China-Linked APT41 Hackers Target U.S. Trade Officials Amid 2025 Negotiations

The House Select Committee on China has formally issued an advisory warning of an "ongoing" series of highly targeted cyber espionage campaigns linked to the People's Republic of China PRC amid contentious U.S.–China trade talks. "These campaigns seek to compromise organizations and individuals...

Bi-Level Game-Theoretic Planning of Cyber Deception for Cognitive Arbitrage

Cognitive vulnerabilities shape human decision-making and arise primarily from two sources: 1 cognitive capabilities, which include disparities in knowledge, education, expertise, or access to information, and 2 cognitive biases, such as rational inattention, confirmation bias, and base rate...

New Ransomware Charon Uses Earth Baxia APT Techniques To Target Enterprises

We uncovered Charon, a new ransomware strainfamily that uses advanced APT-style techniques, including DLL sideloading, process injection, and anti-EDR capabilities, to target organizations with customized ransom demands...

Newly identified wiper malware “PathWiper” targets critical infrastructure in Ukraine

Cisco Talos observed a destructive attack on a critical infrastructure entity within Ukraine, using a previously unknown wiper we are calling "PathWiper". The attack was instrumented via a legitimate endpoint administration framework, indicating that the attackers likely had access to the...

Earth Kurma Targets Southeast Asia With Rootkits and Cloud-Based Data Theft Tools

Government and telecommunications sectors in Southeast Asia have become the target of a "sophisticated" campaign undertaken by a new advanced persistent threat APT group called Earth Kurma since June 2024. The attacks, per Trend Micro, have leveraged custom malware, rootkits, and cloud storage...

Zero-Day Alert: Google Releases Chrome Patch for Exploit Used in Russian Espionage Attacks

Google has released out-of-band fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser for Windows that has been exploited in the wild as part of attacks targeting organizations in Russia. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-2783 , has been described as a case of "incorrect handl...

UAT-5918 Targets Taiwan's Critical Infrastructure Using Web Shells and Open-Source Tools

Threat hunters have uncovered a new threat actor named UAT-5918 that has been attacking critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan since at least 2023. "UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft, uses a combination of web shells and...

UAT-5918 targets critical infrastructure entities in Taiwan

By Jung soo An, Asheer Malhotra, Brandon White, and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos discovered a malicious campaign we track under the UAT-5918 umbrella that has been active since at least 2023. UAT-5918, a threat actor believed to be motivated by establishing long-term access for information theft,...

U.S. Charges 12 Chinese Nationals in State-Backed Hacking Operations

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has announced charges against 12 Chinese nationals for their alleged participation in a wide-ranging scheme designed to steal data and suppress free speech and dissent globally. The individuals include two officers of the People's Republic of China's PRC Ministr...

Researchers Uncover Espionage Tactics of China-Based APT Groups in Southeast Asia

A suspected China-based threat actor has been linked to a series of cyber attacks targeting high-profile organizations in Southeast Asia since at least October 2023. The espionage campaign targeted organizations in various sectors spanning government ministries in two different countries, an air...

Chinese Hackers Use GHOSTSPIDER Malware to Hack Telecoms Across 12+ Countries

The China-linked threat actor known as Earth Estries has been observed using a previously undocumented backdoor called GHOSTSPIDER as part of its attacks targeting Southeast Asian telecommunications companies. Trend Micro, which described the hacking group as an aggressive advanced persistent...

Advanced threat predictions for 2025

We at Kaspersky's Global Research and Analysis Team monitor over 900 APT advanced persistent threat groups and operations. At the end of each year, we take a step back to assess the most complex and sophisticated attacks that have shaped the threat landscape. These insights enable us to anticipat...

SideWinder APT Strikes Middle East and Africa With Stealthy Multi-Stage Attack

An advanced persistent threat APT actor with suspected ties to India has sprung forth with a flurry of attacks against high-profile entities and strategic infrastructures in the Middle East and Africa. The activity has been attributed to a group tracked as SideWinder, which is also known as...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Path Traversal Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-21266)

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting. Fortinet FortiSandbox suffers from a path traversal vulnerability that can be...

Fortinet FortiSandbox 路径遍历漏洞

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence system, real-time control panel and reporting. A path traversal vulnerability exists in Fortinet FortiSandbox, which stems fr...

Priorities of the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative for 2024

Today, CISA—on behalf of the collective group of industry and government partners that comprise the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC—released JCDC’s 2024 Priorities. Similar to the 2023 JCDC Planning Agenda, JCDC’s 2024 Priorities will help focus the collective group on developing high-impa...

New KV-Botnet Targeting Cisco, DrayTek, and Fortinet Devices for Stealthy Attacks

A new botnet consisting of firewalls and routers from Cisco, DrayTek, Fortinet, and NETGEAR is being used as a covert data transfer network for advanced persistent threat actors, including the China-linked threat actor called Volt Typhoon. Dubbed KV-botnet by the Black Lotus Labs team at Lumen...

CISA and Partners Release Advisory on Russian SVR-affiliated Cyber Actors Exploiting CVE-2023-42793

Today, CISA—along with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, National Security Agency NSA, Polish Military Counterintelligence Service SKW, CERT Polska CERT.PL, and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC—released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Russian Foreign Intelligence Servi...

Mustang Panda Hackers Targets Philippines Government Amid South China Sea Tensions

The China-linked Mustang Panda actor has been linked to a cyber attack targeting a Philippines government entity amid rising tensions between the two countries over the disputed South China Sea. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 attributed the adversarial collective to three campaigns in August 2023,...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet. The appliance offers dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence, real-time control panel and reporting. Fortinet FortiSandbox is vulnerable to a cross-site scripting vulnerability that stem...