Talos Takes Ep: #65: How several RAT campaigns in Latin America are connected

By Jon Munshaw. The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. As more people around the world start to get vaccinated against COVID-19, travel is becoming easier, especially during...

The vulnerability of the Adobe Campaign Classic software platform for conducting marketing campaigns stems from session management errors, which allow attackers to compromise data integrity.

The vulnerability of the Adobe Campaign Classic software platform for conducting marketing campaigns is related to session management errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to compromise data integrity...

US Media, Retailers Targeted by New SparklingGoblin APT

An emerging international cybergang is broadening its targets to include North American media firms, universities and one computer retailer. The advanced persistent threat APT group is new, according to researchers who dubbed it SparklingGoblin. Also new is a novel backdoor technique, called...

Dogged Persistence -- The Name of the Game for One DDoS Attacker

With DDoS, we typically observe a moderate degree of attacker persistence. DDoS attacks are relatively easy to launch from a number of online booter services, and the availability of cryptocurrencies for payment has made it easy to remain anonymous. Attackers can try their hand at DDoS for little...

How to spot a DocuSign phish and what to do about it

Phishing scammers love well known brand names, because people trust them, and their email designs are easy to rip off. And the brands phishers like most are the ones youre expecting to hear from, or wouldnt be surprised to hear from, like Amazon or DHL. Now you can add DocuSign to that list...

Experts Shed Light On New Russian Malware-as-a-Service Written in Rust

A nascent information-stealing malware sold and distributed on underground Russian underground forums has been written in Rust, signalling a new trend where threat actors are increasingly adopting exotic programming languages to bypass security protections, evade analysis, and hamper reverse...

A Wide Range of Cyber Attacks Leveraging Prometheus TDS Malware Service

Multiple cybercriminal groups are leveraging a malware-as-a-service MaaS solution to carry out a wide range of malicious software distribution campaigns that result in the deployment of payloads such as Campo Loader, Hancitor, IcedID, QBot, Buer Loader, and SocGholish against individuals in Belgi...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks

Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts organizations. Part 2 provides a deep dive on the attacker...

Phish Swims Past Email Security with Milanote Pages

The Milanote app, billed as the “Evernote for creatives” by reviewers, has attracted the notice of cybercriminals who are abusing it to carry out credential-stealing campaigns that skate past secure email gateways SEGs, researchers said. Milanote is a tool for organizing and collaborating on...

The life and death of the ZeuS Trojan

Whether youve read up on Greek mythology or youre simply a big fan of Marvel comics, the name "Zeus" should be familiar to you. In the context of cybercrime though, ZeuS aka the Zbot Trojan is a once-prolific malware that could easily be described as one of a handful of information stealers ahead...

Mongolian Certificate Authority Hacked to Distribute Backdoored CA Software

In yet another instance of software supply chain attack, unidentified hackers breached the website of MonPass, one of Mongolia's major certificate authorities, to backdoor its installer software with Cobalt Strike binaries. The trojanized client was available for download between February 8, 2021...

Data for 700M LinkedIn Users Posted for Sale

A new posting with 700 million LinkedIn records has appeared on a popular hacker forum, according to researchers. Analysts from Privacy Sharks stumbled across the data put up for sale on RaidForums by a hacker calling himself “GOD User TomLiner.” The advertisement, posted June 22, claims that 700...

Spam Downpour Drips New IcedID Banking Trojan Variant

Researchers have seen a new variant of the IcedID banking trojan sliding in via two new spam campaigns. Written in English and carrying .ZIP files full of the malware – or links to such ZIP files – the new twist on the old banking trojan is a tweaked downloader, which the threat actors moved from...

Iran Media Websites Seized by U.S. in Disinformation Campaign

The Department of Justice has seized the domains of 36 Iranian media sites that officials say weren’t just operating in violation of sanctions, but were part of a widespread government-backed malign-influence operation targeting the U.S. The DoJ said that 33 of the sites are run by the Iranian...

Behind the scenes with the head of Kaspersky’s GReAT

Costin Raiu has been with Kaspersky since 2000, initially as the Chief Security Expert overseeing research efforts in the EEMEA region. In 2010, he became Director of our Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT. During his tenure at Kaspersky, he has spearheaded the companys research on some of t...

Cyber espionage by Chinese hackers in neighbouring nations is on the rise

A string of cyber espionage campaigns dating all the way back to 2014 and likely focused on gathering defense information from neighbouring countries have been linked to a Chinese military-intelligence apparatus. In a wide-ranging report published by Massachusetts-headquartered Recorded Future th...

Researchers: Booming Cyber-Underground Market for Initial-Access Brokers

It’s well known that email is often the gateway for cybercriminals looking to infiltrate a corporate network. But rather than do the heavy lifting themselves, ransomware gangs are buying their way onto networks, partnering with other criminal groups that have already paved the way for entry with...

CVE-2021-31929

Annex Cloud Loyalty Experience Platform 2021.1.0.1 allows any authenticated attacker to modify loyalty campaigns and settings, such as fraud prevention, coupon groups, email templates, or referrals...

CVE-2021-31929

The vulnerability CVE-2021-31929 affects Annex Cloud’s Loyalty Experience Platform before version 2021.1.0.1. An authenticated attacker can modify loyalty campaigns and settings (including fraud prevention, coupon groups, email templates, and referrals), indicating insufficient authorization cont...