EastWind Attack Deploys PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors Using Booby-Trapped LNK Files

The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed EastWind. The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut LNK file...

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...

Cyber Espionage Group XDSpy Targets Companies in Russia and Moldova

Companies in Russia and Moldova have been the target of a phishing campaign orchestrated by a little-known cyber espionage group known as XDSpy. The findings come from cybersecurity firm F.A.C.C.T., which said the infection chains lead to the deployment of a malware called DSDownloader. The...

New SideWinder Cyber Attacks Target Maritime Facilities in Multiple Countries

The nation-state threat actor known as SideWinder has been attributed to a new cyber espionage campaign targeting ports and maritime facilities in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. The BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team, which discovered the activity, said targets of the spear-phishi...

French Authorities Launch Operation to Remove PlugX Malware from Infected Systems

French judicial authorities, in collaboration with Europol, have launched a so-called "disinfection operation" to rid compromised hosts of a known malware called PlugX. The Paris Prosecutor's Office, Parquet de Paris, said the initiative was launched on July 18 and that it's expected to continue...

Chinese APT41 Upgrades Malware Arsenal with DodgeBox and MoonWalk

The China-linked advanced persistent threat APT group codenamed APT41 is suspected to be using an "advanced and upgraded version" of a known malware called StealthVector to deliver a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed MoonWalk. The new variant of StealthVector – which is also referred to as...

Cybercriminals Exploit Free Software Lures to Deploy Hijack Loader and Vidar Stealer

Threat actors are luring unsuspecting users with free or pirated versions of commercial software to deliver a malware loader called Hijack Loader, which then deploys an information stealer known as Vidar Stealer. "Adversaries had managed to trick users into downloading password-protected archive...

Stealthy BLOODALCHEMY Malware Targeting ASEAN Government Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered that the malware known as BLOODALCHEMY used in attacks targeting government organizations in Southern and Southeastern Asia is in fact an updated version of Deed RAT, which is believed to be a successor to ShadowPad. "The origin of BLOODALCHEMY and Deed R...

Ongoing Malvertising Campaign leads to Ransomware

Executive Summary Rapid7 has observed an ongoing campaign to distribute trojanized installers for WinSCP and PuTTY via malicious ads on commonly used search engines, where clicking on the ad leads to typo squatted domains. In at least one observed case, the infection has led to the attempted...

CVE-2024-4017

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-4017

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-4017 Privilege Escalation in U-Series Appliance

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-4017

BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance (Windows, 64-bit filesystem modules) is affected by CVE-2024-4017 due to improper privilege management allowing DLL side-loading. Affected versions are 3.4 through prior to 4.0.3; remediation is to upgrade to version 4.0.3 or later. Some sources confirm the vulnerab...

CVE-2024-4017 Privilege Escalation in U-Series Appliance

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

BlackTech Targets Tech, Research, and Gov Sectors New 'Deuterbear' Tool

Technology, research, and government sectors in the Asia-Pacific region have been targeted by a threat actor called BlackTech as part of a recent cyber attack wave. The intrusions pave the way for an updated version of modular backdoor dubbed Waterbear as well as its enhanced successor referred t...

CVE-2024-4017: Improper Privilege Management

Improper Privilege Management vulnerability in BeyondTrust U-Series Appliance on Windows, 64 bit filesystem modules allows DLL Side-Loading.This issue affects U-Series Appliance: from 3.4 before 4.0.3...

CVE-2024-1605 DLL side-loading in BMC Control-M

BMC Control-M branches 9.0.20 and 9.0.21 upon user login load all Dynamic Link Libraries DLL from a directory that grants Write and Read permissions to all users. Leveraging it leads to loading of a potentially malicious libraries, which will execute with the application's privileges. Fix for...

CVE-2024-1605 DLL side-loading in BMC Control-M

BMC Control-M branches 9.0.20 and 9.0.21 upon user login load all Dynamic Link Libraries DLL from a directory that grants Write and Read permissions to all users. Leveraging it leads to loading of a potentially malicious libraries, which will execute with the application's privileges. Fix for...

New APT Group 'Lotus Bane' Behind Recent Attacks on Vietnam's Financial Entities

A financial entity in Vietnam was the target of a previously undocumented threat actor called Lotus Bane as part of a cyber attack that was first detected in March 2023. Singapore-headquartered Group-IB described the hacking outfit as an advanced persistent threat group that's believed to have be...

Open-Source Xeno RAT Trojan Emerges as a Potent Threat on GitHub

An "intricately designed" remote access trojan RAT called Xeno RAT has been made available on GitHub, making it easily accessible to other actors at no extra cost. Written in C and compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11 operating systems, the open-source RAT comes with a "comprehensive set of...