Russian organizations have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented Windows spyware called Batavia. The activity, per cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, has been active since July 2024. “The targeted attack begins with bait emails containing malicious links, sent under the pretext of signing a contract...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added two critical security flaws impacting Erlang/Open Telecom Platform (OTP) SSH and Roundcube to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-32433 (CVSS scor...

Google has released its monthly security updates for Android with fixes for 46 security flaws, including one vulnerability that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-27363 (CVSS score: 8.1), a high-severity flaw in the System component that could lead to local code execution without requiring any addition...

In a new campaign detected in March 2025, senior members of the World Uyghur Congress (WUC) living in exile have been targeted by a Windows-based malware that’s capable of conducting surveillance. The spear-phishing campaign involved the use of a trojanized version of a legitimate open-source word processing and spell check tool called Uyghur...

The North Korea-linked threat actor assessed to be behind the massive Bybit hack in February 2025 has been linked to a malicious campaign that targets developers to deliver new stealer malware under the guise of a coding assignment. The activity has been attributed by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 to a hacking group it tracks as Slow Pisces,...

A likely lone wolf actor behind the EncryptHub persona was acknowledged by Microsoft for discovering and reporting two security flaws in Windows last month, painting a picture of a “conflicted” individual straddling a legitimate career in cybersecurity and pursuing cybercrime. In a new extensive analysis published by Outpost24 KrakenLab...

Threat hunters have shed light on a “sophisticated and evolving malware toolkit” called Ragnar Loader that’s used by various cybercrime and ransomware groups like Ragnar Locker (aka Monstrous Mantis), FIN7, FIN8, and Ruthless Mantis (ex-REvil). “Ragnar Loader plays a key role in keeping access to compromised systems, helping...

Google is working on a new security feature for Android that blocks device owners from changing sensitive settings when a phone call is in progress. Specifically, the in-call anti-scammer protections include preventing users from turning on settings to install apps from unknown sources and granting accessibility access. The development was first re...

U.S. and Dutch law enforcement agencies have announced that they have dismantled 39 domains and their associated servers as part of efforts to disrupt a network of online marketplaces originating from Pakistan. The action, which took place on January 29, 2025, has been codenamed Operation Heart Blocker. The vast array of sites in question peddled...

The Open Web Application Security Project has recently introduced a new Top 10 project – the Non-Human Identity (NHI) Top 10. For years, OWASP has provided security professionals and developers with essential guidance and actionable frameworks through its Top 10 projects, including the widely used API and Web Application security lists. Non-h...

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an attack that involved a threat actor utilizing a Python-based backdoor to maintain persistent access to compromised endpoints and then leveraged this access to deploy the RansomHub ransomware throughout the target network. According to GuidePoint Security, initial access is said to have been facilitated by ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware called PLAYFULGHOST that comes with a wide range of information-gathering features like keylogging, screen capture, audio capture, remote shell, and file transfer/execution. The backdoor, according to Google’s Managed Defense team, shares functional overlaps with a known remote administrati...

News has been making headlines over the weekend of the extensive attack campaign targeting browser extensions and injecting them with malicious code to steal user credentials. Currently, over 25 extensions, with an install base of over two million users, have been found to be compromised, and customers are now working to figure out their exposure (...

Identity security is all the rage right now, and rightfully so. Securing identities that access an organization’s resources is a sound security model. But IDs have their limits, and there are many use cases when a business should add other layers of security to a strong identity. And this is what we at SSH Communications...

A global law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of more than 5,500 suspects involved in financial crimes and the seizure of more than $400 million in virtual assets and government-backed currencies. The coordinated exercise saw the participation of authorities from 40 countries, territories, and regions as part of the latest wave of Operat...

We hear terms like “state-sponsored attacks” and “critical vulnerabilities” all the time, but what’s really going on behind those words? This week’s cybersecurity news isn’t just about hackers and headlines—it’s about how digital risks shape our lives in ways we might not even realize. For instance, t...

Palo Alto Networks has released new indicators of compromise (IoCs) a day after the network security vendor confirmed that a new zero-day vulnerability impacting its PAN-OS firewall management interface has been actively exploited in the wild. To that end, the company said it observed malicious activity originating from below IP addresses and targe...

Palo Alto Networks on Friday issued an informational advisory urging customers to ensure that access to the PAN-OS management interface is secured because of a potential remote code execution vulnerability. “Palo Alto Networks is aware of a claim of a remote code execution vulnerability via the PAN-OS management interface,” the company ...

