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Malware Sites Exploit Bhutto Assassination

"We've come to understand that almost any high impact media event is going to be used as a social engineering tool for malware," said Dave Marcus, security research and communications manager at ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Cybercriminals Exploit Browser Push Notifications to Deliver Malware

Researchers at BlackFrog have uncovered Matrix Push C2, a malicious command-and-control system that abuses web browser push ...
Ars Technica

384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm

More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack that redirected visitors to malicious sites, researchers said. For years, the JavaScript ...
SiliconANGLE

Traffic to malicious sites surges through March

A new report from DNS theft protection and content filtering provider DNSFilter Inc. has found a significant surge in traffic to malicious sites containing threats in the six months to March. The ...
The Hacker News

Seven npm Packages Use Adspect Cloaking to Trick Victims Into Crypto Scam Pages

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of seven npm packages published by a single threat actor that leverages a cloaking service called Adspect to differentiate between real victims and ...

Use AI browsers? Be careful. This exploit turns trusted sites into weapons - here's how

ZDNET's key takeaways Researchers disclosed a HashJack attack that manipulates AI browsers.Cato CTRL examined Comet, Copilot for Edge, and Gemini for Chrome.Could lead to data theft, phishing, and ...
The Hacker News

JackFix Uses Fake Windows Update Pop-Ups on Adult Sites to Deliver Multiple Stealers

ClickFix has become hugely successful as it relies on a simple yet effective method, which is to entice a user into infecting ...
How-To Geek on MSN

A fake Windows Update screen is fooling Windows users into installing malware

Social engineering attacks are probably still among the most used ways to actually infect a computer or steal someone's data. A well executed social engineering attack can have some pretty nasty ...
eWeek

Cisco: E-Commerce Sites More Likely to Deliver Malware Than Malicious Ones

eSpeaks host Corey Noles sits down with Qualcomm's Craig Tellalian to explore a workplace computing transformation: the rise of AI-ready PCs. Matt Hillary, VP of Security and CISO at Drata, details ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit 14-year-old CMS editor on govt, edu sites for SEO poisoning

Threat actors are exploiting a CMS editor discontinued 14 years ago to compromise education and government entities worldwide to poison search results with malicious sites or scams. Open redirects are ...
Computerworld

Malicious Web: Not just porn sites

The New Zealand Honeynet Project, which produced Capture-HPC (mentioned here last week), also produced an excellent white paper about using Capture-HPC to identify malicious Web servers. On the ...
Reuters

Malicious widget hacked millions of Web sites

As many as five million Web sites hosted by Network Solutions have been serving up malware, probably for several months, a security expert said today. "This is one of the biggest infections for ...