All news with #credential access tag

🔒 Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a MELSEC iQ-F Series CPU module vulnerability (CVE-2025-7731) that transmits sensitive authentication data in cleartext over SLMP, enabling remote attackers to intercept credentials and read or write device values or halt program execution. Assigned CVSS v4 8.7 and described as remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, the issue affects many FX5U/FX5UC/FX5UJ/FX5S variants — Mitsubishi reports no planned patch. Mitsubishi and CISA recommend mitigations such as encrypting SLMP traffic with a VPN, restricting LAN access, isolating control networks behind firewalls, and following ICS hardening best practices.

🔒 The maintainers of nx warned of a supply-chain compromise that allowed attackers to publish malicious versions of the npm package and several supporting plugins that gathered credentials. Rogue postinstall scripts scanned file systems, harvested GitHub, cloud and AI credentials, and exfiltrated them as Base64 to public GitHub repositories named 's1ngularity-repository' under victim accounts. Security firms reported 2,349 distinct secrets leaked; maintainers rotated tokens, removed the malicious versions, and urged immediate credential rotation and system cleanup.

🔒 Cybersecurity researchers at Zimperium zLabs have identified a new HOOK Android banking trojan variant that deploys full-screen ransomware-style overlays to extort victims. The overlay is remotely triggered via the command "ransome" and displays a warning, wallet address and amount, and can be dismissed by the attacker with "delete_ransome". An offshoot of ERMAC, the latest HOOK builds on banking malware techniques and now supports 107 remote commands, introducing transparent gesture-capture overlays, fake NFC and payment screens, and deceptive unlock prompts to harvest credentials and crypto recovery phrases.

🔐 Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) detected a March 2025 campaign attributed to UNC6384 that uses captive-portal hijacks to deliver a digitally signed downloader called STATICPLUGIN. The downloader (observed as AdobePlugins.exe) retrieves an MSI and, via DLL sideloading through Canon’s IJ Printer Assistant Tool, stages a PlugX variant tracked as SOGU.SEC entirely in memory. Operators used valid TLS and GlobalSign-signed certificates issued to Chengdu Nuoxin Times Technology Co., Ltd, aiding evasion while targeting diplomats and other entities.