Did you know that advanced threat actors can infiltrate the identity systems of major organizations and extract sensitive data within days? It’s a chilling reality, becoming more common and concerning by the day. These attackers exploit vulnerabilities in SaaS and cloud environments, using compromised identities to move laterally within netwo...

A new attack technique could be used to bypass Microsoft’s Driver Signature Enforcement (DSE) on fully patched Windows systems, leading to operating system (OS) downgrade attacks. “This bypass allows loading unsigned kernel drivers, enabling attackers to deploy custom rootkits that can neutralize security controls, hide processes and ne...

The Iranian threat actor known as OilRig has been observed exploiting a now-patched privilege escalation flaw impacting the Windows Kernel as part of a cyber espionage campaign targeting the U.A.E. and the broader Gulf region. “The group utilizes sophisticated tactics that include deploying a backdoor that leverages Microsoft Exchange servers...

Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, which is facing the heat for causing worldwide IT disruptions by pushing out a flawed update to Windows devices, is now warning that threat actors are exploiting the situation to distribute Remcos RAT to its customers in Latin America under the guise of a providing a hotfix. The attack chains involve distributing a Z...

Retail banking institutions in Singapore have three months to phase out the use of one-time passwords (OTPs) for authentication purposes when signing into online accounts to mitigate the risk of phishing attacks. The decision was announced by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and The Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) on July 9, 2024....

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A likely China-linked state-sponsored threat actor has been linked to a cyber espionage campaign targeting government, academic, technology, and diplomatic organizations in Taiwan between November 2023 and April 2024. Recorded Future’s Insikt Group is tracking the activity under the name RedJuliett, describing it as a cluster that operates in...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Hugging Face on Friday disclosed that it detected unauthorized access to its Spaces platform earlier this week. “We have suspicions that a subset of Spaces’ secrets could have been accessed without authorization,” it said in an advisory. Spaces offers a way for users to create, host, and share ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a critical security flaw in artificial intelligence (AI)-)-as-a-service provider Replicate that could have allowed threat actors to gain access to proprietary AI models and sensitive information. “Exploitation of this vulnerability would have allowed unauthorized access to the AI prompts and results o...

The crypto-jacking group known as Kinsing has demonstrated an ability to continuously evolve and adapt, proving to be a persistent threat by swiftly integrating newly disclosed vulnerabilities into the exploit arsenal and expanding its botnet. The findings come from cloud security firm Aqua, which described the threat actor as actively orchestratin...

The financially motivated threat actor known as FIN7 has been observed leveraging malicious Google ads spoofing legitimate brands as a means to deliver MSIX installers that culminate in the deployment of NetSupport RAT. “The threat actors used malicious websites to impersonate well-known brands, including AnyDesk, WinSCP, BlackRock, Asana, Co...

The Android banking trojan known as Vultur has resurfaced with a suite of new features and improved anti-analysis and detection evasion techniques, enabling its operators to remotely interact with a mobile device and harvest sensitive data. “Vultur has also started masquerading more of its malicious activity by encrypting its C2 communication...

Cybersecurity researchers have found several GitHub repositories offering cracked software that is used to deliver an information stealer called RisePro. The campaign, codenamed gitgub, includes 17 repositories associated with 11 different accounts, according to G DATA. The repositories in question have since been taken down by the Microsoft-owned ...

Microsoft on Friday revealed that the Kremlin-backed threat actor known as Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29 or Cozy Bear) managed to gain access to some of its source code repositories and internal systems following a hack that came to light in January 2024. “In recent weeks, we have seen evidence that Midnight Blizzard is using information initi...

A U.S. judge has ordered NSO Group to hand over its source code for Pegasus and other products to Meta as part of the social media giant’s ongoing litigation against the Israeli spyware vendor. The decision marks a major legal victory for Meta, which filed the lawsuit in October 2019 for using its infrastructure to distribute the spyware to a...

Microsoft has expanded free logging capabilities to all U.S. federal agencies using Microsoft Purview Audit irrespective of the license tier, more than six months after a China-linked cyber espionage campaign targeting two dozen organizations came to light. “Microsoft will automatically enable the logs in customer accounts and increase the de...

