ICT Security-Sécurité PC et Internet

The New York Times reported on July 4, 2024, that OpenAI suffered an undisclosed breach in early 2023.

The NYT notes that the attacker did not access the systems housing and building the AI, but did steal discussions from an employee forum. OpenAI did not publicly disclose the incident nor inform the FBI because, it claims, no information about customers nor partners was stolen, and the breach was not considered a threat to national security. The firm decided that the attack was down to a single person with no known association to any foreign government.

Nevertheless, the incident led to internal staff discussions over how seriously OpenAI was addressing security concerns.

The fake TradingView website is hosted on trabingviews[.]com, with special font characters being used to make it look like the legitimate domain and help it avoid detection.

The malicious website is designed to look authentic, claiming to offer downloads for the TradingView app’s Windows, macOS and Linux versions.

While the Windows and Linux files deliver the NetSupport RAT, the Mac file delivers the AMOS malware. 

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Russian hackers and cybercrime forums are notorious for exploiting critical infrastructure. Last month, Hackread.com exclusively reported that a Russian-speaking threat actor was selling access to a US military satellite. Now, researchers have identified macOS malware being sold for $60,000.

Researchers jailbreak AI chatbots, including ChatGPT
Like a magic wand that turns chatbots evil.

A new Linux NetFilter kernel flaw has been discovered, allowing unprivileged local users to escalate their privileges to root level, allowing complete control over a system.

The CVE-2023-32233 identifier has been reserved for the vulnerability, but a severity level is yet to be determined.

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A pervasive cyber-espionage group known as Iron Tiger, believed to be out of China, has updated one of its malware frameworks to attack Linux-based systems.


Researchers at Trend Micro recently discovered that Iron Tiger (aka Emissary Panda or APT27) had added new features to its so called SysUpdate malware family, which allows it to infect Linux platforms in addition to Windows. SysUpdate abuses system services, grabs screenshots, browses and terminates processes, retrieves drive information, executes commands, and can find, delete, rename, upload, and download files as well as peruse a victim's file directory.

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A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware.

The malware used in this campaign establishes a reverse shell to a C2 server and installs a Bash stealer that collects user data and account credentials.

Kaspersky discovered the potential supply chain compromise case while investigating suspicious domains, finding that the campaign has been underway for over three years.

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A trio of researchers split between Italy and the UK have recently published a paper about cryptographic insecurities they found in a widely-known smart light bulb.

The researchers seem to have chosen their target device, the TP-Link Tapo L530E, on the basis that it is “currently [the] best seller on Amazon Italy,” so we don’t know how other smart bulbs stack up, but their report has plenty to teach us anyway.

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Since at least May 2021, stealthy Linux malware called AVrecon was used to infect over 70,000 Linux-based small office/home office (SOHO) routers to a botnet designed to steal bandwidth and provide a hidden residential proxy service.

This allows its operators to hide a wide spectrum of malicious activities, from digital advertising fraud to password spraying.

According to Lumen's Black Lotus Labs threat research team, while the AVrecon remote access trojan (RAT) compromised over 70,000 devices, only 40,000 were added to the botnet after gaining persistence.

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IT-Sicherheitsforscher beobachten eine starke Zunahme an KI-generierten Youtube-Clips, die Cracks für begehrte Software versprechen. Die Links liefern Malware.

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