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  A recently patched security flaw in the popular WinRAR archiving software has been exploited as a zero-day since April 2023, new findings from Group-IB reveal. The vulnerability, cataloged as  CVE-2023-38831 , allows threat actors to spoof file extensions, thereby making it possible to launch malicious scripts contained within an archive that masquerades as seemingly innocuous image or text files. It was addressed in version 6.23 released on August 2, 2023, alongside CVE-2023-40477. In attacks discovered by the Singapore-based firm in July 2023, specially crafted ZIP or RAR archive files distributed via trading-related forums such as Forex Station have been used to deliver a variety of malware families such as DarkMe, GuLoader, and Remcos RAT. "After infecting devices, the cybercriminals withdraw money from broker accounts," Group-IB malware analyst Andrey Polovinkin said, adding as many as 130 traders' devices have been compromised as part of the ca...

Splunk Observability recently announced several new enhancements to reduce noise and provide more visibility when isolating problems in your environments. Specific to applications and services, whether you operate monolithic or microservices architectures these releases help you easily investigate problems in complex environments. Here’s a roundup of the recent Splunk APM capability releases. Easily Identify Problems From Billions of Traces Trace Analyzer helps to confidently detect patterns across billions of transactions and find specific issues for any tag, user, or service. Now you can identify unknown unknowns by running ad-hoc aggregations for all your trace data to find specific issues in any tag. Troubleshoot specific user issues by visualizing when patterns from errors and latency began and ended, and receiving the exact traces experienced during a problem. Understand the radius of an issue across customer groups by easily grouping and filtering high cardinality tags...