A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to his role in two different malware schemes, Zeus and IcedID, between May 2009 and February 2021. Vyacheslav Igorevich Penchukov (aka Vyacheslav Igoravich Andreev, father, and tank), 37, was arrested by Swiss authorities in October 2022 and extradited to the U.S. last year. He was added to the...

The operators of Raspberry Robin are now using two new one-day exploits to achieve local privilege escalation, even as the malware continues to be refined and improved to make it stealthier than before. This means that “Raspberry Robin has access to an exploit seller or its authors develop the exploits themselves in a short period,” Che...

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against six officials associated with the Iranian intelligence agency for attacking critical infrastructure entities in the U.S. and other countries. The officials include Hamid Reza Lashgarian, Mahdi Lashgarian, Hamid Homayunfal, Milad Mansuri, Mohamma...

Mexican financial institutions are under the radar of a new spear-phishing campaign that delivers a modified version of an open-source remote access trojan called AllaKore RAT. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team attributed the activity to an unknown Latin American-based financially motivated threat actor. The campaign has been active sin...

An advanced China-nexus cyber espionage group previously linked to the exploitation of security flaws in VMware and Fortinet appliances has been linked to the abuse of a critical vulnerability in VMware vCenter Server as a zero-day since late 2021. “UNC3886 has a track record of utilizing zero-day vulnerabilities to complete their mission wit...

Introduction A 29-year-old Ukrainian national has been apprehended in Mykolaiv, Ukraine, in connection with a highly sophisticated cryptojacking operation. The suspect allegedly earned over $2 million (€1.8 million) in illicit profits through unauthorized use of computing resources for cryptocurrency mining. The arrest was made possible through a c...

Section four of the “Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity” introduced a lot of people in tech to the concept of a “Software Supply Chain” and securing it. If you make software and ever hope to sell it to one or more federal agencies, you have to pay attention to this. Even if you never plan...

According to a new joint cybersecurity advisory from Australia and the U.S., the threat actors behind the Play ransomware are estimated to have impacted approximately 300 entities as of October 2023. “Play ransomware actors employ a double-extortion model, encrypting systems after exfiltrating data and have impacted a wide range of businesses...

The malware loader known as PikaBot is being distributed as part of a malvertising campaign targeting users searching for legitimate software like AnyDesk. “PikaBot was previously only distributed via malspam campaigns similarly to QakBot and emerged as one of the preferred payloads for a threat actor known as TA577,” Malwarebytes’...

Microsoft is warning of an uptick in malicious activity from an emerging threat cluster it’s tracking as Storm-0539 for orchestrating gift card fraud and theft via highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks against retail entities during the holiday shopping season. The goal of the attacks is to propagate booby-trapped links that dir...

Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have disclosed a new side-channel attack called SLAM that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from kernel memory on current and upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm. The attack is an end-to-end exploit for Spectre based on a new feature in Intel CPUs called Linear Address Masking (LAM...

In a recent analysis, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researcher Chema Garcia revealed a targeted cyber threat affecting organizations in the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. The unknown threat actor is distributing a sophisticated backdoor named Agent Racoon, developed using the .NET framework. The malware exploits the domain name service (D...

More details have emerged about a malicious Telegram bot called Telekopye that’s used by threat actors to pull off large-scale phishing scams. “Telekopye can craft phishing websites, emails, SMS messages, and more,” ESET security researcher Radek Jizba said in a new analysis. The threat actors behind the operation – codenamed Nean...

A subgroup within the infamous Lazarus Group, recognized as Sapphire Sleet, has recently altered its modus operandi by employing a variant of the Phobos ransomware in its financially motivated cyberattacks. This strategic shift has been documented by cybersecurity researchers at Cisco Talos, who have observed an uptick in activities carried out by ...

The well-known Lazarus Group has evolved, with a faction now setting up deceptive platforms masquerading as skill assessment portals, part of their new social engineering tactics. Identified by Microsoft as Sapphire Sleet, this alteration marks a change in the group’s persistent methods. Sapphire Sleet, also recognized as APT38, BlueNoroff, C...

Introduction In an age where we rely heavily on mobile applications for various aspects of our daily lives, ensuring their security is paramount. Google is taking a significant step to bolster app safety in the Play Store by introducing the “Independent Security Review” badge. This badge is designed to provide users with more informatio...

Signal, the renowned encrypted messaging app, has firmly pushed back against recent reports of an alleged zero-day vulnerability in its software. The company conducted a thorough investigation and stated that it found no concrete evidence to substantiate the claim. In a series of messages posted on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), Signal...

