Tag: threat
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Crypto Wallets Targetted Using Malicious PyPI Packages
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PyPI has long been used as a means of distributing malicious code masquerading as legitimate utilities by bad actors. Yehuda Gelb recently exposed one such operation, targeting users of prominent crypto-wallets such as Atomic, Metamask, Exodus, and many more, by uploading multiple packages within a short timeframe to the repository,…
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Exploding Pagers and Walkie-Talkies in Lebanon – A Hacker’s Analysis
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Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has had a rough couple of days with communication devices exploding all around them. Thousands of pagers detonated simultaneously in Hezbollah strongholds on Tuesday, the 17th of September, killing 9 and injuring more than 3,000 Lebanese citizens. Among the affected were several Hezbollah fighters as well…
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RAMBO: Stealing Secrets from Isolated Computers
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Background Prominent researcher Mordechai Guri of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, recently released a research paper detailing a new method that allows attackers to steal sensitive information from air-gapped(isolated) computers. Air-gapped systems are systems that are physically separated from external networks, including the Internet. This is achieved by keeping the…