FBI’s Most-Wanted Zeus and IcedID Malware Mastermind Pleads Guilty
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
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AllaKore RAT Malware Targeting Mexican Firms with Financial Fraud Tricks
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 since at least 2021. “Lures use Mexican
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Chinese Hackers Silently Weaponized VMware Zero-Day Flaw for 2 Years
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 without being detected,
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Agent Racoon Backdoor Targets Organizations in Middle East, Africa, and U.S.
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 (DNS) protocol to
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