In a noteworthy development, a cyber campaign known as “Stayin’ Alive” has been actively targeting prominent government and telecom organizations across Asia since 2021. The campaign, discovered by cybersecurity firm Check Point, is characterized by its deployment of basic backdoors and loaders to deliver more advanced malware in ...

Ukraine, a nation that has been no stranger to cyber threats, is again in the spotlight. The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has recently reported a series of cyberattacks targeting the country’s telecommunications providers. This alarming development raises concerns about critical infrastructure security and underscores ...

In a recent cybersecurity incident, Microsoft has shed light on a thwarted cyber attack, where hackers made an unsuccessful attempt to breach a cloud environment through an SQL Server instance. The assault kicked off with the exploitation of an SQL injection vulnerability present in a particular application. This initial breach granted unauthorized...

What are the APIs? known as application programming interfaces, are the backbone of modern software applications, enabling seamless communication and data exchange between different systems and platforms. They provide developers with an interface to interact with external services, allowing them to integrate various functionalities into their appli...

North Korean nation-state actors linked to the Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB) have been connected to the JumpCloud hack due to a security oversight that exposed their IP address. The threat intelligence firm Mandiant, owned by Google, attributes the activity to UNC4899, which has similarities with other groups known as Jade Sleet and TraderTra...

A warning has been issued regarding a sophisticated form of voice phishing (vishing) called “Letscall” that specifically targets individuals in South Korea. This advanced technique involves deceiving victims into downloading malicious apps from a fake Google Play Store website. Once installed, the malware redirects incoming calls to a c...

An e-crime actor, known as Neo_Net, has been identified as the perpetrator of an Android mobile malware campaign targeting global financial institutions, with a specific focus on Spanish and Chilean banks. The campaign, which occurred between June 2021 and April 2023, resulted in the theft of over 350,000 EUR and the compromise of Personally Identi...

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered new information about the Romanian threat actor Diicot, revealing its potential for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Diicot, also known as Mexals, was initially discovered in July 2021 and was linked to a cryptojacking campaign. Recent analysis shows that Diicot is now using an off-the...

A large-scale cryptocurrency scam has been uncovered, involving over 1,000 fraudulent websites that have deceived users since January 2021. Trend Micro researchers have linked this scam to a Russian-speaking threat actor called “Impulse Team.” The scam operates through an advanced fee fraud scheme, where victims are tricked into believi...

A recent malware campaign has been discovered that utilizes the Satacom downloader to distribute stealthy malware for cryptocurrency theft. The malware aims to steal BTC from victims’ accounts by injecting malicious code into targeted cryptocurrency websites. The campaign primarily targets users of popular cryptocurrency platforms such as Coi...

WordPress Releases Automatic Update to Fix Critical Jetpack Plugin Vulnerability WordPress has taken immediate action to address a critical flaw in the widely used Jetpack plugin, which is installed on over five million websites. The automatic update was prompted by the discovery of a vulnerability during an internal security audit. The flaw stems ...

A sophisticated and stealthy information-stealing malware called Bandit Stealer has recently emerged, posing a significant threat to web browsers and cryptocurrency wallets. Trend Micro, a leading cybersecurity company, highlighted the malware’s capability to potentially expand to other platforms due to its development using the Go programmin...

A significant security vulnerability has been exposed in the Open Authorization (OAuth) implementation of Expo.io, a popular application development framework. Assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-28131, this vulnerability carries a high severity rating of 9.6 on the CVSS scoring system. API security firm Salt Labs has reported that the flaw leaves...

Kimsuky, a North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group, has been using custom malware called RandomQuery as part of its reconnaissance and information exfiltration operation. The group’s ongoing targeted campaign, primarily geared towards information services and organizations supporting human rights activists and North Korean defecto...

Python Package Index (PyPI), the official repository for third-party software in the Python programming language, has temporarily disabled user sign-ups and the ability to upload new packages until further notice. The PyPI administrators made this decision due to a recent surge in malicious users and projects on the platform, which has overwhelmed ...

New findings from Group-IB shed light on the payment structure within the Qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) scheme, revealing that ransomware affiliates receive a significant share of each ransom payment, ranging from 80% to 85%. Group-IB managed to infiltrate the group in March 2023, leading to insights into the payment structure and inner work...

