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Chinese ‘Gallium’ Hackers Using New PingPull Malware in Cyberespionage Attacks

13

Jun

2022

A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) known as Gallium has been observed using a previously undocumented remote access trojan in its espionage attacks targeting companies operating in Southeast Asia, Europe, and Africa. Called PingPull, the “difficult-to-detect” backdoor is notable for its use of the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) for command-and-control (C2) communications, according to […]

Category Cyber-crime Malware Written by Thehackernews 0 Comments

Hackers can take over accounts you haven’t even created yet

07

Jun

2022

Account hijacking has sadly become a regular, everyday occurrence. But when it comes to hijacking accounts before they are even created? That’s something you’d never think possible—but it is. Two security researchers, Avinash Sudhodanan and Andrew Paverd, call this new class of attack a “pre-hijacking attack.” Unfortunately, many websites and online services, including high-traffic ones, […]

Category Cyber-crime Identity theft Written by Blog 0 Comments

Hackers could disrupt millions of smartphones by abusing this critical bug

03

Jun

2022

A serious vulnerability present in more than a tenth of the world’s mobile phones could allow threat actors to kill all communications in a certain location, researchers have found. Security analysts from Check Point Research (CPR) found the flaw in the UNISOC modem which, as the researchers claim, can be found in 11% of all […]

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