#website-spoofing

#website-spoofing

Jonathan the tortoise is very much alive. I believe on [Twitter], the person purporting to be me is asking for crypto donations, so it's not even an April Fool's joke. It's a con.

"Use-after-free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 146.0.7680.178 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML page."

The bypass requires neither privilege escalation nor code injection, making it a stealthier approach compared to alternative ABE bypass methods.

The email seen by at least some customers of the Emma email platform was a phishing scam. Hackers hoped to inspire instant panic with the words, 'As part of our commitment to supporting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), we will be adding a Support ICE donation button to the footer of every email sent through our platform.'

Web browsers are among the top targets for today's cybercriminals, playing a role in nearly half of all security incidents, new research reveals. According to Palo Alto Networks' 2026 Global Incident Response report, an analysis of 750 major cyber incidents recorded last year across 50 countries found that, in total, 48% of cybercrime events involved browser activity. Individuals trying to connect to the web, including business employees, are exposed to cyberthreats on a daily basis.

"For initial access, the threat actors utilize a fake Booking.com reservation cancellation lure to trick victims into executing malicious PowerShell commands, which silently fetch and execute remote code," researchers Shikha Sangwan, Akshay Gaikwad, and Aaron Beardslee said. The starting point of the attack chain is a phishing email impersonating Booking.com that contains a link to a fake website (e.g., "low-house[.]com").

Silent Push said it discovered the campaign after analyzing a suspicious domain linked to a now-sanctioned bulletproof hosting provider Stark Industries (and its parent company PQ.Hosting), which has since rebranded to THE[.]Hosting, under the control of the Dutch entity WorkTitans B.V., is a sanctions evasion measure. The domain in question, cdn-cookie[.]com, has been found to host highly obfuscated JavaScript payloads (e.g., "recorder.js" or "tab-gtm.js") that are loaded by web shops to facilitate credit card skimming.