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS or PaaS) platform called Greatness has been utilized by cybercriminals to target business users of Microsoft 365 cloud service since mid-2022. This Phishing kit provides affiliates with a link and attachment builder to create convincing decoy and login pages that have features like pre-filled victim email addresse...

Microsoft has released its Patch Tuesday updates for May 2023, which include fixes for 38 security vulnerabilities, including one zero-day flaw currently being actively exploited. The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) from Trend Micro reports that this is the lowest number of security fixes released since August 2021, but warns that this number is likely t...

Italian corporate banking clients are under attack from an ongoing financial fraud campaign that uses a web-inject toolkit called drIBAN since at least 2019. According to Cleafy researchers Federico Valentini and Alessandro Strino, the main goal of drIBAN fraud operations is to infect Windows workstations in corporate environments and alter legitim...

North Korea’s ScarCruft, also known as APT37, InkySquid, Nickel Foxcroft, Reaper, RedEyes, and Ricochet Chollima, is a threat group that targets South Korean individuals and entities through spear-phishing attacks. The group’s malware of choice, RokRAT, is capable of credential theft, data exfiltration, system information gathering, com...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an Industrial Control Systems (ICS) medical advisory warning of a critical flaw that affects Illumina medical devices. The Universal Copy Service (UCS) software in several DNA sequencing instruments, including the iSeq 100, MiSeq, NextSeq 550, and NovaSeq 6000, is impacted by t...

Alloy Taurus, a Chinese nation-state group notorious for attacking telecom companies since 2012, has been spotted using a Linux variation of the backdoor PingPull and a new unnamed tool called Sword2033. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 discovered these malicious activities recently, targeting South Africa and Nepal. These attacks also include financial ...

A group backed by the Iranian government, dubbed Mint Sandstorm, has been connected to cyber-attacks targeting critical US infrastructure from late 2021 to mid-2022. Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team stated that this subgroup is skilled and operationally mature, capable of swiftly developing custom tools and exploiting N-day vulnerabilitie...

Google has released an urgent update to fix a zero-day vulnerability in Chrome that is being actively exploited, making it the first such bug to be addressed this year. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2033, is a high-severity type confusion issue in the V8 JavaScript engine. Google acknowledged that an exploit for the vulnerability exists in...

Experts in cybersecurity have uncovered the mechanics behind a cryptocurrency stealer malware distributed through 13 malignant NuGet packages. This supply chain attack targeted .NET developers and employed a sophisticated typosquatting campaign. Impersonating legitimate packages, the attackers executed PowerShell code to obtain a secondary binary f...

MSI, the Taiwanese PC company, has officially confirmed that it was the victim of a cyber attack on its systems. The company promptly initiated incident response and recovery measures after detecting network anomalies and alerted law enforcement agencies. However, MSI did not disclose any specifics about the attack or whether any proprietary inform...

cybersecurity experts have unveiled a previously unknown and highly sophisticated ransomware variant, Rorschach, which is both advanced and swift. Rorschach ransomware distinguishes itself from other strains with its exceptional customization and unique technical features not previously seen in ransomware, according to a report by Check Point Resea...

Actively exploited by unidentified cybercriminals, a recently patched security vulnerability is found within the WordPress Elementor Pro website builder plugin. Affecting versions 3.11.6 and earlier, this broken access control flaw was resolved by the plugin developers in the 3.11.7 version, released on March 22. In the release notes, the Tel Aviv-...

A newly identified North Korean cyber group, APT43, has been linked to multiple campaigns aimed at gathering strategic intelligence in line with Pyongyang’s geopolitical interests since 2018. Tracked by Google-owned Mandiant, APT43’s objectives include both espionage and financial motives, employing methods such as credential harvesting...

On Friday, Microsoft provided insights to assist users in identifying indicators of compromise (IoCs) linked to a recently patched Outlook vulnerability. Known as CVE-2023-23397 (CVSS score: 9.8), this critical vulnerability involves a privilege escalation issue that could be exploited to steal NT Lan Manager (NTLM) hashes and execute a relay attac...

A new campaign targeting poorly managed Linux SSH servers has been identified, deploying various strains of malware called ShellBot. The AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC) reported that ShellBot, also known as PerlBot, is a DDoS bot malware developed in Perl, which typically uses the IRC protocol for communication with its C&C ser...

