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Yesterday — 28 March 2024The Hacker News

Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack

By: Newsroom
28 March 2024 at 16:50
The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the country's Parliament in 2020. The intrusion, per the authorities, is said to have occurred between fall 2020 and early 2021. The agency described the ongoing criminal probe as both demanding and time-consuming, involving extensive analysis of a "

Linux Version of DinodasRAT Spotted in Cyber Attacks Across Several Countries

By: Newsroom
28 March 2024 at 17:02
A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also known as XDealer, is a C++-based malware that offers the ability to harvest a wide range of sensitive data from compromised hosts. In October 2023, Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET&nbsp

Today — 29 March 2024The Hacker News

PyPI Halts Sign-Ups Amid Surge of Malicious Package Uploads Targeting Developers

By: Newsroom
29 March 2024 at 05:37
The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. PyPI said "new project creation and new user registration" was temporarily halted to mitigate what it said was a "malware upload campaign." The incident was resolved 10 hours later, on March 28, 2024, at 12:56

New Linux Bug Could Lead to User Password Leaks and Clipboard Hijacking

By: Newsroom
29 March 2024 at 10:49
Details have emerged about a vulnerability impacting the "wall" command of the util-linux package that could be potentially exploited by a bad actor to leak a user's password or alter the clipboard on certain Linux distributions. The bug, tracked as CVE-2024-28085, has been codenamed WallEscape by security researcher Skyler Ferrante. It has been described as a case of improper

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