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Category: News

Components and obfuscations of Gootkit malware continue to evolve

Sunday, 29 January 2023 by ASC

The actors responsible for the Gootkit malware have made significant modifications to their toolset, incorporating new components and obfuscations into their infection methods. The Google-owned cybersecurity firm, Mandiant, is keeping a close eye on the cluster of activity known as UNC2565 and has determined that the usage of the Gootkit malware is exclusive to this

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New Golang-based ‘SwiftSlicer’ malware attacks Ukraine

Sunday, 29 January 2023 by ASC

Ukraine has been the target of a recent cyber attack from Russia, utilizing a previously unseen data wiper called SwiftSlicer. The attack was attributed to Sandworm, a state-sponsored group linked to Military Unit 74455 of the GRU, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. ESET disclosed

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GoTo, the parent company of LastPass, suffers a data breach, and customers’ backups Compromised

Wednesday, 25 January 2023 by ASC

On Tuesday, GoTo (formerly LogMeIn), the parent company of LastPass, announced that an unknown party had successfully accessed encrypted backups of certain customers’ data, along with the encryption key for some of these backups, in a November 2022 incident. The company has identified that a third-party cloud storage service was targeted, which has impacted the

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The Samsung Galaxy Store app is susceptible to sneaky app installations and fraud

Monday, 23 January 2023 by ASC

Two security vulnerabilities have been identified in the Samsung Galaxy Store application for Android devices that could potentially be exploited by a local attacker to install arbitrary applications or redirect potential victims to fraudulent web pages. The vulnerabilities, designated as CVE-2023-21433 and CVE-2023-21434, were discovered by NCC Group and reported to Samsung in November and

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1,700 spoof apps targeted over 11 million devices in massive ad fraud scheme

Monday, 23 January 2023 by ASC

Researchers have successfully dismantled an extensive ad fraud scheme, known as VASTFLUX, that affected over 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted around 11 million devices. According to fraud prevention firm HUMAN, VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack multiple invisible video ad

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Tagged under: CyberAttacks, cyberSecurity, CyberThreats

Cyberattacks launched against Ukraine by Gamaredon Group through Telegram

Sunday, 22 January 2023 by ASC

According to a report by the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team, the Russian state-sponsored cyber espionage group known as Gamaredon has continued its digital attacks against Ukraine, utilizing the popular messaging app Telegram to target the country’s military and law enforcement sectors. The group, also known by various other names such as Actinium, Armageddon, Iron

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Researchers discover 3 PyPI packages that spread malware to developer systems

Tuesday, 17 January 2023 by ASC

An individual going by the name of Lolip0p has uploaded three malicious packages to the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, which are designed to install malware on developer systems that download them. The packages, named color slab (versions 4.6.11 and 4.6.12), httpslib (versions 4.6.9 and 4.6.11), and libhttps (version 4.6.12), were uploaded by the author

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Tagged under: cyberSecurity, CyberThreats

An attacker targeted a CircleCI engineer’s laptop, causing a recent security incident

Monday, 16 January 2023 by ASC

On Friday, DevOps platform CircleCI announced that it had experienced a data breach as a result of a “sophisticated attack” on December 16, 2022. The incident involved an employee’s laptop being compromised by unknown actors, who then used malware to steal the employee’s two-factor authentication-backed credentials to gain access to the company’s systems and data.

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Tagged under: CyberAttacks, cyberSecurity, CyberThreats

The majority of Cacti servers fail to patch critical vulnerabilities, leaving them vulnerable to attack

Monday, 16 January 2023 by ASC

A significant portion of internet-exposed Cacti servers remain unpatched against a recently discovered critical security vulnerability that has been actively exploited in the wild, according to attack surface management platform Censys. Out of a total of 6,427 servers, only 26 were found to be running a patched version of Cacti (1.2.23 and 1.3.0). The vulnerability

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Latest Gootkit malware attacks target Australian healthcare sector

Thursday, 12 January 2023 by ASC

A recent surge in attacks utilizing the Gootkit malware loader has targeted the Australian healthcare sector, according to cybersecurity firm Trend Micro. The malware, also known as Gootloader, is known for using search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics to gain initial access. It typically works by compromising legitimate infrastructure and planting malware on those sites

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