Mandiant, the threat intelligence firm, has linked the zero-day exploitation of a medium-severity security flaw in the Fortinet FortiOS operating system to a suspected Chinese hacking group. The attack is part of a broader campaign to deploy backdoors onto Fortinet and VMware solutions and maintain persistent access to victim environments. Mandiant...

Recently, a critical security flaw in Progress Telerik was exploited by multiple threat actors, including a nation-state group, to gain unauthorized access to an unnamed federal entity in the U.S. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Cent...

A malicious Chrome browser extension branded as ChatGPT has been discovered to hijack Facebook accounts and create rogue admin accounts. This highlights one of the different methods cyber criminals are using to distribute malware. Guardio Labs researcher Nati Tal warns that by hijacking high-profile Facebook business accounts, the threat actor crea...

The Lazarus Group, believed to be linked to North Korea, has been observed exploiting undisclosed software vulnerabilities to breach a South Korean financial business entity twice within a year. The first attack in May 2022 involved the use of a vulnerable version of a widely-used certificate software, while the second attack in October 2022 exploi...

Cybersecurity experts have uncovered a new information stealer called SYS01stealer, which targets critical government infrastructure employees, manufacturing companies, and other sectors. Israeli cybersecurity firm Morphisec reports that the attack campaign aims to steal sensitive information, such as login data, cookies, and Facebook ad and busine...

Chinese threat actor Sharp Panda has been targeting high-profile government entities in Southeast Asia since late last year in a cyber espionage campaign. Israeli cybersecurity company Check Point has identified the use of a new version of the Soul modular framework as characterizing the intrusions, marking a departure from the group’s attack...

A new ATM malware strain called FiXS has been detected attacking Mexican banks since the beginning of February 2023. Latin American cybersecurity firm Metabase Q reported that the ATM malware is concealed within another program that appears to be non-malicious. FiXS is not dependent on any specific vendor, is vendor-agnostic, and can infect any tel...

The Mustang Panda actor, which is aligned with China, has been observed using a new custom backdoor named MQsTTang as part of an ongoing social engineering campaign that started in January 2023. ESET researcher Alexandre Côté Cyr reported that MQsTTang seems to be a standalone backdoor not based on existing malware families or publicly available...

The threat group known as Lucky Mouse has released a Linux version of its SysUpdate malware toolkit, enabling it to target Linux devices. The updated artifact, which dates back to July 2022, has new features aimed at avoiding security software and resisting reverse engineering. Lucky Mouse, also known as APT27, Bronze Union, Emissary Panda, and...

On March 1, 2023, Cisco released security updates for its IP Phone series 6800, 7800, 7900, and 8800 to address a critical command injection vulnerability (CVE-2023-20078) rated 9.8 on the CVSS scoring system. The flaw is caused by a web-based management interface, which lacks proper user-supplied input validation, allowing an unauthenticated, remo...

Jamf Threat Labs has discovered that Trojanized versions of legitimate applications are being used to deploy evasive cryptocurrency mining malware on macOS systems. The malware, called XMRig coin miner, is executed by an unauthorized modification in Final Cut Pro, an Apple video editing software. The malware makes use of the Invisible Internet Proj...

Apple has released revised security advisories to address three new vulnerabilities that could impact iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. One of the vulnerabilities is a race condition in the Crash Reporter component that could allow a malicious actor to read arbitrary files as root, while the other two vulnerabilities in the Foundation framework could be weap...

The Norwegian police agency Økokrim has announced the seizure of $5.84 million worth of cryptocurrency, which was stolen by the Lazarus Group in March 2022 after the Axie Infinity Ronin Bridge hack. The Oslo-based crime-fighting unit stated that this case highlights its capacity to trace the money trail on the blockchain, even when criminals use...

Cisco has recently released security updates to address a severe vulnerability in the ClamAV open-source antivirus engine, which could result in remote code execution on susceptible devices. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-20032, with a CVSS score of 9.8, and it pertains to remote code execution in the HFS+ file parser component. Versions ...

The notorious APT37, a North Korea-linked threat actor, has recently been spotted utilizing a new piece of malware called M2RAT in its ongoing attacks against its southern neighbor. These developments signify a further evolution of the group’s tools and tactics. APT37, also known as Reaper, RedEyes, Ricochet Chollima, and ScarCruft, is associ...

