How to Spot 'Living Off the Land' Computer Attacks

As users (and detection tools) have gotten better at identifying the signs of a malware infection and savvy enough to avoid them in the first place, some cybercriminals have changed tactics.
The Hacker News

Chinese Hackers Target Southeast Asian Militaries with AppleChris and MemFun Malware

China-linked CL-STA-1087 targets Southeast Asian militaries since 2020 using AppleChris and MemFun for espionage and ...

Hackers are selling a critical Windows zero-day exploit for $220,000 on the dark web

According to X user Dark Web Informer, a cybercriminal known as Kamirmassabi recently posted an ad on an underground hacking forum, offering to sell a zero-day ...
Computer Weekly

PromptSpy Android malware may exploit Gemini AI

An Android-specific malware targeting mobile device takeover appears to use generative AI (GenAI) services in its execution flows to maintain persistence on the victim’s smartphone, researchers at ...
Forbes

‘ARC Raiders’ Confirms Its Coin Dupe Exploit Use Punishments

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Did you take advantage of a recent coin exploit in ARC Raiders? Well, you may be about to be ...
CSOonline

Exploit available for new Chrome zero-day vulnerability, says Google

Threat actors now have the ability to exploit a new zero-day vulnerability in the Chrome browser, Google has advised IT administrators. The warning comes after Google released a patch for Chrome to ...
TechCrunch

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead)

Something strange happened at University of California campuses this fall. For the first time since the dot-com crash, computer science enrollment dropped. System-wide, it fell 6% last year after ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Time to Exploit Plummets as N-Day Flaws Dominate

The time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation has plunged 94% over the past five years as threat actors weaponize so-called “n-days,” according to a new Flashpoint study. The threat ...
IGN

Arc Raiders Players Stunned After Exploit Hotfix Results in Widespread Reports of a New Inventory Glitch

Arc Raiders players have gathered to applaud Embark Studios after it took just one day to tackle new duplication and infinite ammo exploits – even though reports of a new inventory glitch have already ...
TechCrunch

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing ‘millions of computers and devices’

The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers and people worldwide, U.S. prosecutors have confirmed for the first time ...
Yahoo

DOJ says Trenchant boss sold exploits to Russian broker capable of accessing ‘millions of computers and devices’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former boss of a U.S. maker of hacking and surveillance tools stole and sold technology that can hack millions of computers ...
Ars Technica

Russian-state hackers exploit Office vulnerability to infect computers

It’s actually really impressive how fast they were able to turn this around and weaponize this vulnerability. That’s crazy. Click to expand... My guess is: they already knew about the exploit and had ...