APT28 Targeted European Entities Using Webhook-Based Macro Malware

The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new campaign targeting specific entities in Western and Central Europe. The activity, per S2 Grupo's LAB52 threat intelligence team, was active between September 2025 and January 2026. It has been codenamed...

EUVD-2019-11918

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Russian APT28 Deploys "NotDoor" Outlook Backdoor Against Companies in NATO Countries

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group tracked as APT28 has been attributed to a new Microsoft Outlook backdoor called NotDoor in attacks targeting multiple companies from different sectors in NATO member countries. NotDoor "is a VBA macro for Outlook designed to monitor incoming emails for a...

PT-2025-27742

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel affected versions not specified Description: A malicious USB device can send a WMI SWBA EVENTID event from an ath9k htc-managed device before beaconing has been enabled, causing a device-by-zero error in the driver. This can lead...

Italian Businesses Hit by Weaponized USBs Spreading Cryptojacking Malware

A financially motivated threat actor known as UNC4990 is leveraging weaponized USB devices as an initial infection vector to target organizations in Italy. Google-owned Mandiant said the attacks single out multiple industries, including health, transportation, construction, and logistics. "UNC499...

New Decoy Dog Malware Toolkit Uncovered: Targeting Enterprise Networks

An analysis of over 70 billion DNS records has led to the discovery of a new sophisticated malware toolkit dubbed Decoy Dog targeting enterprise networks. Decoy Dog, as the name implies, is evasive and employs techniques like strategic domain aging and DNS query dribbling, wherein a series of...

Short beacon analysis on the NHS iOS Tracking application

We recently helped the BBC with a piece on the new NHS COVID-19 tracking application. Concerns were raised by some about the ability for the app to track interactions while it was running in the background. There had been some discussion that suggested two iOS devices running the app whilst...

RITA - Real Intelligence Threat Analytics

RITA is an open source framework for network traffic analysis. The framework ingests Bro/Zeek Logs in TSV format, and currently supports the following major features: Beaconing Detection : Search for signs of beaconing behavior in and out of your network DNS Tunneling Detection Search for signs o...

CVE-2019-2276

Possible out of bound read occurs while processing beaconing request due to lack of check on action frames received from user controlled space in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in MDM9607,...

CVE-2019-2276

Possible out of bound read occurs while processing beaconing request due to lack of check on action frames received from user controlled space in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music in MDM9607,...

Microsoft Office: Document Information Panel Beaconing UI

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013documentinfobeaconingui.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Document Info Beaconing UI Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Malware Network Communication Provides Better Early Warning Signal

Research is expected to be unveiled today that challenges the industry’s current reliance on dynamic malware analysis as the best means of early detection of infections. Instead, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the IMDEA Software Institute and EURECOM posit that a better...

LATENTBOT: Trace Me If You Can

FireEye Labs recently uncovered LATENTBOT, a new, highly obfuscated BOT that has been in the wild since mid-2013. It has managed to leave hardly any traces on the Internet, is capable of watching its victims without ever being noticed, and can even corrupt a hard disk, thus making a PC useless...

VSploit DNS Beaconing Emulation

This module takes a list and emulates malicious DNS beaconing. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VSploit DNS Beaconing Emulation', 'Description' = 'This module takes a list and...