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2022-01-27 10:06:54 Hackers have been spotted using a new evasion technique for spreading the AsyncRAT Trojan as part of a sophisticated malware campaign.

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2022-01-27 08:07:34 Apple releases iOS 15.3 and macOS Monterey 12.2 with a fix for Safari's privacy-defeating bug as well as a patch for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability.

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2022-01-26 16:33:57 Researchers link an initial access broker (tracked as "Prophet Spider") to recent Log4Shell attacks on unpatched VMware Horizon servers.

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2022-01-26 10:57:23 Google abandons FLoC, its controversial plan to replace 3rd-party cookies, in favor of a new Privacy Sandbox proposal called "Topics API" that categorizes users' browsing habits into about 350 topics for online ads.

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2022-01-26 08:44:38 A 12-year-old vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) has been discovered in the Polkit utility that could allow unprivileged attackers to gain root access to targeted Linux systems.

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2022-01-25 17:09:04 Researchers uncover a new espionage campaign in which attackers are exploiting a critical MSHTML vulnerability to target high-level government officials and defense industry figures in West Asia.

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2022-01-25 15:13:56 Researchers discover that TrickBot malware now uses new techniques to evade web injection attacks.

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2022-01-25 10:25:37 Android banking malware BRATA has been updated with new features that grants it the ability to track device locations and even perform a factory reset in an apparent bid to cover up fraudulent wire transfers.

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2022-01-25 09:50:26 A previously undocumented malware packer named DTPacker has been observed distributing multiple RATs and information stealers such as Agent Tesla, Ave Maria, AsyncRAT, and FormBook.

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2022-01-24 14:10:09 Hackers are creating fraudulent crypto tokens to trick victims into buying the tokens, and then abusing misconfigurations in smart contracts to steal funds as part of the rug pull scam.

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