Malware Disguised as Minecraft Mods Target Gamers

Research by: Jaromír Hořejší (@JaromirHorejsi), Antonis Terefos (@Tera0017) Key Points Check Point Research discovered a multistage campaign targeting Minecraft users via the distribution as a service (DaaS) Stargazers Ghost Network, which operates on GitHub. The malware impersonates, among others, Oringo and Taunahi, which are “Scripts & Macro” tools (a.k.a cheats). The first-stage downloader and the second-stage…

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Public database exposed 184 million credentials including Microsoft, Facebook, Snapchat, and government account logins

The Sitecore CMS had an account with a hardcoded password Threat actors could use it to upload arbitrary files, achieving RCE Thousands of endpoints are potentially at risk Sitecore Experience Platform, an enterprise-level content management system (CMS) carried three vulnerabilities which, when chained together, allowed threat actors full takeover of vulnerable servers, experts have warned….

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Senators Ricketts, Fetterman unite against China's quiet invasion of US farmland

EXCLUSIVE: Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts is leading the charge with Democrat Sen. John Fetterman to codify oversight on foreign countries buying American farmland. The bipartisan Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure (AFIDA) Improvements Act seeks to implement recommendations published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) in January 2024, which found the AFIDA was ill-equipped to combat foreign…

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