnerabilities in Citrix Gateway and ADC in order to target organizations.

Citrix

Lenovo Patches BIOS Flaws That Lead to Secure Boot Modification

Lenovo has patched three vulnerabilities in the BIOS in many of its laptops that could allow an attacker to modify the secure boot process.

BIOS

Microsoft Fixes Six Actively Exploited Flaws

Microsoft did not give further details about the exploitation efforts against the flaws disclosed on Tuesday.

Microsoft

Apple Fixes Code Execution Flaw in Xcode

Apple has fixed four flaws in its Xcode IDE, including a remote code execution flaw in Git (CVE-2022-39260).

Apple

Microsoft: Nation-State Actors Zero in on Critical Infrastructure, Unpatched Flaws

Nation-state actors are targeting critical infrastructure, the IT supply chain and unpatched flaws in an effort to advance evolving strategic political objectives and to reach a wider set of targets.

Nation State, Microsoft

UK-Based Threat Actors Impersonate Global Law Firms in BEC Attacks

Researchers have uncovered a new business email compromise group impersonating well-known law firms and attorneys to trick targets into paying fake invoices.

BEC, Business Email Compromise

Decipher Podcast: Source Code 11/4

Welcome back to Source Code, Decipher's weekly news wrap podcast with input from our sources.

Podcast, Source Code

Threat Actors Pivot to Credential Theft in Government Mobile Phishing Attacks

A new Lookout report highlights a tangle of government mobile device security challenges, including the use of outdated or unmanaged devices, and a rise in phishing attacks targeting credentials.

Mobile Security, Phishing

Decipher Podcast: Dave Lewis

Dave Lewis, Global Advisory CISO at Cisco, talks about the top takeaways of the 2022 Duo Trusted Access Report and the driving factors behind increased adoption of WebAuthn, MFA and biometrics.

Podcast

New Analysis Ties Black Basta Ransomware to FIN7 Tools

Researchers at SentinelLabs have identified several links between the Black Basta ransomware actors and the FIN7 cybercrime group.

Ransomware

OpenSSL 3.0.7 Fixes Two Buffer Overflows

OpenSSL 3.0.7 fixes two high-risk buffer overflows in Punycode decoding (CVE-2022-3786 and CVE-2022-3602), one of which can lead to remote code execution.

Openssl