Chinese Hackers Target Taiwanese Financial Institutions with a new Stealthy Backdoor

A Chinese advanced persistent threat APT group has been targeting Taiwanese financial institutions as part of a "persistent campaign" that lasted for at least 18 months. The intrusions, whose primary intent was espionage, resulted in the deployment of a backdoor called xPack, granting the adversa...

Iranian APT MuddyWater targets Turkish users via malicious PDFs, executables

By Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos has observed a new campaign targeting Turkish private organizations alongside governmental institutions. Talos attributes this campaign with high confidence to MuddyWater — an APT group recently attributed to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and...

New Wave of Cyber Attacks Target Palestine with Political Bait and Malware

Cybersecurity researchers have turned the spotlight on a new wave of offensive cyberattacks targeting Palestinian activists and entities starting around October 2021 using politically-themed phishing emails and decoy documents. The intrusions are part of what Cisco Talos calls a longstanding...

Arid Viper APT targets Palestine with new wave of politically themed phishing attacks, malware

By Asheer Malhotra and Vitor Ventura. Cisco Talos has observed a new wave of Delphi malware called Micropsia developed and operated by the Arid Viper APT group since 2017.This campaign targets Palestinian entities and activists using politically themed lures.The latest iteration of the implant...

Researchers Uncover New Iranian Hacking Campaign Targeting Turkish Users

Details have emerged about a previously undocumented malware campaign undertaken by the Iranian MuddyWater advanced persistent threat APT group targeting Turkish private organizations and governmental institutions. "This campaign utilizes malicious PDFs, XLS files and Windows executables to deplo...

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats By Trellix · January 31, 2022 This story was written by Raj Samani. Ransomware continues to threaten enterprises and assets around the globe, but it was the discovery of a new vulnerability affecting widely used Log4j library that...

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats

Trellix Threat Report: Log4j Attack, Ransomware & APT Threats By Trellix · January 31, 2022 This story was written by Raj Samani. Ransomware continues to threaten enterprises and assets around the globe, but it was the discovery of a new vulnerability affecting widely used Log4j library that...

Lazarus APT Uses Windows Update to Spew Malware

Lazarus Group is using Windows Update to spray malware in a campaign powered by a GitHub command-and-control C2 server, researchers have found. On Thursday, the Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team reported that they discovered the North Korean state advanced persistent threat APT group’s latest...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2014-0442)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

North Korea’s Lazarus APT leverages Windows Update client, GitHub in latest campaign

This blog was authored by Ankur Saini and Hossein Jazi Lazarus Group is one of the most sophisticated North Korean APTs that has been active since 2009. The group is responsible for many high profile attacks in the past and has gained worldwide attention. The Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence team...

APT Groups Target Healthcare and Essential Services

Summary This is a joint alert from the United States Department of Homeland Security DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC. CISA and NCSC continue to see indications that advanced persistent threat APT groups are...

MoleRats APT Launches Spy Campaign on Bankers, Politicians, Journalists

Malicious files doctored up to look like legitimate content related to the Israeli-Palestine conflict are being used to target prominent Palestinians, as well as activists and journalists in Turkey, with spyware. That’s according to a disclosure from Zscaler, which attributes the cyberattacks to...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update

Update on WhisperGate, Destructive Malware Targeting Ukraine – Threat Intelligence & Protections Update By Taylor Mullins, Mo Cashman and Raj Samani · January 20, 2022 Recent news reports of a “ransomware” campaign targeting Ukraine has resulted in significant press coverage regarding not only...

Zoho ManageEngine Desktop Central affected by critical vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. Zoho has patched a critical vulnerability CVE-2021-44757 in Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP which are unified endpoint management UEM solutions. A security vulnerability exists in the Desktop Central and Desktop...

New ‘White Rabbit’ Ransomware May Be New FIN8 Tool

A new ransomware family, White Rabbit, chewed through a local U.S. bank last month — and it may be connected to the financially motivated advanced persistent threat APT group known as FIN8, researchers said. In a Tuesday report, Trend Micro researchers said that this twicky wabbit knows how to...

SnatchCrypto campaign carried out by North Korean APT 38 subsidiary BlueNoroff

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here. BlueNoroff, an advanced persistent threat APT group thats part of the larger Lazarus Group associated with North Korea, is behind a series of attacks against small and medium-sized companies that have led to serious...

US Military Ties Prolific MuddyWater Cyberespionage APT to Iran

U.S. Cyber Command has confirmed that MuddyWater – an advanced persistent threat APT cyberespionage actor aka Mercury, Static Kitten, TEMP.Zagros or Seedworm that’s historically targeted government victims in the Middle East – is an Iranian intelligence outfit. The link has been suspected, and no...

CNMF Identifies and Discloses Malware used by Iranian APT MuddyWater

U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber National Mission Force CNMF has identified multiple open-source tools used by an Iranian advanced persistent threat APT group known as MuddyWater. According to CNMF, “MuddyWater has been seen using a variety of techniques to maintain access to victim networks. These...

Indian APT exposes its Modus Operandi by infecting their own devices

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Malwarebytes have published a report revealing details of an ironic incident involving Patchwork… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Indian APT exposes its Modus Operandi by infecting their own devices...