EnemyBot Malware Targets Web Servers, CMS Tools and Android OS

A rapidly evolving IoT malware dubbed “EnemyBot” is targeting content management systems CMS, web servers and Android devices. Threat actor group “Keksec” is believed behind the distribution of the malware, according to researchers. “Services such as VMware Workspace ONE, Adobe ColdFusion,...

SideWinder Hackers Launched Over a 1,000 Cyber Attacks Over the Past 2 Years

An "aggressive" advanced persistent threat APT group known as SideWinder has been linked to over 1,000 new attacks since April 2020. "Some of the main characteristics of this threat actor that make it stand out among the others, are the sheer number, high frequency and persistence of their attack...

EnemyBot Linux Botnet Now Exploits Web Server, Android and CMS Vulnerabilities

A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems CMS. "The malware is rapidly adopting one-day vulnerabilities as part of its...

Hackers Increasingly Using Browser Automation Frameworks for Malicious Activities

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a free-to-use browser automation framework that's being increasingly used by threat actors as part of their attack campaigns. "The framework contains numerous features which we assess may be utilized in the enablement of malicious activities,"...

CVE-2022-29337

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OilRig is back with another Phishing Email attack, delivering the Saitama Backdoor

THREAT LEVEL: Amber. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here An Iranian cyber espionage gang known as OilRig has began delivering malicious email to a Jordanian government employee at the foreign ministry. The email includes a malicious Excel sheet that installs the Saitama backdoor...

Experts Detail Saintstealer and Prynt Stealer Info-Stealing Malware Families

Cybersecurity researchers have dissected the inner workings of an information-stealing malware called Saintstealer that's designed to siphon credentials and system information. "After execution, the stealer extracts username, passwords, credit card details, etc.," Cyble researchers said in an...

Low-rent RAT Worries Researchers

For about the price of a cup of Starbucks latte, a hacker is renting out a remote access trojan designed to backdoor targeted networks. Dubbed as Dark Crystal RAT or DCRat, the malware is being peddled online to hackers in Russian by a lone rookie malware writer with a penchant for cut-rate...

USB-based Wormable Malware Targets Windows Installer

Credit: Red Canary Wormable malware dubbed Raspberry Robin has been active since last September and is wriggling its way through USB drives onto Windows machines to use Microsoft Standard Installer and other legitimate processes to install malicious files, researchers have found. Researchers at...

New Hacker Group Pursuing Corporate Employees Focused on Mergers and Acquisitions

A newly discovered suspected espionage threat actor has been targeting employees focusing on mergers and acquisitions as well as large corporate transactions to facilitate bulk email collection from victim environments. Mandiant is tracking the activity cluster under the uncategorized moniker...

Russian Hackers Targeting Diplomatic Entities in Europe, Americas, and Asia

A Russian state-sponsored threat actor has been observed targeting diplomatic and government entities as part of a series of phishing campaigns commencing on January 17, 2022. Threat intelligence and incident response firm Mandiant attributed the attacks to a hacking group tracked as APT29 aka Co...

Newly patched VMware vulnerability exploited by Iranian espionage group, Rocket Kitten

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here An Iranian cyber espionage gang known as Rocket Kitten has began delivering the Core Impact penetration testing tool on susceptible computers by exploiting a newly fixed severe vulnerability in VMware Workspace ONE...

APT 10, a state-sponsored Chinese threat group, conducting a global cyber espionage operation

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here A Chinese state-sponsored advanced persistent threat APT 10 group has been attacking government, legal, religious entities and non-governmental organizations NGOs around the world in what appears to be an espionage campaign th...

Over 16,500 Sites Hacked to Distribute Malware via Web Redirect Service

A new traffic direction system TDS called Parrot has been spotted leveraging tens of thousands of compromised websites to launch further malicious campaigns. "The TDS has infected various web servers hosting more than 16,500 websites, ranging from adult content sites, personal websites, universit...

North Korean Hackers Distributing Trojanized DeFi Wallet Apps to Steal Victims' Crypto

The North Korean state-backed hacking crew, otherwise known as the Lazarus Group, has been attributed to yet another financially motivated campaign that leverages a trojanized decentralized finance DeFi wallet app to distribute a fully-featured backdoor onto compromised Windows systems. The app,...

Muhstik botnet adds another vulnerability exploit to its arsenal

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here Muhstik malware has begun attacking Redis Servers by exploiting a recently reported vulnerability, CVE-2022-0543. This flaw can be found in several Redis Debian packages. The attack began on March 11, 2022, and was carried out...

North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Lazarus Group exploiting Chrome Zero-day vulnerability

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here For more than a month before a fix was available, North Korean state hackers known as Lazarus group exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability CVE-2022-0609 in Google Chromes web browser. The attack mainly targe...

Magic Hound Exploiting Old Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell Vulnerabilities

THREAT LEVEL: Red. For a detailed advisory, download the pdf file here APT35 aka Magic Hound, an Iranian-backed threat group, has begun using Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell vulnerabilities as an initial attack vector and to execute code through multiple web shells. The group has primarily targeted...

Chinese 'Mustang Panda' Hackers Spotted Deploying New 'Hodur' Malware

A China-based advanced persistent threat APT known as Mustang Panda has been linked to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign using a previously undocumented variant of the PlugX remote access trojan on infected machines. Slovak cybersecurity firm ESET dubbed the new version Hodur, owing to its...

New Variant of Chinese Gimmick Malware Targeting macOS Users

Researchers have disclosed details of a newly discovered macOS variant of a malware implant developed by a Chinese espionage threat actor known to strike attack organizations across Asia. Attributing the attacks to a group tracked as Storm Cloud, cybersecurity firm Volexity characterized the new...