Hackers using malware to steal data from USB flash drives | Fox News

When infected, USB drives can spread malware not just within a single organization but also across multiple entities if shared. These attacks don’t rely on network vulnerabilities, allowing them to bypass traditional security tools. 

Online scams easy as ever, as cybercrime markets flourish

Cybercriminals are often portrayed in popular media as rogue and highly skilled individuals, wielding coding and hacking abilities from a dimly lit room. But such stereotypes are becoming outdated. 

Apartment buildings broken into with phone in minutes — IoT-connected intercoms using default creds vulnerable to anyone with Google | Tom’s Hardware

A number of apartment complexes using internet-connected intercom/entry systems still use their default credentials, which make them fully accessible to anyone savvy enough to Google their unit’s manual.

Misconfig Mapper: Open-source tool to uncover security misconfigurations – Help Net Security

Misconfig Mapper is an open-source CLI tool built in Golang that discovers and enumerates instances of services used within your organization. It performs large-scale detection and misconfiguration assessments, leveraging customizable templates with detection and misconfiguration fingerprints to identify potential security risks in widely used third-party software and services.

OSINT Framework

Here is a useful collection of OSINT tools for CTFs and PenTesting. https://bkellyteacher.com/MiscApps/CTF/osint/

Single Right-Click Let Hackers Gain Access To System By Exploiting 0-Day

This 0-day flaw, identified by security analysts at ClearSky Cyber Security in June 2024, allows attackers to gain unauthorized access to systems through minimal user interaction.

Russian group’s hack of Texas water system underscores critical OT cyber threats | CSO Online

But water systems have been increasingly in the crosshairs in 2024, resulting in the following noteworthy water security developments:

JPCERT shares Windows Event Log tips to detect ransomware attacks

The investigation strategy proposed by JPCERT/CC covers four types of Windows Event Logs: Application, Security, System, and Setup logs.

Unpatchable 0-day in surveillance cam is being exploited to install Mirai | Ars Technica

Akamai said that the attackers are exploiting the vulnerability so they can install a variant of Mirai, which arrived in September 2016 when a botnet of infected devices took down cybersecurity news site Krebs on Security.