The malicious black hat redirect malware campaign has now grown larger and more insidious, infecting over 10,800 websites with over 70 bogus domains, mimicking URL shorteners. The main objective of this malware is to artificially increase traffic to pages that contain Google Ads, generating revenue from AdSense ID, which is used for ad fraud. The...

Cloudflare, the web infrastructure company, stopped an unprecedented DDoS attack on Monday with a record-breaking peak of over 71 million requests per second. This historic “hyper-volumetric” attack was the largest HTTP DDoS attack on record, surpassing the previous 46 million RPS attack that was mitigated by Google Cloud in June 2022. ...

Apple has taken swift action to safeguard its users by releasing security updates for its various operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari, to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2023-23529, is a type of confusion bug in the WebKit browser engine that could allow malicious actors to execute arbitrary c...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a warning to the public, adding three newly discovered security vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This move is a result of evidence suggesting that these flaws are being actively abused in the wild. Among the three is CVE-2022-24990, a se...

Reddit, the well-known social news aggregation platform, has fallen victim to a vicious and calculated phishing attack. On February 5th, 2023, the attackers targeted Reddit’s employees with plausible-sounding prompts that redirected them to a fake website that appeared to be Reddit’s intranet portal. The sole purpose of this deceitful a...

The OpenSSL Project has taken immediate action to safeguard its users by releasing critical fixes to address several severe security vulnerabilities in its open-source encryption toolkit. One such vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-0286, is a high-severity bug that could potentially put users at risk of malicious attacks. According to the advisory ...

Eight unpatched security vulnerabilities have been found in open-source and freemium document management systems (DMS) offered by four vendors, LogicalDOC, Mayan, ONLYOFFICE, and OpenKM.These flaws were revealed by cybersecurity firm Rapid7 and allow for a malicious actor to trick a user into saving a harmful document on the platform, and once inde...

A Russia-affiliated adversary has been caught utilizing new information-stealing malware in cyberattacks aimed at Ukraine. Named Graphiron by Symantec, a subsidiary of Broadcom, the malware is the work of an espionage group known as Nodaria, which is monitored by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) under the label UAC-0056. Ac...

On February 7, 2023, a Russian national, Denis Mihaqlovic Dubnikov, admitted to money laundering and concealing the source of funds obtained through Ryuk ransomware attacks in a U.S. court. Dubnikov, who was arrested in Amsterdam in November 2021 and later extradited from the Netherlands in August 2022, will be sentenced on April 11, 2023. Accordin...

The Ukrainian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-UA) has issued a warning about ongoing cyber attacks targeting state authorities in the country that use a legitimate remote access software named Remcos. The widespread phishing campaign has been traced back to a threat actor known as UAC-0050, and the agency has described the nature of the atta...

A collaborative law enforcement effort by Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland resulted in the dismantling of the encrypted messaging platform Exclu.Eurojust reported the arrests of 45 individuals in Belgium and the Netherlands, including users, administrators, and owners of the service. During raids in 79 locations, authorities seized €5.5 million...

Cybercriminals are exploiting known weaknesses in the Sunlogin software to deploy the Sliver Command-and-Control (C2) framework for post-exploitation activities. This was uncovered by the AhnLab Security Emergency Response Center (ASEC), which discovered that security flaws in the Chinese-developed remote desktop program, Sunlogin, are being taken ...

GitHub, a subsidiary of Microsoft, announced that unknown attackers managed to extract encrypted code signing certificates related to some versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac and Atom applications. To ensure security, the company is revoking the affected certificates. As a result, certain versions of GitHub Desktop for Mac, including 3.0.2 to 3.1.2 ...

The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) of the United Kingdom has issued a warning about spear-phishing attacks orchestrated by state-sponsored actors from Russia and Iran. The attacks are aimed at specific sectors, including academia, defense, government organizations, NGOs, and think tanks, as well as politicians, journalists, and activists, an...

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...

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...

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, whi...

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 Gr...

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 fraud...

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 ...

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...

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 a...

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). ...

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 a...

A previously unknown actor of an “advanced persistent threat” (APT) is targeting government and military organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a report from Singapore-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB.The group, which is tracking the campaign under the name “Dark Pink,” has attributed seven successful attack...

As of 2023, it is important for SaaS companies to be aware of the potential cybersecurity threats that may arise. In order to ensure the safety of your systems and data, it is crucial to focus on the following four key areas: web application weaknesses, misconfiguration mistakes, vulnerable software and patching, and weak internal security...