Cybersecurity

EDRSilencer “disrupts the transmission of telemetry or alerts to EDR management consoles,” rendering these security tools ineffective at identifying and removing malware. By leveraging the Windows Filtering Platform (WFP), EDRSilencer blocks network communication from processes associated with various EDR products, creating a blind spot in an organization’s security defenses.

North Korean hackers are using a new Linux variant of the FASTCash malware to infect the payment switch systems of financial institutions and perform unauthorized cash withdrawals.

The research team, led by Wang Chao from Shanghai University, found that D-Wave’s quantum computers can optimize problem-solving in a way that makes it possible to attack encryption methods such as RSA.

Paper: http://cjc.ict.ac.cn/online/onlinepaper/wc-202458160402.pdf

Follow up to https://lemmy.ca/post/30853830

1 bug, $50,000+ in bounties, how Zendesk intentionally left a backdoor in hundreds of Fortune 500 companies - zendesk.md

New phishing campaigns attempt to evade detection by constructing rogue QR codes with special ASCII characters and load phishing pages locally using the local blob URL feature in browsers.

Here are the most attacked countries in cyberspace, overall, based on the volume of attacks.

• United States
• South Korea
• Japan
• Australia
• New Zealand

And here are the five countries that are most attacked in cyberspace using new, unique malware variants.

• United States
• Japan
• South Korea
• Australia
• Canada