GootKit Loader is targeting organizations in the Australian healthcare industry

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Gootkit, also known as Gootloader, is a type of malware known for being used in advanced persistent threat APT campaigns. Recently, it has been discovered to be targeting organizations in the Australian...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 12, 2023): Did ChatGPT write our newsletter?

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. We tried to get ChatGPT to write this weeks newsletter but it was at capacity, so youll have to stick with us for another week. Or maybe thats just what the robots want you to think, you be the judge. The one big thing This week Talos...

Espionage Meets Color: Dark Pink APT Group Revealed

By Habiba Rashid The Dark Pink APT group has been targeting countries in the APAC region. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Espionage Meets Color: Dark Pink APT Group Revealed...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, January 2023 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix nearly 100 security flaws in its Windows operating systems and other software. Highlights from the first Patch Tuesday of 2023 include a zero-day vulnerability in Windows, printer software flaws reported by the U.S. National Security Agency, and a critical...

StrongPity Hackers Distribute Trojanized Telegram App to Target Android Users

The advanced persistent threat APT group known as StrongPity has targeted Android users with a trojanized version of the Telegram app through a fake website that impersonates a video chat service called Shagle. "A copycat website, mimicking the Shagle service, is used to distribute StrongPity's...

Southeast Asian APT Group Saaiwc Targets Military and Financial Departments with PowerDism Backdoor

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Saaiwc Group APT-LY-1005 is a newly identified APT group that is thought to operate in Southeast Asia. The groups main tactic is to use an ISO file as a malicious payload, which when executed, injects a...

Blind Eagle Hackers Return with Refined Tools and Sophisticated Infection Chain

A financially motivated threat actor tracked as Blind Eagle has resurfaced with a refined toolset and an elaborate infection chain as part of its attacks targeting organizations in Colombia and Ecuador. Check Point's latest research offers new insights into the Spanish-speaking group's tactics an...

APT Hackers Turn to Malicious Excel Add-ins as Initial Intrusion Vector

Microsoft's decision to block Visual Basic for Applications VBA macros by default for Office files downloaded from the internet has led many threat actors to improvise their attack chains in recent months. Now according to Cisco Talos, advanced persistent threat APT actors and commodity malware...

SideCopy APT Launches Phishing Campaign Against Indian Government

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The new malicious activity of the SideCopy threat actors is the attack campaign STEPPYKAVACH, which was notably active in 2021 and was originally related to Pakistan. The most recent malicious attack...

BlueNoroff APT Hackers Using New Ways to Bypass Windows MotW Protection

BlueNoroff, a subcluster of the notorious Lazarus Group, has been observed adopting new techniques into its playbook that enable it to bypass Windows Mark of the Web MotW protections. This includes the use of optical disk image .ISO extension and virtual hard disk .VHD extension file formats as...

2022 Top Five Immediate Threats in Geopolitical Context

As we are nearing the end of 2022, looking at the most concerning threats of this turbulent year in terms of testing numbers offers a threat-based perspective on what triggers cybersecurity teams to check how vulnerable they are to specific threats. These are the threats that were most tested to...

Fedora 36 : wireshark (2022-1f2fbb087e)

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2022-1f2fbb087e advisory. New version 3.6.10 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note that Nessus has not tested...

China-based MirrorFace APT group targeting Japanese Political Entities

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary A Chinese-speaking APT group named MirrorFace has started its attacks by spearphishing campaign with LODEINFO backdoor, targeting Japanese political entities since June 29, 2022 and this campaign operatio...

Hackers Actively Exploiting Citrix ADC and Gateway Zero-Day Vulnerability

The U.S. National Security Agency NSA on Tuesday said a threat actor tracked as APT5 has been actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller ADC and Gateway to take over affected systems. The critical remote code execution vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-27518...

Vulnerability fixed in Citrix Gateway and ADC

Citrix has fixed a vulnerability in Citrix Gateway and Citrix ADC. An unauthenticated remote malicious person could exploit the exploit the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. To do so, rogue network traffic must be sent to the vulnerable system be sent. Gateway and ADC systems are only...

Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited by APT 37

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary North Korean hackers identified as APT37 exploited a previously unknown Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to infect South Koreans, North Korean defectors, policymakers, journalists, and human righ...

New TrueBot Malware Variant Leveraging Netwrix Auditor Bug and Raspberry Robin Worm

Cybersecurity researchers have reported an increase in TrueBot infections, primarily targeting Mexico, Brazil, Pakistan, and the U.S. Cisco Talos said the attackers behind the operation have moved from using malicious emails to alternative delivery methods such as the exploitation of a now-patche...

BackdoorDiplomacy targets the telecom industry in the Middle East

Threat Level Actor Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary BackdoorDiplomacy, an advanced persistent threat APT gang with roots in China, is most likely behind a hostile campaign targeting the Middle East. The espionage action, aimed at a Middle Eastern telecom...

How ScarCruft APT group enhances its toolkit with a powerful Dolphin backdoor

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary ScarCurft aka Reaper, APT 37, Ricochet Chollima is North Korean espionage group, active since 2012. ScarCruft has targeted South Korea Newspaper with a watering hole attack in the last year. In this...

Iranian Government-Sponsored APT Actors Compromise Federal Network, Deploy Crypto Miner, Credential Harvester

Summary From mid-June through mid-July 2022, CISA conducted an incident response engagement at a Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB organization where CISA observed suspected advanced persistent threat APT activity. In the course of incident response activities, CISA determined that cyber...