New "Raptor Train" IoT Botnet Compromises Over 200,000 Devices Worldwide

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a never-before-seen botnet comprising an army of small office/home office SOHO and IoT devices that are likely operated by a Chinese nation-state threat actor called Flax Typhoon aka Ethereal Panda or RedJuliett. The sophisticated botnet, dubbed Raptor Tra...

23andMe to pay $30 million in settlement over 2023 data breach

Genetic testing company 23andMe will pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit over a 2023 data breach which ended in some customers having information like names, birth years, and ancestry information exposed. In October 2023, we reported on how information belonging to as many as seven...

Chinese DragonRank Hackers Exploit Global Windows Servers in SEO Fraud

DragonRank, a Chinese-speaking hacking group, has compromised 30+ Windows servers globally. They exploit IIS vulnerabilities to manipulate SEO…...

Singapore Police Arrest Six Hackers Linked to Global Cybercrime Syndicate

The Singapore Police Force SPF has announced the arrest of five Chinese nationals and one Singaporean man for their alleged involvement in illicit cyber activities in the country. The development comes after a group of about 160 law enforcement officials conducted a series of raids on September 9...

DragonRank, a Chinese-speaking SEO manipulator service provider

Key Takeaways Cisco Talos is disclosing a new threat called "DragonRank" that primarily targets countries in Asia and a few in Europe, operating PlugX and BadIIS for search engine optimization SEO rank manipulation. DragonRank exploits targets' web application services to deploy a web shell and...

TIDRONE Espionage Group Targets Taiwan Drone Makers in Cyber Campaign

A previously undocumented threat actor with likely ties to Chinese-speaking groups has predominantly singled out drone manufacturers in Taiwan as part of a cyber attack campaign that commenced in 2024. Trend Micro is tracking the adversary under the moniker TIDRONE, stating the activity is...

SonicWall Urges Users to Patch Critical Firewall Flaw Amid Possible Exploitation

SonicWall has revealed that a recently patched critical security flaw impacting SonicOS may have come under active exploitation, making it essential that users apply the patches as soon as possible. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-40766, carries a CVSS score of 9.3 out of a maximum of 10...

openSUSE 15 Security Update : cacti, cacti-spine (openSUSE-SU-2024:0274-1)

The remote openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the openSUSE-SU-2024:0274-1 advisory. - cacti 1.2.27: CVE-2024-34340: Authentication Bypass when using using older password hashes boo1224240 CVE-2024-25641: RCE vulnerability when...

New Cyberattack Targets Chinese-Speaking Businesses with Cobalt Strike Payloads

Chinese-speaking users are the target of a "highly organized and sophisticated attack" campaign that is likely leveraging phishing emails to infect Windows systems with Cobalt Strike payloads. "The attackers managed to move laterally, establish persistence and remain undetected within the systems...

macOS Version of HZ RAT Backdoor Targets Chinese Messaging App Users

Users of Chinese instant messaging apps like DingTalk and WeChat are the target of an Apple macOS version of a backdoor named HZ RAT. The artifacts "almost exactly replicate the functionality of the Windows version of the backdoor and differ only in the payload, which is received in the form of...

Chinese Hackers Exploit Zero-Day Cisco Switch Flaw to Gain System Control

Details have emerged about a China-nexus threat group's exploitation of a recently disclosed, now-patched security flaw in Cisco switches as a zero-day to seize control of the appliances and evade detection. The activity, attributed to Velvet Ant, was observed early this year and involved the...

New UULoader Malware Distributes Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz in East Asia

A new type of malware called UULoader is being used by threat actors to deliver next-stage payloads like Gh0st RAT and Mimikatz. The Cyberint Research Team, which discovered the malware, said it's distributed in the form of malicious installers for legitimate applications targeting Korean and...

Multi-Stage ValleyRAT Targets Chinese Users with Advanced Tactics

Chinese-speaking users are the target of an ongoing campaign that distributes a malware known as ValleyRAT. "ValleyRAT is a multi-stage malware that utilizes diverse techniques to monitor and control its victims and deploy arbitrary plugins to cause further damage," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs...

New ValleyRAT Malware Targets Chinese Windows Users in Multi-Stage Attack

A sophisticated ValleyRAT campaign is targeting Chinese Windows users. Learn about the malwares multi-stage attack, its ability to…...

Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Solarman and Deye Solar Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a number of security shortcomings in photovoltaic system management platforms operated by Chinese companies Solarman and Deye that could enable malicious actors to cause disruption and power blackouts. "If exploited, these vulnerabilities could allow an...

On the Cyber Safety Review Board

When an airplane crashes, impartial investigatory bodies leap into action, empowered by law to unearth what happened and why. But there is no such empowered and impartial body to investigate CrowdStrikes faulty update that recently unfolded, ensnarling banks, airlines, and emergency services to t...

Google Patches New Android Kernel Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Google has addressed a high-severity security flaw impacting the Android kernel that it said has been actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-36971, has been described as a case of remote code execution impacting the kernel. "There are indications that CVE-2024-3697...

New Windows Backdoor BITSLOTH Exploits BITS for Stealthy Communication

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented Windows backdoor that leverages a built-in feature called Background Intelligent Transfer Service BITS as a command-and-control C2 mechanism. The newly identified malware strain has been codenamed BITSLOTH by Elastic Security Lab...

APT41 likely compromised Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute with ShadowPad and Cobalt Strike

Cisco Talos discovered a malicious campaign that compromised a Taiwanese government-affiliated research institute that started as early as July 2023, delivering the ShadowPad malware, Cobalt Strike and other customized tools for post-compromise activities. The activity conducted on the victim...

Tenda AC18 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The Tenda AC18 is a router from the Chinese company Tenda. The Tenda AC18 suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability that originates from the ssid parameter at ip/goform/fastsettingwifite. No detailed vulnerability details are available at this time...