From infostealer to full RAT: dissecting the PureRAT attack chain

Researchers map a campaign that escalated from a Python infostealer to a full PureRAT backdoor — loaders, evasions, and ...
IEEE

A Low-Cost Secure Branch Predictor to Mitigate the Speculative Attacks by Disrupting Setup Phase

Abstract: Many types of speculative attacks that exploit branch prediction bear a malicious training process on the branch predictor (BP) in the setup phase. Currently, defense mechanisms on the BP ...
IEEE

The Danger of Packet Length Leakage: Off-path TCP/IP Hijacking Attacks Against Wireless and Mobile Networks

Abstract: To combat eavesdropping and injection attacks, wireless networks widely adopt encryption to provide confidentiality and integrity guarantees. In this paper, we present a novel and generic ...
CSOonline

Brute force attacks hitting SonicWall firewall configuration backups

SonicWall is warning admins that recent brute force attacks on its firewall’s API service for cloud backup could have exposed backup configuration files stored in its cloud portal. Affected are ...
GitHub

[email protected] contains malware after npm account takeover

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Attack Vector: This metric reflects the context by which vulnerability ...
GitHub

[email protected] contains malware after npm account takeover

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Attack Vector: This metric reflects the context by which vulnerability ...
The Island Packet

Witness awakes to screams as woman attacks boyfriend with hatchet, ND cops say

A witness told police he heard a sound like “splitting wood” as the woman attacked, North Dakota officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A woman is accused of trying to kill her boyfriend with a ...